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November Patreon Exclusive: The Investigation of Angela and Joel Watkins
🕑 Added 2025-11-18 15:00:15 +0000 UTCIn 2020, as COVID shut down the world, Marissa Pianko stumbled onto a 2005 cold case she couldn’t shake: Angela and Joel Watkins, a couple in their 60s found dead at the bottom of a ravine, their deaths ruled homicides with no killer ever identified.
Looking for purpose—and an escape from the monotony of lockdown—Marissa recruited three women she knew, not close friends but each with a useful skill set. Together, they began digging into the Watkins’ business and family history and quickly uncovered secrets the police had never connected.
What started as a distraction soon pulled them into unexpected challenges and moments of real danger, revealing just how complicated—and risky—the truth could be.
Today's snack: Martha Stewart peanut butter sandwich cookies (Sorry, no recipe online!)
Sources:
Hogan, Chuck. The Carpool Detectives. (2025). Random House.
https://people.com/carpool-detectives-excerpt-exclusive-11781268
https://www.simivalleyacorn.com/articles/foul-play-suspected-in-death-of-simi-couple/
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2025-07-28/la-moms-solve-murder-carpool-detectives-chuck-hogan-true-crime The real Joel and Angela?
Comments
Rich Bentley
Haha yep I’m cringing right along with you 😂 but I know we were trying our best and we are proud of our growth and grateful to kind people like you who have encouraged us along the way ♥️
Marsha
Florence and the machine! I’m a little behind. I have been listening to allllll the episodes again. Back to day one. Yep…the first podcast. I know you are cringing right now. lol. It’s not as bad as you probably think. Anyway. Off to listen to this Nov. exclusive.
Rich Bentley
Haha thank you, Erin! I’m so glad you had a nice trip. Rich will always predict a Lions win 😆. Happy Thanksgiving ♥️
Erin
Great episode as always! I’m sometimes a bit behind so I’m not sure when you recorded this one, but Rich was so close to the score of the most recent Lions game! 👏 We recently visited our daughter in LA and saw a lake with Swan Boats! When I listened to this episode, I immediately had to pull up a map and was kind of disappointed it wasn’t the exact same location 😅 Hope you enjoy your Thanksgiving with family and if Rich could predict another Lions win that would be great too! 😄
Rich Bentley
Sounds like a great one…we’ll look into it. Thank you, Kay ♥️
Kay
Correction. There is a cold case called the Springfield three that is near The Ozarks or in the Ozarks area. It’s is a huge mystery of three missing women. I believe it was a mother and a daughter and a friend who went completely missing and I’ve never solved it. It was one of the first crime podcasts I listen to, and it was fascinating and sad that these women have never been found.
Kay
I have a good one for you ! It’s about three women that went completely missing and it’s unsolved cold Case. I think it’s called the Ozark three.
