Dark Dialogue •Distilled: Reopened — Brookelynn Farthing: The Disappearance They Should Have Solved

About this episode

Distilled: Reopened — Episode 1

The Fire, The Lies, and the Vanishing of Brookelyn Farthing

Welcome to the brand-new evolution of Distilled — a sharper, more uncompromising format where I take cases back off the shelf, strip away old assumptions, correct past mistakes, and confront the evidence without a rigid structure or a co-host filter.

And today, we’re reopening one of the most infuriating unsolved disappearances I’ve ever covered:
the 2013 disappearance of 18-year-old Brookelyn Farthing in Berea, Kentucky.

This episode digs deep into the contradictions, the suspicious house fire, the abandoned personal belongings, the bizarre timeline, and the single person who had the opportunity, proximity, and motive to make Brookelyn vanish — yet has never faced a day of scrutiny in court.

Inside this episode:

• A minute-by-minute breakdown of Brooke’s final known hours
• Why the cigarette-caused fire theory collapses under scientific reality
• The evidence left behind, and what it tells us about a forced disappearance
• The contradictions in Josh Hensley’s statements
• How later convictions revealed who he really was
• Why Kentucky’s homicide clearance rates matter — and how this case exemplifies systemic failure
• What likely happened to Brookelyn, based on evidence, behavior, and timeline
• What police could have done. What they should have done. And what they still can do.

This isn’t the old Distilled.
This is Distilled: Reopened — where cases come back under the light, without excuses, without restrictions, and without hesitation.

If you know the case, you’re about to hear it in a way you’ve never heard before.
If you don’t, you’re about to understand why so many people are furious it remains unsolved.

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