E122: The Killer's Cutlery

Midwest Murder

Jonah Lantto & Dawn Palumbo with the Good Talk Network

Robbery, True Crime, North Dakota, Mystery, Murder, Midwest, Good Talk, News, Society & Culture

2.4 • 768 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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FAN MAIL TEXT HOTLINE A woman is murdered in a quiet Iowa town, leaving the community stunned and suspicion quickly falls on someone close to her. But as the investigation unfolded, one question lingered: were the clues leading detectives down the right path? This episode was recorded before a wonderful crowd at the Rhythm City Casino in Davenport, IA. Victim: Cynthia Borton Location: Shenandoah, IA Episode title submitted by: Emma Koetz Correction note from Dawn (SPOILER ALERT!): ...

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0:00.0	We've all heard the phrase, that kind of thing doesn't happen in our town, but here on Midwest murder, we will shatter that false reality.
0:14.6	In fact, it happens more often than we know, and sometimes the details of the most horrific crimes that happen in our neighborhoods are lost in the back pages of newspapers, forgotten on our news channels, and eventually erased over time.
0:27.9	We're here to talk about murder, diving to some of the most controversial cases in Midwest history.
0:33.0	The show will not shy away from the morbid details of these horrific events and the often ugly truths behind
0:37.9	them. What you will hear is a detailed timeline of events, perspectives from those closely
0:43.0	involved at analysis by experts. What you will feel is the darkness that surrounds each story,
0:49.7	the innocence lost by the victims, and hopefully the justice that was ultimately delivered.
0:55.0	Don Palumbo.
0:55.9	Joan Alanto.
0:56.9	How you doing?
0:58.3	We're in Davenport.
0:59.4	We're in Davenport, Iowa.
1:00.4	And I don't mean my grandma's couch.
1:01.3	No, no.
1:02.3	It's a real place.
1:03.4	If we were in Canada, we'd say Chesterfield, but we're not.
1:05.7	Yeah.
1:06.3	I learned that on the way down here, actually. Chesterfield is also a couch and or a Davenport, depending on how you claim these things.
1:14.1	And where we're from, we're damn near Canada.
1:17.2	So we're almost Canadian.
1:18.5	Yeah, we are.
1:19.8	Yeah.
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