In a world where some stories go untold, A Heavy Weight is a true crime podcast series that aims to give voice to the voiceless and shed light on forgotten or overlooked cases.
Each season takes you on a gripping journey through the depths of unsolved mysteries, cold cases, and wrongful convictions.
For more information and to see our source materials visit: www.aheavyweight.com
A Heavy Weight is intended for mature audiences. It discusses topics that may be triggering for some listeners including drug use and suicide.
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A Stillwater teen pleaded no contest to 11 rape related charges and walked out of court with a fully suspended 78 year sentence under Oklahoma’s youthful offender law. This episode follows the case of...
Who Murdered Terry Rideout? (00:25:41)
Theresa “Terry” Rideout was 36 when she vanished over Labor Day weekend in 1994. She finished a shift at Burger King in Evansville, made the night deposit, and never came back to her home in Chandler,...
Who Murdered Wilma June Nissen? (00:25:12)
A Heavy Weight is re-releasing our coverage of Wilma June Nissen, a young mother of three whose homicide remains unsolved nearly five decades later. On October 4, 1978, Wilma’s body was found along Hi...
Who Murdered Kathy Jones? (00:34:43)
In November nineteen sixty nine, twelve year old Nora Kathylene “Kathy” Jones left her house in South Nashville with her roller skates over her shoulder, headed for the roller dome on Thompson Lane. S...
Who Murdered Debra Mae Fulton? (00:33:14)
Halloween night, 1981. Sixteen year old Debra Mae “Debbie” Fulton leaves her house in Hammond, Indiana, with a little cash and a simple plan: walk to the Roller Dome, skate with friends, come home.She...
Who Murdered Victoria McDonough? (00:28:05)
In 1974, a young woman was found shot and hidden beneath a mattress off a rural road in South Bend. It took six months before anyone knew her name: Victoria Lynne McDonough. No arrests were ever made....
What Happened to Joseph Smedley? Episode Ten: Where Do We Go From Here? (00:24:49)
Episode 10 brings together the most unsettling pieces of Joseph Smedley’s case — the late-night messages, the odd cell phone pings, the missing belongings — and confronts the gaps that remain. This ep...
What Happened to Joseph Smedley? Episode Nine: Coverage (00:29:39)
For Joseph’s family, this is year ten. Ten years of rereading the same note. Ten years of asking for his case files. Ten years of watching other IU students’ cases become national stories while his sl...
What Happened to Joseph Smedley? Episode Eight: Less than 1% (00:34:37)
In this episode we return to the death of Indiana University student Joseph Smedley, whose body was found in Griffy Lake with a backpack weighed down with rocks. Drawing on a twenty year study of suic...
What Happened to Joseph Smedley? Episode Seven: Extremely Unusual (00:43:23)
Joseph Smedley’s death was ruled a suicide by drowning, with alcohol and cannabinoids listed as contributing factors. In this episode, we slow down and examine that conclusion through the lens of Jose...
What Happened to Joseph Smedley? Episode Six: Confidential Informant (00:34:27)
Joseph Smedley vanished from Indiana University on September 27, 2015. Five days later, he was found in shallow water at Griffy Lake with a backpack full of rocks strapped to his chest. Police pointed...
What Happened to Joseph Smedley? Episode Five: Does This Make Sense to Anyone in the Room? (00:39:38)
Episode 5 rebuilds Joseph Smedley’s final hours: 11:30 p.m. last seen, 4:15 a.m. text to his sister, a note found later, and a phone path toward Old State Hwy 37.
What Happened to Joseph Smedley? Episode Four: 66 Pounds of Rock (00:30:15)
A recovered group chat, a shifting timeline, and a discovery at Griffy Lake reframe Joseph Smedley’s final week.In Episode 4, we examine digital evidence recovered from Joseph’s laptop: a fraternity g...
What Happened to Joseph Smedley? Episode Three: Rumors (00:33:44)
In this episode, we step deeper into the growing confusion surrounding Joseph’s disappearance, the conflicting stories, the strange notes, and the data that didn’t add up.Detectives traced Joseph’s la...
What Happened to Joseph Smedley? Episode Two: Someone Knows Something (00:31:18)
The morning after Joseph Smedley vanished, his sister received a text message from his phone: “Viv, I’m sorry. I have to leave the country…” Hours later, police discovered a handwritten note in his ro...
What Happened to Joseph Smedley? Episode One: Blood Moon (00:39:23)
On the tenth anniversary of Joseph Smedley’s disappearance, we return to Bloomington, Indiana, to re-examine the night it all began. Under the eerie glow of a rare Blood Moon, Joseph left his off-camp...
Who Killed Delmar Wilson? (00:28:20)
On June 12, 1994, twenty-year-old Delmar Wilson was found shot in his car on Radcliff Road in Washington County, Indiana. The engine was still running. The headlights still on. His foot still pressed ...
What Happened to Michelle Asher? (00:20:39)
On December 27, 2004, 37-year-old Michelle Asher was last seen walking along Route 33 out of Russellville, Illinois, heading toward Vincennes, Indiana. Two weeks passed before she was reported missing...
Truck Stops and Cold Cases (00:28:29)
July 2007. A Nashville truck stop. Police approach a mustard-yellow cab and arrest a long-haul trucker suspected in murders across multiple states.But this isn’t a story about him. It’s about the wome...
The Ditch on Country Road 350: The Murder of Andrea Hendrix-Steinertt (00:27:56)
On a cold morning in October 1997, the body of 28-year-old Andrea Michelle Hendrix-Steinert was found in a ditch along County Road 350 in Gibson County, Indiana.Andrea was a mother, a daughter, and a ...
The Name of the Tape: The Unsolved Murder of Bennett Brown (00:23:15)
In May 1976, the body of 18-year-old Bennett Brown was found in rural Lawrence County, Indiana. He had no identification — only a set of keys, $1.05 in coins, and a name stitched into his clothes.Who ...
The Trunk on Forrester Road (00:22:26)
In February 1981, 31-year-old Juanita Boyd vanished after a night at Snyder’s Corner Tavern in LaPorte, Indiana. A week later, she was found strangled and stabbed in the trunk of her green Pontiac Cat...
The Girl in the Barrel: The Murder of Mary Ann Higginbotham (00:33:11)
In the summer of 1979, a rusted barrel bobbing in a shallow Indiana creek revealed a secret the town had almost forgotten: the skeletal remains of 21-year-old Mary Ann Higginbotham. She had vanished w...
What Happened to Rayna? (00:30:11)
In 1993, 16-year-old Rayna Rison walked out of her after-school job and vanished.Thirty-three days later, her body was found in a pond. No signs of trauma. No suspect in custody.For decades, the case ...
The End of the Driveway: Who Killed Linda Weldy? (00:20:41)
In 1987, 10-year-old Linda Weldy got off her school bus in rural Indiana and vanished. Her body was found just a few miles from her home. Her murder remains unsolved nearly four decades later.But Lind...
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