Dakota Spotlight is a true crime series investigating unsolved murders, cold cases, and missing persons in North Dakota and the Midwest. Hosted by investigative journalist James Wolner, each season takes a deep dive into one case, from rural crime and small town murders to decades-old disappearances. Through meticulous research, exclusive interviews, and on-the-ground reporting, Dakota Spotlight brings forgotten crimes back into the public eye and gives voice to victims and their families. A ...
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I am a Dream Chaser, as well as a certified Life and Career Coach, who delights in helping people pursue the career and lifestyle changes their inner self truly craves. In 2008, I made a radical discovery – my full and seemingly fulfilling life was making me seriously ill. I realised that things had to change and fast. As a result this meant moving my life out of the centre of London, and away from my corporate high-paced job, to rural Wales and re-training to embark on a completely new prof ...
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Each year, one in five of us will experience a mental health problem. Mental health problems are common but they are also treatable. Yet, if you live in the city, you are more likely to access help that if you live in a rural area of NSW. Welcome to ‘Let’s Talk’, a podcast series is hosted by journalist Kia Handley all about mental health in rural and regional Australia. Hear from people who have battled with their mental health, who have been through tragedy and have come out of the other s ...
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Live Well Podcast | Health and Wellbeing Journeys in Regional, Rural & Remote areas
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Welcome to the Live Well Podcast. Dive deep into the heart of regional, remote, and rural communities where we bring to life the tales of personalised care and the magic of staying home while growing older. Meet our local heroes - the caring team members from your very own community 🌐 Each episode aims to empower listeners to stay healthy, active, and connected, no matter where they call home. For additional resources and in-depth understanding of our services, visit www.integratedliving.org ...
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A rural teacher with a passion for Early Childhood learning
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Jam packed with stories from people that understand the farming life with a story to tell. From new farmers and the old hands, rural community locals, doctors and more. People that understand the farming life with a story to tell. Hosted by Brigitte Muir. The Farmer Wants a Healthy Life podcast series are stories of looking after you, whilst on the farm. The choices you make can change your life; hear it from those that have done it. West Wimmera Health Service created this series with the s ...
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The Hamilton Centre Podcast | Exploring Mental Health & Addiction is for service providers, individuals and family members dealing with co-occurring mental health and substance use conditions. In response to the recommendation of the Royal Commission into Victoria's Mental Health System (2021), the Centre was established to create a more inclusive and supportive system by promoting integrated care in Victoria, Australia. Our podcast will feature interviews with service providers, individuals ...
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Welcome to our audio version of OAK Magazine. Since launching our print publication in 2017, we’ve been sharing real, authentic, powerful stories that centre around regional and rural women who run a business. We are bringing each print issue of OAK to life through this exclusive audio podcast.. Get ready to delve into the real and inspiring stories of women living, working and driving change in regional and rural Australia. Connect with OAK Magazine on Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/oak ...
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Addiction Practice Pod is a podcast series on addiction and substance use care for health care providers, offering practical tips and guidance to improve addiction care.
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Welcome to Strongwriters On Songwriting (Inside the Song), with your hosts Eric Bjarnason Martin and Scott Bradshaw. Each series will centre around a different theme with highly accomplished songwriters delving into their own personal songwriting process. Each episode will provide an opportunity to listen to and explore a few of the featured artist's songs.ROAD WARRIORS Series 2 Episodes 3-6 JERRY LEGER Leger has a thing for ghosts. The Toronto singer/songwriter confirmed it a couple of year ...
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Keep yourself informed on the ‘real’ behind the real estate headlines, Savills brings you engaging and insightful discussion with experts across their global business on the issues that matter most in property.
