Episode 26 The official count stopped at nine. These are the women the world was never meant to remember. Mindy and her father Mindy was four years old the day her mother dropped her at daycare and walked away into the crowd. She cried and cried. A teacher told her she was just throwing a tantrum. She wasn't. Somehow, even at four, she knew. Her mother, Terry Walden, never came to pick her up. Christopher Wilder had taken her. Forty years later, Mindy is the only one who stil

Why Christopher Wilder does not measure against Bundy — he measures past him By Regan Hunt Ted Bundy Christopher Wilder For half a century, Ted Bundy has been the bar, the figure against whom every serious offender is measured: the charming, intelligent predator who hid in plain sight. Measured against him, Christopher Bernard Wilder does not merely reach that bar. On dimension after dimension, he clears it. The closer I l

EPISODE 25 Two Girls Named Mary: The Mall Murders Hiding in Plain Sight Mary Opitz She left a bag of pretzels on the roof of her mother's car. That was the last trace of her. It was January 1981, at the Edison Mall in Fort Myers, Florida. Seventeen-year-old Mary Opitz had spent the afternoon shopping with her mother, Nancy, and her older brother Chris, hunting for a birthday present for a family friend. Mary got tired. Mary took the shopping from her mother, said she'd wait a

The Death Row confession that puts serial killer Christopher Wilder on a par with Ted Bundy

Episode 23 They Laughed at Him and Lived. She Believed Him and Died. Two young mothers were running a yard sale on a summer morning in 1983 when a black sports car pulled up. The man who stepped out had a camera around his neck and gold chains glinting at his collar. He was charming, well-dressed, smooth. He told them they could be models. They laughed at him. That laughter saved their lives. The man was Christopher Wilder — and in just nine months, his face would appear on t

EPISODE 22 The Woman No One Has Ever Claimed Ellery Jane Doe We don't know what she was thinking when she wrote it. We don't know if her hand was steady or shaking. We only know that whoever killed her was careful — careful enough to strip away everything that could ever identify her. Her name. Her papers. Anything that might have told the world who she was. But he missed the scrap of paper in her pocket. For forty-three years, that note has been the only thing she left behin

Episode 20 The Day Beth Dodge's New Life Was Stolen — For a Car Beth Dodge on her wedding day Beth Dodge had a smile people still talk about forty years on. She was 33 years old, a devoted single Mom, a brilliant data analyst, and weeks away from the job of a lifetime. Mobil Chemicals were sending her to Saudi Arabia to set up a new plant — a fresh start for her and her four-year-old daughter Stephanie. A whole new country. A whole new chapter. A whole new life. She never got

Two sixteen year old girls and one serial killer. What they each do to stay alive and survive has divided the world for over forty years.

A special studio based episode of Catching Evil with three remarkable women: all true-crime experts through experince.