Episode 8: The Allure of an Answer
The Zuber family continues to tend to a memorial every day for their daughter, just a few hundred feet from their front door. On the other side of their home is the cemetery where Sarah is buried. For...
26 Nov 202542min
Episode 7: Cornered
When Jennifer Massey became mayor of Columbia County’s largest town, she moved from being one of the leading critics of people in power to now being a person in power. But that move was not simple. No...
19 Nov 202550min
Episode 6: Persons Unknown
If the three parties that tell a true crime story – the police, the community and the media – are failing to find answers for what happened to Sarah Zuber, can robust journalism find out what really h...
12 Nov 202548min
Episode 5: The Good Old Boys Club
If the third group that tells a true crime story is the media, Columbia County is lacking in this department. The local newspaper is on its last legs and closes after more than 140 years of operation....
5 Nov 202549min
Episode 4: Boogeyman
Typically, true crime stories tell tales of women killed by the men in their lives. And in the early days of the Zuber investigation, close attention was paid to the two men in Sarah Zuber’s life: her...
29 Okt 202548min
Episode 2: Don’t Speak Ill of the Dead
OPB Journalists Leah Sottile and Ryan Haas are reluctant to engage in an investigation that slips into true crime pitfalls. The pair attend True Crime 101 at Oregon State University and speak to profe...
15 Okt 202545min
Episode 1: The Last to See Her Alive
In March 2019, in the wooded hills above the rural river town of Rainier, Oregon, 18-year-old Sarah Zuber was found dead 400 feet from her front door. Six years later, her family still has no clue wha...
8 Okt 202542min
