Things I Want To Know
Paul G Newton
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Ever wonder what really happened — not the rumors, not the Netflix version, but the truth buried in forgotten police files? We did too.
We don’t chase conspiracy theories or ghost stories. We chase facts. Through FOIA requests, interviews, and case files scattered across America, we dig through what’s left behind to find what still doesn’t make sense. Along the way, you’ll hear the real conversations between us — the questions, the theories, and the quiet frustration that comes when justice fades.
Each episode takes you inside a case that time tried to erase — the voices left behind, the investigators who never quit, and the clues that still echo decades later. We don’t claim to solve them. We just refuse to let them be forgotten.
Join us as we search for the truth, one mystery at a time.
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S3 Murder in the Bayou, The Jeff Davis Eight
Send us Fan MailEight women were found dead in Jennings, Louisiana. Nobody’s been held responsible.That’s the case.This all happens in Jefferson Davis Parish. Small town. Water everywhere. Canals,…
S3 A Three-Year-Old Labeled Evil In The Arkansas Woods
Send us Fan MailIn April 1978, three-year-old Stephanie Alana Hall was killed in the Ozark woods of Newton County, Arkansas by members of a small religious cult. When investigators asked why anyone…
S3 Boys On The Tracks: Mena Arkansas 1987
Send us Fan MailOn August 23, 1987, two Arkansas teenagers were found dead on a railroad track outside Bryant.Authorities quickly ruled it an accident. The official story claimed Kevin Ives and Don…
S3 When the Coroner Says It’s Not Murder
Send us Fan MailWhen the Coroner Says It’s Not MurderTwo teenage boys are found dead on railroad tracks near Mena, Arkansas.The ruling? Accident.A man is found with four gunshot wounds to the…
S3 Jack The Ripper vs HH Holms. Why the two killers are not the same
Send us Fan MailWas H. H. Holmes really Jack the Ripper?It’s one of true crime’s most persistent myths. This week on Things I Want To Know, we break it apart using motive, method, timeline, and…
S3 Radium Town, USA. Come For The Glow, Stay For The Smell
Send us Fan MailWhat if your entire town was built on something that wasn’t real?Claremore, Oklahoma once rebranded itself as “Radium Town.” Hotels. Parades. Bathhouses. Souvenir jugs. Steam rooms…
S3 Donna Sue Nelton: The Jane Doe Who Waited 32 Years For A Name
Send us Fan MailSecrets don’t always hide in the dark. Sometimes they sit in a box on a shelf for decades, waiting on the day science finally catches up. After a quick start, we take a hard turn into…
S3 Damascus, Arkansas: The Titan II Explosion
Send us Fan MailA nine-pound socket slipped during routine maintenance inside a Titan II missile silo near Damascus, Arkansas. That’s not a metaphor. That’s the start of a real chain of events that…
S3 Vanished In The Driveway: Misty Dawn Faulkner
Send us Fan MailA quiet driveway is supposed to be the end of the day. Park. Breathe. Go inside. Safe.That is why this case won’t let go.Misty Dawn Faulkner makes it home to rural Oklahoma after a…
S3 Bodies in the Back Room: The Jacksonville Funeral Home Scandal
Send us Fan MailA funeral home is supposed to be the one place that runs on dignity, routine, and trust. Transfer. Refrigeration. Service. Closure.In Jacksonville, Arkansas, that trust snapped.In…
S3 Ronald Gene Simmons: The Christmas Massacre Arkansas Can’t Forget
Send us Fan MailThis episode examines Ronald Gene Simmons, tracing his rigid rise through the military, the incest allegation that triggered a sudden move, and the slow construction of an isolated…
S3 Inside Our True Crime Playbook: Respecting Victims Without Lying About the Facts
Send us Fan MailMost true crime podcasts lie politely. We don’t. So we decided to explain why.After getting pushback for “disrespecting” a victim, Andrea and I laid out exactly how Things I Want to…
S3 Charleston’s Chemical Spill and the Fragile Promise of “Safe” Water
Send us Fan MailThings I Want To KnowDon’t Boil the Water | Charleston, West VirginiaA sweet smell coming out of the tap should never turn into a guessing game.In this episode, we dig into the 2014…
S3 Vanished Without A Trace
Send us Fan MailTwo women vanish in Arkansas, sixteen years apart, and the details still don’t sit right.In this episode, we examine the disappearance of 18-year-old Cleashindra Hall in Pine Bluff in…
S3E12 A Broken Brain, A Violent Trail Across Wartime Arkansas. Red Hall, the killer History overlooked
Send us Fan MailPaul G and Andrea trace the violent trail of James “Red” Hall across wartime Arkansas, where a hellfire upbringing and a childhood head injury twisted a drifter into a man who turned…
S3E11 Kelly Wilson and the Evil that Gilmer, Texas Mistook for the Truth
Send us Fan MailIn 1992, seventeen year old Kelly Wilson vanished in Gilmer, Texas. A short walk from a video store to her car became one of the most debated missing person cases in Texas history.…
S3E10 Did Michael Ronning Kill One Woman… Or Ten?
Send us Fan MailIn this Episode we dive into the case of Michael Ronning, a convicted murderer who spent years bragging about killings no court ever proved. His life stretched from Michigan to…
S3E9 The 1972 Bombing of a Small-Town Cop
Send us Fan MailA police lieutenant turns the key, presses the brake, and his truck erupts. He lives. The case almost disappears. We set out to learn why a 1972 Springdale, Arkansas bombing barely…
S3E8 From Jane Doe To Rebecca Sue Hill: DNA, Missteps, And A Trail Across States
Send us Fan MailA nameless girl lay in a Florida forest for decades, filed under Judy Doe and lost to a noisy era of serial predators and thin evidence. Forty years later, genetic genealogy restores…
S3E7 A Small Town, A Vanished Child, And The Case That Won’t Let Go
Send us Fan MailThe story starts on a quiet May evening in 1991 and never really stops echoing. A nine-year-old sets out to sell costume jewelry in a tiny Arkansas town where people wave from porches…
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Things I Want To Know has published 70 episodes since July 2022, covering topics in Health & Fitness, History.
Things I Want To Know is currently sporadic with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 1h 10m.
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