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Midwest Murder
We’ve all heard the phrase ‘that kind of thing doesn’t happen in our town’, but here on Midwest Murder, we will shatter that false reality. In fact, it happens more often than we know, and sometimes the details of the most horrific crimes that happen in our neighborhoods are lost in the back pages of newspapers, forgotten on our news channels, and eventually erased over time.
Midwest Murder
E136: Secrets Don't Exist
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Jonah Lantto & Dawn Palumbo with the Good Talk Network
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What began as the horrendous murder of a beloved elderly woman in Beatrice, Nebraska turned into a case defined by pressure, false confessions, and irreversible consequences. The eventual truth raised troubling questions about how just is pursued and who pays the price when it goes wrong.
Victim: Helen Wilson
Location: Beatrice, Nebraska
Episode title submitted by Michelle Kiefer
This episode was recorded before a great live audience in the fabulous Hook & Ladder Theatre in Minneapolis, MN.
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