302. The Gitchie Manitou Murders
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🗓️ 26 March 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
On the evening of November 17th, 1973, five teenage friends decided to head to the Gitchie Manitou State Preserve located in the far northwestern corner of Iowa. Most of the parents of those teenagers knew where the kids were going that night and didn’t think much about it. It was a pretty standard hang-out spot.
As the kids were sitting around a campfire enjoying the cold evening, three figures came out of the darkness and opened fire.
Five teenagers went into the reserve on that fateful night. Only one came out alive.
Join Jen and Cam as they discuss The Gitchie Manitou Murders
Thank you to our team:
Written and researched by Lauretta Allen
Listener Discretion by Edward October from Octoberpod AM
Executive Producer Nico Vitesse of The Inky Pawprint
In this episode, Jen discusses the book "Gitchie Girl: The Survivor's Inside Story of the Mass Murders that Shocked the Heartland" by Phil Hamman & Sandy Hamman
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Killer Siblings Season 2 Episode 2
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Edward October. Over the years, I've narrated more ghost stories, horror shows, |
| 0:05.9 | and creepypastas than I can count. And yet, the crimes discussed on our true crime podcast |
| 0:12.0 | managed to scare the shit out of me. This program is not suitable for children or the faint of heart. |
| 0:18.2 | If you are such a person, go ahead and switch off this podcast. |
| 0:21.7 | Listen to something else. |
| 0:24.5 | Are you still with us? |
| 0:26.7 | Well, we've warned you. Hi, Jen. |
| 0:48.2 | How you doing? |
| 0:49.6 | I'm pretty darn okay. |
| 0:50.6 | How about yourself? |
| 0:51.5 | I'm doing great. |
| 0:52.3 | Yeah? |
| 0:52.8 | Thank you very much. |
| 0:53.5 | Thanks for asking. I'm doing great too. Thanks. Oh, you're welcome I'm doing great. Yeah. Thank you very much. Thanks for asking. |
| 0:54.6 | I'm doing great too. Thanks. Oh, you're welcome. You're welcome. Yeah. Here you have a case force today. |
| 1:00.3 | I do. I have a case and it's been requested by Katie from an Insta. So this is from Katie. And |
| 1:05.7 | Thanks, Katie. We go into this. Stay tuned if you want to hear about where we are thinking about going on our next trip. |
| 1:13.8 | We need your help. |
| 1:14.7 | That would be the summer of 2006. |
| 1:18.0 | Is that correct? |
| 1:18.9 | Yes. |
| 1:19.4 | So stay tuned and then we'll discuss it. |
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