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Inhuman: A True Crime Podcast

Episode 282: The Recently Solved Murder of Yvonne Menke

Inhuman: A True Crime Podcast

Inhuman Podcast

True Crime

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Yvonne Menke was heading to warm up her car outside her apartment in St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin on December 12, 1985 when she was fatally shot 3 times. While her daughter witnessed a suspect jogging away, there wasn’t enough evidence to tie the main suspect, her boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend Mary Jo Lunsmann, to the murder. 38 years later, an arrest was made, and that suspect, now 80 years old, is currently awaiting trial.

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0:00.0

What's up you guys? I'm Haley and I'm Andrea and this is Inhuman a true crime

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podcast. Oh, Welcome back. Happy Thursday if you are listening to this on the day that it comes out otherwise happy Monday Tuesday

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Wednesday Friday Saturday Sunday whenever you're listening yes you are having a

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good week or day or whatever it may be when you are having a good week or day or whatever it may be when you are listening to this.

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We just hope you're having a great life just in general.

0:49.0

We just hope your life is going so well and just good thoughts happy energy all the all the above.

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Oh great everything she said.

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Oh today we are going to be talking about a cold case that was solved last year. If you guys are on

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our Patreon then you would have seen or heard or watched the if you saw the video episode for January I covered a cold case that was

1:18.7

also solved in 2023 and it like I've just been on a kick of cold cases I've been doing a series on

1:26.9

Tik-Tok where I'm I've like covered very high-level like cold cases that were

1:31.9

solved and I kind of just shared like very vague details.

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Like an overview.

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Right. And this is one that I discovered while doing that series but I was like wait wait wait I need to know more

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I was like I can't just like leave it at this right I dove into it and it's kind of a

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roller coaster of a story and it's kind of a roller coaster of a story and it's kind of like confusing why it was solved now and not back when it happened.

2:01.0

Because it wasn't this was not a like genealogical DNA evidence and it wasn't even a

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advanced DNA technology leading to the killer But I also found the 39 page criminal complaint that was

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filed in November of 2023 with like all of the information about the

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initial investigation and the re-investigation.

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So there's a lot here and...

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Not like excited, like, ooh, you know, but excited that there's all these details and yeah, yeah, it's a roller coaster of a story, so let's just dive into it.

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