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...
by Ashley Flowers | Dec 10, 2025 | Episode, Iowa Cold Case, Midwest Cold Cases
In 1971, 21-year-old Karen tried hitching a ride to go and meet her husband after work. She never made it and a week later her body was found floating in a canal nowhere near where she’d left or her destination. Was Karen a victim of a predator passing through? Or...
