Real Life Real Crime · Sep 25, 2026 · 42:37
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Woody Overton opens with an important #JusticeForMadison and #JusticeForStephanie update: the West Feliciana Parish Sheriff’s Office and Capital Region Crime Stoppers are offering a reward for information that could help resolve the disappearances of Madison Allen and Stephanie Hevia. The reward is temporarily increased to $10,000, and tipsters can remain anonymous. Pasted text WBRZ independently confirms the reward announcement and that Thomas Morris remains a person of interest after his July arrest on unrelated kidnapping allegations. WBRZ
Woody also marks the National Day of Remembrance for Murder Victims before revisiting several crimes from September 25, including the Woodman “Ninja Murders,” the 1953 FBI shootout with John Elgin Johnson, and the 1987 Elkland massacre. Pasted text
Then comes long-awaited news in the disappearance of Jason Landry, the Texas State University student who vanished after crashing his car in December 2020. Nearly six years later, remains discovered approximately five miles from the crash site have been identified as Jason. Woody reflects on what finally bringing him home means to his family—and why families searching for Madison, Stephanie and other missing loved ones can never give up. Pasted text
There’s also a much lighter Dum Dum in the Court involving bank robbers who believed lemon juice would make their faces invisible to surveillance cameras, followed by a Florida hidden-camera investigation involving Shawn Michael Krause. Pasted text
Finally, Woody turns to the deaths of two University of Mississippi students and growing concern surrounding kratom. Packaged kratom was found during both death investigations, but authorities have emphasized that the deaths are separate and have not determined that kratom caused either death; toxicology results remain pending. https://www.actionnews5.com Woody closes with a warning about the risks of easily accessible substances with opioid-like effects. Pasted text
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The biggest current developments are the $10,000 reward in the Madison and Stephanie investigation and the identification of Jason Landry after almost six years. In the Ole Miss story, it is especially important that the show notes not say kratom killed the students. Packaged kratom was recovered during both investigations, but as of September 24, toxicology results were still pending and authorities had not established either cause of death or a connection between the two deaths.
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