Crime, Conspiracy, Cults and Murder

Ep. 112 | The Death Valley Germans

May 27, 2026·59 min·7-min readnarrativetrue crime
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In July 1996, a German family of four vanished during a road trip through Death Valley, only for their remains to be discovered 13 years later after a software engineer’s obsessive reinvestigation. Their deaths were not the result of crime or conspiracy, but a tragic cascade of reasonable

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Egbert RimkusCornelia MeyerTom MahoodHeike WeberLes Walker

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