The Scariest Staircase - Highmore, South Dakota

Small Town Murder

James Pietragallo & Jimmie Whisman

Comedy, True Crime

4.9 • 77.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2026

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

This week, in Highmore, South Dakota, when a farm couple has problems, the wife begins to tell people that if anything ever happens to her, her husband will be the one who does it. When the husband comes home from an errand, one day, he finds his wife in a bloody heap, at the bottom of the basement stairs. He claims it's a tragic, and terrible accident, but the autopsy shows something much some sinister than a fall. It shows that she's been horribly beaten & strangled. But was it actually the husband who did this??

Along the way, we find out that the "Old Settlers" must have loved boring festivals, that a radiator cap is never more important than getting someone medical help, and that when your own daughter takes the stand against you, you've really screwed up!!

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody and welcome back to Small Town Murder Express.
0:19.4	Yay and Choochoo!
0:21.7	Yay indeed, Jimmy.
0:23.0	Yay, indeed.
0:24.0	My name is James Petro Gallo.
0:25.5	I'm here with my co-host.
0:26.6	I'm Jimmy Wiseman.
0:27.7	Thank you, folks, so much for joining us today on another crazy wild edition of Small Town
0:32.9	Murder Express.
0:33.7	They're always crazy.
0:35.0	Oh, yeah.
0:35.4	This is no exception.
0:36.6	We got some wild stuff for you in a real
0:38.6	rural, you know, kind of salt of the earth kind of area where there's some bad stuff going on.
0:44.7	I love that. That's so great. I love when it's just this place where they're like, oh, it's just
0:49.1	everyone here's so nice and everybody treats each other so well and then they murder each other and then we talk about it. Except for this guy. Except for this guy. So we'll get into that in a minute. Before we do, certainly head over to shut up and give me murder.com. Get your tickets for live shows, everybody. After the summer is when they start up again. September the 18th at the Paps and Milwaukee. Not a ton of tickets left for that. So if you want to get in there, I'd get those tickets now. And then the next night, September 19th, we are in Minneapolis at the state theater. Get those yesterday. Get those also. Don't, listen, Minneapolis, you don't want, don't wait. Don't you don't want Milwaukee people to embarrass you by coming out stronger. So do that. And then also September 3rd, or I'm sorry, October 3rd in Dallas, October 16th and 17th in San Jose and Sacramento. And then Terrytown on November 13th, Boston, November 14th. So that is the schedule. Get your tickets. Shut up and give me murder.com. Listen to our other two shows to Crime in Sports, which if you like cult stuff, you want to check out the series we're currently doing on crime and sports.
1:52.6	It's on the Yahweh Benyawe cult because one of the main enforcers and murderers of that cult was an NFL football player. So not a lot of sports involved in that. Just a lot of murder and cult stuff. So that's a lot of fun. Check that out. Also, your stupid opinions, it's just the funniest show going. You got to check it out. You know what it is. It's hilarious. We make fun of people's reviews of things. So that's good stuff. Get yourself Patreon as well. You need it.
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2:36.6	And then you get new ones every other week, one crime and sports, one small-tow murder. You get them all. Just take them. Every bit. It's all yours. This week what we're going to do for crime and sports. It is nothing to do with sports. We're going to talk about hostage situations that have happened in the past and some crazy shit that occurs during them.
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