Small Town Mysteries
Kate, Christine, and Rachael
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Jeanie Childs: The Hot Dog Napkin That Solved a Murder
Send us Fan MailToday we are traveling to Minneapolis to talk about the 1993 murder of Jeanne Childs, more frequently known as “Jeanie.” Jeanie was a sex worker who was brutally stabbed in her…
Two Women, One Axe, and Zero Convictions
Send us Fan MailIn 1977, Yale students Terri Jentz and Avra Goldman were cycling across the United States when they stopped to camp at a park in Oregon. While they slept, a man drove his truck over…
Girly Chew: The Woman Who Predicted Her Murder
Send us Fan MailThe case of Girly Chew Hossencofft is a study in how “weirdness” can become a weapon. And I truly mean weird. Con men, fashion designers, UFO’s, and conspiracy theories about…
A Daughter’s Betrayal: The Murder of Barbara Keim
Send us Fan MailIn July 2005, 41-year-old Barbara Keim was killed in her own home in an act of violence orchestrated by her daughter. Investigators eventually uncovered a planned conspiracy involving…
The French Family Annihilator
Send us Fan MailWe've all heard the expression "fake it till you make it", right? Well, Jean-Claude Romand did just that for 18 years, but never truly made it. Instead, he chose to murder his entire…
The Unsinkable Terry Jo
Send us Fan MailIt was November 1961. The waters in the Bahamas were as blue and beautiful as ever. But for Nicolaos Spachidakis, a second officer on a Greek freighter called Captain Theo, something…
Virginia Hall: The Limping Spy They Couldn't Catch
Send us Fan MailToday we are talking about Virginia Hall, an American Spy who was able to completely evade the Gestapo during WWII. The Gestapo labeled her as “The enemy’s most dangerous spy.” During…
Josephine Baker: The Spy No One Suspected
Send us Fan MailToday we’re talking about Josephine Baker, the remarkable entertainer who took France by storm and used her unsuspecting identity for subterfuge in World War II - truly a badass…
Elizebeth Smith Friedman – The “Mother of Cryptology”
Send us Fan MailIn honor of Women's History Month, this week we are talking about Elizebeth Smith Friedman, a woman who turned her love for decrypting Shakespeare’s plays into cracking codes and…
The 55 Year Old Cold Case of Joseph Mulvaney
Send us Fan MailIn 1992, a Wyoming man opened a padlocked military footlocker left in his shed by a neighbor six years earlier. Inside, he found the skeletal remains of a man shot in the head,…
How to Get Away with Murder…Or Not
Send us Fan MailIn 1999, Paul Warner Powell, a 20-year-old white supremacist, murdered 16-year-old Stacie Reed and brutally assaulted her 14-year-old sister, Kristie, in a racially motivated attack…
The Murder of Deborah Palmer
Send us Fan MailOn the morning of March 26, 1997, Deborah was at home, getting ready for school. Her eleven-year-old cousin stopped by to walk her to class, but she wasn’t quite ready yet.The last…
The Curious Death of Cindy James: Part 2
Send us Fan MailTake a listen to Part 1 from last week if you want all the background info on this case!Before Cindy died, she reported about 100 incidents of various kinds of harassment/stalking to…
The Curious Death of Cindy James: Part 1
Send us Fan MailBefore Cindy died, she reported about 100 incidents of various kinds of harassment/stalking to police...but police could never find any evidence of it.Cindy first reported instances…
The Pike County Massacre
Send us Fan MailWhen Bobby Jo Manley arrived at her sister’s home on April 22, 2016 in Sunfish Township, Ohio, she expected to go in, feed the pets, give them some love, and then leave – probably see…
Fowl Play: The Duck Who Found Nellie Sullivan
Send us Fan MailWhen a 92-year-old with dementia disappears, all clues point to her granddaughter and her granddaughter's husband. Without a body though, the case grows cold. Until, that is, an…
Forty Years Unsolved: The Murder of Ken McElroy
Send us Fan MailWhen one man bullies an entire town into turning a blind eye to his numerous crimes over several decades, what else can a town do but finally enact some good old vigilante…
The Brutal Murder of Starr Harris
Send us Fan MailToday we are traveling to Tennessee, specifically to the unincorporated community of Drummonds, Tennessee. Here, the brutal murder of 36-year-old Starr Harris shook the small,…
Feline Forensics: How a Cat Cracked the Shirley Duguay Murder
Send us Fan MailToday we're going to be talking about the murder of Shirley Ann Duguay, who went missing in 1994 and was later found dead in a shallow grave. Shirley Ann Duguay was from Canada and a…
The Baffling Murder of Peter Porco
Send us Fan MailOn the morning of November 15, 2004, Peter Porco woke up as usual and carried out his typical morning routine: he packed a lunch, he filled the dishwasher, and he wrote and signed a…
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Small Town Mysteries has published 195 episodes since July 2022, covering topics in Documentary, History.
Small Town Mysteries is currently sporadic with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 35m.
