And Then They Were Gone Podcast

06/16/2026

On the evening of October 12, 2018, 16-year-old Karlie Gusé told her dad and stepmother she was heading to a high school football game in Chalfant Valley, California.

She didn't go to the game.

Instead, she went to a house party with her boyfriend. She smoked ma*****na that night — something she had done before, but this time, it didn't go well. She got scared of the music. She got scared of her boyfriend. She called her stepmother Melissa in a panic and begged her to come pick her up.

When Melissa arrived, Karlie was running down the street, pale as a ghost, with her pupils fully dilated. Melissa got her home and spent the night in her room trying to calm her down. Sometime after 5 a.m., Melissa fell asleep.

When she woke up around 7 a.m., Karlie was gone. She had left with no phone, no wallet, and no coat — in the freezing high desert cold.

Three witnesses spotted her that morning walking toward U.S. Highway 6, a desolate stretch of road heading north to the Nevada border. Search dogs tracked her scent all the way to the highway's edge.

Then the trail went cold.

The FBI got involved. The internet fractured into competing theories, but none of them led anywhere.

Then, in 2021, a tip came in: a witness claimed to have seen a girl matching Karlie's description at a party in Tonopah, Nevada — a small mining town more than 100 miles up Highway 6, across the state line. Investigators say they identified a vehicle that may have carried her there.

Karlie has never been found. She would be 24 years old today.

We covered her full story on the latest episode of And Then They Were Gone. Link in comments.

If you have information about Karlie's whereabouts, please contact the Mono County Sheriff's Office at [email protected].

06/03/2026

with And Then They Were Gone Pod Naresh Bhatt’s bond hearing is postponed.

06/02/2026

Naresh Bhatt has a THIRD bond hearing scheduled on June 3, 2026 in the death of his wife, Mamta Kafle.

05/15/2026

On the night of March 7, 2021, 41-year-old Sarm Heslop had dinner with her boyfriend on the island of St. John in the US Virgin Islands. It was a relaxed evening at a local bar, and afterwards, they took a short dinghy ride back to the 47-foot catamaran they lived on together, and went to bed. But by sunrise, Sarm was gone.

Her phone, wallet and passport were still on the boat, but she was not. And the man who was the last person to see her refused to talk. To this day, Ryan Bane maintains that Sarm must have gone overboard accidentally, but Sarm’s family believes there’s much more to the story, and five years later, they’re still trying to figure out what happened on that boat.

05/12/2026

Imagine the difference this could have made in Sarm Heslop’s case

A Coast Guard official said the agency had taken possession of the Soulmate.

05/09/2026

It sounds like there’s a creeper in the Fredericksburg, VA area. We learned some unexpected information at James Branton’s bond hearing.

03/22/2026

Thinking of Steve Cozzi today. He was a big part of my high school life, and he was taken from us three years ago, on March 21, 2023. The absolute piece of s**t who killed him has thankfully been in jail since 3/27/23. He’s finally going to trial this fall, and I’m hoping to be able to be there to see Cozzi get the justice he deserves.

03/06/2026

3/6/26 - Naresh Bhatt hearing (spoiler: nothing happened)

02/27/2026

https://www.andthentheyweregone.com/blog/joe-pichler-missing-2006

Former child actor Joe Pichler disappeared from Bremerton, WA after a late-night phone call. Hear the full story on And Then They Were Gone.

01/30/2026

When 19-year-old Brittney Wood disappeared on May 30 2012, from Mobile, Alabama, it looked at first like so many stories we’ve heard before: a young woman vanished, and her family launched a desperate search, but there was no trace of her. But almost immediately, it became clear that this case was different. Because Brittney’s disappearance wasn’t the only police investigation into her family. In fact, months before Brittney vanished, detectives had already begun to uncover something far more disturbing than anyone could have imagined.
As her family’s secrets began to come to the surface, detectives had to ask: did Brittney Wood pay the price for what her family didn’t want anyone to know?