10-minute murder contains depictions of violence that some listeners may find disturbing. Discretion is advised. Just. Welcome Welcome to 10-minute murder.

Glad you're here.

And if you don't know what we do here, it's kind of a minimalist approach to a true crime podcast,

giving you only the interesting and sometimes overlooked facts and details where you hear

the whole homicide without all of the filler and the small talk.

There are a million podcasts about true crime that can tell you all the details in an hour

or two hours or three hours and those get kind of boring.

So we condense it all, give you the important stuff, the interesting stuff,

and we do it in 10 minutes or less.

So, let's get to it.

In 1998, a convenience store clerk in Lansing, Michigan, was shot to death during a robbery.

No one else was in the store at the time,

but there was an eyewitness, a security camera, but unfortunately the story it told was far from clear.

Wanda Mason, a 48-year-old single mother of three, worked in various cities across the country.

She tried with mixed success to build a stable life for her family.

In 97, she settled with her children in Lansing, Michigan. With money tight, she took a job

at a convenience store, gas station, to make ends meet. About a year later, the owner decided to

keep the store open 24 hours a day. Wanda worked the very first overnight shift. The store was

located in a low crime area, but as a precaution, security cameras were installed before the first

overnight shift. For whatever reason, a fresh new videotape was unavailable, so they used an old

worn-out tape until they could buy a new one.

At 418 in the morning, a group of customers entered the store to pay for gas and found Wanda Mason in a pool of blood behind the counter.

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