Crime. Conspiracy. Cognizance. Mile Higher is hosted by husband & wife duo Josh Thomas and Kendall Rae! Our show focuses on True Crime but we delve into many other topics including conspiracy theories, unexplained phenomena, metaphysics, futurism, ancient civilizations and news stories the mainstrea
It’s May 2019, and the medical staff at Treliske (Treh-lisk) Hospital in Cornwall have just received a notice: their colleague, vascular surgeon Neil Hopper, is being rushed to their facility. Following a week in which he suffered from cold sweats and a fever, Neil’s feet became septic, and his team thought he would have to lose them. And while his colleagues felt awful for him and expected him to be depressed about the loss, Neil seemed to be in good spirits. He was upbeat, hopeful, and didn’t even seem to miss his legs. This shocked everyone, and they thought that he was just making the…
On May 7th, 2011, Anita Turner placed an emergency call near Bournemouth in the United Kingdom. Her son, Elliot, had discovered his girlfriend, Emily Longley, dead in bed. However, as the investigation went on, law enforcement soon learned that Emily had been involved in a horrific relationship with Elliot Turner, and he had threatened to kill her for months. What followed was a search for clues, a bugged home, and even potential assistance from Elliot’s parents; the question remained: what happened to Emily Longely?
On the night of March 12, 2011, in the quiet San Diego suburb of Mira Mesa, paramedics were dispatched to the home of Karina and David Ditto in response to Karina falling down the stairs. When they arrive, paramedics are surprised to find Karina is suffering from cardiac arrest – a strange anomaly for a fall victim. It’s clear this isn’t the scene of some accident but rather a heated domestic dispute. When Karina passes away from her injuries, David Ditto is quickly arrested once investigators learn how she actually died.
On June 28th, 2007, Paige Birgfeld was returning to her home in Fort Collins from a date with her ex-husband. However, as the hours ticked on, it became clear that somewhere along the road, Paige had gone missing under mysterious circumstances. But how did this upstanding single mother find herself in the position to go missing? As investigators would soon find out, Paige led a secret double life, one that introduced her to a slew of unsavory individuals. Following her disappearance, a burning car, and scattered notes, the question on everyone's minds was: what happened to Paige Birgfeld?
For many in London, the Tara Yoga Center seemed a friendly, welcoming environment for those seeking spiritual enlightenment. However, they would have no idea that its larger organization, MISA, was founded by an international criminal wanted for crimes related to sex trafficking, sexual coercion, and cult practices. His name was Gregorian Bivolaru, and for decades, he used his status as a spiritual guru to recruit young women for his own sexual pleasure and hold them in sex slavery to enrich his organization.
Shortly after a whirlwind romance, Ian Diaz and his new wife, Angela, began receiving disturbing messages from an unknown email, claiming to be someone named “Lilith.” These emails threatened Angela, their unborn twins, and even claimed to be finding strange men to assault her. Once the authorities were involved, they turned their attention to Ian’s ex, Michelle Hadley, who had sent Ian strange emails in the wake of their breakup. But following an insane turn of events, including fake cancer, wrongful imprisonment, and abuse of power, the question remained: Who was Lilith?
In May 2001, college intern Chandra Levy was preparing to return to her home in Northern California after living in DC for half a year. However, after her parents didn’t hear from her for several days, they reported her missing to the Metropolitan Police. When the police entered Chandra’s apartment, they found notes from the building’s management scattered across the floor and a voicemail full of messages. While most of the messages were from her parents, two were from Congressman Gary Condit, asking when he could see her again. Those messages were placed on May 1st, the last day Chandra was…
For Brian and Lynette Hooker, a life at sea had always been the goal. Over the past few years, they documented their travels aboard their sailboat, named Soulmate. However, under the surface, there were allegations and instances of domestic violence, sometimes even fueled by alcohol aboard the cramped nautical spaces. That’s why, in April of this year, 2026, it was very suspicious when Brian washed up alone in a dinghy. He said that Lynette had been tossed from the small boat and was last seen swimming away. But as the search-and-rescue team and Lynette’s family noticed inconsistencies in…
In the early morning hours of February 20th, 2025, a five-year-old girl in Carrollton, Georgia, woke up and discovered a truly horrific sight: her parents, 45-year-old James Brock and 41-year-old Kristin Brock, had been shot to death in their bedroom. The girl rushed to her sister’s room just down the hall, where 16-year-old Sarah Grace Patrick called the police, alerting them that her parents were dead. The home had no signs of forced entry, and the murder weapon was unrecovered. In the months afterward, Sarah Grace made several suspicious choices- delivering a bizarre eulogy, posting…
In March 2022, Utah mom and realtor Kouri Richins called 911 after finding her husband, Eric, dead in their bed. For a year, she played the grieving widow, even publishing a children’s grief book about his death. Then, investigators uncovered fentanyl, secret affairs, and a trail of deleted messages. In this episode, we dive into the night Eric died, the hidden motives, and the courtroom showdown that decided whether Kouri Richins is a murderer.
