In October of 1978, a phone crew was working in a rural area of Lyon County, Iowa. One of the workers would stumble across the body of a deceased woman. She did not have any identification, and damage to her face made it impossible to know what she looked like. It would take 27 years for her to be identified. Once identified, her tragic life story, which began nowhere near the midwest began to be unfold, family that never knew her would be found, and the acting sheriff in a long line of sheriffs who been bound to solve her case, would exhaust all efforts to find the killer of the woman they had long referred to as Our Girl. This is MIdwest Mystery FIles, Episode Forty, The Murder of Wilma June NIssen.
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15 Apr 2025
39. The Disappearances of Scott Hilbert and Wilbur Pate
In March of 1988, 18 year old Morehead University student Scott HIlbert returned home to Milford, Ohio for spring break. While his family was out of the home, Scott left a note stating that he was leaving for Columbus to see some friends, he would never arrive, and several weeks later a discovery in Arizona would lead to more questions than answers.
Next, In Owensboro, Kentucky. 56 year old Wilbur Pate would leave his job at a local Wal-Mart in November of 2012, he reportedly returned home for a short while and then left again. Where he was headed was unknown, and he would never arrive. Over the next month, multiple discoveries would begin to bring Wilbur’s fate into question. This is Midwest Mystery Files, Episode 39, The Disappearances of Scott Hilbert and Wilbur Pate.
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22 Nov 2024
38. The Box Lady of Benton County
Jeremiah Baustian digs into the chilling true story of the Box Lady of Benton County, a mysterious and unexplained horror discovered in rural Indiana in 1976.
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