Episode 4: Deadly Ground - The Killing of Tom Lyon
A bitter dispute between two Iowa farmers turned deadly.
In January 2003, 52-year-old farmer Tom Lyon disappeared near Milo, Iowa. What began as a search for a missing man soon led investigators to fellow farmer Rodney Heemstra—and a confrontation that ended in a shooting, a hidden body, and a case that would spend years moving through Iowa’s court system.
In this episode of Fraud on the Farm, we break down the conflict between Heemstra and Lyon, what happened the day Lyon was killed, the evidence investigators uncovered, and the legal battle that followed—including a murder conviction that…
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