True crime podcast
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To date, there are more than 600 unsolved homicides and disappearances in the state of Iowa. Although there are a handful of cases from the hawkeye state that gripped the nation many have gone years without notice. From a native Iowan born and raised it's time to give victims their voices back and attempt to bring some form of closure to families that have been waiting years, even decades for answers. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/iowaunsolved/support
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Megan makes Iowa's unresolved cases legible through chronological narration, family perspectives, investigative detail, and clear routes for sharing information.
Megan gives Iowa's unresolved killings and disappearances patient, case-by-case attention, usually guiding a single story from the victim's life through the investigation and its remaining questions.
An Iowa dorm-room conviction looks settled until Megan makes you reckon with withheld evidence.
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A conviction starts to wobble as withheld evidence, post-conviction filings, and official backtracking come into view.
Sarah Ann Ottens' murder is framed as a case that once looked settled and then starts to unravel under withheld evidence, post-conviction filings, and a state that later backed away from its own position.
A careful campus murder story built on testimony, silence, and an unfinished record.
Part one treats Sarah Ann Ottens' murder as a plainspoken true-crime account of a University of Iowa campus death that still does not feel fully settled.
A chronological Evansdale recap that keeps uncertainty front and center.
The episode frames the Evansdale murders as an unsolved case that still resists tidy closure. It starts with the July 2012 bike ride, then moves through the search, the items found later that day, and the months before the girls were found.
A slow, careworn missing-person story that keeps the unanswered question in view.
Secrets in the Cornfield treats Harry Milligan's disappearance as a local case that never really stopped being personal, even after decades. The episode's strongest stretch is the family background, the July 1984 timeline, and the later effort to gather facts through social…
A steady unsolved-case walkthrough that keeps the missing clues front and center.
Alicia Hummel's case is handled as a measured account of the known facts: a riverbank scene, a husband who was ruled out, missing personal items, and a few details that still do not line up cleanly.
Unresolved cases, questioned carefully.
Ashley Flowers and Britt Prawat revisit unsolved murders and cold cases as new evidence surfaces.
Two friends narrate true crime cases, listener stories, and archived live-tour shows.
Multi-part true crime narration, from BTK's Wichita letters to Australian cold-case disappearances.
ABC Audio's Theranos fraud series that also introduces its other true-crime podcasts.
Sarah Ann Ottens was found murdered in her dorm room on March 13, 1973.
Part one opens with Megan saying Sarah Ann Ottens’ case is too large for one episode.
Megan opens by comparing the case to the Delphi murders.
Secrets in the Cornfield turns to the disappearance of Harry Milligan, a young man from Avery, Iowa, who vanished after going out with friends in July 1984.
Megan opens by explaining why Alicia Hummel's case stuck with her for so long.
This bonus episode of Secrets in the Cornfield investigates the 2008 Sueppel family murders in Iowa City, where father Stephen Sueppel killed his wife and four children before taking his own life.
This episode covers the unsolved murders of Tyrese Parson in Des Moines and Marquavian Brown in Waterloo, detailing the crime scenes, victim backgrounds, and lack of progress in investigations due to limited witness cooperation and public information.