Murdertown

Murdertown: Season 1 is premiering June 6. Chicago-based citizen journalists Gary Pascal and Shannon Noll Head to Chatapicnic, Wisconsin to investigate one of the state's most notorious cold cases: the murder of Catskill "Bones" McGillivray. Subscribe now on iTunes, Stitcher, or wherever else you get your podcasts!

A waterslide is many things to many people. A playground. A community center. A makeshift delivery room. But what happens when a waterslide is instead a place where a guy got murdered a long time ago and now the case still hasn't been solved?

Town rivalries. As much as Americans love their country, they sure can hate their fellow American. And while that's a sharp and poignant thesis statement, it's never resulted in someone getting murdered - until now. 

When you start digging for clues, be careful what you wish for - you might just unearth more than you bargained for. Could Chatapicnic's mystery run deeper than the death of one man?

Piecing together the violent deaths in Chatapicnic, the town's brutal way of life begins to manifest itself in an even more pressing form. Sure, Chatapicnic has a murdering problem. But does it also have a bullying problem?

After massive listener demand, today we have the raw, unedited footage from our exclusive interview with current Chatapicnic mayor Debbie Ruth Larson - plus an exciting opportunity for listeners.

Tensions are rising in Chatapicnic. Between father and son, sister and brother, murderer and murderee. And most importantly, between Shannon and Gary. Will a chance encounter at a mysterious paintball range force them back to an uneasy alliance?

The murders in Chatapicnic are piling up. But is this a random tapestry of small-town sorrow, or an intricate connect-the-dots waiting to be solved? We'll have to start making accusations to find out.

Another full, extended interview is here this week, this time with Chatapicnic 7/11 clerk Fannie Mae. Plus, Shannon and Gary analyze a clue from the tip line.

"It's always darkest before the dawn." The movie The Dark Knight said that, and this week, Shannon and Gary discover just how true it is. They meet a cheese enthusiast and chainsaw carver with the most concrete clue yet.

Another full, extended interview is here this week, this time with Chatapicnic clown show proprietor [name redacted]. As a reminder, if you have any theories, call in and let us know. You can email us or send a voice memo to tips@murdertownpodcast.com. Tweet at us @murdertownpod. Or call our tip line at 731-4-MURDER.

As Gary and Shannon close in on McGillivray's killer, they are thrown a curveball that threatens to detail the entire investigation. Cab they re-focus on a suspect with a near-homonym first name?

It's a very special episode of Murdertown today, as we bring you the raw, uncut footage from our live show at Bentwood Festival in Chicago. But will this light-hearted three-quarters of an hour of conversation be enough to solve McGillivray's murder?

It's two months into the investigation, and the rich tapestry of insights that Gary and Shannon once expected is instead looking ragged, threadbare, and neglectfully skidmarked. But will a chance encounter finally connect some stray dots?

After two-and-a-half exhausting rural Wisconsin months with, at best, 3G coverage, Gary and Shannon have reached the finale of Season 1. Will they find the right combination of poignant anecdote and mournful violin music to cover for the fact that they didn't solve anything?

Although this season of Murdertown has concluded with the triumphant solving of the/a murder, we'd hate to wrap things up without padding our statistics a bit for our pitch to potential advertisers. So we've got an exciting new extended interview this week!

We've got another explosive interview this week, this time the raw, unedited footage of our discussion with Dr. Quimm, Medicine Woman. Plus another tip line caller!

It's another eye-opening interview this week, this time the extended footage of our discussion with Roger, the ice machine salesman in Chatapicnic.

A heartbreaking, gut-wrenching interview this week, just in time for you to decompress on your commute home. Today, we have the extended footage from our conversation with Gary Portugal, the disgraced personal banker in Chatapicnic.

Gary and Shannon are back with another gut-punching, sorrow-suckling interview this week. Today, we have the raw, uncut footage from our conversation with Gary Slyzizizniak, a cartoonist in Chatapicnic.

The warm, glowing hearth of the autumnal equinox has given way to the gripping horrors of Halloween, and Gary and Shannon have one final extended interview to share: Todd, the tire salesman.