Now in its second season, Hell and Gone is a podcast from iHeartRadio and School of Humans that follows writer and private investigator Catherine Townsend as she investigates unsolved deaths in small-town Arkansas. This season, she dives into the mysterious death of Janie Ward, a 16-year-old high school student who died at a party in 1989 in Marshall, Arkansas. In the 30 years since her death, no one has been able to determine how she died even though there have been multiple investigations and her body has been autopsied three times. Season 1 investigated the cold-case murder of Rebekah Gould, a beautiful and popular college student who was killed in 2004.
Catherine Townsend is a writer and licensed private investigator. Her work has appeared in in publications including The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, Elle, New York, GQ, The Daily Mail, New York Post, The Independent and the Huffington Post. Currently, she is a true crime writer and correspondent for the Investigation Discovery network.