Neighborly casino runner, Lori Bray, is found dead in the woods in the small town of Laurel, Montana. The community has to wonder if it was a consequence of her good nature at work or if it was someone from her past coming back to bite. 

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In Howard City, MI, detectives investigate a night of horror that ended with beloved couple Robert and Norma Bean being shot dead in a gravel pit. When local tips provide alarming new clues, the timeline of their final hours is shocking. 

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In Gambier, OH, college junior Emily Murray, a popular religious studies major, goes missing late one night after quitting her job at a local bar. A month later, her body is found in a remote trailer, leading police to another gruesome discovery.   

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When law enforcement finds local electrician James Nibbe dead after a home invasion, they must dig beneath the surface of Lake Crystal, Minnesota, to root out the killer. 

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Willard, MO Newlyweds are abducted from their home, never to be seen again. 

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When an Ohio couple is found dead in their ransacked home, detectives turn to the community for help. Investigators must piece together the events of a horrific night to uncover the truth of what occurred to these local business owners.

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In the small town of Twinsburg, OH, Charlene Puffenbarger's three-year-old son is the only witness to her brutal murder. As Investigators continue to follow every tip that comes in, an unexpected source leads them to the killer. 

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In rural Missouri, a hunter is found slain in his car near the popular deer trails. Was this a hunting accident gone wrong, or something more sinister? 

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A local in Algona, IA, stumbles upon a smoldering truck with the body of a young mother inside. Investigators and family trace the last movements of Nicole Berte to uncover her killer. 

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Angie Lee, a single mother in Gillespie, Ohio is found beaten and strangled in her own home with her four-year-old son present, and the investigation quickly uproots the community. 

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Murder in the Heartland is your podcast for small-town American crime. Each episode is told through the collective point-of-view of a Middle American town and its residents, and every story documents a town and people in the heart of the country, and the provocative crime that tore through it. The townspeople are not only the storytellers, but they also hold the clues to the crimes that have forever changed their lives, and how they understand their home. 

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