Megan Owens & Mindy Johnson
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🎙️ Welcome to Missouri Mayhem: Mystery & Murder!We’re your hosts, Megan and Mindy — sisters, storytellers, retired educators, and lifelong lovers of true crime and all things mysterious. From chilling cold cases to strange small-town secrets, we’ll dig deep into the stories that keep you up at night… especially the ones hiding right here in the heart of Missouri.Our podcast launched Fall 2025, and we are excited to take you on a journey through the twists, turns, and mayhem that make our state’s history both fascinating and frightening.If you have a case or topic suggestion, please email the sisters at miss...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Missouri cases become legible through Megan and Mindy's mix of local context, careful uncertainty and candid conversation.
Megan and Mindy build each case from its Missouri setting outward, pairing structured narration with candid conversation. Rural properties, small-town relationships and community memory become material to understanding crimes involving Ben Renick, Tanner Ward and Cassidy…
A snake farm murder and Joplin's tornado: your Missouri curiosity gets more than suspects.
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A sober Missouri tornado episode that pairs plainspoken damage reporting with practical preparedness.
Missouri Mayhem keeps Joplin at the center and stays on the May 22, 2011 EF5 tornado that tore through the city. Megan and Mindy describe the damage plainly, and the episode works best when it leaves the people affected in view instead of turning the storm into a big abstract…
A grim Missouri case told with rural texture, empathy, and a steady eye on warning signs.
The episode makes good use of remote Windyville, Missouri, letting the distance between homes, the quiet, and the ordinary routines around the property shape the tension.
A small-town disappearance told with care, tension, and a clear focus on the people left waiting.
The episode stays with Tanner Ward's disappearance from Trenton, Missouri, after he walked out on June 7, 2017 and never came home. It keeps its attention on the people left behind, the way a small town holds a case like this in plain sight, and the frustration of answers that…
A grim Missouri story about fear, silence, and a town that never said who pulled the trigger.
Ken Rex McElroy and Skidmore, Missouri sit at the center of a grim story shaped by fear, silence, and questions that never settled. In 1981, a man was shot in front of dozens of witnesses and found slumped behind the wheel of his truck.
A Missouri legend built on a Sunday noon succession question and the politics of slavery expansion.
Missouri Mayhem makes a tidy case for David Rice Atchison as the man some have treated as president for one day in 1849, and it uses that disputed claim to open a sharp look at a Sunday noon succession question.
A Missouri shootout gets a local, conversational retelling with enough legend to keep it lively.
Springfield, Missouri, and the Wild Bill Hickok-Davis Tutt shootout give the episode its center. What makes it work is the way Mindy and Megan keep a familiar Western image grounded in a place that feels local and lived in.
A devastating Missouri case told with care, context, and a clear moral center.
Megan and Mindy handle the murder of nine-year-old Elizabeth Olten with a plainspoken seriousness that never feels padded out for effect. They spend time on the timeline, Alyssa Bustamante's background, and the uneasy questions around youth violence, adolescent psychology,…
A St. Louis serial-killer story told with local texture, an easy two-host rhythm, and plainspoken force.
Missouri Mayhem opens in St. Louis and follows Gary Randall Muehlberg, aka the Package Killer, through drugs, secrecy, and predation without losing sight of the human damage around him.
Retired detectives and victims' families walk through Australian murder cases with host Meshel Laurie.
A dark calendar of consequential cases.
True crime with blunt questions and rough edges.
Appalachian case files, told from the record.
Southern cases, sharp context, steady storytelling.
Historical mysteries built from the smallest clues.
Mindy and Megan open with holiday chatter and listener thanks before the river history takes over.
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The hosts apologize for a delayed episode and preview an upcoming episode about Worlds of Fun amusement park in Kansas City.
The episode covers the Feeney family murder case from Springfield, Missouri in 1995.
The hosts introduce their true crime podcast, thank listeners, and preview an upcoming case related to Easter.
The episode recounts the 1981 Hyatt Regency hotel walkway collapse in Kansas City, Missouri, detailing the tragedy and its aftermath.
Joplin changed on May 22, 2011.
Windyville sits quiet and remote in the Missouri Ozarks, and that silence becomes part of the story.
Hosts Megan and Mindy investigate the 2017 disappearance and death of 19-year-old Tanner Ward in Trenton, Missouri, exploring the controversial police ruling of suicide despite bizarre evidence like mummified hands and missing feet.
Skidmore, Missouri goes back under the microscope as Missouri Mayhem revisits the 1981 killing of Ken Rex McElroy.
Megan and Mindy open with the odd claim that Missouri once produced a president of the United States who was not Harry Truman.
Hosts Mindy and Megan explore the 1865 duel between Wild Bill Hickok and Davis Tutt in Springfield, Missouri, sparked by a gambling debt and a stolen pocket watch.
Megan and Mindy open with a trigger warning, then move into one of Missouri’s most disturbing recent crimes.
Mindy and Megan open with Gary Randall Muehlberg, the St.
This episode recounts the 2007 kidnapping and miraculous rescue of Shawn Hornbeck and Ben Ownby in Missouri, detailing Shawn's four-year captivity under Michael Devlin, the investigation triggered by Ben's abduction, and the emotional reunions that followed.
The show opens in a hazy Missouri summer.
Hosts Mindy and Megan explore the life and legacy of Harry S.
Mindy and Megan open on the Kansas City Strangler, also known as Lorenzo Jerome Gilliard Jr.
Christmas wishes open the episode.
The episode begins with a cannabis ad, then tells the story of two brothers who disappeared after going to a Missouri farm to resolve a business dispute, leading to a grim discovery in a livestock trailer.
The hosts introduce a case about wrongfully convicted Ryan Ferguson and share personal updates.
The hosts introduce their true crime podcast and discuss childhood fears of kidnapping, leading into a case from Gallatin, Missouri.
Two sisters recap the Gregory May murder case, discussing arrests and developments in part two of the episode.
Two sisters introduce their true crime podcast and share personal updates before diving into their first case.
Two sisters introduce their new true crime podcast focused on Missouri mysteries and murders.