Northwest of Normal: A Pacific Northwest True Crime Podcast

Send us Fan Mail A family gathers to celebrate on Christmas Eve, unaware that someone has diabolical plans that will shatter generations and a small community in Washington State. Book your stay at Inn at 500 Capitol in Boise, Idaho here . Sources Wikipedia Carnation, Washington Crime Watch Daily video Wikipedia 2007 Carnation Murders KIRO7 News article “911 Caller: Makes me wonder if her daughter...

Send us Fan Mail A nine-year-old boy gets abducted for ransom, putting his family, local authorities, and even the FBI on high alert. Can they keep up with the wild goose chase and find the kidnappers in time to bring the child home before it’s too late? Sources Crimes and Capers of the Northwest by Heather Vale Goss History Link.org Essay 7711 By Daryl C. McClary Snoqualmie Valley Historical Muse...

Send us Fan Mail An ambitious college freshman visiting family for Thanksgiving in 1989 goes for a run and doesn’t come home. Despite decades of investigative work and potential leads, the case seems impossible to solve until two moms at a water park strike up a conversation. Sources Chillingcrimes.com 48 Hours – “Mandy Stavik: The Case No One Could Forget” Insider article Find a Grave – Mandy Sta...

Send us Fan Mail A man from a respectable family with every opportunity to succeed can’t quiet the demons that compel him to destroy. Early warning signs aren’t enough to prevent the reign of terror he unleashes when he goes berserk up and down the I-5 corridor.   Sources: Wikipedia Sports Illustrated article by L. Jon Wertheim “ Serial Killer Sunday: When True Crime Meets the Gridiron” by Julie M...

Send us Fan Mail Three young women spend a peaceful Halloween evening giving out candy to trick-or-treaters at their home in a small town. Within hours of turning off the lights and going to bed, two of them will be dead. Sources: Lori Johnston on Medium ABC News article CBS News article “Nightmare in Napa” National Crime Scene Cleanup Find a Grave – Adriane Insogna WIS10 article Music: “Flowing R...

Send us Fan Mail One man terrorizes women across the US with impunity for over two decades. Why can't law enforcement and mental health professionals coordinate to end his spree? By the time people raise the alarm, four women are dead and scores of others must live with the trauma he inflicted. Sources Muderpedia You Belong to Me and Other True Cases – Ann Rule’s Crime Files: Vol. 2 This Inte...

Send us Fan Mail Between 1979 and 1982, five people went missing near the Washington-Idaho border. Were these vanishings connected by a lone serial killer or did multiple perpetrators ravage these small towns? Book your stay at Inn at 500 Capitol in Boise, Idaho here . Sources Wikipedia - Lewis-Clark Valley Murders People Magazine article “Killer in the Valley” by Sandra Sobieraj Westfall & Ch...

Send us Fan Mail In 1986, in separate incidents within a few miles of each other and over four months apart, 12-year-old Michella Welch and 13-year-old Jennifer Bastian disappear in broad daylight. Are these cases connected?  Sources: Find a Grave – Michella Welch  Dateline podcast “Evil was Watching” May 2022 Point Defiance Park - Wikipedia Find a Grave – Jenny Bastian Lindsey Wade – writer (dete...

Send us Fan Mail When Vili Fualaau and Mary Kay Letourneau start an illicit relationship, he’s 12 years old and she’s 34. Jon and Meghan discuss this sensational story, exploring its dark elements and the troubling implications of child exploitation and misunderstood love. Book your stay at Inn at 500 Capitol in Boise, Idaho here . Sources: Crimes and Capers of the Northwest by Heather Vale Goss W...

Send us Fan Mail When an 18-year-old disappears during summer 1979, her family, friends, and law enforcement do everything they can to locate her. Join Jon and Meghan as they puzzle over what could have happened that night over 40 years ago. Sources: You Belong to Me and Other True Cases , Ann Rule’s Crime Files Vol. 2 Reddit post by u/hypercorrections Ellensburg Daily Record from September 15, 19...

Send us Fan Mail On Christmas Eve 1985, a family expecting dinner guests finds a stranger at their front door. Come along as Jon and Meghan discuss cultural warfare, the damage that rumors cause, mental illness, and chaotic violence that ends in senseless tragedy. Faces of the Enemy by Sam Keen You Belong to Me and Other True Crime Cases Ann Rule’s Crime Files Vol. 2 (“Black Christmas”) “ A Rumor...

Send us Fan Mail Two sisters accept a ride home on an early fall night in 1973. Then the unimaginable happens. Join Jon and Meghan as they dive into the lasting reverberations of a heinous crime. Book your stay at Inn at 500 Capitol in Boise, Idaho here . Sources: Mamamia article by Keryn Donnelly Find a Grave.com A Crime’s Lasting Wounds - The Washington Post August 13, 1992 New York Daily News a...

Send us Fan Mail Two young women set out for a cross-country adventure only to encounter unimaginable trauma. Hike into the scrub brush with Jon and Meghan while we unpack a story fraught with tension and marvel at one woman's quest for answers. Book your stay at Inn at 500 Capitol in Boise, Idaho here . Strange Piece of Paradise by Terri Jentz Cline Falls Axe Attack Wikipedia The 2011 PBS do...

Send us Fan Mail A 1974 assault foreshadows even greater tragedies to come for two families in western Washington. Come along as Jon and Meghan discuss jurisdictional tomfoolery and how it never ends well. Book your stay at Inn at 500 Capitol in Boise, Idaho here . Sources: Charles Rodman Campbell - Wikipedia Charles Rodman Campbell | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers Charles Campbell | T...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Northwest of Normal, a true crime podcast featuring stories from the Pacific Northwest. I’m Meghan and I tell my husband Jon harrowing stories from our neck of the woods. We 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. Join us every o...

Send us Fan Mail In 1974, a family goes camping in the remote Oregon wilderness and disappears. Join Jon & Meghan as we explore the possibilities of what happened to the Cowdens and how we adjudicate predators. Book your stay at Inn at 500 Capitol in Boise, Idaho here . Sources: But I Trusted You and Other True Cases – Ann Rule’s Crime Files Vol. 14 Cowden family murders - Wikipedia Dwain Litt...