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Midwest Murder

Failure to Launch E144

Midwest Murder

Jonah Lantto & Dawn Palumbo with the Good Talk Network

True Crime, Mystery, Murder, Midwest, Robbery, Society & Culture, News, Good Talk, North Dakota

4.7920 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

A Wisconsin couple leaves for a holiday weekend and never comes home. Their son has all the answers, except the truth. And by the time investigators figure out why, it’s already too late.

Transcript

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0:00.0

We've all heard the phrase, that kind of thing doesn't happen in our town, but here on Midwest

0:12.0

murder, we will shatter that false reality. In fact, it happens more often than we know,

0:17.0

and sometimes the details of the most horrific crimes that happen in our neighborhoods

0:21.6

are lost in the back pages of newspapers, forgotten on our news channels, and eventually erased

0:26.4

over time.

0:27.4

We're here to talk about murder, diving into some of the most controversial cases in Midwest

0:32.0

history.

0:33.2

The show will not shy away from the more of the details of these horrific events and the often

0:37.2

ugly truths behind them. What you will hear is a detailed timeline of events, perspectives from

0:42.5

those closely involved, and analysis by experts. What you will feel is the darkness that surrounds

0:48.3

each story, the innocence lost by the victims, and hopefully the justice that was ultimately

0:53.9

delivered. Don Palumbo.

0:56.5

Don Alanto. I took a breath at the weirdest time. I took a breath just before I was going to talk

1:00.7

you. I didn't even notice that. I thought your breath work was perfect in that one. It's almost like

1:04.7

you've been doing this. Thank you. Yeah. Executed. Thanks. Thanks. You're efficient. Big shout out to

1:10.5

our friends here in Sioux Falls. Thank you for being here're efficient. Big shout out to our friends here in Sioux Falls.

1:12.2

Thank you for being here. And also a shout out to the collective efforts union for bringing us

1:17.8

back to the icon here in Sioux Falls. We are so happy to be back. We love it here. We've been here,

1:24.0

you know, in the area many times at this point. I was trying to, I was trying to do a count.

1:27.8

I feel like this is maybe the lucky seventh time we've been here. I, I feel like it's our

1:33.3

seventh visit. And if it is, wow, everybody, everybody should buy a lottery ticket that's not

1:38.3

financial advice. But if this is our lucky seven, we're in this, we're in this together and I want

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