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Murder in the Heartland
Murder in the Heartland is your podcast for small-town American crime. Each episode is told through the collective point-of-view of a Middle American town and its residents, and every story documents a town and people in the heart of the country, and the provocative crime that tore through it. The townspeople are not only the storytellers, but they also hold the clues to the crimes that have forever changed their lives, and how they understand their home.
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Episodes
- Murder in the Heartland
New Mom’s Night Out
Young mother Jessica Currin is murdered and an inexperienced police department handles the case. This leads to critical errors and false accusations. The case…
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Death of a Ladies Man
When local ladies’ man Jim Cornwell is shot outside his home, July 4 festivities take a tragic turn. After multiple suspects emerge, all tied to Jim’s romantic…
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A Killer Creature
Suspects arise after a beloved mother is found stabbed in her Tomahawk, WI home. When another stabbing ensues the next day, detectives race to place her exes…
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Field of Bad Dreams
The grotesque murder of a beloved citizen, Betsy Ball, shatters the quiet farm community of Vinton, Ohio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more…
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The Killing Kind
After James Skinner is found dead in his own bedroom, the agricultural community of Brownstown, IL enters into a paranoid spiral, unsure of who would want to…
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Killer on the Res
When Trina Langebrunner is found stabbed to death on a road in Cloquet, MN, her family, community, and law enforcement work together for over twelve years to…
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Killer in the Casino
Neighborly casino runner, Lori Bray, is found dead in the woods in the small town of Laurel, Montana. The community has to wonder if it was a consequence of…
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The Gravel Pit Murders
In Howard City, MI, detectives investigate a night of horror that ended with beloved couple Robert and Norma Bean being shot dead in a gravel pit. When local…
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Last Shift at Pirates Cove
In Gambier, OH, college junior Emily Murray, a popular religious studies major, goes missing late one night after quitting her job at a local bar. A month…
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An Unfaithful Truth
When law enforcement finds local electrician James Nibbe dead after a home invasion, they must dig beneath the surface of Lake Crystal, Minnesota, to root out…
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Orders of Protection
Willard, MO Newlyweds are abducted from their home, never to be seen again. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Irreplaceable Gems
When an Ohio couple is found dead in their ransacked home, detectives turn to the community for help. Investigators must piece together the events of a…
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A Toddlers Terrible Tale
In the small town of Twinsburg, OH, Charlene Puffenbarger's three-year-old son is the only witness to her brutal murder. As Investigators continue to follow…
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Hunt for a Killer
In rural Missouri, a hunter is found slain in his car near the popular deer trails. Was this a hunting accident gone wrong, or something more sinister? Hosted…
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Murder on Beer Can Alley
A local in Algona, IA, stumbles upon a smoldering truck with the body of a young mother inside. Investigators and family trace the last movements of Nicole…
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Who Killed Angie Lee?