While we’ve covered a number of missing-person cases, almost always, the last time the victim is seen is also the last time they’re heard from. However, that wasn’t the case with Frauke Liebs, who disappeared in June 2006, after watching a World Cup game with her friends at a bar in Paderborn, Germany. Over the next several days, her friends and family would receive cryptic calls from Frauke, each time claiming she was headed home. Years later, following the strange communications, unknown movements, and a potential connection to two of Germany’s most prolific serial killers, the question…
While we’ve certainly covered many parents who are also criminals, I’m sure we can all name a few parents who should have been held culpable for their poor parenting. These cases run the gamut from those who tried far too hard to be the cool parents (and trying to live out their High School years again), to parents who tried to involve their children in harebrained schemes. These are some cases where the parents weren’t just criminals, but were criminals in the way they parented.
Faith Hedgepeth was a bright, bubbly young woman who had become a friendly face at both her college, UNC, and her hometown. On campus, she was often seen walking around with her best friend, Karena, and the two grew closer once they moved in together. But after Karena returned home one morning to find that Faith had been brutally murdered, the entire community was gripped with shock, grief, and mystery. After investigators found DNA and a cryptic note at the scene, interviewed and tested nearly 1,800 people, the question remains: who murdered Faith Hedgepeth?
For many, the double murder case that put Makcenzie Shirilla behind bars to serve a life sentence comes as one of the most shocking true crime cases in recent memory. Driving on an obscure road in her small town of Strongville, Ohio, Mackenzie slammed her vehicle into the side of a building at nearly 100 MPH, immediately killing her passengers, Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan. While the case garnered much attention at the time, it has recently reentered the public conversation following Netflix’s documentary, The Crash. So today, we’re reexamining the case, looking at new evidence, body…
On the surface, Gerard Baden-Clay and his wife Allison had it all. A successful luxury property business, a beautiful young family, and a prestigious family lineage tracing back to the founder of the Boy Scouts. However, in reality, Gerard had woven a web of lies, affairs, and massive loans, all without his family even knowing. However, when it all started crashing down around him, Gerard decided the easiest way out was to kill his own wife. What followed were only more pathetic lies, appeals, attempts to hide the answer to this question: what happened to Allison Baden-Clay.
Lisa Dorrian was a bright, beloved young woman spending her early 20s in her hometown of Bangor, Northern Ireland. However, in early 2005, her family noticed a shift in their daughter once she began hanging out with a new friend group, and her weekend activities changed from light partying to heavy drug use. Following a strange party in a caravan park, Lisa reportedly ran off into the night, never to be seen again. Now, over 20 years later, the theories range from drug debts to paramilitary organizations, and the question remains: what happened to Lisa Dorrian?
On the surface, Victoria Cillier’s life seemed to be picturesque. She had just given birth to her second child with her husband, Emile, and the couple had planned a skydiving excursion for Victoria. However, little did she know that her husband had been marred by debt and affairs, and that he could see only one way out. When Victoria’s parachute malfunctioned, she plummeted 4,000 feet to the ground. Upon inspection, it quickly became clear that this was no freak accident; this was an attempted murder. And even worse, it was the second attempt that week.
By 2015, Peter Madsen had become an eccentric celebrity, known as a mad scientist who had not only built the world’s largest civilian submarine, but was working on a rocket that could bring him into space. This attracted the attention of numerous journalists, including Kim Wall, whose work focused on the extreme and eccentric across the world. However, for all his fanfare, Peter was harboring a deep secret: an obsession with violence, torture, and a hatred towards women. He would enact those fantasies on Kim while they were underwater in his submarine, with no one around to know the truth.…
Following the publication of the book Sybil, the general public became fascinated with Dissociative Identity Disorder (then known as Multiple Personalities). However, nothing would capture this attention more than the case of Billy Milligan, who, after raping several women on the campus of Ohio State University, became the first person to plead insanity due to DID successfully. What followed was public scrutiny and attention, asking if he was simply faking the whole thing to avoid consequences, or if he truly had to contend with 24 distinct, unique personalities. But the story didn’t end…
The American landscape is littered with ghost towns. One of the earliest settlements in the United States was abandoned without a trace of the settlers, sparking perhaps the first mystery in American history: what happened to the Roanoke colony? Among other places with roaring underground fires, abandoned school buses, and locations wiped from memory entirely. Today, we’re going to talk about all this and more and try to answer the question: what makes a place vanish?
