Midwest Murder
We’ve all heard the phrase ‘that kind of thing doesn’t happen in our town’, but here on Midwest Murder, we will shatter that false reality. In fact, it happens more often than we know, and sometimes the details of the most horrific crimes that happen in our neighborhoods are lost in the back pages of newspapers, forgotten on our news channels, and eventually erased over time.
Episodes
Behind the facade of a family man, church leader, soccer coach, and respected member of the community hides a vile, cruel, and sadistic serial killer.
Recorded with a sold out crowd at Swing Barrel Brewing in Moorhead, Minnesota.
Location: Kansas, Missouri
Victims: Paulda Godfrey, Lisa Stasi, Catherine Clampitt, Sheila Faith, Debbie Faith, Beverly Bonner, Izabela Lewicka, and Suzette Trouten.
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A young pregnant woman is shot in her bed before sunrise in rural Iowa. Her husband says he was in the shower when it happened, and he has a name ready for who he thinks did it. But nothing about this case ends up being as simple as it first appears.
Recorded at the historic Belle Mehus Auditorium.
Victim: Lisa Techel
Location: Agency, Iowa
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A woman dies alone in her recliner, surrounded by pills, with no signs of struggle and no obvious suspects. What investigators find in her bloodstream months later changes everything. The story of Lynn Hernan is about poison, a quarter million dollars, and the specific kind of trust that takes a lifetime to build and one person to weaponize.
Recorded live at Hay Camp Brewing Company.
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A Wisconsin couple leaves for a holiday weekend and never comes home. Their son has all the answers, except the truth. And by the time investigators figure out why, it’s already too late.
Recorded with a nearly sold out audience at ICON in Sioux Falls, SD.
Episode title submitted by: Katie Crawford
Victims: Bart & Krista Halderson
Location: Windsor, WI
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A beloved pregnant teacher is found shot dead in her St. Louis apartment — no forced entry, no gunshot heard, and a strange residue splattered across the bedroom walls. Her boyfriend, a school principal, called 911, but that's not the only call he made.
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Recorded with a sold out audience at Phat Fish Brewing in Dickinson, ND.
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A man pulls over on a bridge in Detroit and reports finding a body in the river below. At first, he’s just a witness. But as more victims are discovered and survivors come forward, investigators begin to realize they may have already met the man they’re looking for.
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A late-night pickup turns into a nightmare in a Green Bay basement. What followed was a confession so disturbing it left no mystery; only the question of how chaos, drugs, and violence collided so completely.
Location: Wisconsin
Victim: Shad Thyrion
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On a walking trail near an abandoned mine pit in northern Minnesota, investigators discovered a burned body with a broken knife blade still lodged in the chest. What began as a grim scene in the woods quickly led detectives back to a small apartment in Hibbing, where bloodstains conflicting stories, and a recliner told a far more complicated story.
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In Prohibition-era Chicago, beer meant power, and power meant enemies. When a high-profile kidnapping shakes the city, Roger “The Terrible” Touhy becomes the perfect villain. What follows is a decades-long battle through courtrooms, prison walls, and a justice system that may not have been looking for the truth at all.
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An employee at a paper mill in Wisconsin was murdered and found inside a pulp vat. What followed was a case shaped by fear, investigative failures, and ended with six people on trial, and even more questions.
Recorded with a fabulous crowd at the Sanctuary Events Center in Fargo, ND.
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A young mother says her toddler pulled the trigger. Months later, another woman disappears. What begins as a domestic tragedy in 1960 Missouri quietly grows into one of the most baffling and enduring mysteries in Midwest crime.
Recorded with a nearly sold out crowd at the Dickens Festival in Garrison, ND
Location: Missouri, Mexico
Victims: James Kinne, Patricia Jones, Franc...
What began as the horrendous murder of a beloved elderly woman in Beatrice, Nebraska turned into a case defined by pressure, false confessions, and irreversible consequences. The eventual truth raised troubling questions about how just is pursued and who pays the price when it goes wrong.
Victim: Helen Wilson
Location: Beatrice, Nebraska
Episode title submitted by Michelle Kiefer
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On Halloween night, 1975, a young farm family in rural Iowa went to bed and never woke up. What followed was one of the most controversial murder cases in state history; built on a highway timeline, forensic science that no longer exists, and a conviction still debated nearly fifty years later.
Episode title submitted by: Kelly C and Bekah
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When a Minnesota woman is promoted, thanks to her hard work at a major corporation, a coworker feels he deserves it more and begins bullying her at work. Would he have anything to do with her disappearance and eventual murder?
Victim: Sharon Bloom
Location: Woodbury, MN
Episode title submitted by: Katie Jackson
This episode was recorded at the 109 Club in Lignite, ND
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A woman doctor, a dead daughter-in-law, evidence that doesn't add up, and a confession written on no sleep. In a house full of secrets, the biggest one may have walked free.
Recorded with a fabulous crowd at the Roughrider Center in Watford City, ND.
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A father dies in an accidental shooting while teaching his son gun safety, but the manipulation, gaslighting, and deceit uncovered prove it’s much darker than that.
This episode was recorded at the historic Maddock Opera House in Maddock, ND.
Victim: Robert Breininger
Location: Mark Center, OH
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A quiet Midwestern boy once did the unthinkable. Decades later, in the Florida Keys, that same man built a life so ordinary no one saw the darkness beneath it, until it finally came roaring back.
Recorded in Jamestown, ND in support of Safe Shelter.
Episode title submitted by: Alyssa T.
Location: Indiana, Florida
Victims: Isle Brandt, Michelle Jones, Teresa Helfrich, Sherry Perisho, Darlene Toler
In 1926, a young woman planned to elope with her beloved to hide a secret pregnancy. But when she never returned home, whispers of romance turned to rumors of murder, and the truth was darker than anyone imagined.
Victim: Clara Olson
Location: Prairie du Chien, WI
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When young female college students start turning up brutally murdered around Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor, Michigan, fear spreads faster than the investigation. Law enforcement can’t connect the killings. Angry parents turn on the university. A self-proclaimed psychic steps into the spotlight, claiming he can see what police can’t. And while headlines chase hysteria, the real killer moves quietly among ...
A single mother was brutally murdered in her own home while her children slept upstairs. For years, the case remained unsolved, until a shocking tip revealed a hidden, one-sided rivalry that turned deadly.
Victim: Patti Wolzen
Location: Hastings, NE
***Heads up! The next Midwest Murder episode (episode 129) will release October 6th instead of September 29th.***
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