MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories

The Turquoise Necklace (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)

March 2, 2026·42 min·6-min readnarrativetrue crime
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This episode recounts the 1974 murder of Barbara Rocky, a 22-year-old BYU student who was shot five times in Big Cottonwood Canyon, Utah. What begins as a missing persons case evolves into a decades-long cold case, ultimately solved in 2007 through DNA evidence from soil collected under h

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Barbara RockyJerry HickerRichard FinderCaptain Pete HaywardDetective Todd Park

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Cold CasesForensicsSerial KillersTrue CrimeUnsolved Mysteries

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