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Oct 2023
1h 11m

#432 - Broken Trust, Broken Skull - Elko...

James Pietragallo, Jimmie Whisman
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This week, in Elko, Nevada, a ranch hand, who everyone calls "Turkey", with a shady history goes missing, and everyone thinks he just took off. Until he's found face down in a river. The evidence says he's been there for a while, and all leads back to a local couple, who may have been collecting people's insurance policies for future murders! But is there enough evidence to actually get a conviction??


Along the way, we find out that there are rules to where a brothel can operate, that transient robbers wouldn't neatly put your wallet back in your pocket, and that there are some things that you shouldn't tell your sister in law!!


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