For years the beatings didn't stop, the police wouldn't help, and the courts looked the other way. Then one night something broke, and she set the bedroom on fire while he slept, then drove straight to the sheriff's office to confess. It's the story of the marriage, the night it ended, and the trial that helped change how the country treats domestic violence.

Victim: James “Mickey” Hughes

Location: Dansville, MI

Recorded live at, and in support of, the Roosevelt Park Zoo.

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When first responders arrive to the scene of a terrible accident to find a man crushed and burned by his own truck, the tragedy seems to explain itself, but questions arise when the coroner can't identify the body.

Recorded with a packed house at Phat Fish Brewing in Dickinson, ND.

Episode title submitted by: Emily H.

Location: Illinois

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In November 1973, five teenagers rode out to Gitchie Manitou to sit around a fire. Only one came back, and at first, no one believed what she said had happened out there. It’s the story of the night at the park, the three brothers behind it, and a motive that never once added up.

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Victims: Roger Essem, Stewart Baade, Dana Baade, Michael Hadrath

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On a quiet spring morning in 1927, a small Michigan farm town became the site of the deadliest attack ever carried out on an American school and almost nobody has heard of it. For over a year, one of the town's own trusted neighbors moved through his community completely unnoticed, right up until the moment everything changed forever.

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Location: Michigan

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In July of 2016, a twenty-year-old woman went for a bike ride home in rural Ohio and never made it. Investigators found her bike in a cornfield within hours, but it would take three days and a chance conversation with a neighbor to uncover the truth about what happened to her. And the man responsible had done something almost identical twenty-six years earlier.

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After falling in love while attending college in the Midwest, a promising young couple relocates to Nashville to live happily ever after. It doesn't take long for the relationship to start crumbling, and when it does, the wife suddenly leaves for an impromptu vacation.

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Recorded at the City Winery in Nashville, TN.

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Location: TN

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In 1986, a thirty-eight year old woman was found murdered in a small Minnesota town. For decades the prime suspect was the man closest to her. It would be thirty-three years before anyone in law enforcement knew who actually killed her.

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Location: Minnesota

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Behind the facade of a family man, church leader, soccer coach, and respected member of the community hides a vile, cruel, and sadistic serial killer.

Recorded with a sold out crowd at Swing Barrel Brewing in Moorhead, Minnesota.

Location: Kansas, Missouri

Episode title suggested by: Jen Kapla

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A young pregnant woman is shot in her bed before sunrise in rural Iowa. Her husband says he was in the shower when it happened, and he has a name ready for who he thinks did it. But nothing about this case ends up being as simple as it first appears.

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A woman dies alone in her recliner, surrounded by pills, with no signs of struggle and no obvious suspects. What investigators find in her bloodstream months later changes everything. The story of Lynn Hernan is about poison, a quarter million dollars, and the specific kind of trust that takes a lifetime to build and one person to weaponize.

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Victim: Lynn Hernan

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