1 | No Place Like Nome

Florence Okpealuk is not the first Alaska Native to go missing from Nome. Seventeen years prior, Sonya Ivanoff was reported missing by her roommates and was found murdered. The crime has forever left a mark on the relationship between the community and the local police department ...  Show more

Talking with locals in Nome, Payne begins to make some progress in finding out who one of the last people to have seen Florence alive is. New accounts of interactions with the miner living on West Beach have led to the uncovering of a man with a nickname that a lot of the town ha ...  Show more

Up and Vanished: In The Midnight Sun is Part 2 is here!Payne has spent the last year in Nome, Alaska, investigating the case of Native Alaskan Florence Okpealuk, who went missing in 2020. This case is unlike any other he has covered and has taken him all the way to the Arctic Cir ...  Show more

Payne Lindsey is the host and co-creator of the hit true crime podcast series, Up And Vanished. Part 1 of season 4 In The Midnight Sun released earlier this year, and part 2 premieres August 8th. Payne explains what drew him to the edge of the arctic circle to investigate two mys ...  Show more

In October of 1989, a young boy went missing from a small town in Minnesota. As time ticked on, and no leads were found, the town, and the nation, grew desperate. However, when the answers to their questions were finally revealed, people were shocked at how their suspect had been ...  Show more

In this episode we explore the strange disappearance of Phoenix Coldon, a 23 year old woman who was last seen driving away from her family home in Spanish Lake, Missouri, on a cold December afternoon, over a decade ago.  Her whole life, Phoenix had been a model student as well as ...  Show more