Northwest of Normal: A Pacific Northwest True Crime Podcast

Mar 04 2025 49 ep. 50 mins 12
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Northwest of Normal is a true crime podcast featuring stories from the Pacific Northwest. Hosts Meghan and Jon share harrowing stories from their neck of the woods. They focus on victims and their families and dive into the deeper elements of these stories, exploring wider cultural implications of law, punishment, psychology, and the human condition.

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48. Cruel Deceit (Southeast Edition™)

Mar 04 2025 55 mins  
A young woman goes missing after reconnecting with an old flame. Is there enough evidence to prove who disappeared her? Sources Wikipedia – Disappearance of Heather Elvis Dateline NBC “Return to the Landing” Music: “Flowing Rivers” by Immersive Music Instagram: @nwonpod Email us at [email protected] Visit our website: nwonpod.com Northwest of Normal | podcast@nwonpod

47. Not Today, Motherf**ker

Feb 18 2025 37 mins  
A woman encounters a stranger intent on doing her in. By the time police arrive on the scene, she no longer needs their help. Sources True Crime Magazine – “Meet the Nurse Who Strangled Her Hitman” [no byline or date] All That’s Interesting – “A Hitman Tried To Kill Susan Kuhnhausen – So She Killed Him Instead” By Kara Goldfarb, Published March 30, 2018, Updated Feb

46. The Bushy-Haired Stranger

Feb 04 2025 60 mins  
A woman arrives at an Oregon hospital with her three children. Two of them are grievously and injured and one is dead. The mother claims that a man attacked them but soon after, her story unravels. Sources Wikipedia – Diane Downs Small Sacrifices by Ann Rule KEZI Eyewitness News 1984 Special with Anne Jaeger – “Diane Downs' most disturbing interview” ABC News “In 1983, Di

45. Cabin #28

Jan 21 2025 82 mins  
In 1981, heinous murders and an abduction rocked a small community in Northern California. The case went unsolved for decades before investigators took a fresh look only to find that the answers to solving the crimes had been there all along. Sources Keddie28.com Wikipedia – Keddie murders People Magazine Investigates S1 E5 “Cabin 28: Horror in the Woods” People – “Inside

44. Cold Ground

Jan 07 2025 73 mins  
A man stalks girls and women throughout Anchorage and Seward with impunity for over a decade. Why does it take authorities so long to close in on him? Sources Wikipedia – Robert Hansen Wikipedia – “The Most Dangerous Game” The FBI Files “Hunter’s Game” Heavy Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) – nativehope.org Music: “Flowing Rivers” by Immersive Music

43. The Martin Family + Twelve Crimes of Christmas

Dec 24 2024 82 mins  
A family heads out from their home in Portland, Oregon to gather Christmas greenery in December 1958. They never make it back. Plus, a medley of Christmas crimes spanning almost a century to temper your holiday spirit. “Lully, Lulla, Lullay” Arranged by Philip Stopford, Caroline Halls, and Owen Ree Wikipedia - Martin family disappearance All That’s Interesting – “In 1958,

42. Lost in the Winter Wild

Dec 10 2024 43 mins  
A family with two young children loses their way in the mountains on a holiday road trip and there's nowhere to turn for help. Sources Wikipedia – James Kim The News Review – “Ten years ago, Kim family endured wilderness tragedy” by Jeff Duewel, December 10, 2016 SFGate – “Stranded Father’s Heroic Last Hours / He crawled, climbed through 5-mile canyon seeking help for

41. Moscow Massacre Part 2

Nov 26 2024 71 mins  
Four college students are inexplicably murdered in their off-campus home in 2022, devastating their families and the community. The world speculates about what happened while law enforcement runs down leads. Can a killer outwit investigators? Or has "the perfect murder" become impossible in the digital age?Sources When the Night Comes Falling by Howard Blum The Idaho Massacre podca

40. Moscow Massacre Part 1

Nov 12 2024 55 mins  
Four college students are inexplicably murdered in their off-campus home in 2022, devastating their families and community. The world speculates about what happened while law enforcement runs down leads. Can a killer outwit investigators? Or has "the perfect murder" become impossible in the digital age? Sources When the Night Comes Falling: A Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders b

39. Red Riding Hood & the Wolf

Oct 29 2024 61 mins  
A young woman is found dead in her apartment days after a Halloween party at her housing complex. Sometimes having too many suspects is just as bad as having none. Sources Danelle Hallan on YouTube – “Woman attacked after Halloween Party, doused in bleach | Arrest, dismissal. now STILL unsolved?!” The Seattle Times – “After nearly 11 years and two trials, killing of Redmo