The 1980's in Arkansas was an interesting time. Cowboy discos were all the rage and rumor has it the Mafia was making its way to Little Rock. After Ron Orsini is found dead under mysterious circumstances, attention turns to his wife Mary Lee, who insists that the Mafia must have done it. Mary Lee hires William "Bill" McArthur, a well liked lawyer in Little Rock to help her case and soon forms a friendship with Bill and his wife Alice. After Alice's car is hit with a car bomb, the Mafia story doesn't seem so far off. 

March 28th 1998, was a normal day at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas until the fire alarm went off during 5th period. As students started filing out to the field behind the school, gunshots rang out across the school. Panic set in and in the four minutes the shooting lasted 5 would end up dead and 10 more would be wounded. As police arrived they caught the shooters attempting to flee, Mitchell Johnson, 13 and Andrew Golden, 11. They would become two of the youngest school shooters in history.

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We are traveling to the Lone Star State and this week Amber and Celina are sharing two crimes that happened decades ago but seem like they could be ripped straight from news articles today.  Amber shares about the 1998 lynching of James Byrd Jr. a black man who was picked up by three white man while walking home from his parents house early one morning.  His murder would help form Hate Laws and rock a county to its core.  Celina shares the story of Joe Campos Torres a young Latino man, who served his country during  the Vietnam War.  He had big dreams that came crashing down when his path crossed 5 Houston police officers in 1977. Don't forget to check out www.stateofmurder.com after the episode for bonus content! 

Amber's story this week takes place in Pierre, South Dakota, when a woman named Tami Reay decides to leave her husband. When Tami goes missing her family frantically searches for her but the mystery doesn't end when they find Tami's body. Follow the twists and turns of this case as it uncovers secret love affairs, strange set ups, and way too detailed letters. 

For Celina's case we start on a cold night in February 1981, when a man test driving a jeep would come across a baby frozen in the snow. Police were baffled by who could leave their child in the snow like this and quickly ran out of leads in the town of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. It would take almost 40 years and our good friend familial DNA to help solve this cold case. 

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One hundred years ago in a small town in North Dakota, eight people were murdered on their family farm.  The community was up in arms about who could murder almost an entire family.  The town wanted to know if it was one of their own that had done it.  The sheriff of the county began to suspect one man, whose odd behavior put the spot light right on him.  Listen as Amber shares about the Murdered Family.  Celina shares this week about a young man, who was caught by the police selling small amounts of marijuana.  The cops gave him two choices, go to prison or help them catch others.  What happens to Andrew is tragic and shows the flaws and how unjust our justice system can be.

26 percent of the homicides in Montana are of Native Americans despite them only making up 7 percent of the population. This week Amber tells the story of two Native American women who were unjustly murdered. Lonette was a friendly, hardworking woman who never called out sick a day in her life who was tragically taken when two white supremacists walked into her job. Hanna went out to celebrate the 4th of July with friends and was found murdered days later in a case that would be severely overlooked by authorities.

What would you do if your spouse went missing? Cody Johnson and Jordan Graham were married for just 8 days when Cody went missing and Jordan had one of the strangest responses you could imagine. From hiking trails to mysterious emails the short investigation would take those searching for Cody on a wild ride. 

What would you do if a friend or even your own mother shared with you that she had killed her husband? Amber’s shares this week that for Alice Uden’s friends and family this was a question they had to find the answer to.  It would take 40 years with over 15 years of investigation to finally arrest her for the murder.  The story didn’t end there for this family, Alice had a lot to say after she was arrested.  She was quick to point the finger at her husband and his involvement in another missing person’s story.   Celina shares with us this week a story of survival and tragic loss for one family.  Becky Thompson and her sister Amy Burridge, went to the store one evening in 1973. When the girls return to their car after shopping, they find that one of the tires has gone flat.  Two men walk up to them and offer to help them, however the girls soon find out that they are not good samaritans at all, when they kidnap the girls and drive them to a bridge in Casper, Wyoming.  What follows is horrifying and leaves one of the girls dead and the other fighting for her life.