The Final Trace Podcast

The Final Trace Podcast True crime told by Hopper & McKenzie — because not all secrets stay buried.

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09/01/2026

Now Streaming 🎧

STREAMS TOMORROW 🎧Two coworkers closed up a Lululemon on an ordinaryFriday night.By morning, one was dead.The other was ...
08/31/2026

STREAMS TOMORROW 🎧

Two coworkers closed up a Lululemon on an ordinary
Friday night.
By morning, one was dead.
The other was bound, bleeding... and alive.

What appeared to be a horrifying act of random violence would quickly become something more disturbing.

Chapter 61 | The Final Trace of Jayna Murray Streams tomorrow wherever you get your podcasts.

Now Streaming 🎧Chapter 60 | The Final Trace of Bryan Haltom📍Spencer, Indiana | July 17, 1996Just after midnight, 18-year...
08/25/2026

Now Streaming 🎧
Chapter 60 | The Final Trace of Bryan Haltom
📍Spencer, Indiana | July 17, 1996

Just after midnight, 18-year-old Bryan Haltom was driving his red Trans Am through the quiet streets of Spencer, Indiana, when an encounter with another car followed him onto U.S. 231.
Minutes later, Bryan was dead.
The other driver vanished into the night.

Thirty years later, no one has been arrested.
And someone out there still know exactly what happened

Streams tomorrow 🎧
08/24/2026

Streams tomorrow 🎧

We've told Erin Valenti's story before.But we've never told it like this."It's all a game.""It's a thought experiment.""...
08/18/2026

We've told Erin Valenti's story before.

But we've never told it like this.

"It's all a game."
"It's a thought experiment."
"We're in the Matrix."

This isn't a remaster. It's a complete revisit of a case we've never been able to forget.

🎧 Chapter 14 Revisited | Mysterious Death: Erin Valenti
Available now wherever you listen.

Streams Tomorrow 🎧We first told Erin’s story early in The Final Trace: Since then, the way we research has changed. The ...
08/17/2026

Streams Tomorrow 🎧

We first told Erin’s story early in The Final Trace: Since then, the way we research has changed. The way we tell these stories has changed. We’ve learned to dig deeper, question more and follow the details wherever they lead.

Her final hours.
The strange phone calls.
The things she said.
And the questions that still don’t have satisfying answers.

So we went back.

Back to the beginning. Back through the reporting. Back through the timeline. And this time, we’re telling Erin’s story with everything we’ve learned since the first time we traced it.

This isn’t a rerun.

It’s a revisit.

🎙️ The Final Trace of Erin Valenti: Revisited
Streams tomorrow.

“It’s all a game.”

Twenty-year-old pilot Frederick Valentich took off from Melbourne for what should have been a routine flight to King Isl...
08/11/2026

Twenty-year-old pilot Frederick Valentich took off from Melbourne for what should have been a routine flight to King Island and then disappeared.

Was it an elaborate hoax? An accident over dark water? Or did Fred actually encounter something he couldn’t explain?

Catch The Final Trace of Frederick Valentich, wherever you get your podcast 💫

✈️ Tomorrow on The Final Trace...In 1978, twenty-year-old pilot Frederick Valentich took off for what should have been a...
08/10/2026

✈️ Tomorrow on The Final Trace...

In 1978, twenty-year-old pilot Frederick Valentich took off for what should have been a routine flight over Bass Strait.

Nearly an hour into the flight, he radioed Melbourne Flight Service with a strange question:
Was there any other traffic below 5,000 feet?

There wasn't.

What followed became one of the most haunting conversations in aviation history.

Chapter 59: The Final Trace of Frederick Valentich
Streams tomorrow. 🎧

📍Indianapolis, IN🎙️ Now Streaming: The Final Trace of Michael Dean RileyOn the Fourth of July weekend, twenty-two-year-o...
08/04/2026

📍Indianapolis, IN

🎙️ Now Streaming: The Final Trace of Michael Dean Riley

On the Fourth of July weekend, twenty-two-year-old Ball State University student Michael Dean Riley allegedly left a party expecting to hitchhike back to campus.

He never arrived.

Ten days later, Michael was found under circumstances that would leave investigators searching for answers for decades. An unexpected autopsy, conflicting witness accounts, and three competing theories would turn an ordinary holiday weekend into one of Indiana’s most enduring mysteries.

🎧 Catch The Final Trace of Michael Riley, wherever you listen to podcasts.

The Final Trace of Michael Riley Streams tomorrow🎧He went to a Fourth of July party.....and never came home.Ten days lat...
08/03/2026

The Final Trace of Michael Riley Streams tomorrow🎧

He went to a Fourth of July party.....and never came home.

Ten days later, Michael Dean Riley was found under circumstances that still defy easy explanation.

Accident.
Prank.
Or something far more sinister?

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