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Going West: True Crime

The Brom Ax Murders: A Suburban Nightmare // 586

Going West: True Crime

Dark West Productions

True Crime, News, Society & Culture

4.610.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In February of 1988, four members of a Minnesota family were brutally murdered in their home in the middle of a winter’s night. The shocking nature of the crime stunned a quiet, rural community and left investigators grappling with the sheer violence of the act, especially when they learned who the murders wete committed by, and what their larger plan was... These are the Brom Ax Murders.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What is going on true crime fans? I'm your host Heath and I'm your host Daphne.

0:18.8

And you're listening to Going West. Hello everybody.

0:22.8

Thank you so much for tuning in. This episode was recommended by Sarah. So big shout out to Sarah for

0:29.4

sending this one in. It is a very gruesome case with a shocking resolution. Yes, this one is

0:35.9

extremely gruesome. If you want to see photos from

0:39.2

this case and all the other cases that we've covered thus far, follow us on our socials. We're

0:43.9

on Instagram at Going West Podcast. And before we get started today, I should mention that we

0:48.7

just covered the case of Susan Hamilton. Over on our bonus series, you can find that at patreon.com slash going west podcast, or you can

0:58.3

subscribe on Apple.

0:59.9

That is easily one of the most confounding cases we have ever covered it.

1:04.3

I'm actually kind of sad we didn't do it for Going West episode, so more people could hear it

1:08.1

because it's, they're so, like, you and I have a lot of conversation

1:11.7

throughout that case because, like, I just can't figure it out. It's one of those ones. Yeah,

1:16.6

it takes place on Valentine's Day in 2001. There's a wealthy doctor. There is some,

1:24.4

definitely some screwed up things going on within that case a weird kind of like cold tea

1:29.0

situation so check it out over on apple podcast or on patreon.com slash going west podcast we have like

1:35.6

150 bonus episodes over there that one's almost an hour long so they're all full length ad free

1:41.5

cases that we're never going to cover on going west. And it's a great

1:45.1

way to support the show. Indeed. Also, I want to say Heath and I have been doing a ton of

1:49.7

social videos lately in the studio. We just did one that you guys have to watch. We kind of talk

1:57.7

about something that we forgot to mention in the Mary Schleiss episode that we covered a week ago.

2:04.2

So we also did like a little Haley Busby video update.

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