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Small Town Murder

Cold Blooded "Hero" - Early, Iowa

Small Town Murder

James Pietragallo & Jimmie Whisman

True Crime, Comedy

4.977.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2026

⏱️ 187 minutes

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Summary

This week, in Early, Iowa, when a young man ends up in a pool of his own blood, inside of a neighbor's house, it looks like a mother was heroically protecting her kids. But is it all how it appears, or is this some kind of massive cover up & conspiracy? A mysterious pink notebook, that was kept secret for years, seems to hold the key to everything, and a prosecutor who has never tried a case in front of a jury has the job of putting it all together! A small town mess, that grows into national news.

 

Along the way, we find out that the "world's largest popcorn ball" isn't as big as we'd hoped it would be, that if you say that 3 people invaded your home, you'd better have some evidence that those people actually exist, and that there is only so much conspiracy theory that people will buy!!

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0:00.0

This week, in early Iowa, when a young man ends up in a pool of his own blood inside of a neighbor's house,

0:06.5

it seems like a mother heroically protecting her kids.

0:09.2

But is it all how it appears, or is this some kind of massive cover-up and conspiracy?

0:14.0

Welcome to Small Town Murder.

0:15.8

Music Hello, everybody and welcome back to small town murder.

0:34.3

Yay!

0:36.0

Yay indeed, Jimmy.

0:37.4

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. And another crazy, wild, insane. Don't know what's going on, edition of Small Town Murder. A really twisty, weird one for you today. And it's a lot of fun in a really rural area. Good stuff here. It's what this show is built on. Crazy stuff, and it's a crazy case. And you might have some thoughts on it later on, and we all will. And it's going to be one of those. We're going to have to hear them. Afterwards go, what do we just do? What will just happen here? So we'll get to all that and more. First of all, though, head over to shut up and give me murder.com. Get all the merchandise number one. Tickets to live shows, though. That's what we're talking about. Next live show with tickets available is Denver on May 2nd. Salt Lake City is sold out the night before. Thank you for doing that.

1:28.4

And then, oh, no, Buffalo sold out on the 29th of May. May 30th, Royal Oak, Michigan. Get your tickets there.

1:35.2

And then after the summer in September, the 18th and the 19th, we will be in Milwaukee and Minneapolis.

1:40.4

So make sure to get your tickets right now. Shut up and give me murder.com.

1:44.9

Make sure to listen to our other shows as well.

1:47.7

Crime and Sports and which we just had some real murdery stuff going on in our last

1:51.7

up.

1:52.1

Wow.

1:52.2

That was a horrific murder there with that boxer.

1:54.9

And then also, of course, your stupid opinions, which is just an hour of funny.

1:59.5

It's just a lot of funny.

2:18.4

And so you're going to love that if you like jokes. So do that. Check those out. Also get yourself Patreon. Patreon.com slash crime in sports is where you get all of the bonus material. Anybody $5 a month or above. How much of this do they get that we put out? All of it. Oh my goodness.

2:34.3

We're crazy. Everything. So much. So much. First of all, second you subscribe, you get hundreds of back bonus episodes you've never heard before. It's like a whole other feed of a whole other show to listen to. And then you get new ones every other week. One crime and sports. One small town murder. And you, my friends, get it all.

2:35.9

This week, no different.

2:48.4

For crime and sports, we're going to talk about, we're going to go back and do part two of the old-timey articles and ads because that was, we had so much fun with that. And that was great. And we have a whole bunch of more of those. So we're going to do part two of that. for small town murder.

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