EP299: The Gunnison Mystery

Crimes and Consequences

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 869 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In the spring of 2014, a champion wrestler from Texas arrived in the isolated mountain town of Gunnison, Colorado, carrying the kind of confidence that made people gravitate toward him. Dammion Heard was charismatic, impulsive, fiercely competitive, and only beginning to build the life he imagined for himself at Western State Colorado University. But after a chaotic night involving parties, rivalries, fractured relationships, and conflicting accounts from the people around him, Dammion suddenly vanished into the cold darkness of the Rockies. What followed would divide investigators, devastate a family, and leave behind a case filled with disputed timelines, unsettling witness statements, and questions that still refuse to disappear more than a decade later.

SOURCES:
1) CBS News Pt. 1
2) CBS News Pt. 2
3) CBS News Pt. 3
4) Reddit Discussion

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0:00.0	This episode may contain content of a graphic nature, including descriptions of physical and sexual violence against adults, children, and animals.
0:21.4	Listener discretion is advised.
0:34.3	Hi, this is Tanya.
0:36.5	Hi, this is Shannon. And we are Crimes and Consequences, a is Tanya. Hi, this is Shannon.
0:37.9	And we are Crimes and Consequences, a hardcore true crime podcast.
0:44.0	Howdy-duty, Shannon?
0:46.2	How do you do, pretty girl?
0:49.3	You know what?
0:50.6	I can't believe we haven't mentioned this yet.
0:53.3	I've wanted to bring it up because, you know,
0:55.2	she's a bit of, I wouldn't say hero, folk hero, because anyway, you'll get what I'm getting at when I say,
1:03.3	I was sad to hear that Betty Broderick passed. Oh, yes, Betty Bradrick. I, I know I saw that. And I was like, oh, Betty, may she rest in peace, you know? Absolutely. Yeah. It brings me. No, I was going to say it brings me to because I remember when I did this story, the great question you had was, why is she still in prison? Yeah. She had served 30, I think, at least. I don't even know, but I think her time had been done. Yeah. She wasn't a threat to society. And I understand she murdered two people. I get it. Okay. And it was wrong. And I feel bad for their families. But she wasn't a threat to society.
1:46.9	And did she really deserve to be there until she died?
1:48.5	I don't know, I guess.
1:51.4	I don't think she was sentenced to life without parole, though.
1:54.1	She had parole hearings, I think.
1:54.5	But.
1:56.0	Yeah, I'll look it up again. But I was saddened.
1:58.9	Yeah.
1:59.5	And then two.
2:01.3	Okay. So the other day, yesterday, we're doing the two. I was saddened. Yeah. And then two, okay.
2:07.3	So the other day, yesterday, we're doing the two-parter on the murder of Travis Alexander.
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