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A Heavy Weight Podcast
Who Murdered Bryan Haltom? Episode 10: In the Wind
In the final episode of the Bryan Haltom series, A Heavy Weight returns to what we know: Bryan’s car, the road, Trevor’s account, the missing maroon...
Who Murdered Bryan Haltom? Episode 9: Somewhere in the Rumors
Episode 9 examines the rumor map around Bryan Haltom’s unsolved murder: the road-rage story, Trevor’s account, Keith Flynn, money, drugs, law...
Who Murdered Bryan Haltom? Episode 8: What They Carried
Nearly thirty years after Bryan Haltom was killed, Episode 8 looks at the classmates, friends, rumors, party houses, drug scene, and fear that...
Who Murdered Bryan Haltom? Episode 7: Keith Flynn
Bryan Haltom was shot on Highway 231, but his final day may have started somewhere else: Keith Flynn’s house near Stinesville. In Episode 7, we look...
Who Murdered Bryan Haltom? Episode 6: The Passenger
Episode 6 of the Bryan Haltom series focuses on Trevor Powell, the passenger in Bryan’s red Trans Am and the only known surviving witness to Bryan’s...
Who Murdered Bryan Haltom? Episode 5: Sixty Feet
Episode 5 of the Bryan Haltom series goes back to the road itself. After following Bryan’s final known hours, this episode examines the physical...
Who Murdered Bryan Haltom? Episode 4: The Last Night
In episode 4, The Last Night, we follow Bryan Haltom through the final known hours before he was shot and killed on Highway 231 outside Spencer,...
Who Murdered Bryan Haltom? Episode 3: The Shift
In Episode 3 of A Heavy Weight’s Bryan Haltom series, we look at the months before Bryan was killed, when small moments that once seemed like normal...
Who Murdered Bryan Haltom? Episode 2: The boy in the red TransAm
If you want to understand Bryan Haltom’s case, start with who he was. Not the rumors. Not the theories. Not the road-rage story. Bryan. The son. The...
Who Murdered Bryan Haltom? Episode 1: The Sign on Highway 231
For years, I drove past a small sign on Highway 231 outside Spencer, Indiana. It asked one question: Who killed Bryan Haltom? Bryan was 18 years old...
Who Murdered Cassandra Rhines?
In 1985, 19-year-old Cassandra Rhines vanished in Minneapolis. Nearly 30 years later she was found at Gooseberry Falls. Her murder is still unsolved.
Who Murdered Diane Schofield?
In July 1975, 21 year old Diane Marie Schofield was found murdered in the trunk of her own car near the Des Moines airport. This episode follows...
Where is Charlotte Lysdale?
Charlotte Lysdale was 68 years old when she disappeared from Pine River, Minnesota. She loved needlework, knitting, family dinners, geraniums, and...
Who Murdered Rachel Anthony?
On a freezing February night in 2001, Rachel Anthony vanished while closing a small-town liquor store in Pine River, Minnesota—leaving behind her...
The Sinmi Asomuyide Case
In this special episode of A Heavy Weight, we look at the federal conviction of former Kokomo police officer Sinmi Asomuyide, who was found guilty...
The Renata Fernandez-Ramon Case
Renata Fernandez-Ramon was thirty years old. She was a mother to two young children. In October 2011, Renata was last heard from. The next day, her...
The Marie Kline Case
On December 30, 1987, 20-year-old Marie Kline answered the door at her home near Elkhart, Indiana. She never came back inside. For years, her father...
The Gregory Gabler Case
In September 2024, Indiana University student Gregory Gabler was arrested after a reported assault inside an on-campus dorm. He was originally...
Wendy Wear and JoAnn Bontjes
Two young women. Two Minnesota roads. Two cold cases still waiting for answers. In part one, we look at the unsolved homicide of Juanita “Wendy”...
Who Murdered Anita Carlson?
In June 1987, twenty-two year old Anita Carlson was working the late shift at Pete’s Place West, a gas station and convenience store just outside...
What happened to Todd Hanson and Chad Birkeland?
Two young men disappeared from South St. Paul on May 2, 1993. Eleven days later, Chad Birkeland’s body was recovered from the Mississippi River near...
Who Murdered Toni Monette?
A woman works an overnight shift she wasn’t supposed to take. Sometime between 3:10 and 4:30 in the morning, Toni Monette is stabbed to death inside...
Who Murdered Eden Young?
A woman gets into a van at 3 a.m. and disappears. Days later, Eden Young is found beaten to death in a quiet yard miles away from where she was last...
Who Murdered Teresa Osbourne?
An 18-year-old leaves work to run an errand and never returns. In August 1973, Teresa Osborne disappeared after picking up pastries from a bakery in...
The Hailey Buzbee Case
Seventeen-year-old Hailey Buzbee left her home in 2026 after months of online communication with a man she thought she knew. What followed exposed...
What Happened to Lola Fry?
