Lost Girls

This episode of Lost Girls is different.So important, in fact, that we did not record an introduction.We did not add commentary.We did not interrupt.We are letting the evidence speak for itself.On October 18, 2019, Anchorage Police Detectives Brendan Lee and David Cordie interrogated Ian Calhoun about his relationship with Brian Steven Smith—the now-convicted serial killer responsible for the murders of Alaska Native women Kathleen Jo Henry and Veronica Abouchuk.That interrogation happened in two parts: first at Calhoun’s home, then later at the Anchorage Police Department.By that point, Smith had already been arrested for Kathleen Jo Henry’s murder. During questioning, he confessed to killing Veronica Abouchuk the year before. What investigators needed to understand next was chillingly simple:How much did Ian Calhoun know—and when did he know it?According to interrogation footage, reports, and audio recordings, Calhoun was not a casual acquaintance. He was a friend. A drinking buddy. Someone Brian Smith trusted enough to communicate with openly. In early September 2019, that trust took a dark turn.Calhoun told detectives that Smith met him at Forsythe Park and showed him what appeared to be a body in the back of his truck—covered by a tarp. Calhoun claimed he brushed it off as a sex doll, but later admitted he had a gut feeling it wasn’t. After seeing it, he didn’t call police. He didn’t leave. He didn’t confront Smith.They went drinking.Later, Smith came to Calhoun’s house.Calhoun admitted to deleting text messages and an entire messaging app after Smith’s arrest—messages that included disturbing images and conversations. He acknowledged knowing more than he initially admitted. And yet, despite what he saw, what he deleted, and what he knew, Ian Calhoun has never been charged.Under Alaska law, failure to report a violent crime against an adult is treated as a violation—punishable by little more than a $500 fine. A penalty that reflects just how little the system values silence when the victim is Indigenous, marginalized, or vulnerable.This episode is not commentary.It is not opinion.It is documentation.We believe it is essential for the public to hear this in full, without framing, without interruption, and without distraction.Because Kathleen Jo Henry deserved better.So did Veronica Abouchuk.And silence should never be safer than doing the right thing.To learn more and follow ongoing advocacy, visit “Arrest Ian Calhoun NOW” on Facebook.Source: amberbatts.com

On today’s episode of The Lost Girls, with Amy Smith and LaDonna Humphrey, we’re telling the story of Michelle Louise Harley.Michelle was just 22 years old when she vanished from Broward County, Florida, in the summer of 1989. A nurse. A young mother. A woman who never missed a call to check on her medically fragile son—until the day she left work to have lunch with an unidentified man and never came back.Her car would surface months later in a Maryland salvage yard. The man last seen with her would die violently before he could ever be questioned. And Michelle? She was never heard from again.This is a case layered with red flags, lost evidence, and decades of silence—one that raises uncomfortable questions about who is believed, who is protected, and who is allowed to vanish.Stay with us.Because Michelle Louise Harley is not just a missing person—she is one of The Lost Girls.

In this episode, Amy Smith and LaDonna Humphrey investigate the 2007 disappearance of 46-year-old Roxanne Lacson, a Native Hawaiian, Chinese, and Filipino woman who vanished in Honolulu under circumstances that remain painfully unclear.Roxanne was last seen on the morning of August 27, 2007, when her daughter dropped her off at her boyfriend’s home in Makakilo. Although she was homeless at the time and often stayed with friends or spent time along the Wai‘anae beach area, she never drifted far from the people she loved. Roxanne kept in regular contact with her eleven children and showed up for family gatherings — until suddenly, she didn’t.After six silent weeks with no phone calls, no sightings, and no trace of where she might have gone, her children reported her missing. Since that day, there has been no evidence, no confirmed leads, and no answers.Roxanne disappeared without a phone, without stability, and without the support she deserved — but not without people who loved her. Her case remains unsolved, and her family continues to wait for justice, truth, or even the smallest sign of what happened.Join us as we revisit the known facts, the heartbreak, and the unresolved questions surrounding the disappearance of Roxanne Lacson.

In this episode, Amy Smith and LaDonna Humphrey explore the 2017 disappearance of Eva Gwendolyn “Gwen” Allen, a 67-year-old woman who vanished from Lithonia, Georgia under deeply concerning circumstances. Gwen, who lived in a group home and required continuous care due to bipolar disorder, was last seen around 1:30 a.m. on July 4th, 2017.Despite her medical needs, her eyeglasses left behind, and a phone that showed signs of confused dialing in the days after she disappeared, no one has seen or heard from Gwen since. Her family believes she may have been disoriented and vulnerable when she walked away — and the silence that followed has been heartbreaking.Join us as we break down Gwen’s timeline, the unanswered questions, and why this case still matters today. Her disappearance remains unsolved, and she deserves to be found.

Hailey vanished in late November 2024 — somewhere between certainty and speculation, between a Chevon station in Kelso and the miles of quiet Washington road that stretch into nowhere. She was last reportedly seen in South Kelso and at the Lexington Chevron. After that, nothing. No confirmed sightings. No arrests. No trail that hasn’t dissolved into uncertainty.In this episode, we look closely at what we know — and what remains disturbingly unclear.Hailey is described as 5’7”–5’9”, around 135 pounds, with brown hair and green eyes. She has ties throughout Cowlitz County and beyond — Castle Rock, Vancouver, Olympia — places that matter now because there are so few confirmed anchors left. Her loved ones describe her as someone who may have struggled, but she does not disappear like this. The silence is out of character. It is alarming. It is wrong.Search teams have been everywhere they can think to look:Rose Valley. Toutle. The brush along Ocean Beach Highway. Miles of backroads where headlights disappear into timber and no one hears you scream. Volunteers have walked fields, tracked riverbanks, knocked on doors, and spoken her name into every room that would listen. Social media has pushed her photo across digital highways. The community has refused to stand down.And still, the questions echo:Where is Hailey?Who saw her last?What happened after that final sighting in Kelso?How does a woman with roots, connections, and a life simply fall off the map?Tonight we bring Hailey’s story into the light — because people don’t vanish without reason, and women do not disappear quietly when we say their names out loud.If you know something, say something.Someone does.