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The Minds of Madness - True Crime Stories

Episode 261 - Six Stories, No Truth - The Murder of Toni Westover

The Minds of Madness - True Crime Stories

themindsofmadness

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.46.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Join us, as we examine the murder of Toni Westover - an innocent bystander who was in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong people.

You'll hear how a week-long meth binge inside a small apartment spiraled into tragedy, told through the voices of six people who were there—including the man arrested and tried for murder.

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Research & Writing:
Ryan Deininger

Editing:
Aiden Wolf

Sources:

Reward offered in search for accused killer of Akron mother

LIVE: Mom's Mysterious Murder Trial — OH v. Quinton Nixon — Day 1
LIVE: Mom's Mysterious Murder Trial — OH v. Quinton Nixon — Day 2
LIVE: Mom's Mysterious Murder Trial — OH v. Quinton Nixon — Day 3
LIVE: Mom's Mysterious Murder Trial — OH v. Quinton Nixon — Day 4
Defendant Quinton Nixon on Cross-examination: Medical Assistant Murder Trial
"I Could Have Shot More' 
LIVE: Mom's Mysterious Murder Trial — OH v. Quinton Nixon — Verdict
LIVE: Mom's Mysterious Murder Trial — OH v. Quinton Nixon — Sentencing
'Crying' Ohio Man Claims He Was Defending Himself After Fatally Shooting Woman—Interrogation
News 5 Cleveland
Akron Beacon Journal #1
Akron Beacon Journal #2
Akron Beacon Journal #3
Akron Beacon Journal #4
Cleveland.com
WKYC
Toni Westover Obituary
Summit Co. Prosecutor Statement
CourtTV Trial Summary

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The opinions expressed in the following episode do not necessarily reflect those of the

1:13.4

Minds of Madness podcast. Listener discretion is advised. Thank you. I'm In 1950, Japanese director Akira Kurosawa released a film that would forever change how we think about truth and perspective.

1:58.0

Rashiman tells a story about a murder in medieval Japan.

2:02.6

But what makes the film great isn't what happened, but how it happened, or rather how four different people remember it happening.

2:13.6

A bandit, a widow, a samurai, and a woodcutter, each give their version of the same event.

2:21.8

Their accounts collide and contradict until one question remains.

2:26.9

In a world of different perspectives, can absolute truth exist?

2:31.9

In the early morning hours of July 25, 2022, another version of Roshman played out

2:39.5

in Akron, Ohio. But no rain-soaked forests or samurai this time. Just six people trapped

2:47.6

inside a small apartment, their minds wired on methamphetamine and their nerves

2:53.4

frayed by paranoia.

2:56.3

And then, a burst of gunfire.

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