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James shares a Christmas message with Dakota Spotlight listeners. A moment to pause, say thank you, and reflect before the year comes to a close, with appreciation for everyone who listens, supports the show, and makes this work possible. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
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Meanwhile in Mankato (6): Reckoning in Rapidan — The Truth That Endured
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58:34In the season’s final chapter, Dakota Spotlight returns to Rapidan, Minnesota—to the classmates, friends, and families still living in the shadow of Ray Dahms’s murder. Host James Wolner traces the final years of Brian Lee Hendrickson, from later crimes and manipulation to his eventual downfall. This episode also brings together two people whose li…
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Meanwhile in Mankato (5): The Acquittal That Exposed Minnesota’s Blind Spot
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45:46By the early 1980s, Brian Lee Hendrickson was still working at the Minnesota Home School in Sauk Centre, supervising teenage girls. When one of them—Michelle—spoke up, she was dismissed as unstable and her accusation brushed aside. Hendrickson walked free again. In this episode, Michelle tells her story, while Hendrickson’s brothers and Michelle’s …
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EP039 | Corporate Exhaustion to Soulful Retreat Creator, with Jo Chidwick
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27:34In this episode: Have you ever reached that point where your career looks brilliant on the outside, but feels like an emotional flatline on the inside? My guest, the vibrant and soulful Jo Chidwick, knows that feeling only too well. After 30 years in the corporate world - leading global marketing for major IT brands - Jo found herself exhausted, di…
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Meanwhile in Mankato (4): The Parole Experiment That Failed at Sauk Centre
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40:57This episode looks inside Minnesota’s prison and parole system during the years when Brian Lee Hendrickson was behind bars—and how shifting attitudes toward rehabilitation vs punishment helped lead to his early release. We hear from Brian’s brothers, Mark and Gary, about the shock of seeing him walk free after just five years for murder, and how he…
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Thanksgiving Treat (2): You Killed Chris - A Friend’s Fight for Justice
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1:51:53The second half concludes the You Killed Chris story — newly abridged and remastered. Through interviews, archives, and reflection, I revisit Linda’s decades-long effort to confront the man she believes murdered her college friend — and how her determination kept the story alive through five decades of silence and disbelief. Check out the music of …
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Thanksgiving Treat (1): You Killed Chris - A Friend’s Fight for Justice
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1:52:32A newly abridged and remastered two-part version of You Killed Chris: A Friend’s Fight for Justice. In 1968, 18-year-old Christine Rothschild was found murdered outside Sterling Hall on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus. This first part takes us back to the turmoil of the 1960s and into Christine’s world — and to her friend Linda, who refu…
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Meanwhile in Mankato (3): The Trial That Collided with Miranda
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49:03Episode 3 follows Brian Lee Hendrickson’s case through late 1965 and 1966, as court procedures, psychiatric evaluations, and a Minnesota trial unfold under the state’s Youth Conservation Commission. At the same time, a new Supreme Court ruling on Miranda rights reshapes the very laws surrounding confession and sentencing. We meet Hendrickson’s brot…
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Meanwhile in Mankato (2): Inside the Murder Investigation
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43:25In the aftermath of Ray Dahms’s killing, Blue Earth County investigators launch a Minnesota murder investigation that soon points to a local teenager, Brian Lee Hendrickson. When they finally bring him in for questioning, Hendrickson shocks officers with a murder confession that seems to close the case almost as quickly as it began with the justice…
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EP038 | The Micro-Kindness Happiness Hack, With Alison O'Leary
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17:09In this episode: Have you ever stopped to think how much difference a tiny act of kindness can make - not just to someone else, but to you? In this episode, I dive into one of my favourite happiness hacks of all time - micro-kindness. Not the grand, cinematic gestures that get social media applause, but the everyday moments that no one sees. The on…
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Meanwhile in Mankato (1): Lies, Silence & Murder in Minnesota
