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More than 22,000 people gathered in Las Vegas for the final night of the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival, expecting nothing more than music, dancing, and a good time. But in minutes, the night became one of the deadliest mass shootings in modern U.S. history. In today's episode of In Time Crime, we travel back to October 1, 2017, to reconstruct the hours leading up to, during, and after the attack.

Through eyewitness accounts, the courage of first responders, and the fractured trail left by the shooter, we trace how a retired auditor turned reclusive gambler assembled an arsenal, chose a vantage point high above the crowd, and unleashed over a thousand rounds. Alongside heartbreaking profiles of victims and survivors, the episode explores the chaotic scramble of evacuation, the surge of compassion that followed, and the enduring mystery of motive — the unanswered question that haunts investigators and families alike.

Join us as we remember those who were lost, honor those who rushed toward danger to save strangers, and grapple with the societal reverberations of a night that changed Las Vegas forever.

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Music by- Jeremy Blake 

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Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department — Final Criminal Investigative Report of the 1 October Mass Casualty Shooting

LVMPD — 1 October After-Action Review

FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit — Las Vegas Review Panel Key Findings

ATF / Federal Register — Bump-Stock-Type Devices rulemaking

ATF — National Firearms Commerce and Trafficking Assessment

Clark County — 1 October Memorial Committee / Memorial Project

Clark County and LVMPD remembrance materials

October 8, 2024: a father wakes to find his teenage daughter gone and spots her in a pickup with a man already accused of abusing her. What follows is a high-stakes, heart-stopping confrontation that ends with the father firing the fatal shots and calling 911 himself.

As the county prepares to weigh justice against vengeance, a single piece of evidence — a dash camera memory card — vanishes while in police custody. With the footage lost and the murder charge dismissed, the central question remains unresolved: did a desperate parent save his child or did he take the law into his own hands? Join Robin Bagayoko on this episode of In Time Crime as we retrace the twists, the missing evidence, and the verdict the jury never reached.

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June 11, 1988 — a bright afternoon outside St. Francis Chapel turns from celebration to carnage in the blink of an eye. Thomas Dalton, thirty, collapses after two gunshots as guests reel from the impossible sight: a woman in sunglasses slipping back into a silver sedan and driving away. Surveillance photos, ammunition receipts, a .32 revolver recovered in the getaway car, and a haunting journal line about a wedding day "without her" point the investigation toward one person: Sarah Whitmore.

In this Murder Mystery Monday episode, the case reads like a dark ballad — obsession, planning, and a flight to Tijuana before capture. Listen closely as the clues unfold and the courtroom delivers its verdict: life without parole. The twist? The entire crime is hiding inside the lyrics of a song you probably already know. Can you name the track and the artist? Tune in, follow the evidence, and send your guess to Ear Balls Media

On September 27, 1996, 23-year-old Karyn Slover left work with plans for her son and a budding modeling career — and vanished. Days later her remains were found in Lake Shelbyville, bound and weighed down; investigators assembled a case from the smallest traces: rivets, a button, concrete fragments and even dog hair.

In this episode we follow the detectives, the courtroom drama that sent three family members to prison for 60 years, and the later challenges that would reopen the story. Through evidence, motive and the controversial rise of animal DNA forensics, the episode reconstructs how ordinary clues became the foundation of a life-and-death verdict.

We end by remembering Karyn as more than the headlines: a young mother with a future, and a son whose life was forever altered. Tune in to hear a careful, compelling retelling of a case that still leaves questions in its wake.

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Illinois Appellate Court — People v. Slover (2003): confirms the 2002 murder convictions, 60-year sentences, and the extra five-year concealment sentences for Michael Sr. and Michael Jr. Justia Law

Illinois Appellate Court — People v. Slover (2011): especially useful for the later Innocence Project-era litigation and the request to test fingerprint evidence from the bridge and vehicle. Justia Law

Illinois Appellate Court — People v. Slover (2001): documents the January 2000 indictments and some of the evidence/discovery issues surrounding the investigation and trial. FindLaw

2024 post-conviction petition filed in Macon County Circuit Court: this is one of the most important sources for the current innocence claims. The filing argues there was no confession, murder weapon, eyewitness placing Karyn at Miracle Motors, or original DNA evidence tying the Slovers to the murder, and lays out the newer defense arguments. Bloximages

WAND-TV — Illinois Innocence Project coverage: reports on the 2024 amended petition and the claim that new DNA evidence was linked to three unidentified men; it also covers the continued effort after Jeannette Slover’s death. https://www.wandtv.com

ABC News — “Family Murder Plot in Custody Battle”: useful for the later custody fight involving Karyn’s son Kolten and Mary Slover. It documents the state’s concerns that Mary may have known about or helped conceal the murder. ABC News

Crime Library — Karyn Hearn Slover case: detailed secondary account covering the Miracle Motors search, concrete comparison, cinders, clothing evidence, dog-hair evidence, trial, convictions, and later custody fight. It is useful for narrative details, although I would cite the court records first whenever possible. Crime Library

Oxygen — One Deadly Mistake: summarizes the Miracle Motors evidence, the rivets/buttons, January 2000 arrests, and the 2002 convictions. Oxygen

Forensic Files — “Concrete Alibi”: the episode covers the forensic case involving the concrete, clothing evidence, and dog hair. TV Guide confirms the episode and its focus on the Karyn Slover investigation. TV Guide