Angie Lee, a single mother in Gillespie, Ohio is found beaten and strangled in her own home with her four-year-old son present, and the investigation quickly…
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Introducing: Murder in the Heartland
Murder in the Heartland is your podcast for small-town American crime. Each episode is told through the collective point-of-view of a Middle American town and…
- Murder in the Heartland
Coming Soon: Murder in the Heartland
On July 16th, we're releasing a new podcast called Murder in the Heartland. Murder in the Heartland is your podcast for small-town American crime. Stay tuned…
Murder in the HeartlandHot & Deadly: Heart of Darkness
Columbia Kentucky, is the perfect place to raise a family, nestled quietly away form the hustle and bustle of city life. But, for one family, darkness is…
Murder in the HeartlandHot & Deadly: Music City Murder
They say everything's just a little sweeter in the South. At least that's the case for Jim and Kelley Cannon, one of Nashville ,Tennessee's, finest young…
Murder in the HeartlandHot & Deadly: Homicidal Hospitality
Laura Ling is a single mom trying to raise her teenage daughter alone, until she meets Stephen Stanko, a down-on-his-luck author. Laura offers Stephen a…
Murder in the HeartlandHot & Deadly: Evil Among Us
A fierce hurricane rips through rural Chunchula, Alabama, leaving members of the tight-knit community to repair their town. But for Lisa Marie Nichols and her…
Murder in the HeartlandHot & Deadly: Smooth Talking Devil
Sparks fly in Jackson, MS, and Bossier City, LA, when a smooth-talking cowboy comes to town and women start disappearing. Communities are on edge as police…
Murder in the HeartlandHot & Deadly: The Perfect Prisoner
Prim and proper Marie Hilley of Anniston, Alabama, is left to fend for herself after a mysterious illness overtakes her husband. Despite a life insurance…
Murder in the HeartlandHot & Deadly: Directions to Hell
Police find a young woman covered in blood and clinging to life in her Augusta, Georgia, home. The case leads detectives on the hunt for a serial killer…
Murder in the HeartlandHot & Deadly: Lafayette's Little Sisters
Two women mysteriously disappear in Lafayette, LA, 13 years apart from each other. With a lack of evidence, police are stumped. It's a race against time to…
Murder in the HeartlandHot & Deadly: Romance is Dead
Julia Phillips calls police to the home of her boyfriend, Melvin Roberts. Officers find Melvin murdered and Julia bound in duct tape. As detectives begin…
Murder in the HeartlandHot & Deadly: Who Shot the Sheriff?
Derwin Brown wins the sheriff seat and promises to clean up the department. Incumbent sheriff Sidney Dorsey and his associates will stop at nothing to hold on…
Murder in the HeartlandHot & Deadly: So Many Women
A beautiful, young co-ed is strangled to death in the bathroom of her Charlotte, North Carolina, home. Her murder ignites an investigation that leads police…
Murder in the HeartlandHot & Deadly: Knock, Knock, You're Dead
A gang of outlaws wreaks havoc on small towns throughout Appalachia. Posing as federal agents, this group of bandits prey on innocent citizens of eastern…
Murder in the HeartlandHot & Deadly: Friendship Under Fire
Carol and Robyn are friends who've always been by each other's side. So when Robyn's husband Brian is found murdered in Lake Charles, LA, Carol is right by her…
Murder in the HeartlandHot & Deadly: Bleeding Heart
Genore Guillory is a generous soul and a friend to all, and when she doesn't show up at work one day, her colleagues are immediately concerned. When police…
Murder in the HeartlandHot & Deadly: Bloodshed in Boonsboro
When a retired couple is found murdered in their home, a Virginia town fears they have a killer on the loose. Neighboring police agencies join forces to hunt…
Murder in the HeartlandHot & Deadly: Scandal in Hunt Country
In the posh expanses of Virginia's Hunt Country, the fiery relationship between billionaire heiress Susan Cummings and her polo-playing boyfriend comes to a…
Murder in the HeartlandHot & Deadly: Terror in the Tar Heel State
After growing up in a tiny coal town and pulling herself up by her bootstraps, FBI secretary Melissa Mooney had a whole lot to live for. When her promising…
Murder in the HeartlandHot & Deadly: Catch Me If You Can
When a beautiful young woman is killed in her apartment, Raleigh police must play a high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse to obtain a DNA sample from her suspected…
Murder in the HeartlandHot & Deadly: Fatal Belle
Spoiled southern belle Pat Allanson yearns to be the next Scarlett O'Hara. She thinks she found the perfect Rhett Butler in Tom Allanson, but when her…
Murder in the HeartlandHot & Deadly: Kissing Cousins
