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A Simpler Time True Crime
I’m Megan, your host, and each week I revisit unsolved cases from decades past—stories that have too often been forgotten or overlooked. Together, we examine the facts, question the myths of “the good old days,” and ask whether a simpler time was ever really a safer one.
This podcast honors the people at the heart of each case—focusing not on sensationalism, but on the lives affected and the justice still waiting to be served.
A Simpler Time True Crime
The Unsolved Granite Bay Murders Part 1: The Murder of Cindy Wanner
A mother is making a little extra money by cleaning her sister's house in an upscale neighborhood. She is feeding her eleven-month old daughter cereal in her high chair while cleaning each room. Somewhere in a small forty-five minute window, someone would gain access to the house and brazenly abduct Cindy in front of her child. Cindy would be found murdered three weeks later, but the autopsy would reveal that she had been kept alive for two weeks after her abduction and open up the investigation to a whole new round of questions. Was there a new serial killer operating in an area that had already been plagued by a few? Was her case related to other crimes in the area? Cindy's case is so solvable, with DNA evidence just waiting for witness testimony to strengthen the case.
Link to Golden State Killer Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/5IKmGf0PQ5By58ulfXLz1E?si=e39ba536fc214b86
Link to Episode on Yosemite Murders:
https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/murder-in-paradise-the-yosemite-murders/id1122650415?i=1000386193409
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sacramento-bee-cindy-wanner-cause-of/150321293/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sacramento-bee-break-may-come-in-91/150322532/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sacramento-bee-cindy-wanner-identifi/150322590/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sacramento-bee-cindy-wanner-autopsy/150322654/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-press-tribune-cindy-wanner-atm-card/150322732/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-bismarck-tribune-atm-card-may-leave/150322834/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sacramento-bee-purse-missing-wanner/150323743/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-press-tribune-1993-wanner-calls-stil/150323841/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sacramento-bee-pacer-slaying-dec-17/150323948/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sacramento-bee-dec-10-1991-atm-car/150323999/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sacramento-bee-little-evidence-found/150324033/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sacramento-bee-fbi-enters-kidnapping/150324100/
https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/cold-case-homicides-that-haunt-the-greater-sacramento-area/103-47735993
For a full list of all old newspaper articles used, please visit by looking at my Newspapers.com clippings: asimplertimetruecrime
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