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In a state with wide-open vistas and scenic wilderness, clues to an unsolved murder can disappear as quickly as footprints in the falling snow. Montana Murder Mysteries is a podcast brought to you by Montana Right Now. Missoula-based journalists Matti Olson and Sydney Hanson explore cold case homicides with up-to-date reporting and firsthand interviews with investigators. Visit nonstoplocal.com to see photos, additional information and sources for each episode.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Montana Murder Mysteries makes unresolved local cases legible by separating documented evidence, family memory, public suspicion, and conflicting witness accounts.
Montana Murder Mysteries reconstructs unresolved Montana homicides and disappearances through case records, firsthand memories, conflicting accounts, and questions investigators have yet to answer.
A DNA mismatch ruins your tidy suspect theory, and Matti Olson keeps you with the unanswered question.
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A measured Livingston case centered on Sheila's fatal walk home and the question of who she knew.
Livingston's rail-town identity and gateway-to-Yellowstone polish sit uneasily beside the deaths and disappearances of four women from the area, and this first episode is most compelling when it narrows to Sheila.
A Florence hair gallery triple homicide stays caught between witness sightings, charged suspects, and unanswered questions.
Florence Salon Slay begins with the horror of an ordinary errand turning into a crime scene, as a local woman arrives late to the Hair Gallery, finds the salon owner's body, and calls 911 before realizing the violence is even worse.
A Billings double murder becomes more unsettling as sparse police details leave the county to argue over what happened.
A date night in Billings turns into a grim double murder when George and Marlene Heinrich are found dead in their home, their hands bound with electrical tape.
DNA testing brings Jennifer some relief by ruling people out, even as her mother's killer remains unidentified.
A murder inside a Butte home is handled here as a quiet study of what DNA can settle, and what it still cannot. The episode follows Jennifer as she lives with her mother's death, pushes back against a television portrayal of the case, and continues looking for the person…
A compassionate finale that keeps Danielle's life in focus while tracing the unanswered questions around her murder.
Montana Murder Mysteries closes Season 7 with the 1996 murder of 15-year-old Danielle Houchen, whose body was found in tall grass and reeds about 200 feet from her truck, before the official search had reached the marshy area.
A close look at Hallie Ganji's disappearance and the conflicting accounts around her final night.
The episode follows a three-day party, Hallie Ganji's disappearance from Livingston, and the body found on the Yellowstone Riverbank, with the central question still hanging between suicide and murder.
NHPR's Jason Moon investigates the Bear Brook barrel murders and a New Hampshire wrongful-conviction case.
Payne Lindsey's season-long investigation into two disappearances from Nome, Alaska.
CBC's true crime feed tracing Cleo's case into cold cases across its investigative podcast network.
Journalists chase a decades-long trail through a coronial inquest and Rick Bloom's dozens of aliases.
A New York Times reporter reinvestigates Laramie's unsolved 1985 murder of Shelley Wiley.
This episode investigates the 1991 disappearance and death of 17-year-old Hallie Ganji after a three-day party in Livingston, Montana.
Montana Murder Mysteries: The Tragic Tale of the Livingston Ladies: Part 1 centers on Livingston, Montana, where Angela Brown, Sheila Falang, and Amy Marie Johnson each vanish or are killed in separate cases.
The scene had no forced entry, a destroyed bedroom door, and victims tied with electrical tape.
Julianne Stallman's daughter Jennifer says she will keep speaking her mother's name after 28 years without an arrest, because she believes the Butte murder is still solvable.
Montana Murder Mysteries closes Season 7 with Danielle Adeline Houchins' 1996 death at Cameron Bridge near Belgrade, Montana, where family friends found her face down in muddy marsh water.
Dean Ballew told Dr. Joseph Rich he killed Ruth with a .22 rifle, but detectives found no weapon or shells.