Riley Crossman: Someone in Her Room // 609

About this episode

The episode discusses the disturbing case of 15-year-old Riley Crossman, who vanished from her home in West Virginia in May 2019.

In May of 2019, a 15-year-old girl vanished from her West Virginia home one night after sending a string of chilling text messages to her boyfriend. With the name of a potential culprit in one of the texts, investigators knew exactly where to begin looking. But what they would find would be more disturbing than her shocked family could have imagined. This is the murder of Riley Crossman.

Topics covered

• disappearance
• murder
• investigation
• true crime
• teen crime

Keywords

• Riley Crossman
• disappearance
• West Virginia
• murder
• investigation
• true crime
• teen
• text messages

Mentioned in this episode

Places: West Virginia

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