The Last Exit: The Disappearance of Phoenix Coldon

On a Friday morning in July of 2014, Dan Markel dropped his sons at daycare, went to the gym, and pulled into his garage in Tallahassee. A neighbor heard two shots and called 911 within two minutes. Because Dan Markel was a law professor in the middle of a custody fight. One his ex-wife's family very much wanted to end. This episode Sabrina and Kaelyn follow the clues: a rented Prius that didn't belong in the neighborhood. A toll record that put it there. A bag of cash that was still damp when it changed hands. And a grandmother stopped at the airport with a one-way ticket out of the country. Head over to our Clues YouTube channel to WATCH this episode: https://www.youtube.com/@CluesPod If you’re new here, don’t forget to follow Clues to never miss a case! To hear episodes ad-free and released a day early, subscribe to Crime House+. Join at crimehouseplus.com or if you’re listening on Apple Podcasts, tap “Try Free” at the top of this show’s page. Clues is a Crime House Original Podcast, powered by PAVE Studios. 🎧 Need More to Binge? Listen to other Crime House Originals including Crime House 24/7, Crimes Of Reddit, Serial Killers & Murderous Minds, Murder True Crime Stories and more wherever you get your podcasts! Follow us on Social YouTube: @CluesPod | @crimehousestudios Instagram: @cluespodcast | @Crimehouse TikTok: @Crimehouse Facebook: @crimehousestudios X: @crimehousemedia Clues is hosted by Kaelyn Moore Instagram: @itskaelynmoore TikTok: @heartstartspounding Episode Sponsors:

On a Saturday morning in May of 1990, Marlene Warren's doorbell rang in Wellington, Florida. On the step was a clown with face paint, an orange wig, a red nose, holding two balloons and a bouquet of flowers. Marlene took them, then the clown raised a gun. Because the costume wasn't a party favor, it was a disguise, and it worked for twenty-seven years. This episode Kaelyn and Sabrina follow the clues: a white Chrysler LeBaron, a used-car dealer husband with an alibi and the employee who repossessed cars for him, and who would eventually become his wife. By the end, the thing that finally moved the case had been sitting in an evidence box since 1991. Head over to our Clues YouTube channel to WATCH this episode: https://www.youtube.com/@CluesPod If you’re new here, don’t forget to follow Clues to never miss a case! To hear episodes ad-free and released a day early, subscribe to Crime House+. Join at crimehouseplus.com or if you’re listening on Apple Podcasts, tap “Try Free” at the top of this show’s page. Clues is a Crime House Original Podcast, powered by PAVE Studios. 🎧 Need More to Binge? Listen to other Crime House Originals including Crime House 24/7, Crimes Of Reddit, Serial Killers & Murderous Minds, Murder True Crime Stories and more wherever you get your podcasts! Follow us on Social YouTube: @CluesPod | @crimehousestudios Instagram: @cluespodcast | @Crimehouse TikTok: @Crimehouse Facebook: @crimehousestudios X: @crimehousemedia Clues is hosted by Kaelyn Moore Instagram: @itskaelynmoore TikTok: @heartstartspounding Episode Sponsors:

Fun fact: Did you know Jaws almost never existed because the shark kept sinking while filming? That is Connor Tomlinson just getting started. If that sounds fascinating, you are going to love Rewind Studios’ new podcast out now called WHAT THE FACT hosted by Connor Tomlinson and Carter Roy. It’s produced by the same team that brings you Clues. Connor and co-host Carter Roy pull three unbelievable true facts every week and tell you the full story behind each one. Nothing is off limits. Myths and monsters. Forgotten scandals. Accidental discoveries. Untold stories behind the songs everyone knows. Disasters that sound made up but absolutely happened. Carter sets the scene and Connor makes you fall in love with history. The wildest stuff is real, and the real stuff is wilder than you think. New episodes every Wednesday. What the Fact with Connor Tomlinson and Carter Roy is a Rewind Original, powered by PAVE Studios. Listen and Follow: https://pod.link/6811124906

Today's episode features an appearance by Connor Tomlinson, star of Love on the Spectrum and the new co-host of the Rewind Original What the Fact. As a special segment, Connor and Kaelyn will go over some of history's most botched investigations. Be sure to follow What the Fact wherever you listen to podcasts, with new episodes dropping every Wednesday! For more: https://t-sml.mtrbio.com/public/smartlink/whatthefact-856 Then, today's main case: In December 2022, Gretchen Fleming finished her shift in Parkersburg, West Virginia and went out for karaoke. She left her purse in a friend's car and walked out just after three in the morning with a man she'd met that night. No one reported her missing for eight days. No one found her for almost three years. Because the man police say she left with had spent twelve years as a West Virginia police officer under another name. This episode Sabrina and Kaelyn follow the clues: a purse no one ever came back for. A car an entire county was asked to search for. And remains that took genetic testing to name. By the end, there's an indictment, a not-guilty plea, and no trial date. Head over to our Clues YouTube channel to WATCH this episode: https://www.youtube.com/@CluesPod If you’re new here, don’t forget to follow Clues to never miss a case! To hear episodes ad-free and released a day early, subscribe to Crime House+. Join at crimehouseplus.com or if you’re listening on Apple Podcasts, tap “Try Free” at the top of this show’s page. Clues is a Crime House Original Podcast, powered by PAVE Studios. 🎧 Need More to Binge? Listen to other Crime House Originals including Crime House 24/7, Crimes Of Reddit, Serial Killers & Murderous Minds, Murder True Crime Stories and more wherever you get your podcasts! Follow us on Social YouTube: @CluesPod | @crimehousestudios Instagram: @cluespodcast | @Crimehouse TikTok: @Crimehouse Facebook: @crimehousestudios X: @crimehousemedia Clues is hosted by Kaelyn Moore Instagram: @itskaelynmoore TikTok: @heartstartspounding Episode Sponsors:

On a January night in 2023, Patrick Clancy left his house in Duxbury, Massachusetts to pick up takeout and a medication. What he came home to would put his wife at the center of the most watched trial this summer. Because Lindsay Clancy was a labor and delivery nurse who'd spent years guiding other mothers through the hardest hours of their lives, and who knew the warning signs better than almost anyone. This episode Sabrina and Kaelyn follow the clues: a psychiatric record of escalating prescriptions and a patient who kept asking for changes. A husband who testified for the prosecution and asked for mercy anyway. And a jury sent out to choose between murder and manslaughter. By the end, the jury still couldn't agree on any of it. Head over to our Clues YouTube channel to WATCH this episode: https://www.youtube.com/@CluesPod If you’re new here, don’t forget to follow Clues to never miss a case! To hear episodes ad-free and released a day early, subscribe to Crime House+. Join at crimehouseplus.com or if you’re listening on Apple Podcasts, tap “Try Free” at the top of this show’s page. Clues is a Crime House Original Podcast, powered by PAVE Studios. 🎧 Need More to Binge? Listen to other Crime House Originals including Crime House 24/7, Crimes Of Reddit, Serial Killers & Murderous Minds, Murder True Crime Stories and more wherever you get your podcasts! Follow us on Social YouTube: @CluesPod | @crimehousestudios Instagram: @cluespodcast | @Crimehouse TikTok: @Crimehouse Facebook: @crimehousestudios X: @crimehousemedia Clues is hosted by Kaelyn Moore Instagram: @itskaelynmoore TikTok: @heartstartspounding Episode Sponsors: