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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?

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All Episodes

33:32

Nevada: Brookey Lee West

True Crime in the 50 ·

2024/01/15

Brookey Lee West was born in June of 1953 to LeRoy and Christine Smith. Her parents were drug addicts and frequently left her and her younger brother, Travis, alone at home for days on end with no food to eat. When Brookey was seven years old, her mother attempted to kill an ex-boyfriend in a fit of rage with a shotgun at a bar, and subsequently went to prison. Brookey graduated High School and enrolled in the army, but, as soon as Christine was released, moved in once again with her mother. The

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36:27

Nebraska's Catfishing Killer: Liz Golyar

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2024/01/01

In 2012, Dave Kroupa was just a normal guy living in Omaha, Nebraska. Dave was recently single, after breaking up with the mother of his two children, and was casually dating on the online dating forum, Plenty of Fish. It was on there that he met Liz Golyar. Liz and Dave dated for awhile, until Dave found someone he was more interested in; a woman named Cari Farver. Cari was twice divorced, had a son and worked as a computer programmer at West Corporation. But after she and Dave had only dated for

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24:24

Montana: The Newlywed Killer

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2023/12/18

On Monday, July 8th, 2013, a man named Cameron Frederickson was concerned. His usually reliable and on-time employee, 25-year-old Cody Johnson had not shown up to work that day. Frederickson went to Johnson's house in Kalispbell, Montana, and let himself into his garage. There, he found his friend's cell phone lying on a table, which was also out of the ordinary.Cody Johnson had just gotten married one week before, at the end of June. His bride was Jordan Johnson and Cody's friends and family were

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28:54

Missouri: Robert Courtney

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2023/12/04

Robert Courtney grew up as the son of a revivalist preacher, moving around to Alabama, Kansas and Louisiana before settling in Missouri. He was a strange child and never had many friends. But he graduated from the University of Missouri, met and married three times, had five children and became a successful pharmacist. So successful, in fact, that he lived in a mansion and bought an office in downtown Kansas City, Missouri called the Research Medical Center Tower.Robert Courtney could also mix

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3:35

Holiday Podcast: The Evergreen Murders: A Mackenzie...

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2023/12/03

Hey there all you Christmas fans: Check out my podcast The Evergreen Murders: A Mackenzie Monroe Christmas Mystery. Mackenzie Monroe is a hardworking, high-powered Hollywood talent agent who HATES Christmas. Much to her dismay, her newest actor client, Cameron Stack, has just gone against her wishes and accepted a role as the architect love interest in a holiday movie on the Candy Cane channel. After being ordered by her boss to follow him to the tiny town of Evergreen, Ohio for filming, she finds

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22:32

Murdered in Mississippi: Shondra May

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2023/11/20

On Tuesday evening, February 4th, 1986, 17-year-old Shondra May drove to her part-time McDonald's fast food restaurant job in Forest, Mississippi. Since it was a slow night, her manager let her go home around 7 pm. At 7:24 Shondra used a pay phone outside of the McDonald's to call her mother to tell her she was going to the local TG&Y store to pick up a Valentine's Day gift for her boyfriend, Tony Adams. Her mother, Janelle, thought nothing of it and figured her daughter would be home within the

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26:15

Minnesota: The Mysterious Death of Chris Jenkins

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2023/11/06

On November 1st, 2002, Steve and Jan Jenkins were at their home in Burlington, Wisconsin, waiting for their daughter, Sara, to visit, when they got a call from Ben Kroon, their son, Chris' roommate at the University of Minnesota. Ben was calling to tell Chris' parents that Chris had attended a Halloween party at a bar the night before, and no one had seen or heard from him since. Chris Jenkins, 21, was kicked out of the Lone Tree Bar at around 1 am for reasons no one was really sure. He was not that

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36:19

Michigan: Kelly Cochran

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2023/10/23

In the dead of winter, February 2014, married couple Jason and Kelly Cochran moved to Iron River, a tiny town with a population just shy of 3,000 in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Jason, due to his mental and physical disabilities, stayed home, while Kelly was the breadwinner; she had a job at the Oldenberg Group as an electrical assembler. Jason and Kelly were said to have an open marriage...but this just meant that Kelly took it upon herself to date and sleep with other men, and Jason did not have

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28:32

The Massachusetts Drug Labs Scandal

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2023/10/09

Annie Dhookan was a rising star and the MVP at her job as a drug lab chemist at the Hinton State Laboratory Institute in Boston, Massachusetts. Annie's role was test drugs or other substances that were brought in by arresting officers, see if they were of the illegal variety, and sometimes, to testify in a court of law. But Annie was so good at her job, she was getting complaints from the other chemists. She was too good at her job. It would eventually come to light that Annie was testing more than

