30 April 2024
MONTICELLO, Minn. — The Vault podcast, Forum Communication Co.’s premier true-crime investigative podcast, has now released a new full-season dedicated to looking into the disappearance of Belinda Van Lith.
Van Lith was 17 years old when she vanished from a home she was house sitting on Eagle Lake, just outside of Monticello, Minnesota. On June 15, 1974, she didn’t show up to her oldest sister’s going-away party. Belinda’s family knew from the start that she did not run away. But investigators labeled her as a runaway, anyway.
Six months after she went missing, investigators learned that the last person to see Belinda had committed a horrendous crime at the same location Belinda was last seen.
The Van Lith season of the podcast — designed to stand alone but also accompany the written-word series of articles on Van Lith’s disappearance — doesn’t just give listeners the facts of law enforcement’s investigation into Belinda’s disappearance. It takes listeners on a behind-the-scenes journey of Forum News Service’s pursuit for the truth.
For 50 years, Belinda’s family was kept in the dark regarding critical aspects of their sister’s disappearance, and corresponding investigation. That darkness was lifted when they obtained the 1,200-page investigative file.
The series also includes an in-person interview with Crosby, the main suspect and suspected serial killer who is now locked up at the secure sex offender treatment program facility in Moose Lake.
The 7-part series is now available to binge-listen on all major podcast apps (search “The Vault FCC”) — or listen to every episode for free, below.
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