Michigan true crime with a local-music landing.
Michigan Murders & Music covers murder cases tied to Michigan, from unsolved home killings to family murders and domestic cases. Its tone is informal and sharp-edged, with listener shout-outs, side chatter, and a closing track from a Michigan-linked band.
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Michigan Murders & Music focuses on murder cases connected to Michigan. The format is simple, but the personality is loud. Episodes usually begin with banter, listener shout-outs, recording complaints, and the kind of messy asides that make the show feel assembled in real time. Then the case arrives. The stories include convicted offenders, unsolved killings, family murders, suspected domestic violence, drug-linked crime, fire deaths, and older cases where the evidence still feels painfully unresolved. The show does not treat the material like a courtroom lecture. It tells the facts through conversation, reaction, and interruption. One moment may cover a cut telephone line, a bloody spare bedroom, or a neighbor discovering a body; the next may veer into a joke about equipment, music, or a strange personal memory. That contrast defines the series. It is rough, local, and intentionally unvarnished. The crime details can be intense, especially when episodes describe bodies, children, burn injuries, decomposition, or panic around a death scene. Still, the show repeatedly returns to timelines, evidence, police response, medical findings, and the behavior of people close to the victim. Its unsolved episodes appear to give more room to victim-focused context and unanswered questions. The regional focus matters. These are Michigan places, Michigan homes, Michigan listeners, and Michigan bands. The music is not decorative filler. Each episode closes with a featured act, with recent installments naming Electric Bug, Empress Eyes, Liquid Mike, Ten Peso, TYCHIUS, and Misery Lane. That ending changes the emotional landing without softening the case itself. For listeners who want strict polish, the show may feel too unruly. For listeners who like regional true crime with personality, blunt reactions, and a deep habit of supporting local music, it has a clear identity. It sounds like people trying to carry a dark story through a very human room.
Made for: For listeners who like regional true crime with blunt conversation, messy humor, and detailed case storytelling. It suits people interested in Michigan cases and local bands more than highly polished national crime formats.
What sets it apart: The show pairs Michigan murder coverage with a recurring local-music close, giving each grim case a distinct regional finish. Its loose conversational style, listener shout-outs, and production-room chaos set it apart from cleaner procedural true-crime shows.
Join us on "Michigan Murders and Music" for a true crime road trip with a twist. Picture this: you're cruising across Michigan with two of your wildest, most entertaining friends. At every stop, they've got a local true crime story to tell you. Our mission is to explore these dark tales while staying laser-focused on the perpetrator, honoring the victims and their families by not sensationalizing their pain. On our special UNSOLVED episodes, we will occasionally focus more on the victim to help generate new leads and find answers. And because no road trip is complete without a great playlist, every episode ends with a hand-picked song by a legendary Michigan band. We guarantee a dark sto…
A grim Michigan case gives way to a local band; your nerves get an exit ramp.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A Michigan drug-scene episode with outlaw-club questions, loose banter, and a Detroit music coda.
Brad Srebnik and Joshua Weirgau sit at the center of a summer 2021 drug-scene story involving meth and cocaine, with the hosts using that connection to open a wider conversation about Michigan crime culture.
A vivid unresolved Michigan case, told with homespun texture and a clear musical close.
The episode follows the killing of Daisy inside her ranch home, building its weight through the details investigators found there: kitchen telephone lines cut, blood on the walls and door, her feet visible behind a bed, and her hands bound behind her back.
A grim domestic discovery, loose banter, and Liquid Mike's "Crop Circles" shape this conversational Michigan true crime episode.
A solicitous husband, a dead wife, and a neighbor who will not stay outside give this Michigan case its uneasy pull. The hosts follow Jason as he drops the children at daycare, calls a neighbor when Christina stops answering, and tells her not to enter the house.
A raw true crime episode traces a fatal house fire from neighbors' first response to a stark musical sign-off.
This single-episode review follows a fatal house fire through the confusion of neighbors arriving, calls for help, and the discovery of Todd outside the home, badly burned and barely clothed.
A lakeside family murder turns on moved bodies, missing guns, and evidence that refuses to settle.
The episode follows the discovery of a family found dead inside a cottage on the lake shore after an odor led a neighbor to contact the Bliss family.
Measured true crime with uneasy questions.
Michigan Murders and Music links Brad Srebnik and Joshua Weirgau to the disappearances of Brynn Bills and Abby Hill, starting with a forced ride at gunpoint on September 21, 2021.
Michigan Murders & Music covers the unsolved 1963 killing of 43-year-old Daisy Zick in Battle Creek’s Emmett Township, including the discovery of her body in the spare bedroom of 100 Juneau.
Michigan Murders & Music covers the death of Christina Harris in Davison, Michigan, and the later prosecution of Jason Thomas Harris, who was identified as her husband and later convicted in the case.
Michigan Murders and Music covers the Linda K.
Michigan Murders & Music covers the Robeson family murders at a Good Hart, Michigan lake cottage, where all six family members were last seen on June 24, 1968.
A true crime podcast exploring local murder cases across Michigan, paired with homegrown music to honor victims.