
Dakota Spotlight
James Wolner
Dakota Spotlight isn't your average true crime podcast. Creator James Wolner delves headfirst into unsolved mysteries and forgotten cases of the Upper Midwest and beyond, meticulou...
Episode list
132
April 17, 2025
38 min
Introducing - Ice Cold Case
In 2002, Madison McGhee’s father, John McGhee, was shot and killed in his own home in Belmont County, Ohio. Driven by her desire to find justice she began conducting her own invest...
moreApril 12, 2025
56 min
Park Like a Fargonian - by James Wolner
In this first installment of Friday Night Fiction, a new series by James Wolner, a harmless social media group turns sinister in this modern noir tale set in Fargo, North Dakota. W...
moreApril 11, 2025
13 min
Introducing Friday Night Fiction - by James Wolner
We introduce you to our new series of original crime-inspired short stories, all set in North Dakota and the Upper Midwest. If you're a fan of true crime but curious to explore fic...
moreMarch 27, 2025
37 min
Vanished in Vermillion: Interview with Lou Raguse
In May 1971, Pam Jackson and Sherri Miller were two seventeen-year-olds driving to an end-of-the-school-year party in a rundown Studebaker Lark when they seemingly disappeared off ...
moreMarch 20, 2025
42 min
The Murder of Joli Truelson - New developments, interview with Trisha Taurinskas
On the evening of July 3, 1972, 16-year-old Joli Truelson stood hitchhiking in Uptown Minneapolis, MN. Just 15 hours later she was found deceased in Minnehaha Creek, four miles awa...
moreMarch 13, 2025
31 min
Poetic Justice Rebroadcast - Interview with Deon Wiggett, creator of the podcast My Only Story
In 2017, Deon Wiggett confronted a repressed trauma: he had been sexually abused by a schoolteacher as a teenager. His response was to create "My Only Story," a podcast exploring j...
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