On this episode of Common Mystics, Jen and Jill journey to Imlay City, a quiet Midwestern town just 50 miles north of Detroit, to explore a tragic story from 1947: the senseless murders of the Smith children.*

This is not a story told for shock or spectacle. It’s a careful remembering. We’ll place the events within their historical moment, honor the lives that were lost, and examine how a community, and a justice system, responded when the unthinkable happened.

Our intention is to acknowledge the weight of what was taken, and create space for reflection, compassion, and truth. If you’re listening with us tonight, we invite you to do so gently—because even the hardest stories deserve to be told with care, and remembered with purpose.

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*This episode includes discussion of infanticide. Listener discretion is advised.