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48:48In 1965, seventeen-year-old Brian Hendrickson committed a small-town murder when he walked into a gas station outside Mankato, Minnesota, and shot clerk Ray Dahms twice at close range. Sentenced to forty years, he served just over five.The case would later be remembered as the Mankato Gas Station Murder. In this opening episode of Dakota Spotlight’…
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A Halloween Throwback – Unresolved: The Murder of Joel Lovelien
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43:31On October 27, 2007, Joel Lovelien stepped outside the Broken Drum Bar in Grand Forks, North Dakota, during a night filled with costumes, celebration, and heavy drinking. Moments later, he was found in the parking lot, gravely injured. Despite a rapid emergency response, Joel did not survive. For this Halloween throwback, Dakota Spotlight revisits …
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Meanwhile in Mankato: A Preview of Dakota Spotlight Season 12
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8:17Announcing Season 12 Meanwhile in Mankato: Lies, Silence & Murder in Minnesota arrives this November. Episode 1 premieres for all listeners on Thursday, November 6. Spotlight PLUS subscribers can hear — and binge — the entire season ad-free that same day. Learn more at https://dakotaspotlight.com/meanwhile-in-mankato-true-crime-podcast/ Learn more …
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EP037 | From People Pleasing to Personal Freedom with Nicola Cameron
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30:24In this episode: Do you ever feel like you’re at the bottom of a never-ending to-do list that’s full of other people’s priorities and tasks? That was exactly where my guest, Nicola Cameron, found herself. A solicitor by profession, Nicola had built a life that looked successful from the outside, but underneath she was completely disconnected from h…
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Impacts 2025 Part 2: How real estate is adapting to capital flow shifts, AI & the climate crisis
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27:03In 2025, Savills Impacts thought leadership programme is themed around Adapt, because, now more than ever, it is time for the real estate sector to adapt if it is to thrive. In this second episode of a two-part series, we look at how geopolitical trends in investment, technology and the climate crisis are shifting priorities. Katy Dean, Savills Hea…
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The House on Sweet and Seventh (6): Escape to the Movies – A North Dakota True Crime Story
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41:36Episode 6, Escape to the Movies, brings forward Misty Jones — remembered as the girl with the little red car — in a 2020 interview. Misty recalls her early path into a party lifestyle, her personal struggles since 1998, and her account of the night Barbara and Gordon Erickstad were killed. She also discusses figures like Rick Storhaug and Ryan Wern…
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The House on Sweet and Seventh (5): A Sick Salute – A North Dakota True Crime Story
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50:11The arrest of Brian Erickstad and Robert Lawrence confirmed their role in Barbara and Gordon Erickstad’s murders, but the aftermath shocked the community. Episode 5, A Sick Salute, reveals how the East Sweet crew rallied disturbingly behind the killers — with salutes, letters, and public disrespect for the victims’ families. Former detectives Bob H…
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The House on Sweet and Seventh (4): One of These Days – A North Dakota True Crime Story
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33:28The night before Barbara and Gordon Erickstad’s murders revealed troubling signs in Bismarck, North Dakota. Episode 4, One of These Days, traces September 16, 1998, through interviews and police files. Detectives Bob Haas and Steve Lundin worked parallel leads, while interviews with Misty’s boyfriend Rick Storhaug and others uncovered disturbing de…
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The House on Sweet and Seventh (3): Patience Pays Off – A North Dakota True Crime Story
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37:20Episode 3, Patience Pays Off, captures how patient police work broke open the Erickstad murder case. Barbara and Gordon Erickstad’s deaths had left Bismarck shaken in 1998. Detectives pressed a hesitant witness until the truth began to surface, while a frightened woman rushed into the station with new details in the middle of the night. This docume…
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The House on Sweet and Seventh (2): Never Ever Narc – A North Dakota True Crime Story
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47:53Detective Lloyd Halvorson knew where to look for answers about the murders of Barbara and Gordon Erickstad in 1998. Episode 2, Never Ever Narc, follows Bismarck police as they questioned Brian Erickstad’s teenage friends and the East Sweet crew, searching for someone who would talk. With Brian and Robert Lawrence wanted for questioning, the pressur…
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