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Son Realizes He Killed His Father

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Hardy says he burned the room because of "whatever I felt in that room" and a presence that needed to be gone.

1. True Crime Podcast 2025 - REAL Police Interrogations, 911 Calls, True Police Stories and True Crime follows the interrogation of Hardy Traxler after a January 24, 2021 shed fire in Lexington Township. 2. The episode features BCA agent Mike and a Le Sueur County Sheriff's Office investigator questioning Hardy Traxler, while on-air commentary explains the interviewer's strategy and Hardy's condition. 3. The episode asks how Hardy's account of a fight, a stabbing, and a fire fits the events at the family property where human remains were found. 4. Hardy says his father kept staring at him, would not go to bed, and acted "weird" in a house he describes as a one-room setup with a couch, a bed, and a red chair. 5. He says his father asked him to take sleeping pills and repeatedly asked whether he was asleep, which Hardy interprets as a threat. 6. Hardy says he had a knife in his hand because he felt scared and believed he needed to protect himself. 7. He describes the fight as starting near the couch, with his father grabbing his shoulder before the stabbing. 8. Hardy says he stabbed his father multiple times and gives an estimate of about 10 wounds, including the chest. 9. He says he burned the room by putting a pillow on a stove and leaving in his 2007 Toyota Corolla. 10. He tells investigators he threw the knife out of the car somewhere between Medelia and Lake Crystal, possibly on Highway 60. 11. Hardy says he talked to other people after leaving the property and told them he had killed his father. 12. He says he was scared of police because he had seen his mother beaten by police twice when he was younger. 13. The interview revisits his childhood, including a claim that his mother tried killing him and his brother in fourth grade and a later move to live with his father in ninth grade. 14. Hardy also says he had recently quit Adderall, had not smoked weed in the last couple of days, and had used dabs. 15. He says his father wanted to have sex with him, and he identifies that as the issue that pushed the argument over the edge. 16. When investigators ask why he burned the room, Hardy says it was because of "whatever I felt in that room" and a presence that needed to be gone. 17. The tone is controlled and procedural, with investigators offering water, a mask, and breaks while keeping the questioning steady. 18. The format is a custodial interview interrupted by narration that interprets Hardy's answers through schizophrenia and mental illness. 19. Listeners interested in police interrogations, true-crime timelines, and mental-health-centered confessions will get the most from this episode. 20. Listeners wanting a straightforward crime recap without long interrogation dialogue may skip it.

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A grim interrogation story built around family conflict, drugs, and a fire.

The episode sits inside a grim family collapse, with a police interview that keeps circling the same questions: what happened, where the father was, and how the fire began. The tension comes from how plain the exchange stays.

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