Zeeland (7): Crossing the Street – The Wade and Ellen Zick Murder in North Dakota

Dakota Spotlight: True Crime & Cold Case Investigations

James Wolner

Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.8 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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The 1976 murders of Wade and Ellen Zick devastated the small town of Zeeland, North Dakota, leaving behind one of the region’s most haunting true crime cases. Episode 7, Crossing the Street, examines chapters Guns and Piggy Banks, California Dreaming, No Different Than You, and Crossing the Street. These stories reveal the pressures, choices, and shifting realities faced by those connected to the crime. Zeeland continues its investigative journalism approach, uncovering how rural crime and small town murder shattered lives and reshaped a community. Music by Peter Hicks – performed by Sleepy Driver: ⁠https://sleepydriver.bandcamp.com/⁠ ‘To God be the Glory‘ sung by the Sunday School kids at St Peter’s church, Chaffee, North Dakota Check out the full catalog and everything Dakota Spotlight: https://dakotaspotlight.com/ Get all episodes early, ad-free, and more. Subscribe to Spotlight PLUS: https://dakotaspotlight.com/spotlight-plus/ Sign up for the Dakota Spotlight newsletter: https://dakotaspotlight.com/newsletter/ Email: dakotaspotlight@gmail.com Facebook: https://facebook.com/groups/dakotaspotlight X/Twitter: @dakotaspotlight Instagram: @dakotaspotlight TikTok: @dakotaspotlight Bluesky: @dakotaspotlight.bsky.social YouTube: @dakotaspotlightpodcast4800 Proudly produced by Six Horse Media: info@sixhorsemedia.com Advertise your podcast or brand in Dakota Spotlight episodes: info@sixhorsemedia.com All content in this podcast, including audio, interviews, and soundscapes, is the property of Six Horse Media. Any unauthorized use, reproduction, or rebroadcast of this material without the express written consent of Six Horse Media is strictly prohibited. For permissions or inquiries, please contact info@sixhorsemedia.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey folks, it's James here, host and producer of this show, Dakota Spotlight.
0:03.8	I've got some exciting news to share with you.
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0:32.6	This is episode 7, chapters 28 through 31.
0:38.0	Chapter 28, Guns and Piggy Banks
0:40.8	I went to Selby, South Dakota, where David and Butch Fice had gone to elementary
0:46.7	school. The first people I ran into had been neighbors of the Fice over 50 years ago.
0:52.8	A town celebration was going on that night, so there was quite a crowd.
0:57.0	No, no, no, no.
0:58.0	There were nice neighbors.
1:00.0	I had a little bank about that big piggy bank thing.
1:06.0	Yeah.
1:07.0	And I had all silver coins in it.
1:10.0	I come home and it was gone.
1:14.6	So I asked my mother, I said if she cleaned, it was down in the basement in my bedroom.
1:23.6	And she said, no, I told her, I said, well, my bank, you know, stuff was gone.
1:31.9	And then she said, no.
1:33.8	And then a little while later she said, she said,
1:39.0	I've seen the two vice boys come out of the house.
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