Killers Amongst Us: Murder on the Waxworm Farm (part 1)

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 1 September 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

By all accounts, David and Lois Riess were a well liked couple in their Blooming Prairie, Minnesota community. David, know for his sense of humor, owned a waxworm farm. Lois opened a daycare and joined a bowling team. When David Riess doesn't show up for work after two weeks, his employees knew something was wrong. That was confirmed when Lois Riess could could not be found. On March 23, 2018, investigators find the body of 54-year-old David in the bathroom of his home, shot multiple times. Who killed David Riess?

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0:00.0	Nancy Grace here for our partners at Azure Standard America's premier supplier of organic foods
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0:29.5	Thank you, azurestandard, for being our partner. I'm Cheryl McCollum, host of the brand new
0:35.0	co-case podcast, zone 7. We're going to be talking to family members, detectives, prosecutors,
0:40.6	and nationally recognized experts that are in my zone 7. The group of professionals that I've
0:45.9	called on to help me work hundreds of cases you've heard of and thousands you haven't. We are
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1:06.8	Hi guys, Nancy Grace here. Welcome back to Killers Amongst Us, a production of iHeart Media and Crime
1:13.2	Online. Bluming Prairie, Minnesota, with a population of around 2,000. If you look at a picture of
1:25.1	Blooming Prairie, Minnesota, it looks like Main Street of Mayberry. I don't know if you know
1:32.6	about Andy of Mayberry, Andy Griffith, but I sure do. And I know all about Mayberry, not too far from
1:38.8	Raleigh in my mind. Looks just like the real live Blooming Prairie. Blooming Prairie, Minnesota.
1:51.3	So how does a man end up shot dead in his own property? His wife goes missing. I'm Nancy Grace,
2:06.4	Killers Amongst Us. Joining me and all star panel to break it down and put it back together again.
2:17.7	First of all, Tess Coster, longtime friend of David and Lois Reese. As you will,
2:26.8	caught Judge Try-A-Law Your Anchor Court TV, Dr. Bethany Marshall, psychoanalyst to the
2:32.7	stars joining me from Beverly Hills, Floyd Stigler, 36-year Seattle PD and author,
2:38.8	Joseph Scott Morgan, Professor Forensic, Jacksonville State University, and author,
2:44.7	Kaelin Thompson, K-I-M-T News 3, Rochester, Minnesota. Let's start at the very beginning with Blooming Prairie.
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