True Crime in the 50

True Crime in the 50

Hey True Crime fans! Get ready for True Crime in the 50, the podcast that delves into the craziest True Crime story in each and every state! Every two weeks, I'll take a look at the most unbelievable murders, serial killers and disappearances that took place in all 50 states, from Alabama to Wyoming. If you love True Crime (and America) you won't want to miss this! Do you feel safe in your state?

Episodes

July 29, 2025 29 mins
The disappearance of Timmothy Pitzen and the suicide of Amy Frye Pitzen in Rockford, Illinois is discussed.

Show Notes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sJqFMVT-S8
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On September 14, 2001, Amber Hoopes, a 20-year-old native of Idaho Falls, Idaho left her grandparents house where she was living, and went out to their auto body shop on the premises to check her email around midnight. Amber's grandmother woke up a few hours later and noticed Amber's TV and lights were on in her room. Her grandmother went out to check the auto body shop, but Amber was nowhere to be found. 
What followed her disappea...
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On Monday, March 20th, 1977, 16-year-old Dawn Momohara received a call at the home she shared with her mother in Honolulu. It was an unknown male who asked to meet her at the local Ala Mohana shopping center. Telling her mother she would be back later, Dawn left without another word. When she hadn't returned home by midnight, her mother called the police. Dawn was found the next morning, dead, at her nearby High School. She had bee...
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At the time of her death, Eva Kay Wenal, who went by Kay, was 60 years old and living with her millionaire fourth husband, Hal, in a large rental home in Lawrenceville, Georgia. Kay had been a former beauty queen, playboy bunny and showgirl and had been married four times before. On Thursday, May 1st, 2008, Kay was home from work because she was not feeling well, and reading a book when she went to open the door for a mysterious st...
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June 2, 2025 29 mins
Lois and Dave Reiss lived in Blooming Prairie, Minnesota and raised a family. Lois ran a daycare business for awhile out of the couple's home and Dave ran a successful wax worm farm. Everything was good, from the outside. From the inside, the couple was plagued by mental illness and abuse. Lois was also suicidal and addicted to gambling. 
On March 12, 2018, Lois came down to the wax worm farm to ask another employee to run payroll, ...
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Charles Robert "Bobby" Steele had not had the best childhood. He got into a serious accident when he was 13 and became addicted to drugs not long after. But he was finally trying to turn his life around when he went to stay with his sister in Claymont, Delaware. Until April 11, 2014, he left to run a few errands, made a strange phone call to his sister and was never seen again.

Benjamin Archer grew up in New Jersey and traveled out ...
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Robert "Hoagy" Hoagland lived in Newtown, Connecticut, with his wife, Laurie, and one young adult son. The couple had two other sons. Hoagy was a part-time paralegal, former chef and had his real estate appraiser's license. He was your all-around, average and average-looking 50-something-year-old guy. Until Sunday, July 28, 2013. Hoagy got up early, went to get bagels for him and his son and then paid some bills. He went out to mow...
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On Mother's Day, 2020, a mother of two, Suzanne Morphew, received texts from her daughters and husband wishing her a happy holiday. Suzanne, who lived in Salida, Colorado, never responded. Soon, her husband Barry had put out a reward for her safe return and all of her loved ones were searching for her, but to no avail. What would come from her disappearance was a story of betrayal and lies. 

Kelsey Berreth lived in Woodland Park, Co...
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On Sunday, October 17, 2021, Heidi Planck, a 39-year-old divorced mother of one left the townhome that she rented in the Palms area of West LA near Culver City and got into her silver Range Rover. She brought along her Labradoodle dog, Seven, and set out for her son, Bond's football game in Downey, California, about 17 miles away. But Heidi left the game early, and after texting with her son that evening, suddenly went radio silent...
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March 24, 2025 24 mins
Colleen Nick took her oldest daughter, Morgan Nick, to watch a Little League baseball game at 9 pm in Alma, Arkansas on June 9th, 1995. Morgan ran off to play with some other little kids to catch fireflies in the parking lot of baseball field at 10 pm, but by 10:30, Morgan had disappeared. What transpired after that is one of the most elaborate searches in a child abduction case, ever, and Morgan Nick's case remains one of the most...
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March 10, 2025 21 mins
Ira Pomeranz was a playboy about Scottsdale, Arizona; he was a nightclub owner, restaurant owner and twice-divorced bachelor. Until he met Valerie Pape. Valerie was a beautiful blond woman in her mid-forties, who had come to Scottsdale from the French countryside. She had also recently been divorced and was looking for love. The two started dating, hit it off, and were soon married. Ira continued with his nightclub business, and ev...
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February 24, 2025 27 mins
You have probably heard of the Bermuda Triangle, but have you heard of the Alaska Triangle? It is the area between Utqiagvik, Anchorage and Juneau, where, in the past four decades, people have gone missing at a rate of 4 per 1,000 individuals. That is more than twice the national average. The cases covered today include: traveling nurse Thomas Anthony Nuzzi, Congressman Hale Boggs, Congressman Nick Begich, political aide Russ Brown...
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February 10, 2025 21 mins
On January 12th, 1983, the police department in Brattleboro, Vermont, got a strange call from some colleagues at a local company about a case of what they thought to be false identity. The woman in question worked as a secretary at the company and called herself Teri Martin. Martin claimed to be the twin sister of a woman named Robbie Hannon, who had recently died and who had been married to her brother-in-law, John Greenleaf Hanno...
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The Mysterious Death of Robert Wone

Show Notes:

https://www.peacocktv.com/watch-online/tv/who-killed-robert-wone/8330027078016478112/seasons/1
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November 19, 2024 30 mins
High –powered Hollywood agent Mackenzie Monroe has just gotten engaged to her boyfriend Nick Tenenbaum and they are planning what else? A Christmas wedding in the tiny town of Evergreen Ohio where they first met... oh and where they first solved two murders. After putting the perpetrators away for life, Mackenzie is looking forward to returning to Evergreen, seeing all of her friends and getting married to the love of her life. But...
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November 18, 2024 23 mins
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The Evergreen Murders: Return to Evergreen premieres Tuesday, November 19th
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On the night of February 22nd, 2002, a woman named Taylor Schabusiness picked up her boyfriend Shad Thyrion and a friend in her Town and Country minivan in Green Bay, Wisconsin to go buy drugs. The three friends did meth, marijuana and Trazadone until the friend left. Then, Taylor and Shad went into the basement of his mother's house to continue doing drugs and to have sex. They carried on until after midnight, using sex toys and o...
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Danny Casolaro was a journalist on the verge of discovering something huge. A U.S. Intelligence military breach, lies, scandal, computer data hackings, killings and bribery that went up to the top of the government. The conspiracy even involved President Reagan himself. So when Danny Casolaro was found dead in a hotel room in Martinsburg, West Virginia, many thought he was murdered, even though the death was ruled a suicide. 

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David Anderson and Alex Baranyi werhe best of friends. They were also murderers. Both boys had bad childhoods and were abused. But no one could have known that they would commit the ultimate sin. 

Show Notes:

https://www.amazon.com/Deadly-Secrets-School-Crime-Killers/dp/038080087X
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