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Welcome to Midwretched! The home of the most heartless of the heartland. Join us, Tommy and Mick, as we share the best true crime the midwest has to offer.
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S3E10: Ted Kaczynski pt 2
In Part 2 of our telling of Ted Kaczynski, we discuss the timeline of the bombings alongside his own writings and journals, focusing on his motivations and mental health decline.
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S3E9: Ted Kaczynski: the Unabomber
This episode was recorded Thursday 6/8, just two days before Ted Kaczynski was found dead in his prison cell. Any references to him being alive were made when he was known to be alive. In this episode, Mick reviews Ted Kacyznski’s early life, including myths and stories surrounding his development and education. And discuss what took him from a painfully bland burnt out gifted kid to a domestic terrorist.
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S3E8: The Marvin Gabrion Investigation
On June 3, 1997, 19-year-old single mother Rachel Timmerman told her mom she was going on a date with a man she met at work, and that she would be taking her 11-month-old, Shannon, with her. About a month later, Rachel’s chained and bound body would be pulled from Oxford Lake in Newaygo County, Michigan. As this case unfolded, it would become a significant story in the landscape of Michigan criminal justice. Join Tommy and Mick as Tommy runs us through a tumultuous investigation of a true monster in Michigan.
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S3E7: A Kidnapping, A Foundling, An Enduring Mystery: the Paul Fronczak Story
On an April day in 1964, a joyful new mother enjoys her first days with her infant son. But when that baby suddenly disappears from the hospital, it sends the entire city into a whirlwind. After nearly two years, the family is reunited with the boy they think is their child. Decades will go by before that child grows up to uncover the mystery of who he really is, and what happened to the real Paul Fronczak.
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S3E6: The Rise and Fall of the Indiana Klan
The history of the Ku Klux Klan is deeply intertwined with the history of the United States and, arguably, there’s no better demonstration of this than the rise and fall of the Indiana Klan—branch of the KKK borne out from one man’s megalomaniacal need for power. When the violent rape and subsequent death of a young female politician happens at the hands of this man, the face of the KKK would be forever altered. Join Tommy as she runs Mick through this horrifying chapter of Midwestern history.
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S3E2: Precious Hope: St. Louis’s Little Jane Doe
In February 1983, two boys in St. Louis enter an abandoned building looking for scrap metal and find a horrific scene that traumatized the city. Mick and Tommy discuss the still unsolved murder of Precious Hope, St. Louis’s Little Jane Doe. A massive search leads nowhere and desperate police take desperate measures. We talk about theories of what happened and what hope there is for this case to finally be solved.
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Best Crime Podcast available
I'm a huge fan. Each story is well-researched and analyzed very well. You get great story-telling from a natural-born storyteller and some really interesting insights from a trained psychology background. I doubt you'll find anything else out there that digs this deep into these stories. They seem to have a lot of fun telling these stories, but they're also super respectful of victims and these situations. Overall, a great listen and definitely for the more hardcore crime podcast lovers. If that's you, I'd give it a dozen listens or so.
Like scratching on a chalk board
These two host are trying so hard to be be the next big name in true crime and it isn’t working!