Aren’t You the Girl?
I’m Amy Pierce. Aren’t You the Girl? is my true crime podcast based in Minnesota. It’s my mission to find every cold case or low profile case against young girls and women in my state specifically in the area I grew up in: Wright County. Each episode I’ll focus on a new area and different victims in hopes to revive some of the lowest priority cold cases across Minnesota into the digital world. Episode one starts my journey into researching cases and will tell the story of a suspected serial killer who was lurking in my backyard...
Episodes
The Murder of Martha Bacon
In October of 1993, the first body part of Martha Bacon was discovered in a rural area in Wright County, Minnesota. She was victim number eight of sex workers who were targeted by a serial predator or killer in the Twin Cities. The differe…
Murder of Victoria Morris and Crimes of Gregory Clepper
One of Chicago’s Southside Strangler’s Gregory Clepper went on a murder spree from 1991 - 1996, possibly amounting to 40 victims. Clepper lived in St. Paul for a time in the mid 1990’s; and had an obsession with sex workers in the area. On…
Murder of Holly Spangler and Crimes of Donald Blom
Donald Blom was released back into society for the final time in the early 1990’s. A string of sexual assaults on young women occur in suburban parks. Holly Spangler was then found murdered after being assaulted in a park. Could Donald be c…
Murder of Wilma Johnson and Crimes of Donald Blom
Katie Poirier is the only confirmed murder under Donald Blom’s criminal history. Investigators tried to get confessions for other cases he may be connected to but he refused to talk every time. Donald however connected himself to one cas…
The Abduction and Homicide of Katie Poirier
In May of 1999, 19 year old Katie Poirier went missing from a Moose Lake convenience store where she was working alone as a night clerk. A grainy black and white surveillance video captures a man with his arm at the back of Katie’s neck as …
Interlude - Dewane Lamm
Two friends Dewey and Kevin travel to Down in the Valley record store in November of 1974. Kevin wanted to replace some cassette tapes that were stolen from his vehicle a week prior and Dewey went along to shop for some records. While shopp…
The Murder of Yvonne Bye
In August of 1974, a former classmate of Timothy Crosby’s was found stabbed to death. Yvonne Bye was only 18 years old when she became friends with two people who would plot to take her life brutally. In December of 1974, Timothy spoke of …
The Abduction and Murder of Barbara Iversen
In 1965 in a quiet neighborhood on a late Summer night, a peeping Tom and repeat sexual offender took 14 year old Barbara Iversen from a home where she was babysitting two young children. Today in Minnesota, the law that stems from her cas…
Murder of Victoria Morris and Crimes of Timothy Crosby
The son of a St. Paul police officer is a seasoned violent sexual offender by the age of 18. The deal he got after his first caught offense in 1974 solidified his freedom to roam the streets off and on from then to 2009. Leaving three suspe…
The Cold Case of Martha Bacon
In an isolated area of Monticello, Minnesota in the fall of 1993 a dog dragged home a human forearm and hand. When the owner discovers the gruesome sight on their front doorstep – a 6 mile search of the county begins. When it was learned th…
The Haunting Unsolved Death of Mary Schlais
Eighteen months after Joli Truelson’s murder, twenty-five year old Mary Schlais was found dead after hitching a ride in Minneapolis. What stands out to Joli’s uncle Matt – the yellow vehicle Mary’s body was witnessed being dumped from. F…
The Unsolved Murder of Joli Truelson
When 16 year old Joli Truelson was found in a creek after supposedly thumbing a ride to her grandmother’s house, a massive anti-hitchhiking movement ignited in the Twin Cities. But was that the easy explanation for her murder? 51 years lat…