About this episode

The episode explores the mysterious disappearance and death of Marla Ware, focusing on the last known person to see her and the witnesses who observed suspicious activity around her apartment.

In 1998, a woman goes missing shortly after her 35th birthday. A man she’s dating is the last known person to see Marla Ware before she’s found almost 2 months later, decomposing in her bedroom. But in the days before the discovery of her body, witnesses see someone lurking around her apartment. Who is… the Man on the Stairs?

People in this episode

Host: Mark Spawn

Topics covered

• missing person
• true crime
• investigation
• murder
• witnesses

Keywords

• Marla Ware
• missing woman
• 1998
• true crime
• death investigation

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