The Missing
6/15/202643 min
A serial killer who confessed to 11 murders. A body that lay nameless in a swamp for 30 years. And a chilling new discovery.
A New York cold-case detective contacts the Catching Evil team about three more young women he believes Christopher Wilder could have murdered — bodies dumped in fields, left as Jane Does, far from his Florida hunting ground. And we reveal another bombshell: a death-row prisoner who claims Wilder confessed to killing eleven women before his rampage across America.
At the heart of it all is Shari Lynne Ball — 20 years old, lured to New York with the promise of a modelling career, and unidentified for over three decades. We trace the trail that points to her killer, including a discovery hidden in plain sight: a blitz of newspaper classified ads that fall silent every single time Wilder kills.
And we meet two women who survived him — who laughed off his modelling pitch at a yard sale, never knowing how close they'd come, until his face appeared on the FBI's Most Wanted list.
This is the episode where the net starts to widen.
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Credits:
Hosts
Andy Byrne
Mark Llewellyn
Audio Production
Sam Blacker - The Podcast Butler
Resources
The Pretty Girl Killer by Andrew Byrne - courtesy of Penguin Random House
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Survivors of Homicide Inc - https://www.survivorsofhomicide.com/
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Gerry· Guest1:01
[gentle music] Even now, there's still young women being preyed upon by men like him. I have granddaughters who are in their teens now. They do not understand how easily they can become a victim of someone that is a psychopathic killer.
Speaker 21:25
Catching Evil, episode 23: "The Missing,