Midwest Mystery Files

Informal non-case episode today. In this episode I'm looking at the new year and will just being going over my plan for the year, ideas for Patreon, and I tell you a bit about myself and intentions/ motivations for this podcast.

In October of 2016, Larissa Lone Hill would leave her mother’s town home in Rapid City, South Dakota. Within another day, she would disappear, with only a vague trail being laid out to where she may have gone. A trail that would bring many question, but absolutely zero answers. This is Midwest Mystery Files, Episode 13, the Vanishing of Larissa Lone Hill.

In September of 1997, on a warm Michigan evening, a young girl would be playing outside of her apartment while her mother ran to run some errands. Upon her mother’s return, the young girl would be nowhere to be found. A massive search would soon be launched, but 24 years later, her disappearance remains a tragic mystery. This is Midwest Mystery Files, Episode 12, The Disappearance of Brittney Beers.

On January 31st 2004, fire crews would be called to a burning home in Osceola, IA. Once arriving on the scene, firefighters would fight the roaring blaze, eventually extinguishing it. Unfortunately the homes young occupant would found deceased in the home, after succumbing to his burns. The fire would be labeled an accident, but factors would soon arise that would prove there may have been another explanation. This is Midwest Mystery Files, Episode 11, the Suspicious Death of Cecil Gaddy.

October is gonna be a bit funky and episodes are gonna be sporadic. I explain to you why in this short little blurb.

This week we travel out of the region to Alabama. Where in 2012 in a trailer park in Opelika, human remains would we be found, several pieces over, several days. The discovery would lead to a haunting mystery involving a young girl who showed signs of a traumatic life in her short years alive, a mystery that haunts dedicated investigators to this day. Midwest Mystery Files, Episode 10, The Opelika Jane Doe is available now on all major podcast platforms.

In 2003, a young woman from South Dakota, who was known to be shy and reserved would suddenly leave the state and her family behind for a man she met online. Her move would take her to Kansas City, Missouri, where she would keep most of her life secret from her family. Then, in October of 2005, the young woman would be found murdered in a vacant lot. This is Midwest Mystery Files: Episode Nine, the Murder of Lakota Renville.

On a snowy Minnesota night in 1993, a seventeen-year-old girl would accompany her friend to a job interview. The girl was looking for a second job, and as luck would have it, her friends boss was looking for help. The cold, snowy night would soon turn even colder though, as the young girl would never return home, nor would she ever be seen again. This is Midwest Mystery Files, Episode 8, the Disappearance of Hang Lee

In 2006, the decomposed bodies of two females would be found in roadside ditches in rural Mills County, Iowa, just across the Missouri River from Nebraska. The first victim would be found in June, with the next being uncovered in November. The victims would be traced back to Omaha, where a man who may hold the answers to the women’s murders takes his own life to avoid justice being served for his own involvement in a murder from 23 years earlier. The is Midwest Mystery Files, Episode 7, The Murders of Brianne Smith and Debra Barajas.

Bay Village, Ohio, 1989. On a fall day in late October, a 10 year old girl would visit the Bay Village Shopping Center after school with plans to pick out a present for her mother. Little did she know though, that she had been tricked into a ruse with much darker intentions. A ruse that would kick off one of the biggest murder cases in Ohio history. This is Midwest Mystery Files Episode 6: The Abduction and Murder of Amy Mihaljevic