157. Dexter Stefonek - The Rest Stop Murder

Murder With My Husband

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4.8 • 17K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of MWMH, Payton and Garrett discuss the bizarre disappearance and murder of 67-year-old, Dexter Stefonek, while driving across the country. Case Sources: The Montana Standard, “Body identified as Wisconsin man,” March 20, 1986 The Montana Standard, “No clues in missing man case,” November 22, 1985 Ravalli Republic, “Missing man,” November 21, 1985 Kalispell Daily, “Missing Wisconsin man’s vehicle burns,” November 21, 1985 Green Bay Press-Gazette, “Missing Onedia County man on way home when car found,” by Press-Gazette The Billings Gazette, “Denver hypnotist to probe for details in death case,” by Gazette Glendive Bureau, April 22, 1986 The Billings Gazette, “Corpse may be missing driver,” by Evelyne Donkersloot, March 10, 1986 billingsgazette.com, “Dexter Stefonek,” by Gazette Staff, March 31, 2017 Wausau Daily Herald, “TV show features Rhinelander murder,” April 8, 1989 montanarightnow.com, “Montana Murder Mysteries: Bad Route Rest Stop Killing,” article and video, by ABC FOX Montana News Staff, September 23, 2019, updated January 8, 2021 montanarightnow.com, “stefonek photo,” September 25, 2019 unsolved.com, Dexter Stefonek distinctlymontana.com, “Unsolved Montana Murders,” by Joseph Shelton, October 3, 2022 missoulian.com, “1985 Montana rest stop murder still puzzles law enforcement,” by Tom Lutey, August 27, 2018 theslowlane.com, “Sign to Bad Route in eastern Montana Along I-94” ancestry.com, Vivian Stefonek The Billings Gazette, “Sheriff checks leads in Glendive slaying, “ by Jill Sundby, April 25, 1989 medium.com, published in True Crime Addiction, “Bad Route Rest Stop Murder,” by Lisa Marie Fuqua, January 22, 2021 simmondskimberly.wordpress.com, “Bad Route Road” findagrave.com, “Dexter William Stefonek” google maps projectcoldcase.org, “Cold Case Homicide Statistics” Glendive Ranger Review.com, web.archive.org, “Thirty-year-old Bad Route Rest Are Murder Case Remains Unsolved,” by Jason Stuart, November 30, 2015 Assisted research and writing by Diane Birnholz Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody welcome back to our podcast. This is Murder with My Husband. I'm Payton
0:03.9	Morelint. And I'm Garrett Morelint. And he's the husband? I'm the husband. Okay if you are listening
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0:23.4	content. So again if you are interested in that go ahead and check it out. Okay it is time for
0:29.0	Garrett's 10 seconds. Well I am playing in a pickleball tournament on Sunday so that'll be the
0:36.9	day before that this comes out. You don't hear from me the following week it's because I lost and
0:44.1	sorry not doing the podcast anymore. You'll be too sad. I'll be too sad. Daisy and I are gonna try
0:51.1	our best to cheer them on. I feel like I haven't seen a good TV show in a while. You know what I'm saying?
0:58.0	Like I feel like okay we finished the last of us. I was about to say what do you mean? But
1:02.9	we haven't watched anything since then. No. Like I haven't even really watched TV. You haven't
1:07.6	really watched TV. Last night I just resorted to watching old dances. So if anyone has any good
1:14.0	TV shows that I haven't seen I guess you won't know if I've seen them or not but just take a guess
1:20.8	shoot them out let me know put them in the comments put them anywhere you're listening. I need
1:25.4	some more TV show recommendations and last but not least something I realized this week.
1:32.7	I love my truck. It's great. Looks good. Feels good. I'm so sick of getting gas. I feel like I have
1:40.1	to get gas. Nothing. Every few days. It's just ridiculous. We can sell it. I'm just so sick of
1:51.6	getting gas. I know it's such a I don't know first order problem sort of thing but yeah I'm just
1:59.2	I don't know I'm sick of getting gas. I'm sure everyone's sick of getting gas. Like go
2:02.8	into the gas station just I guess not that big of a deal but I feel like in the truck every two to
2:06.8	three days. Just good old after a while. Yeah. All right let's hop into it. Okay our case sources are
2:13.1	the Montana standard the Calispell daily the Green Bay Pres Gazette the Billings Gazette
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