Episode 56: “The Light That Helps Others”- Last Time We Saw Her by Robert Scott Pt 1
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02/16/23 • 60 min
Part 1: 19-year-old Brooke Wilberger lit up the room when she walked in. She’d just completed her 1st year at Brigham Young University and coming home to her big LDS family in Veneta, Oregon. May 24, 2004, while cleaning lampposts at the apartment complex her sister managed, Brooke vanished. The resulting investigation would unify the town of Corvallis, Oregon in their determination to find Brooke. The police investigation unfolds as persons of interest are investigated for similar crimes, the very real terror spreading across the area.
Written by Robert Scott, who also authored Shattered Innocent on the Kaycee Dugard kidnapping, Jill delves into the twists and turns that relentlessly shape the events that unfold as everyone asks: What happened to Brooke?
Check out Jill's blog for show notes, sources, photographs, and maps at www.murdershelfbookclub.com, Feb 2023.
ANNOUNCEMENT- JAN 2025: My new Murder Shelf Book Club Podcast MERCH SHOP has launched! Please go explore! I appreciate you supporting my true crime book club podcast!
Share your thoughts with me at [email protected], on X, Facebook, Instagram or YouTube. OR, join Jill on PATREON for $4 and help pick our next book and talk true crime developments, first Thursday of each month at 8:30 pm EST!
Music- The Pewter Elephant by Blue Dot Sessions.
"Trust your gut!"
Part 1: 19-year-old Brooke Wilberger lit up the room when she walked in. She’d just completed her 1st year at Brigham Young University and coming home to her big LDS family in Veneta, Oregon. May 24, 2004, while cleaning lampposts at the apartment complex her sister managed, Brooke vanished. The resulting investigation would unify the town of Corvallis, Oregon in their determination to find Brooke. The police investigation unfolds as persons of interest are investigated for similar crimes, the very real terror spreading across the area.
Written by Robert Scott, who also authored Shattered Innocent on the Kaycee Dugard kidnapping, Jill delves into the twists and turns that relentlessly shape the events that unfold as everyone asks: What happened to Brooke?
Check out Jill's blog for show notes, sources, photographs, and maps at www.murdershelfbookclub.com, Feb 2023.
ANNOUNCEMENT- JAN 2025: My new Murder Shelf Book Club Podcast MERCH SHOP has launched! Please go explore! I appreciate you supporting my true crime book club podcast!
Share your thoughts with me at [email protected], on X, Facebook, Instagram or YouTube. OR, join Jill on PATREON for $4 and help pick our next book and talk true crime developments, first Thursday of each month at 8:30 pm EST!
Music- The Pewter Elephant by Blue Dot Sessions.
"Trust your gut!"
Previous Episode
Epi 55 2ndCast: 3 “Damnable and Hellish crime”- The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal and the Hunt for America’s first serial killer by Skip Hollandsworth Pt 3
Part 3: The murder count continues to rise, as killing spreads to San Antonio, Gainesville, and all the way to London, England, where 5 women are slaughtered. With fallout impacting every aspect of society, devastating secrets are revealed, leading to shocking trials, which have electrifying legal and political consequences for the people of Austin and their leaders that last through the next two centuries. Who is the Midnight Assassin? Jill has a theory- you know she does!
Note: This story is set in the late 19th century and reflects the stereotypes, prejudices, and language of the era.
Source material, recipe and wine information, photographs are on Jill’s blog at www.murdershelfbookclub.com Jan 2023
ANNOUNCEMENT- JAN 2025: My new Murder Shelf Book Club Podcast MERCH SHOP has launched! Please go explore! I appreciate you supporting my true crime book club podcast!
Share your thoughts with me at [email protected], on X, Facebook, Instagram or YouTube. OR, join Jill on PATREON for $4 and help pick our next book and talk true crime developments, first Thursday of each month at 8:30 pm EST!
Music- The Pewter Elephant by Blue Dot Sessions.
"Trust your gut!"
Next Episode
Episode 57: “Stars cannot shine without darkness.”- Last Time We Saw Her by Robert Scott Pt 2.
Part 2: Brooke Wilberger is missing. The eager public cooperates fully, sending in over 4500 tips that need investigating, with critical evidence buried in the pile. Of the number of suspects, the most viable is Sung Koo Kim, a man with an underwear fetish, and a trove of evidence on his computer. But then, a phone call from New Mexico changes everything! There was a similar case in Albuquerque, and a man, Joel Patrick Courtney, had been arrested. He’d recently lived in Beaverton, Oregon, which was interesting, but could they make a case against Joel? The number of dots to be connected seem endless.
Check out Jill's blog for show notes, sources, photographs, and maps at www.murdershelfbookclub.com, Feb. 2023.
ANNOUNCEMENT- JAN 2025: My new Murder Shelf Book Club Podcast MERCH SHOP has launched! Please go explore! I appreciate you supporting my true crime book club podcast!
Share your thoughts with me at [email protected], on X, Facebook, Instagram or YouTube. OR, join Jill on PATREON for $4 and help pick our next book and talk true crime developments, first Thursday of each month at 8:30 pm EST!
Music- The Pewter Elephant by Blue Dot Sessions.
"Trust your gut!"
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