In October of 1978, a phone crew was working in a rural area of Lyon County, Iowa. One of the workers would stumble across the body of a deceased woman. She did not have any identification, and damage to her face made it impossible to know what she looked like. It would take 27 years for her to be identified. Once identified, her tragic life story, which began nowhere near the midwest began to be unfold, family that never knew her would be found, and the acting sheriff in a long line of sheriffs who been bound to solve her case, would exhaust all efforts to find the killer of the woman they had long referred to as Our Girl. This is MIdwest Mystery FIles, Episode Forty, The Murder of Wilma June NIssen.

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In March of 1988, 18 year old Morehead University student Scott HIlbert returned home to Milford, Ohio for spring break. While his family was out of the home, Scott left a note stating that he was leaving for Columbus to see some friends, he would never arrive, and several weeks later a discovery in Arizona would lead to more questions than answers.

Next, In Owensboro, Kentucky. 56 year old Wilbur Pate would leave his job at a local Wal-Mart in November of 2012, he reportedly returned home for a short while and then left again. Where he was headed was unknown, and he would never arrive. Over the next month, multiple discoveries would begin to bring Wilbur’s fate into question. This is Midwest Mystery Files, Episode 39, The Disappearances of Scott Hilbert and Wilbur Pate.

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It was a cool day in October of 1976. A farmer in Benton County, Indiana was working hard to catch up on harvest. It had rained for several days beforehand, and Norman Skoog was working against the rain tarnished terrain to get his work done. While driving his combine through the corn, he suddenly came upon a box in the middle of his path, Norman was able to stop just shy of colliding with the the out of place package. He would first work around the box, looking to get his work done, but later he would enlist some help to lift it and take it home. Whatever Norman may have expected inside the large box, it could not compare to the horror he did find. This is Midwest Mystery Files Episode 38, The Box Lady of Benton County.

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