Missing and Murdered in the Midwest

WQAD

A podcast looking into crimes that made the headlines, starting in the Quad City area, and expanding throughout the Midwest. Podcast host and News 8 Executive Producer Toria Wilson, has dedicated her time into researching, and looking back at stories News 8 has reported on, on the murder cases that shocked us, and the missing person's cases that has left unanswered questions.

  • 25 minutes
    the Disappearance of Breasia Terrell, currently missing

    When 10 year old Breasia Terrell went missing from Davenport in July 2020, it began a full-scale manhunt from investigators, family, friends and even strangers to try to find the young girl. As we near 7 months since that day, we go back to the beginning of what we know, the efforts from police, and question the whereabouts of the suspect named in this case. This case is still very active, so let's hope we can help bring Breasia home to her family.

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    5 February 2021, 12:38 pm
  • 17 minutes 55 seconds
    Crime Chat: Hello to 2021 & The Bloody Good Book Club

    It feels like its been forever since I've done this, but hello to 2021 and a new season! I'm very excited to get back in the flow of working on this podcast. Tune in to hear how the rest of my 2020 went (hint: not the best). As I work through getting new episodes made and added, check out some of the gems I've read and watched during my quarantine time with the Bloody Good Book Club. It'll hopefully hold you over until my next episode!

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    22 January 2021, 12:09 pm
  • 33 minutes 47 seconds
    John Robinson part 3: The Internet's First Serial Killer

    In the final chapter of this special three part series, we pick up as John Robinson leaves his home in handcuffs but now its up to the police to find the evidence. We break down what they were able to find in two separate states, the challenges when it came to charging John Robinson as well as convicting him. Plus, we take a look at 'where are they now' from the Robinson family, to the sole survivor of Robinson's wrath.

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    7 May 2020, 12:20 pm
  • 37 minutes 38 seconds
    John Robinson Part 2: Hunting on the Internet

    In part 2 of this 3-part series, we pick up around the time John Robinson leaves prison in 1993. Over the next 7 years John would work his schemes under a number of different aliases, luring women locally and nationally into his web of lies and sex. Some would be able to walk away unscathed, others would never be seen or heard from again. We break down how he was able to trap these women in the early years of the World Wide Web, and how some tech-savvy users were able to help police finally catch him.

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    3 April 2020, 6:39 pm
  • 38 minutes 39 seconds
    John Robinson Part 1: From money to murder
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    16 March 2020, 5:17 pm
  • 11 minutes 27 seconds
    Jerry Wolking: The vanished Moline family man

    52 year old Jerry Wolking was a family man nearing retirement in October 1990. Days before his disappearance, his family states he was acting unusual and jumpy. His girlfriend at the time would be the last to see him alive. Moline Police say once he arrived home, he was attacked and taken, never to be seen alive again. Clues have popped up over the last 30 years, but no one knows where Jerry is. This week's episode breaks down the days leading up to his disappearance, the timeline Police have established in the years since, and who they believe is behind the crime but why no charges can be filed.

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    20 February 2020, 3:52 pm
  • 25 minutes 55 seconds
    Starved Rock State Park Murders

    Frances Murphy, Lillian Oetting, and Mildrid Linquist, were three friends who just wanted a simple weekend getaway to Starved Rock State Park in Oglesby, Illinois. On March 14, 1960 on a simple mile-long hike through the snow and slush of winter, all three would be brutally beaten to death with a thick branch laying near by. It would be months of investigative work (all without the use of today's technology) to capture the suspected killer. He's spent 60 years behind bars, but in early 2020 will be released. Today's episode we talk about how Chester Weger was finally caught. Why some have said on their deaths beds say he may not have been the killer after all. Plus, the push from the victim's families still to this day... six decades since the crime was committed.

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    30 January 2020, 6:04 pm
  • 23 minutes 9 seconds
    Peggy Schroeder

    In the summer of 2017, Peggy Schroeder arrived home to have her younger daughter, 15 year old Anna, waiting for her in the family's living room. Under the assumption that Anna had a surprise, Peggy had a towel placed over her head. In an instance, Peggy would be dead, as Anna would shoot her in the face. This case would truly shock a small Illinois Community with roughly 5,000 people. The details that would follow, would be chilling. But the question, even after all these years, is why did this happen. This week we recap this entire case, and the twist that came in early 2020 that shocked even the host.

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    16 January 2020, 2:50 pm
  • 44 minutes 47 seconds
    Crime Chat: We're (Almost) Back!
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    20 December 2019, 1:00 pm
  • 19 minutes 16 seconds
    Villisca Ax Murders

    Hallo-week Episode 3: Back in the 1900’s, the town of Villisca, Iowa was just starting to come onto the map. A thriving town, it wasn't long before the Moore family set down their roots. 

    What was once a “pretty place” would soon hold a house of nightmares. Even to this day, there are many unanswered questions about what truly happened at the Villisca Ax Murder House.

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    30 October 2019, 7:46 pm
  • 9 minutes 56 seconds
    Unsolved murder of The Tattooed Lady

    Known for having a number of lovers in 1947, Margaret Treese was a woman covered in tattoos who drank, flirted and honestly didn't seem to care much about stereotypes or expectations of the time. Her murderer was never caught and it's still an open case with Davenport police.

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    29 October 2019, 1:54 pm
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