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29:24

Maryland's Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre Murder

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2023/09/25

Steve and Kim Hricko's marriage was on the rocks. So that is why, on Valentine's Day in 1998, Steve had the idea to take his bride to the Harbourtowne Golf Resort and conference center on the Eastern Shore of Maryland for the night. It was to be a romantic getaway, with food and drinks and even a Dinner Theatre Murder Mystery experience.But by the end of the night, it was not only the Dinner Theatre actor who was dead. Steve Hricko was actually dead, and this was no play. He was murdered while lying

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25:24

Maine: The Disappearance of Ayla Reynolds

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2023/09/11

Little Ayla Bell Reynolds was only 20 months old when she mysteriously disappeared from Watertown, Maine on December 16th, 2011. Her parents, who never married, were locked in a legal custody battle for the child and Ayla had been staying with her father on the night of December 15th. Also at her father's house were 6 or 7 other people, children and adults, and a party was being thrown. Ayla's father claimed he put the child down at around 8 pm and her aunt checked on her at 10 pm. By 9 am the next

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27:49

Louisiana's Missing: Barbara Blount and AJ Breaux

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2023/08/28

Barbara Blount was a widow with two children who lived in the small town of Holden, Louisiana. She was devout and church-going and did not have an enemy in the world. May 2nd, 2008 started out just like any other. Barbara spoke to her daughter Christy, and a friend on the phone and set about cleaning out her kitchen cupboards. But by 2 pm, when none of her friends or family could reach her, Barbara had disappeared. The cordless phone she used was shattered on the driveway and her car was found

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2:01

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2023/08/28

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28:10

Kentucky: The Crimes Against Brookelyn Farthing and...

True Crime in the 50 ·

2023/08/14

On the first day of summer, Friday, June 21st, 2013, Brookelyn Farthing went with her sister to obtain her driver's license. She then went to a birthday party for a family member, and, that night, went to a party in a rural field in Berea, Kentucky to celebrate her graduation with classmates. Her sister and her friend abandoned her, so, pretty soon, Brookelyn was looking for a ride home. She found one, an older guy, Joshua Hensley, but the 23-year-old did not exactly take her home. Instead, he took

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30:31

Kansas: Richard Scott Smith

True Crime in the 50 ·

2023/07/31

When Tracy, a 40-something-year-old Kansas mother of two found Mickey on an online dating site, she thought she had hit the jackpot. He was accomplished, handsome, had his private pilot's license and owned his own real estate company. Within days they were saying I love you and within a month, moving in together. Then, they were talking marriage. It all seemed too good to be true...because it was.Mickey was really Richard Scott Smith, a scammer, cheat, liar and love fraudster who had swindled

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30:05

Iowa: The Realtor Murders

True Crime in the 50 ·

2023/07/17

In August of 1969, Dorothy Miller, the only female real estate agent in the city of Burlington, Iowa, received a call from a man named Robert Clark, asking to see the for sale property at 118 Grand Street. Dorothy agreed to show it to the man that evening, but made sure her husband, Fred Miller, came along for safety purposes. The next day, the man called Dorothy and asked to see the property again, and this time, Dorothy went with the man alone. She was found dead at the property the next day, with

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34:49

Indiana: Herb Baumeister

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2023/07/03

Herbert "Herb" Baumeister was born on April 7th, 1947 to a prominent doctor and a homemaker on the upscale north side of Indianapolis, Indiana. Ever since he was a child, Herb was odd. And not just odd, downright weird. He once asked a friend what he thought drinking urine would taste like, and placed a dead crow on top of his grade school teacher's desk. But Herb got married and found semi-successful careers, first at the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, then by opening a chain of thrift stores in the

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39:19

Illinois: Sarah Delashmit

True Crime in the 50 ·

2023/06/19

It was the fall of 2003 when Southern Illinois University student Sarah Delashmit told her suitemates that she had cancer. All of them were devastated and even shaved their heads in solidarity. The next year, Sarah told her roommate she had gotten into a horrific car accident, was in a wheelchair and would never walk again. By the time Sarah moved out of the dorm, the roommate and she were not on speaking terms, and the roommate saw Sarah in the cafeteria walking just fine.Sarah Delashmit suffered

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32:23

Idaho: The Murders of Katy Benoit and Lisa Stuckey

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2023/06/05

Katy Benoit was a bubbly, young, happy and personable graduate student of psychology at The University of Idaho. While she had briefly entered into a romantic relationship with a 31-year-old teacher's assistant at the college, Ernesto Bustamante, she had broken up with him and was trying to move on with her life. But Bustamante was making that difficult. He was stalking Katy and had threatened her with a gun on more than one occasion. Even though Katy reported his behavior to campus and local

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30:07

Hawaii: Hidden in the House

True Crime in the 50 ·

2023/05/22

Phrogging is defined as: "The act of sneaking into a person's home and hiding among it's occupants without their knowledge." While this phenomenon is rare, it is not unheard of. P. Diddy had a phrogger in his home, as did Pamela Anderson in 2001. But the creepiest and most disturbing case is the one of the Campbell family in Honolulu, Hawaii.In 2019, the Campbells had just moved to Honolulu, when Brittany Campbell started hearing strange noises, such as the front door opening and closing, while she

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