They were daughters, dreamers, and drifters—until they crossed paths with a man who thrived in shadows.

In this episode of Dark Dialogue: Rocky Mountain Reckonings, we shift the focus away from Royal Russell Long and center the lives stolen, the voices silenced, and the trails that vanished under carnival lights and diesel exhaust.

We examine the known and suspected victims connected to Long’s cross-country movements—from 12-year-old Sharon Baldeagle, a Lakota girl who accepted a ride and was never seen again, to Lisa Kimmell, the young woman whose personalized license plate became a haunting clue. We revisit the two teenage runaways abducted from a Wyoming fairground, one of whom lived to tell the tale. And we dive deep into the nameless Jane Does scattered across the I-80 corridor—bodies found in deserts, truck stops, and ravines, their stories still waiting to be told.

What emerges is not just a portrait of a suspected serial predator, but a reckoning with how systems failed those most vulnerable—Indigenous girls, teenage runaways, women on the margins—and how some of those failures still echo today.

These victims deserve more than a footnote in a killer’s timeline. They deserve the last word.

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In October 1980, a teenage girl’s body was found in the Nevada desert—nude, bruised, stabbed, and stripped of her identity. For 41 years, she was known only by the crude “S” tattoo on her arm and a grave marker that read “Jane Doe.” Her name was Tammy Corrine Terrell.

In this gripping episode of Dark Dialogue, we unravel the heartbreaking case of Tammy—how she left Roswell, New Mexico in search of something better, only to be silenced in the desert outside Henderson. We dive deep into her movements before death, the suspects last seen with her at a Carson City Denny’s, and the forensic clues—like her freshly inked tattoo and the brutal nature of her injuries.

We also explore the decades-long mystery that followed, the role of forensic genealogy in finally identifying her in 2021, and the advocacy efforts that refused to let her story fade into the sand.

Who killed Tammy Terrell—and why? What does the ‘S’ tattoo really mean? And how did her name get lost for over four decades?

This is more than a murder mystery. It’s a reckoning with the way young, vulnerable girls like Tammy are too often overlooked—until it’s too late.

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Buried in the heat-hardened cliffs of Nevada’s Thousand Springs Canyon, a young woman’s story was reduced to ashes—her name burned away, her identity still unknown. Who was she? And who wanted her erased?

In this gripping episode of Dark Dialogue: Rocky Mountain Reckoning, we delve into the haunting 1974 discovery of the Thousand Springs Jane Doe, a burned body found in a lava rock alcove outside Elko County. With no skull, no teeth, and no match in missing persons databases, she became one of the West’s most tragic and overlooked mysteries.

Through forensic fire analysis, timeline reconstruction, and terrain-based profiling, we explore what the fire may have hidden—and what it couldn’t destroy. Could she be connected to other cases in the Great Basin? Was she a victim of opportunity, or part of a serial pattern?

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