Whenever extended families get together, there's bound to be a little tension. But when two kissing cousins start carrying on, their scandalous relationship…
Murder in the HeartlandHot & Deadly: The Grim Reaper of Baton Rouge
A beautiful, young graduate student is brutally murdered in her Baton Rouge home. Her's is but one of a string of slayings that have police racing against the…
Murder in the HeartlandHot & Deadly: Deadly Devotion
Beloved preacher Matthew Winkler and his loving wife, Mary, seem like two peas in a pod. But they're hiding some scandalous secrets. Before long their horsing…
Murder in the HeartlandHot & Deadly: Murder in the Fast Lane
A househunting trip along the Ohio Turnpike in Spring 2005 for Dr. Gulam Moonda and his wife, Donna, ends in disaster when a gunman approaches on the side of…
Murder in the HeartlandHot & Deadly: The Last Ride
Truck driver Bob Nelson is a week from completing his final cross-country ride before returning to his family and celebrating his 25th wedding anniversary…
Murder in the HeartlandHot & Deadly: Hide and Creep
For a mom of three, a trip to the casino is a chance to escape for some fun. But when her journey is cut short and she fails to return home, her family panics…
Murder in the HeartlandHot & Deadly: Double-Crossed
When the body of 20-year-old transgender woman CeCe Dove is found floating in a suburban pond 20 miles from her Cleveland home, detectives consider motives…
Murder in the HeartlandHot & Deadly: Lost Highway
Twenty-two-year-old mom Shawn Williams heads to the store late one night and never comes home. When her body is found the following day along an Oklahoma…
Murder in the HeartlandHot & Deadly: Point of No Return
When shots ring out on a remote Florida beach, officers are devastated to learn the lives of two Georgia teens have been lost. Even with two jurisdictions on…
Murder in the HeartlandHot & Deadly: What Happened in the Woods
A party in the woods ends in tragedy when the body of 18-year-old Jarret Clark is found floating in a lake. With many people camping in the Oklahoma wilderness…
Murder in the HeartlandHot & Deadly: Secret Rendevous
When a night out ends in bloodshed for 23-year-old Navy veteran Raul Mendoza, Houston police have a lot of questions on their hands. But a tip from Raul's…
Murder in the HeartlandHot & Deadly: Mystery at Palm Beach
After 30-year-old Lloyd Tobin is gunned down on a lakefront beach in Texas, his family launches their own investigation to help police solve the case. More…
Murder in the HeartlandHot & Deadly: Wrong Side of the Tracks
After the body of Richard Hodges is found along the Missouri River, police discover his mother has also been killed inside their home. As detectives get to…
Murder in the HeartlandHot & Deadly: Stranger in the Night
When the body of 18-year-old Sharyn Kills Back is found in a Texas storm drain, Arlington detectives are left with few leads. But when a tip comes in from Fort…
Murder in the HeartlandHot & Deadly: Deadliest Catch
After 32-year-old Mark Mueller's body is pulled from the shore of Lake Michigan, police wonder how his favorite fishing spot became a scene for murder. It's…
Murder in the HeartlandHot & Deadly: Lethal Attraction
When the body of 18-year-old Tina Hendricks is found floating in a Florida canal, officers hone in on a local bar. But with many admirers fawning over Tina…
Murder in the HeartlandHot & Deadly: Oasis of Death
A teenage girl is found bleeding to death along California's Deep Creek Spillway, leaving police with a bevy of questions. But when 19-year-old Raquel Rayas…
Murder in the HeartlandHot & Deadly: What Lies Beneath
When the body of former beauty queen Jackie Johns is found floating in Missouri's Lake Springfield, her small town is left up in arms. But as officers dig…
Murder in the HeartlandRocky Waters
After a baby is found abandoned along Ohio's Scioto River, police discover the child's mother has been tragically murdered. Out to bring justice to 21-year-old…
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In Too Deep
A submerged car pulled from a Florida canal brings a startling discovery: the body of 39-year-old Beverly Jackson. Police explore the single mom's work route…
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Dark Water
After 53-year-old Barbara Hefner disappears from her remote Georgia residence, her body is found floating in nearby Folly Lake. On the hunt for her killer…
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A Dark Place to Die
Kimra Riley heads to a Sheffield, Alabama, bar looking for fun and soon finds something far more sinister. Two months later, her body is found tangled up on…
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Shoeprints in the Mud
An innocent trip to the store ends in tragedy when the body of Linda Strait is found along the Spokane River. But with no eyewitnesses, detectives have their…