Episode 290 - The Farmhouse Conspiracy - The Murder of Ryan Cooper
The Minds of Madness - True Crime Stories
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4.4 • 6.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
We’ll follow the twists of a case that began as straightforward…but revealed layers of deception that stunned even veteran investigators, showing how modern technology exposed secrets someone thought were deleted forever.
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Sources:
LIVE: IA v. Karina Cooper, Day 1
LIVE: IA v. Karina Cooper, Day 2
LIVE: IA v. Karina Cooper, Day 3
LIVE: IA v. Karina Cooper, Day 4
LIVE: IA v. Karina Cooper, Day 5
LIVE: IA v. Karina Cooper, Day 6
LIVE: IA v. Karina Cooper, Day 7
Court Tv Trial Recap
Karina Cooper convicted of first-degree murder
New evidence shows bullet casing, graphic messages in wife's alleged affair murder pact
She Murdered Her Husband — And Snapchatted Her Salon Client
Ryan Cooper Obituary
Traer woman and her lover carried out plot to kill her husband
Linn County jury convicts Traer woman who plotted with ‘lover’ to kill husband
Shellsburg man told police he helped Traer woman kill her husband in 2021
Traer woman and her lover carried out plot to kill her husband,
Traer woman testifies affair was ‘fantasy,’
Friends testify Traer woman was verbally abusive to husband,
Rural Traer homicide remains unsolved two years later
Traer woman charged with killing husband in 2021
Texts, Snapchat messages implicate Traer woman, lover in her husband’s fatal shooting
Second suspect arrested, charged with first degree murder
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| 0:24.8 | The opinions expressed |
| 0:26.3 | in the following episode |
| 0:27.5 | do not necessarily reflect |
| 0:29.0 | those of the minds |
| 0:29.8 | of madness podcast. |
| 0:31.6 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:33.3 | Music Thank you. There's a moment in Shakespeare's Macbath that echoes through the centuries. |
| 1:14.0 | Lady Macbath, gripped by guilt after plotting a murder, begins to unravel. She paces in the dark, rubbing her hands raw, convinced she can still |
| 1:22.7 | see blood that isn't there. Out damn spot, she cries, and she can't stop scrubbing. Centuries later, |
| 1:31.6 | this scene still resonates. Do something terrible, and you want to clean it away. Wash the stain, |
| 1:39.6 | pretend it never happened. That's what guilt usually looks like, an urge to erase. |
| 1:46.0 | But the mind of a murderer doesn't always follow that script. |
| 1:50.6 | Sometimes it's unflinching, no feelings of guilt. |
| 1:55.5 | Sometimes, no feelings at all. |
| 1:58.6 | Because in some minds, murder isn't a breaking point. |
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