The Murder of John Mike Crites

Criminology

Emash Digital

True Crime

4.7 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

John Mike Crites, or Mike as he was known by, was living in his dream location on an 80 acre property in Birdseye, Montana, just outside of Helena, Montana. But, the dream turned into a nightmare when a series of property disputes began occurring with multiple neighbors. Then, in 2011, Mike suddenly vanished with out a trace and his friends and family began searching for him. Later that year, someone found remains in two trash bags that turned out to be Mike Crites. Join Mike and Morf as they discuss the murder of John Mike Crites. Mike had made a number of enemies over the years during these land disputes. But, he had some people on his side as well. It seemed as though every neighbor who owned land around the area took up sides. The police looked at everyone who had run-ins with Mike, some of them armed confrontations. One man in particular stood out to them and they worked hard to put together a case against him. You can help support the show at patreon.com/criminology An Emash Digital production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Last year there were nearly 22,000 murders in the US, not surprisingly, more than 200 true crime podcasts
0:08.0	launch every year in the US alone. There's no shortage of crimes and no shortage of crime podcasts to cover them,
0:15.7	but none of those shows have the heart of our true crime podcast.
0:21.0	Thank goodness. Well, they didn't even have seat belt laws back then.
0:24.5	They never were sick. Oh, yes, fine.
0:26.8	He could not remember exactly what happened and thought that he had blacked out.
0:34.0	That was about it. That's all he could tell officers.
0:38.0	He was drawing things saying the thoughts won't stop.
0:41.2	Good. I want to see how this plays out.
0:44.8	It's heartbreaking.
0:47.5	Isn't it time you made our true crime podcast your true crime podcast?
0:51.9	Our true crime podcast available on all your favorite podcasting apps.
0:58.5	Criminology is a true crime podcast that may contain discussion about violent or disturbing topics.
1:03.8	Listener discussion is advised.
1:34.0	Hello, everyone and welcome, episode 226 of the criminology podcast. I'm Mike Ferguson.
1:42.2	And I'm Mike Morford. Mr. Morford, what's going on with you?
1:46.3	I'm battling down the hatches here in Southwest Florida. We're getting a hurricane that's going to
1:51.8	scrape us and hopefully not hit us directly, but because of that, we had to record this earlier than
1:57.2	we normally do in the week. So I've got to get everything ready. Last second preparations.
2:02.2	I'm hoping it goes out into the golf and doesn't affect too many people. But I am worried about
2:06.8	the my fellow Florida residents here. So I hope everyone's safe. And it's one of the,
2:12.9	there's a downside to being here in paradise. That's one of them.
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