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MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories

Fan Favorite - "Shenandoah on Fire"

MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories

Ballen Studios

True Crime, Mrballen, Mysterious, True Story, Storytelling, Strange, Dark

4.927K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

This story is a fan favorite that was previously published as Episode 34.

On September 6th, 1988, a middle aged woman named Cindy Borton, was washing dishes in her little house in Shenandoah, Iowa. As she did this, she heard a knock on her back door. She glanced at her watch and saw that she only had a few minutes before she had to get ready for work, and so she just hoped that whoever was there, was not expecting a long visit.… A few hours later, the police would arrive at Cindy’s house and they would discover a crime scene so gruesome, that they had to call in a special investigative unit just to process it.


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0:00.0

Hey Prime members, you can binge eight new episodes of the Mr Ballin Podcast one month early and all episodes

0:06.1

add free on Amazon Music. Download the Amazon Music app today.

0:10.4

Today's episode is a fan favorite. It's called Shenandoah on fire. The audio in the story has been remastered for today's episode.

0:18.0

On September 6, 1988, a middle-aged woman named Cindy Borton was washing dishes in her little house in

0:24.4

Shenandoah, Iowa.

0:26.2

As she did this, she heard a knock on her back door.

0:29.2

She glanced at her watch and saw she only had a few minutes before she had to get ready for work, and so she just hoped that whoever was at the door was not expecting a long visit.

0:37.8

A few hours later the Shenandoah police would arrive at Cindy's house and they would

0:41.9

discover a crime scene so gruesome they had to call in a special

0:45.2

investigative unit just to process it. This story includes graphic

0:49.5

descriptions of violence. As such, listener discretion is advised. But before we get into today's story,

0:56.3

if you're a fan of the Strange Dark and Mysterious delivered in Story format,

1:00.0

then you've come to the Wright podcast because that's all we do and we upload twice a week,

1:04.0

once on Monday and once on Thursday. So if that's of interest to you,

1:08.1

please ask if you can borrow the follow button's phone to make a quick call. But as soon as they hand it over, don't make a call and instead

1:15.4

just log on to their Facebook page and change their relationship status from

1:19.2

married to it's complicated. Okay, let's get into today's story. So, Hello, I'm Hannah. And I'm Sorootie. And we are the hosts of Red-handed, a weekly

1:49.8

true-crime podcast. Every week on Red-handed, we get stuck into the most talked about cases.

1:54.8

From the Idaho student killings, the Delphi murders, and our recent rundown of the Murdoch Saga.

2:00.4

Last year, we also started a second weekly show,

2:03.0

shorthand, which is just an excuse for us to talk about anything we find interesting

2:06.6

because it's our show and we can do what we like.

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