And Then They Were Gone Podcast

10/08/2026

In case you didn’t know; the whole reason I have this account is because I have a podcast that focuses on unsolved missing persons cases. It’s called And Then They Were Gone, and you can get it on your favorite podcast app!

09/19/2026

Missing in DC. Her ex has been arrested, but police are still searching for her.

STATEMENT FROM THE FAMILY OF ANTOINETTE FORBES

Antoinette has been missing for fifteen days.

For fifteen days, people who love her have searched, shared her photograph, spoken with investigators, talked with journalists and asked strangers to help us bring her home.

Today, we are asking everyone who has followed Antoinette’s story to do one thing more.

Take action.

If you live or work near the 3200 block of Nebraska Avenue NW, or anywhere in AU Park, Tenleytown, Spring Valley, Wesley Heights or Friendship Heights, please check any doorbell, security or dashcam footage you may still have from Friday, September 4 through Monday, September 7. Even if you have checked before, think about other cameras you may have access to—at a business, office, apartment building or parked vehicle.

If you don’t live in the area, you can still help. Share Antoinette’s photograph somewhere it hasn’t been shared before. Send it to a neighborhood group. Post it to your professional network. Share it with friends in D.C., Maryland and Virginia. Ask one other person to do the same.

And if you remember something - something you saw, heard or noticed that may not have seemed important at the time - please tell investigators. You do not have to decide whether it matters. Let them make that determination.

If you have any information, call the Metropolitan Police Department at 202-727-9099 or text 50411. You can remain anonymous.

We cannot know which photograph, which camera, which conversation or which person will provide the information that helps find Antoinette.

That is why we keep asking.

That is why we keep searching.

And that is why, fifteen days later, we need you with us.

Please help us bring Antoinette home.

Aileen Forbes on behalf of the Forbes family

09/18/2026

Judge Irving denied Naresh Bhatt’s motion for a continuance. His trial will begin on October 5, 2026.

09/13/2026

Mentor | Kelly If the defense in the Naresh Bhatt case wasn’t going to file the motion to continue on September 11, when *were* they going to do it?

09/10/2026

V-H If you got sent a jury questionnaire, I definitely don’t recommend you check out my playlist on this case 😅. But one random video on your FYP shouldn’t affect much!

08/24/2026

Representing yourself on a death penalty case with surveillance video and a ton of physical evidence. What could go wrong?

08/20/2026

A duck hunter found 3 bones in 2021. It took 5 years and genetic genealogy to learn they belonged to Shane Workman, who has been missing from Lewistown, PA since 2017. Full update ep and our original Shane Workman episode are both up now.

08/17/2026

August 27, 1992: Leigh Occhi was left home alone for less than an hour. When her mother got back, the garage was open, blood was still wet on the walls, and Leigh was gone.

In Leigh Occhi - Part 1, we covered the disappearance itself — the timeline, the family dynamic, and how suspicion fell almost immediately on Leigh's mother, Vickie Felton. This week, we go deep on the other name that's followed this case for over three decades: Oscar "Mike" Kearns, the Sunday school teacher at the Tupelo church Leigh and her mother attended.

Nine months after Leigh vanished, Kearns lured a 15-year-old girl from that same church into his car under the pretext of driving her to school — then held her at knifepoint, made her undress and lie on her own clothes, and sexually assaulted her. He'd known her almost her entire life. She said he'd never once raised a red flag.

Noting the similarities between this case and Leigh's, investigators tried to ask him about Leigh over the years, but he refused every time.

We went through court records that never made it into any article about this case: a second assault while he was out on bond, a bail revocation motion, and a sentence that let him walk free in under four years.

We also get into what a K-9 unit and a forensic anthropology team were doing in the drainage ditch behind Leigh's old house on Honey Locust Drive in January 2025 — and why investigators reportedly still believe she never left the property at all.

Leigh turns 47 this week. She deserved every one of the days between 13 and 47.

🎧 Part 2 is up now. If you haven't listened to Part 1 yet, start there first.

If you have any information about the disappearance of Leigh Occhi, please contact the Tupelo Police Department at (662) 841-6491, or Crime Stoppers of Northeast Mississippi at 1-800-773-TIPS.

08/13/2026

Sorry. I was watching JP’s video and got all riled up. Walmart doesn’t deserve tontrample on your civil rights 😅

08/01/2026

"Her favorite blanket was crumpled up on the floor and I was very scared."

That's what Vickie Felton told CNN about the moment she walked through her own home and realized her 13-year-old daughter was gone. It had been less than an hour. And in the 34 years since, no one has ever been arrested.

On the morning of August 27, 1992, the remnants of Hurricane Andrew were moving through Tupelo, Mississippi. 13-year-old Leigh Occhi was home alone. Her mother, Vickie, had already left for work, and around 8:30 she called home to check on her — using a code the two of them had so Leigh would know it was safe to answer.

No answer. She called again. Still nothing.

Vickie drove the mile and a half home. When she pulled into the driveway, the garage light was still on — the kind that shuts off automatically after five minutes. Whatever happened, it had happened only minutes before she arrived.

Inside, she found blood smeared on the wall.

What investigators found went far beyond that. Blood and hair were stuck to a door frame. Fresh, still-wet stains marked the walls, the carpet, and the bathroom counter. Leigh's bloodstained nightgown and bra were found stuffed in a laundry basket. Someone had tried to clean the bathroom — but no rag or towel was ever found in the house. Whoever cleaned up took the evidence with them.

There was no forced entry. Leigh's parents were certain: she wouldn't have opened the door for a stranger.

Eight days later, a McDonald's employee 30 miles north of Tupelo reported seeing a girl who looked like Leigh. It turned out to be someone else.

Five days after that, an envelope arrived at the house — addressed to Leigh's stepfather, misspelled, postmarked from that same town, carrying twice the necessary postage. No note. No ransom demand.

Inside were Leigh's missing glasses.

That envelope was the last real clue this case ever produced.

Fourteen months later, a farmer found a human skull in a ditch nearby. Dental records seemed to confirm the unthinkable — until the identification was retracted days later. It belonged to someone else entirely.

Leigh Occhi has now been missing for 34 years. She would be 46 years old today. There has never been an arrest — but there are names that have never been ruled out.

We just released Part 1 of Leigh's story on And Then They Were Gone. Listen today on your favorite podcast app.

If you have any information about what happened to Leigh, please contact the Tupelo Police Department at (662) 841-6491, or Crime Stoppers of Northeast Mississippi at 1-800-773-TIPS.