Episode 502: Kari Swenson

Inhuman: A True Crime Podcast

Inhuman Podcast

True Crime

4.6 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Biathlon bronze medalist Kari Swenson was on a training run near Big Sky, Montana in the summer of 1984 when she encountered two men with malicious intentions. Kari had just made history with her biathlon relay team when she was abducted and held captive for 18 hours by two self-proclaimed survivalists who wanted to make her a “wife”. Father-son duo Don and Dan Nichols were the monsters who not only abducted Kari but also murdered her friend who was trying to rescue her. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:23.7	What's up, you guys? I'm Haley.
0:26.0	And I'm Andrea.
0:27.6	And this is Inhuman, a true crime podcast.
0:51.6	Yeah. Welcome back, everybody, happy day.
0:59.1	Whenever you are listening to this, I hope your day is wonderful, magical, joyful, and fantastic.
1:01.1	All of the things.
1:03.0	Just put that out into the universe.
1:10.7	Today, we are going to be covering a, I believe this was suggested by at least one person.
1:12.2	I think that's how I found it.
1:13.4	Okay.
1:20.2	And some of you may have heard of it, but I had never heard of it, and I was shocked.
1:28.2	Today we're going to be talking about Carrie Swenson, who is not only known for her performance as a biathlet, bronze medalist,
1:32.3	but also as a survivor of a kidnapping in 1984. And the story of her in abduction is terrifying.
1:37.2	Yeah, that is just being abducted and surviving is terrifying.
1:43.5	I just, in itself, like.
1:46.5	And speaking of abduction survivors,
1:50.2	have you seen recently posts about Elizabeth Smart?
1:54.3	She's like a bodybuilder now.
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