Introducing - Truer Crime

Dakota Spotlight: True Crime & Cold Case Investigations

James Wolner

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.8 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In July of 2018, 20-year-old Mollie Tibbetts went on a run in her small hometown of Brooklyn, Iowa. Something she’d done countless times before. But this time, she didn’t come home. What followed was a search unlike anything this town had ever seen. Neighbors combed the fields. Reporters camped out at the local diner. And as the weeks stretched on without answers, the questions only grew louder: How does someone vanish without a trace in a town this small? Who could have seen something and stayed silent? Once you've finished part 1, head over to the Truer Crime feed to listen to "Mollie Tibbetts Part 2". About Truer Crime: Vanished. Vilified. Voiceless. This season on Truer Crime, every story has something in common: it’s not what it seems. What starts as a disappearance, a tragedy, or a headline quickly reveals something deeper—about power, about prejudice, about who gets to be heard and who gets written off. We’re digging into six gripping cases. Some you might recognize. Others you’ve never heard before. But every one of them will leave you questioning the stories we’re told and the stories we choose to believe. Six months. Six cases. One show that digs deeper. Truer Crime is available now wherever you get your favorite podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	True Story Media
0:05.4	If I get my kid a phone, I'll be able to keep in touch with them all the time.
0:10.4	You'll be on it all the time.
0:11.7	He could walk to school by himself.
0:13.3	She could see something she shouldn't.
0:14.7	He could chat with grandma.
0:15.9	Friends, trolls.
0:17.1	They can access anything on the internet.
0:18.8	They can access anything on the internet.
0:20.7	So, should I give my kid a phone?
0:24.0	Growing up with phones isn't always easy.
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