Dakota Spotlight

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The Mandan Murders (EP5)
November 01, 2023

This week we take a bit of a departure from the usual style of Dakota Spotlight as we listen in on the audio from the entire first interview and interrogation that Special Agent Joe Arens conducted w

The Mandan Murders (EP4)
October 25, 2023

Two days after the murders BCI and Mandan PD had zero suspects. But they had a lead. The vehicle. The mysterious man in orange drove a white Ford F-150 pickup and the cops caught a good image of it fr

The Mandan Murders (EP3)
October 18, 2023

Season 9, episode 3: In some ways it was elementary and simple. The way to catch the mysterious masked man in orange who killed four employees at RJR was to track him, to follow his trail. Not with a

The Mandan Murders (EP2)
October 11, 2023

Episode 2 of Season 9:In the second episode of The Mandan Murders, host James Wolner returns to the morning of the murders with a minute-by-minute look at Bockheim's discovery, a 911 call and the ens

The Mandan Murders (EP1)
October 04, 2023

Episode 1 of Season 9: It was a crime that would shock the prairie. And that April morning the news quickly traveled across town: Four people had been found dead at a local business, RJR Maintenance a

Announcing - The Mandan Murders Starting October 4
September 21, 2023

A short announcement and teaser about season 9 starting October 4, 2023. Homepage - Check out The Vault - Email - Facebook -

Summer Extra: Don Allard and the 1977 Epping Eagles - rebroadcast
July 16, 2023

I'm still between Dakota Spotlight seasons, so today I am rebroadcasting for you one of my earliest pieces of audio work - an episode of a show I created to basically learn how to podcast in the first

Summer 2023 - Loyal Lundstrom
June 28, 2023

It's summer 2023. Finally! Dakota Spotlight is in between seasons and in research mode. Meanwhile here is a story by Trisha Taurinskas at The Vault. Check out email - atFacebook:

15 Years Later: Unresolved, The Murder of Joel Lovelien
April 12, 2023

Episode 7 - 15 Years Later. In this, the last scheduled episode of season 8: An interview with Travis Stay's defense attorney Peter Wold. Also we meet Heather (Holter) Keena. She was on the party bus

Travis on Trial: Unresolved, The Murder of Joel Lovelien
April 05, 2023

Episode 6 - Travis on Trial. In this week's episode we dive deep into the 2008 trial of Travis Stay. Travis Stay was found not guilty after14 days of testimony. In this episode we meet Archie Ingerso