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Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.7 • 39.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

When Mike Williams went missing while duck hunting on Lake Seminole, investigators wondered if he had been eaten by alligators. But Mike’s mother was sure something else had happened. Mikita Brottman’s book is Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida. Say hello on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. Sign up for our occasional newsletter. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts. Sign up for Criminal Plus to get behind-the-scenes bonus episodes of Criminal, ad-free listening of all of our shows, invitations to virtual events, special merch deals, and more. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.1	I got in the water in the very early morning before the sun had risen and the water was pitch
0:35.8	black.
0:37.4	I started swimming and I felt the water hollowing out
0:41.6	around me and felt like something really big was swimming below. I'm Phoebe Judge and this is
0:49.2	love. A show about the surprising things that love can make us do.
0:58.9	More than 100 episodes available now on This Is Love.
1:04.5	This episode contains adult content.
1:06.2	Please use discretion.
1:16.6	On December 16, 2000, Mike Williams had planned to go duck hunting on Lake Seminole, which was just on the Florida-Georgia border.
1:19.6	And Mike often went duck hunting. Usually he went with a friend, but this morning apparently
1:24.6	he decided to go alone. And although he was a successful
1:29.2	duck hunter and he enjoyed it very much, some people said that he did actually take risks,
1:34.3	that he stood up in the boat to take risky shots and so forth. So people became worried when he
1:40.7	hadn't returned home. This is author Makita Broughtman.
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