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March 29, 2018

Season 2 – Episode 5: Suspects & Persons of Interest

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People treated by Michigan State Police as suspects and persons of interest, according to the report, are covered in this episode.

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Ben McElroy – Raggedy Bob, Pt. 3; Free Music Archive

Blue Dot Sessions – Stillness; Free Music Archive

Joni Void – To Alter Realities – Free Music Archive

Ben McElroy – Pale Rider; Free Music Archive

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March 22, 2018

Season 2 – Episode 4: Buckboard Bar Assault, Prop B, & Tensions in Law Enforcement

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This episode goes over what went on in the Buckboard Bar – next door to Gambles – just after Janette was discovered, as well as what occurred in the bar a month before the murder, involving a city police officer.

I also talk more with Ray Haight, the dispatcher, about how the scene was handled, and law enforcement tensions during that timeframe.

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Blue Dot Sessions – Closing Shop; Free Music Archive

Ross Oldenburg – Five-O (Improvisation for Police Scanners) – Free Music Archive

March 15, 2018

Season 2: Episode 3 – First Responders

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“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.” Ray v Turner, supra, p 304, fn 10 (Wright, J., concurring)

In this episode is an interview with one of the EMTs who responded to Gambles that day, as well as my city council appearance to get previously unreleased police reports from Reed City Police department.

Next week, Episode 4 – Buckboard Bar Assault, Prop B, & Tensions in Law Enforcement, will build upon what you learn in this episode so that you have a basic understanding of the related issues before we get to the suspects and persons of interest in the following episode. All of this backstory is important to your understanding of Janette’s case, and why it may be where it is today, which is what my podcast specifically focuses on –understanding why each individual case goes cold.

MUSIC CREDITS:

Blue Dot Sessions – Closing Shop; Free Music Archive

Ben McElroy – Pale Rider; Free Music Archive

March 8, 2018

Season 2: Episode 2 – That Day

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In this episode we go through a timeline of customers who were in the store that day and hear from the dispatcher.

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Blue Dot Sessions – Closing Shop; Free Music Archive

Unseen horrors – Kevin Macleod; Incompetech

March 1, 2018

Season 2: Episode 1 – The Basement

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Janette Roberson was murdered in the basement pet department of the Gambles store downtown Reed City, Michigan in 1983.

In the coming season, I will go over what we know about that day, take a look at the people that police treated as suspects, and what may have been going on in the community at the time that could be related to the case going cold.

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MUSIC CREDITS:

Ben McElroy – Pale Rider; Free Music Archive

Marcel Tiemensma – Tchaikovsky 5th symphony (2nd movement)

Send for the Horses – Kevin Macleod; Incompetech

February 3, 2018

Episode Five: Antimony & Barium

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In this episode, we learn about the problems with the gun and fingerprint evidence, and Norma Waldron’s daughter is interviewed.

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January 7, 2018January 14, 2018

Episode 1 : “That woman is laying in there dying!”

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Robert Elton Waldron was interviewed twice on the day his wife was shot. The first interview was brief, and took place less than two hours after the incident. That full interview is in this episode, along with backstory on how he and Norma met, as well as her relationship with Waldron’s mother, Alice.

MUSIC CREDITS:

incompetech.com

I Knew A Guy

Division

bensound.com

Tomorrow

December 27, 2017

Season One Teaser

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Suicide or homicide? The death of Norma Waldron on June 13, 1987 is explored in the first season of Down & Away.

Her husband says suicide. Michigan State Police believe otherwise.

NOTE: Music used in this teaser from incompetech.com

Titles: Enter the Maze and Ghostpocalypse 7.

December 25, 2017

COMING SOON

The Down & Away Podcast will have its inaugural season in early 2018. The first group of episodes will look at a cold case from Newaygo County, Michigan.

The victim’s name was Norma Waldron and she died on June 13, 1987 in her home in Fremont.

Her husband says it was suicide. Michigan State Police belive it was a homicide.

In future seasons, I will continue to concentrate on Michigan cold cases, specifically ones that haven’t gotten much attention.

If you have a Michigan cold case that you feel should be covered, you can contact me at deckerjeni@gmail.com