Today, the fear of hacking into our government’s sensitive digital information is one of the country’s top national security priorities. However, what if the largest U.S. government hack in history wasn’t perpetrated by a foreign adversary, but a regular guy with his home computer in London? Gary McKinnon, using off-the-shelf, legal software, was able to hack dozens of Government computers, some even located in the Pentagon. His goal: to spread his political message of anti-imperialism and search for evidence of extraterrestrial life. But what followed his hacks was a decade in which he…
In the lead-up to the COVID-19 pandemic, Gretchen Anthony’s life had undergone some big changes. She had just filed for divorce from her second husband, David Anthony, and changed the locks after he showed up one night ranting about the end of the world. However, her friends and family were disturbed when she texted them, telling them she had been diagnosed with the virus. However, her texts didn’t sound like Gretchen had written them; in fact, they sounded more like David. What followed was a cross-country chase, a scuffle with police, and the ever-present question: where was Gretchen…
While the Bible appears to be the complete written record of the Christian faith, there are multiple books of the Apocrypha that have not been included in the classic Western Bible. The most famous of these is the book of Enoch, which sheds light on the mysterious Bible character. Why was this book taken out of the Bible? Was it due to differing views on doctrine, or maybe because The Book of Enoch contains information on Ancient Aliens, Giants, and advanced Civilizations thousands of years ago?
Throughout the 20th century, the general public was entranced by stories of Alien abduction. For one man, Budd Hopkins, these weren’t just the odd paranormal occurrence but a field of science worth studying. The only problem was verifying the claims of those he was speaking to. However, that changed when he met Linda Napolitano, A New Yorker who might have had the most important abduction in history: Linda was taken from her high-rise Manhattan Apartment, and was witnessed by 23 onlookers.
Suchir Balaji was an extremely bright young software engineer. Straight out of college, he joined OpenAI and wrote some of the original code responsible for ChatGPT. However, as the company enjoyed success and massive press coverage, Suchir became concerned about some of its practices regarding plagiarism. After he left the company, Suchir became a whistleblower and joined a massive lawsuit against the company. As his fame grew, Suchir’s family was shocked to find him dead in his apartment in an apparent suicide. But, due to his high-profile nature as a whistleblower, his family and many…
Twins Danette and Jeannette Millbrook were well-known in their Augusta, Georgia, community as sweet teenagers who adored their mother, Miss Louise. However, on one fateful Sunday in 1990, Jeannette and Dannette walked across town to get bus money for school. However, that would be the last time they were ever seen again. With police misconduct, a mysterious dumping ground, and confessions from associates of their criminal father, the question remains: where are the Millbrook twins?
When Police arrived at the scene of Tiffiney Crawford’s home, they believed they were entering into a routine suicide investigation. Her husband, Jason Crawford, had called 911, explaining that Tiffiney had been shot, though he wasn’t willing to say who had shot her. However, as others investigated, it became clear that this was much stranger than it initially seemed: Tiffiney had been killed by two gunshot wounds to the head. As the investigation continued, they learned of infidelity, violence, and a potential cover-up that led to the question: What happened to Tiffiney Crawford?
Most of us had a fantasy growing up of having a Toys R Us all to ourselves. Bikes to ride in the aisles, video games to play until the sun came up, and as much candy as you could eat. However, one man, Jeffrey Allen Manchester, got to live this fantasy as an adult. Only, he had just escaped from prison. After robbing nearly 45 McDonald’s and cutting out of jail, Jeff evaded the cops by living in the walls of a Toys R Us and the Circuit City next door, passing the time by playing with toys, spying on the employees, or going to church. But just how did a prolific criminal not only escape from…
Life seemed to be ideal for Yvonne Baldelli. She had just left her successful management job and moved to Panama with her ex-marine boyfriend, Brian Brimager. To her family in the States, Yvonne’s island life seemed picaresque, with descriptions of walks on the beach and playing music at local bars. But when those happy emails stopped, Brian returned to the U.S. and married a new woman within two weeks. The only question: where was Yvonne?
Since the dawn of time, just about every culture on earth has asked the question: What happens after you die? While many religions and faiths propose some form of afterlife, many also believe in reincarnation. And for those at the University of Virginia’s Department of Perceptual Studies, children in particular are susceptible to remembering elements of their past lives. From WWII bombers to Titanic victims, today we’re going over a few of these stories and asking the question: Can you remember your past life?
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Crime. Conspiracy. Cognizance. Mile Higher is hosted by husband & wife duo Josh Thomas and Kendall Rae! Our show focuses on True Crime but we delve into many other topics including conspiracy theories, unexplained phenomena, metaphysics, futurism, ancient civilizations and news stories the mainstream media doesn't cover. Our guests include experts in these topics as well as like-minded individuals who share our passion for uncovering the truth and exploring the mysteries of our universe. Come chill with us every Thursday and prepare to take your mind a mile higher! Watch the show on YouTube every Thursday!
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