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Murder in the Heartland Podcast Transcripts

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Murder in the Heartland is your podcast for small-town American crime. Each episode is told through the collective point-of-view of a Middle American town and its residents, and every story documents a town and people in the heart of the country, and the provocative crime that tore through it.

Spoken has transcripts of 87 Murder in the Heartland episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from October 8, 2026.

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Field of Bad Dreams

October 8, 2026

SPEAKER_1 (0:01)

The following is a true story that happened in Vinton, Ohio, population 220, a town that is small, even by small-town standards.

Vicki Duncan (0:12)

Vinton is very small.

You have several power plants in the area, which brings in a lot of employment. People from different areas come in and they work in these plants.

SPEAKER_3 (0:25)

Three to four Maine families live in Vinton, and that's the ones that have settled there.

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