About this episode

The episode explores the unresolved murder case of Laurie Gonyo in Vermont, highlighting the complexities of justice and suspicion.

In the fall of 1976, a woman vanished from her home in rural Vermont sometime between a cup of morning coffee and the end of an ordinary workday. What followed was years of suspicion, rumor, and silence until a witness with questionable credibility stepped forward. Laurie Gonyo’s case has an ending but not the kind of clean resolution people imagine when they hear the word solved. This is a story about what happens when justice feels incomplete, when a sentence seems too small for the violence at the center of it, and when the killer in one case leaves a trail of suspicion wherever he goes.

Topics covered

• murder
• justice
• true crime
• disappearance
• suspicion
• incomplete resolution

Keywords

• Laurie Gonyo
• Vermont
• murder
• disappearance
• true crime
• justice
• suspicion

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Vermont

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