A Big Ball Of Death - LaPlace, Louisiana

Small Town Murder

James Pietragallo & Jimmie Whisman

True Crime, Comedy

4.9 • 77.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2026

⏱️ 191 minutes

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Summary

This week, in LaPlace, Louisiana, a woman being horribly murdered, in her own home, leads detectives to see if any other nearby towns have had any similar murders. Turns out, there are many other murders that are very similar. As a matter of fact, they have a serial killer on their hands. The FBI does a profile, that doesn't help too much, but he is eventually caught. Only problem is that his motivations are much different than most serial killers, and none of the physical evidence matches him. Do they even have the right guy??

Along the way, we find out that Louisiana is not where you want to live, if you hate water, that not all serial killers have the same desires, or motives, and that bringing up someone's mother can often get them to tell you the horrible things that they've done!!

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0:00.0	This week, in Laplace, Louisiana, a brutal murder in a rural home causes detectives to notice that it's not the only recent local murder, and as a matter of fact, they seem to have a serial killer on their hands, one with a much different motive than they're used to for serial killers.
0:15.1	Welcome to small town murder.
0:34.5	Yeah. Hello, everybody and welcome back to small town murder.
0:35.8	Yay!
0:41.4	Yay indeed, Jimmy. Yay indeed. My name is James Petro Gallo. I'm here with my co-host. I'm Jimmy Wiseman. Thank you folks so much for joining us today on another crazy wild
0:47.5	edition of Small Town Murder. We have just a crazy insane. It's a serial killer this week,
0:52.6	so don't have to tell you how crazy that is of a thought to have.
0:56.1	So before we get into that, just want to definitely say, head over to shut up and give me murder.com.
1:02.5	Get your tickets for live shows because they are there. And they're going fast. So get in there.
1:08.4	May 1st is sold out in Salt Lake City. May 2nd in Denver, still some tickets left for that, but not a ton of them.
1:13.7	So get in there. May 29th, Buffalo sold out. May 30th, Royal Oak, less than 100 tickets left. So get in there. It's a pretty good-sized venue, too. You guys are doing great. You guys are awesome. Thank you for doing that. And then after that, we have Milwaukee and Minneapolis in September.
1:27.6	We have
1:28.1	Dallas, San Jose, Sacramento in October, and then Terrytown in Boston in November. So get your
1:33.7	asses in there. Shut up and give me murder.com is where you find all of that and more, like your
1:40.1	merchandise and all that kind of stuff. Definitely listen to our other two shows, which are crime in sports,
1:45.1	which is hilarious and a lot of murderers lately too.
1:47.9	So you want to check on that.
1:49.3	And definitely listen to your stupid opinions
1:51.6	where we hear people's reviews for places
1:53.8	we'll never go and things will never use
1:55.5	and it's hilarious and just the funniest thing going.
1:58.1	So check that out.
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