Forensic Files transcript — “Key Evidence/Concrete Alibi”: useful if you want the detailed forensic explanation of the button, fabric weave, concrete, and animal-hair comparisons presented in the show. Forever Dreaming

Karyn Hearn Slover case overview / reference compilation: useful for cross-checking the timeline, 2008–2011 innocence litigation, 2022 death of Michael Sr., March 2024 release of Michael Jr., January 2025 death of Jeannette, and the list of television/podcast coverage. For your published source list, I’d treat this as a starting point rather than a primary source. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Karyn_Hearn_Slover?utm_source=chatgpt.com

On September 27, 2012, an ordinary shift at Accent Signage Systems fractured in minutes: a termination meeting, a return to a car, and then a calm, deadly walk through an office where colleagues hid beneath desks and a UPS driver making a routine delivery became one more casualty. This episode reconstructs that afternoon step by step, following the shooter’s movements from the executive suite to the loading dock and into the basement where the killer ended his spree.

Through the voices of survivors, the scramble of failed 911 calls, and the quiet bravery of coworkers who tried to help the wounded, we trace how long-standing workplace friction spiraled into violence and how a community coped with shock, grief, and unanswered questions. We focus on the people who were lost—the founder who came out to help, the managers and production staff who never left their posts, and the delivery driver caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Join us for a careful, human-centered retelling that honors the victims, examines the chain of events that allowed the attack to unfold, and asks what can be learned to keep workplaces safer. This is a story about loss, memory, and the small, urgent acts of courage that mattered that day.

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On September 13, 1990, thru‑hikers Molly LaRue and Geoff Hood stopped at Thelma Marks Shelter—and never made it home. In this episode of In Time Crime, I your host Robin Bagayoko threads together witness accounts, cold‑case breakthroughs, and the haunted beauty of the Appalachian Trail to trace how a place of refuge became the scene of unspeakable loss.

From sudden violence in remote shelters to decades of investigations, the story unfolds like a hike gone wrong: quiet moments broken by alarming sounds, a race for answers through dense forest and forensic time, and the determined effort to remember the lives behind the headlines. Tune in for a compassionate, suspenseful retelling that centers the victims, the investigation, and the fragile trust that binds trail communities.

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He survived the morning of September 11, 2001, only to meet a different kind of violence that night. This episode follows Henryk Siwiak — a Polish father and immigrant who came to New York to provide for his family — as a wrong subway stop, a camouflage jacket and a walk through an unfamiliar neighborhood turned into tragedy.

Through sparse witnesses, a blood trail, unanswered knocks at a stranger’s door and the chaos that swallowed the city that day, we trace the last hours of Henryk’s life and the theories that still haunt investigators. His murder became the city’s lone non‑terrorism homicide on a night of unimaginable loss — and it remains unsolved.

Join us as we reconstruct the moments, lift up the human story behind the statistics, and ask the simple but urgent question: who knows what happened? Listen, remember, and help give Henryk’s family the answers they deserve.

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September 6, 2018 — an exhausted off-duty Dallas police officer walks into the wrong apartment and, believing an intruder is inside, fatally shoots her upstairs neighbor. This episode of In Time Crime unfolds the life of Botham Jean, the fateful missteps that led to his death, and the ripple effects that followed: a criminal conviction, a landmark law, a roadside memorial, and a family’s fight for justice. Told with intimate detail and human perspective, this narrative traces sorrow, accountability, and the haunting question of how one mistake can change so many lives.

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On a cold evening outside an unnamed Wisconsin town, a father takes his youngest daughter into the woods and a quiet farmstead is torn open by a single, brutal act. Neighbors hear panicked cries; the child’s body is found at the base of a ravine and the man’s collapse follows—an act of violence bound up with isolation, religious dread, and a mind undone.

We reconstruct the Farmhouse Cliff Homicide—step by ominous step—layering witness accounts, small-town whispers, and the suspect’s spiral into delusion. The scene unfolds like a confession: the slow tightening of a family’s life, the sudden, staggering descent, and a final, tragic silence in a barn loft. Themes of untreated illness and desperation make this more than a crime story; it’s a moral and human mystery.

But here’s the twist: every detail lives inside the lyrics of a song you probably know. Listen closely, gather the clues, and see if you can name the tune that contains this case. Send in your guess and be the first to crack Murder Mystery Monday #2.

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It began like any ordinary November afternoon at Redlands Mall — Corinna Novis, 20, getting into her car after shopping. Two strangers asked for a ride; what followed was a brutal descent into kidnapping, robbery and a shallow grave in a Fontana vineyard. Small choices turned catastrophic, and a community was left searching for answers.

As investigators piece together discarded belongings, a Taco Bell dumpster, and conflicting confessions, the story widens: another young woman disappears, witnesses and jailhouse informants offer starkly different versions, and forensic evidence hints that more than one person may have helped silence Karina forever.

In this episode of In Time Crime we follow detectives, courtroom drama, and the tangled lives of Cynthia Coffman and James Marlow — two people whose shared violence, lies and courtroom finger-pointing ended with both convicted and sentenced to death, and Cynthia becoming the first woman condemned under California’s reinstated capital punishment. Tune in as we unravel motives, contradictions, and the haunting human cost behind the headlines.

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