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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...

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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...

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  • April 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...

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  • April 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...

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  • March 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 ...

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  • March 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...

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  • March 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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