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Small Town Murder

The Most Interesting Murderer In The World - Springville, California

Small Town Murder

James Pietragallo & Jimmie Whisman

True Crime, Comedy

4.977.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 185 minutes

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Summary

This week, in Springville, California, one of the strangest stories, in the history of murder unfolds. Featuring an escaped convict with an apparent CIA background, who also claims to have invented the character of "Cap'n Crunch", and a model, with an unlikely story of being held captive, that just might true. Mix all this with a murder plot that was supposed be a "Sharon Tate style bloodbath", and you get a wild, expansive & just plain insane story!!

 

Along the way, we find out that you know you may have to move, when a disease is named after your county, that you shouldn't commit many, many dangerous felonies "just for fun", and that sometimes the most fantastical sounding story can actually be true!!

 

New episodes, every Wednesday & Friday nights!!

Go to shutupandgivememurder.com for all things Small Town Murder, Crime In Sports & Your Stupid Opinions!

 

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Also, check out James & Jimmie's other shows, Crime In Sports & Your Stupid Opinions on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts!!

Transcript

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0:00.0

This week, in Springville, California, one of the strangest stories in the history of murder unfolds,

0:06.3

featuring an escaped convict with an apparent CIA background, a model with an unlikely story of being held captive,

0:12.6

and even plenty of stolen identities to confuse the detectives.

0:16.1

Welcome to Smalltown Murder.

0:32.1

Music to Small Town Murder. Hello, everybody, and welcome back to Small Town Murder.

0:36.5

Yay!

0:42.0

Oh, yay indeed, Jimmy. Yay indeed. My name is James Petro Gallo. I'm here with my co-host. I'm Jimmy Wiseman. Thank you folks so much for joining us today on

0:47.7

another absolutely insane edition of Small Town Murder that we have for you today. This is wild stuff from

0:53.9

start to finish.

0:55.2

I can't wait to get into it. Definitely, before you do that, though, and we'll make an announcement

1:00.3

right off the top here before we get to the website and all that. We're on Netflix now.

1:06.2

It's happening. It happened. Yeah, it's where we will be starting on Netflix next week. It's going to be a little confusing the first episode because it's going to be on Monday, January 26th. This is the only time an episode will be outside of our normal release schedule. We're just doing that again. January 26th, Monday. What's going on with that? The only time. The only time. The how many times? Only one time. It's not on Mondays from now on. Is this mean? No, it's on one episode's going to be on Monday and then it's Wednesdays after that. So just like normal and Fridays for Express, same thing. So we're very excited. Check us out on Netflix. You can see us doing the show like a live show type deal, except, you know, like you're sitting in here with us. Like you're, that's it. You're sitting in here. The show will be exactly the same. It's not like we're going to, you know, do a lot of visual stuff that you won't be able to see on the audio. It's going to be just like you're hanging out in the studio with us. So we're very excited for that. Thank you for making that possible because it's all of you guys there. Everybody out there who's listen to the show. That's why the show is going to be on Netflix. Thank you so much for doing that. While you're excited about Netflix, get on here and get some tickets.

2:18.6

Tickets for live shows starting out with February 21st in Nashville.

2:23.1

Get them right now while they're hot.

2:25.0

And then after that, we got Durham in Atlanta, March 6th and 7th.

2:28.0

Phoenix is sold out, but the Your Stupid Opinion Show still has some tickets for that.

2:32.9

Salt Lake City sold out.

3:26.0

Denver has tickets. Buffalo sold out. Royal Oak, Michigan, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Dallas, San Jose, Sacramento, Terrytown and Boston. Shut up and give me murder.com is where you get all of that and more. Also, while you're there, well, not while you're there, but there's links. you can go there. Go get yourself Patreon as well. Do it. Patreon.com slash crime in sports is where you get all of the bonus material. Anybody, $5 a month or above, you're getting so much. First of all, hundreds of back bonus episodes you've never heard before immediately upon subscription. Then you get new ones every other week, one crime in sports, one small town murder. This week, which you're going to get for crime and sports. It's the sales, Jimmy. We're doing crazy old-timey ads, and I can't wait. Those are my favorite shows. And then for small town murder, it is Dean Coral Part 2. Oh, we're going to investigate the John Wayne Gasey connection. And there's a lot to unpack there, man, because we're at this point in the story that we got 27 bodies and a lot of,

3:30.7

a lot of explaining to do. So can't wait to get into that. Patreon.com slash crime in sports.

3:36.4

And in addition to that, you get all the shows we put out, crime and sports, your stupid opinion,

3:40.4

small town murder, all ad free with your Patreon. And you get all the shows we put out crime and sports your stupid opinion small town murder all add free with your patreon and you get a shout out at the end of the show too as well

3:46.4

so that's said disclaimer time this is a comedy show everybody this is a comedy show we are comedians

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