She Goes by Jane: A True Crime Podcast23 Jun

140: The Empty Seat: The Disappearance of Thora Chamberlain

On November 2, 1945, fourteen-year-old Thora Chamberlain left school in Campbell, California, expecting to attend a football game that evening. Her friends saved her a seat. Thora never arrived. Witnesses later reported seeing her speaking with a man dressed as a serviceman before getting into his vehicle. Within weeks, investigators focused on Thomas McMonigle, a local laborer with a history of violence. Over the course of the investigation, McMonigle gave multiple confessions, led authorities to key pieces of evidence, and was ultimately convicted of Thora's murder. But investigators never found the one thing that mattered most. Thora herself. More than eighty years later, Thora Chamberlain remains one of California's earliest no-body homicide victims. Her body has never been recovered. In this episode, we examine the disappearance of Thora Chamberlain, the investigation that followed, and the evidence that secured a conviction despite the absence of a body. This is a story about loss, memory, and the empty seat left behind when a child never comes home. 📍 Campbell, California | November 2, 1945 📖 Featuring an original poem written and read in her honor by Aimee Baker. ➡️ Help bring attention to missing and unidentified women—subscribe and share this episode. 📍 Find us on Instagram & Facebook. 📚 Get Aimee’s book, Doe, now available via University of Akron Press, Bookshop.org, and Amazon. 📰 For more women-centered true crime content, subscribe to Aimee’s newsletter, GIRLHUNT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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155: Barbara Kelley: A Murder on the California Coast

On a June night in 1950, seventeen-year-old Barbara Kelley left home for a date with Henry Baird, a 28-year-old World War II veteran she had been seeing for several months. Barbara told her parents sh...

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154: Bonus Episode with Jami Rice of Murderish - Serial Streamer’s Club | Death of a Pastor’s Wife

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25 Sep 56min

153: Jacqueline Levitz: A Disappearance in Vicksburg

On November 18, 1995, Jacqueline “Jackie” Levitz spent two hours choosing wallpaper for the new home she was renovating in Vicksburg, Mississippi. She had only recently moved back to the area to be cl...

22 Sep 51min

152: Still Missing: The Disappearance of Irene Silverman, Pt 3

Irene Silverman was missing. And by the time Sante and Kenneth Kimes went to trial for her murder, there was still no body, no murder weapon, and no definitive account of what happened to her the day ...

15 Sep 59min

151: The Man in the Mansion: The Disappearance of Irene Silverman, Pt 2

By the summer of 1998, Irene Silverman was becoming increasingly uneasy about her new tenant.Manny Guerin had only been a tenant for a few days when he started making her uncomfortable. He would avoid...

8 Sep 39min

150: The White Elephant: The Disappearance of Irene Silverman, Pt 1

Before Irene Silverman was a missing woman, she was a ballerina, a wife, a hostess, and the owner of one of Manhattan's most unusual homes: a home that would become the centerpiece of her missing pers...

1 Sep 44min

149: Hernando County Jane Doe: The Women Left Behind, Pt 2

In 1981, investigators were just beginning to uncover the extent of Billy Mansfield Jr’s violence, and his arrest for the murder of a young mother in California, Rene Saling, was only the beginning. ...

25 Aug 46min

148: Hernando County Jane Doe: The Women Who Vanished Before Her, Part 1

In 1980, Pam Sherrell escaped a violent attack by a man who abducted her and tried to kill her. He evaded capture, but her escape would set off a chain of events that revealed a much darker story unfo...

18 Aug 38min