In 1993, Lola Fry went to a party in Indianapolis and never came home. The people who were with her told police a story — but it’s one that has...
Who Murdered Wilma Cheek?
Wilma Cheek was murdered in Willow Creek Cemetery on October 30th, 1995 in Fountain City, Indiana. 30 years later, her case remains unsolved.
Part 1: Chris Perantoni
A new case in Bloomington, Indiana. An arrest tied to alleged child sexual abuse material. In part 1, we slow down the headline and walk through...
Revisiting The Waverly Two
In 1998, Terence Richardson and Ferrone Claiborne of Waverly, Virginia, were sentenced to life for a murder they were acquitted of, exposing...
The John Enochs Case
In Bloomington, two rape charges against a former Indiana University student ended without a trial. The charges were dismissed, a plea to battery...
Who Murdered Lisa Wallace?
This episode tells the story of Lisa M. Wallace, a 25 year old woman from Cadiz, Kentucky, found behind a truck stop near Interstate 70 in eastern...
The Jesse Butler Case
A Stillwater teen pleaded no contest to 11 rape related charges and walked out of court with a fully suspended 78 year sentence under Oklahoma’s...
Who Murdered Terry Rideout?
Theresa “Terry” Rideout was 36 when she vanished over Labor Day weekend in 1994. She finished a shift at Burger King in Evansville, made the night...
Who Murdered Wilma June Nissen?
A Heavy Weight is re-releasing our coverage of Wilma June Nissen, a 23 year old mother of three whose homicide remains unsolved nearly five decades...
Who Murdered Kathy Jones?
In November 1969, 12 year old Nora Kathylene “Kathy” Jones left her house in South Nashville with her roller skates over her shoulder, headed for...
Who Murdered Debra Mae Fulton?
Halloween night, 1981. Sixteen year old Debra Mae “Debbie” Fulton leaves her house in Hammond, Indiana, with a little cash and a simple plan: walk...
Who Murdered Victoria McDonough?
In 1974, a young woman was found shot and hidden beneath a mattress off a rural road in South Bend. It took six months before anyone knew her name:...
What Happened to Joseph Smedley? Episode Ten: Where Do We Go From Here?
Episode 10 brings together the most unsettling pieces of Joseph Smedley’s case — the late-night messages, the odd cell phone pings, the missing...
What Happened to Joseph Smedley? Episode Nine: Coverage
For Joseph’s family, this is year ten. Ten years of rereading the same note. Ten years of asking for his case files. Ten years of watching other IU...
What Happened to Joseph Smedley? Episode Eight: Less than 1%
In this episode we return to the death of Indiana University student Joseph Smedley, whose body was found in Griffy Lake with a backpack weighed...
What Happened to Joseph Smedley? Episode Seven: Extremely Unusual
Joseph Smedley’s death was ruled a suicide by drowning, with alcohol and cannabinoids listed as contributing factors. In this episode, we slow down...
What Happened to Joseph Smedley? Episode Six: Confidential Informant
Joseph Smedley vanished from Indiana University on September 27, 2015. Five days later, he was found in shallow water at Griffy Lake with a backpack...
What Happened to Joseph Smedley? Episode Five: Does This Make Sense to Anyone in the Room?
Episode 5 rebuilds Joseph Smedley’s final hours: 11:30 p.m. last seen, 4:15 a.m. text to his sister, a note found later, and a phone path toward...
What Happened to Joseph Smedley? Episode Four: 66 Pounds of Rock
A recovered group chat, a shifting timeline, and a discovery at Griffy Lake reframe Joseph Smedley’s final week. In Episode 4, we examine digital...
What Happened to Joseph Smedley? Episode Three: Rumors
In this episode, we step deeper into the growing confusion surrounding Joseph’s disappearance, the conflicting stories, the strange notes, and the...
What Happened to Joseph Smedley? Episode Two: Someone Knows Something
The morning after Joseph Smedley vanished, his sister received a text message from his phone: “Viv, I’m sorry. I have to leave the country…”. Hours...
What Happened to Joseph Smedley? Episode One: Blood Moon
On the tenth anniversary of Joseph Smedley’s disappearance, we return to Bloomington, Indiana, to re-examine the night it all began. Under the eerie...
Who Killed Delmar Wilson?
On June 12, 1994, twenty-year-old Delmar Wilson was found shot in his car on Radcliff Road in Washington County, Indiana. The engine was still...
What Happened to Michelle Asher?
On December 27, 2004, 37-year-old Michelle Asher was last seen walking along Route 33 out of Russellville, Illinois, heading toward Vincennes,...
Truck Stops and Cold Cases
July 2007. A Nashville truck stop. Police approach a mustard-yellow cab and arrest a long-haul trucker suspected in murders across multiple states....
The Ditch on Country Road 350: The Murder of Andrea Hendrix Steinert
On a cold morning in October 1997, the body of 28-year-old Andrea Michelle Hendrix-Steinert was found in a ditch along County Road 350 in Gibson...
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