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Murdertown is a cold case investigation podcast hosted by Gary Pascal and Shannon Noll, two DePaul-trained actors and world-trained journalists. They travel to Chatapicnic, Wisconsin to investigate the state's most notorious unsolved murder: Catskill "Bones" McGillivray, the jovial and beloved mayor of neighboring Briggsville. But Gary and Shannon soon discover that the mystery of Chatapicnic runs much deeper than one man's death - because a bunch of other people are getting murdered all the time.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Todd's 18-foot snake pit turns Murdertown's season-one finale into a crooked comic mystery.
Murdertown ends its first season of extended interviews by giving Todd's story about an 18-foot snake pit at a 1985 track-and-field event room to become a loose comic mystery.
A loose, darkly comic interview turns a murder case, cartoon afterlife, and one strange final answer into uneasy listening.
An end-of-season interview starts with an almost casual question about marriage and slowly reveals a grim family murder story involving a wife killed by her grown sons, the twin brothers known as the Twin City Killers.
Gary Portugal's tap shoes turn a loose talk about dancing into a comic portrait of life in Chattapicknick.
Gary Portugal turns a question about childhood into a loose, funny portrait of a man who brings dancing into a bank job that leaves little room for fun.
Roger's ice-machine interview turns hockey metaphors, family history, and a Joe Dirt wig into deadpan chaos.
Murder Town gives Roger, an ice machine salesman in Chattapicknick, the room to turn a simple interview into a strange little character study.
A fugue-prone guest, an odd apprenticeship, and Deceased Eats shape a strange comic interview.
This single-episode review frames a strange, funny interview around a guest connected to a mortuary and hair salon, where fugue states and an unusual apprenticeship become the main comic engine. The hosts dig into Dr.
Serialized pulp radio drama: Red Panda battles android-army supervillain Captain Clockwork in 1930s Toronto.
Murdertown’s final extended interview centers on Todd, a Chattapick tire salesman from Palatine who keeps drifting from local murder history into aliens, Sasquatch, and lactose intolerance.
Hosts Gary and Shannon introduce an interview that broke their cold case investigation wide open, with comedic banter about their tip line and solving the case.
Gary Portugal says the bank became a gun store because "nobody is really" coming in and he needs connection.
Roger, the Manitowoc Ice Company owner in Chattapicknick, Wisconsin, talks about moving from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, to sell ice makers and ice boxes.
"I dissociate sometimes" leads to a mortuary owner explaining fugue states, a dog warning system, and breaking things back into awareness.
Hosts Shannon and Gary introduce an extended interview with a witness in their investigation of a small town murder.
Hosts Gary and Shannon share a listener tip about the Cheddar Picnic murders, involving a son who worked for a cat-skilled mayor.
The hosts introduce an extended interview with the mayor of Chattapicknick and announce a new tip line for their murder investigation.