The Toll focuses on the effects a violent crime or traumatic event has on a family and community. Season 1 focuses on a cold case from Springfield, Missouri; the 1975 murder of 9-year-old Shirley Jane Rose. Our host, award winning journalist Nancy Simpson, interviews investigators and family members, taking the listener on a journey of what ends up being not just one, but many tragedies intertwined.
Investigator and host Nancy Simpson sits down for an exclusive with Greene County Sheriff Jim Arnott before he takes his role as a US Marshall to discuss his current perspective on Gypsy Rose Blanchard and the 2015 murder of her mother, Clauddine "Dee Dee" Blanchard.
Investigator and host Nancy Simpson and Producer Pamela Shelby discuss launch of The Toll Podcast's latest episode in the Gypsy Rose saga, Gypsy Rose Continued, along with the reactions and build-up.
Host Nancy Simpson, a trusted journalist in Springfield, sits down with a neighbor of the Blanchard family who shares her experience of the mother/daughter duo years, months and days leading up to the murder.
Jeanette shares, in her own voice, the mental anguish and bouts with self doubt she had leading up to and after the discovery that maybe her mom, Jeanne, was hurting family members.
More stories from our shocking second season. This bonus content highlights the accounts of two additional family members who were suspiciously ill in Jeanne's circle.
Jeanette searches for answers to a traumatic, childhood event that continues to haunt her. The FBI investigation ends. Jeanette hires another private investigator, yearning for the truth.