She Goes by Jane: A True Crime Podcast28 Maj 2024

Episode 39: Deanna Merryfield with guest reader Alison Arngrim

At 3:30am, a 13-year-old Deanna Merryfield shows up at her uncle’s trailer and wakes her twin who is sleeping inside. The two talk for just a moment before Deanna, startled by her uncle waking up, bolts. This is the last confirmed time she was seen alive. Since 1990, the year she disappeared, until now, there are a few clues that she might be out there somewhere: a collect call, a police computer search, a sighting, but are any of those proof she’s still out there?

This week our guest reader is Alison Arngrim, the actor, comedian, activist, and New York Times bestselling author of Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated. Alison is best known to viewers world-wide for her portrayal of the incredibly nasty “Nellie Oleson” on the much loved, long running hit television series "Little House On The Prairie.”. Her one woman show “Confessions of a Prairie Bitch”, which started at Club Fez in New York in 2002, has now become a world-wide phenomenon. As a stand-up comedian, Alison has headlined at nightclubs and theaters worldwide. She is currently starring in two comedy series pilots: “Life Interrupted” and “C.P.R. – Child Performers Resurrection Talent Agency.”

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