by Ashley Flowers | Jul 8, 2026 | Episode, Midwest Cold Cases, Minnesota Cold Case
In late June 1987, the town of Bemidji, Minnesota, was gearing up for Independence Day weekend. Celebrations quickly turned to panic when Anita Carlson, a college graduate with hopes of working in TV production, went missing from her nighttime job at Pete’s Place, a...
by Ashley Flowers | Jun 24, 2026 | Episode, Indiana Cold Case, Midwest Cold Cases
On a cold December night in 2018, 25-year-old Kevin Nguyen went to see a band at a Fort Wayne bar and never came home. Surveillance cameras captured his final known hours in eerie fragments before he vanished. What happened next has fueled years of rumors, online...
by Ashley Flowers | Jun 3, 2026 | Episode, Midwest Cold Cases, Minnesota Cold Case
In July 1984, Clarence and Marjorie Paulson, father and daughter, were reported missing from their home in Minnesota. At first glance, sheriff’s deputies didn’t see any obvious signs of a struggle. Marjorie and Clarence didn’t have driver’s licenses, and the...
by Ashley Flowers | Apr 1, 2026 | Episode, Midwest Cold Cases, Nebraska Cold Case
The year 2008 had barely gotten started when 40-year-old Jason Vesper found himself in the middle of a family argument with his wife and teenage son. In the early hours of January 2nd, Jason left the family home in Scottsbluff to go for a short drive and blow off some...
by Ashley Flowers | Feb 4, 2026 | Episode, Iowa Cold Case, Midwest Cold Cases
In September 1980, a Holiday Inn hotel in rural Iowa became the scene of a shocking double murder: a couple was found dead in their hotel bed covered in lacerations. And the scene around them is one of the strangest and most puzzling I’ve ever come across in all my...
by Ashley Flowers | Jan 21, 2026 | Episode, Iowa Cold Case, Midwest Cold Cases
Nothing causes the true crime community to stir more than a case with the open-ended question of did he? Or didn’t he? Well, except that is, when the question is did SHE? For longer than 32-year-old Thomas Mather was alive, a rural town in Iowa has been haunted by...
