#305 - STM Express - The Swanson Motel Murders - Dickinson, North Dakota

Small Town Murder

James Pietragallo & Jimmie Whisman

True Crime, Comedy

4.9 • 77.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

This week, in Dickinson, North Dakota, a grisly, and horrifying scene is found in a small town motel, populated by transient oil workers, and drifters, of all types. The problem is that no one in this tiny police department had ever dealt with a double homicide, and it shows. The case goes cold, after years pass, but eventually FBI agent John Douglas puts a profile together, that matches one of the original suspects, perfectly. When they track this man down, they find out he's definitely murdered another woman, and is wanted for being a suspect in many more, across multiple states. It looks like the beginning of uncovering the depths of a serial killer... until it all stops cold. A crazy story, with a wild ending!!

Along the way, we find out that you shouldn't ever be outside, past 5pm in North Dakota, that you should never trust anyone who has ever worked at a carnival, and that sometimes, FBI profiles can be incredibly accurate!!

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime members, you can listen to Small Town Murder Early and Add Free on Amazon Music.
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0:07.2	It's hard to imagine losing a loved one, a wife, a husband, a child.
0:11.6	For many, it's their biggest fear.
0:13.5	I'm Marissa Jones, host of The Vanished.
0:16.0	A podcast that tells the stories of often overlooked and unsolved missing persons' cases,
0:20.8	in an effort to uncover the truth.
0:23.1	Follow The Vanished on Amazon Music, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:42.5	Hello and welcome to Small Town Murder Express!
0:46.8	Yeah, and Chuchu!
0:48.8	Oh, yeah, indeed, Jimmy, yeah, indeed.
0:51.7	My name is James Petrogallo, I'm here with my co-host.
0:54.1	I'm Jimmy Wiseman.
0:55.7	Thank you so much for joining us.
0:57.4	All aboard the murder train, everyone.
0:59.2	We are pulling away from the station quickly here this week.
1:02.3	We have a crazy story.
1:03.7	We're going to a state we haven't been to in forever.
1:06.8	It's been about four and a half years since we've been to the state.
1:11.2	It's crazy, yes, making a return to the northern kind of barren country up there, to the
1:16.9	Tundra of North Dakota.
1:22.3	First of all, shut up and give me murder.com is where you get all your merchandise and especially
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