The Murder of Wilma June Nissen Part 2 : A Name For Her Grave

The Fall Line: True Crime

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True Crime, Society & Culture

4.6 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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The identification of the Lyon County Jane Doe as Wilma June Nissen was only the first step in unraveling a complex crime; once her identity was known, investigators began to piece together who had left her in a ditch along Iowa’s Highway 182, in 1978--and why. Go to GreenChef.com/fallline125 and use code fallline125 to get $125 off including free shipping! 10% off your first month of Better Help!: BetterHelp.com/fallline and use code FALLINE Submit a case to The Fall Line: https://www.thefalllinepodcast.com/case-submissions Written, researched, and hosted by Laurah Norton, with research assistance from Bryan Worters, Kim Fritz, and Kyana Burgess/Interviews by Brooke Hargrove/Produced, scored, and engineered by Maura Currie/Content advisors are Brandy C. Williams, Liv Fallon, and Vic Kennedy/ Theme music by RJR/Special thanks to Angie Dodd Sources at our website: https://www.thefalllinepodcast.com/sources Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thefalllinepodcast 2021 All Rights Reserved The Fall Line Podcast, LLC Want to advertise/sponsor our show? We have partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle our advertising/sponsorship requests. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email [email protected] or click the link below to get started. https://www.advertisecast.com/TheFallLine; Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is part two in a two-part series.
0:03.6	Please listen to part one before continuing with this episode.
0:07.1	This series includes discussion of violence,
0:09.5	child abuse, sexual violence, murder, and crime scenes.
0:13.6	Some outdated terminology for sex work is used
0:16.3	in the context of quotation and legal documentation.
0:19.5	Listener discretion is advised.
0:21.6	This is the Fall Line.
0:37.8	Last time we brought you the story of a woman who'd been known as the Lion County Jando.
0:51.6	A murder victim discovered in a ditch in rural Iowa in October of 1978,
0:57.2	who the local sheriff's department worked to identify for 28 years.
1:01.7	In 2006, when her fingerprints were run through the national system
1:05.7	for what investigators thought was the second time,
1:08.8	her identity was finally revealed.
1:11.3	According to the Sue City Journal,
1:13.3	the victim had once been arrested and fingerprinted
1:15.9	in a Los Angeles police precinct.
1:18.5	The Lion County Jando was Wilma Junnison,
1:22.0	a 23-year-old Californian who'd spent her earliest years in extreme neglect.
1:27.3	She'd been moved into foster care around the age of 10,
1:30.5	lived with the number of families, and hosted in at least one group home.
1:34.7	By 17 or 18, she'd left the foster care system for good,
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