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Indiana True Crime

by Erica Bohn

Indiana True Crime takes a meticulous, victim-centered look into the forgotten history, cold cases, and systemic aftermath of crime in our Hoosier State. Hosted by a professional social worker and researcher, this podcast strips away the sensationalized headlines and scrambled timelines to uncover the hard facts. From high-profile mysteries to cases the rest of the world overlooked, we explore these stories through the lens of trauma informed care and a social worker’s heart.

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Episodes

  1. Season 1 Finale: Hitting the Pause Button

    We have officially reached the end of Season 1! In this special wrap-up episode, Erica looks back at a massive first season of deep dives, historical true crime, and the incredible community that has grown around the show. She also shares an important update about hitting the pause button for a…

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  2. First Do No Harm: The Vermillion County Hospital Story

    When we walk through the doors of a hospital, we hand over our most basic autonomy because we trust a system built on a sacred oath: First, do no harm. But in the mid-1990s, inside the tiny, four-bed Intensive Care Unit of the Vermillion County Hospital in Clinton, Indiana, that trust was...

  3. Reno Gang

    What happens when a criminal empire is born in your own backyard? In our premier episode, host Erica is joined by her best friend and fellow Jackson County local, Heather, to track the blood-soaked history of America's very first moving train robbers: The Reno Brothers Gang. With both hosts...

  4. The Less Dead

    If you listen to a lot of true crime, you already know there is an invisible script most stories follow. We are used to hearing about the "perfect" victim—stories that comfortably fit into a neat, marketable headline. But the reality of who vanishes or gets hurt in this country is a lot messier,...

  5. An Indiana Ponzi Scheme with guest Nolan Brewer

    Explore how ambitions for wealth and power drove a small-town kid to mastermind Indiana's largest financial fraud, leaving hundreds devastated. Discover the journey from humble beginnings to a lavish lifestyle and the reckoning that followed. In this episode: The early life of Tim Durham in...

  6. The Hoosier Underworld

    Think Indiana is just endless cornfields, high school basketball, and quiet, small towns where nothing ever happens? Think again. Welcome to the dark, beating heart of the Midwestern underworld. For over a century, the Crossroads of America hasn’t just been a quiet country neighbor—it has...

  7. Jackson County: The BCHS Parking Lot, The Seymour Library, and The Importance of School Safety

    One single act of violence can fundamentally change a community’s sense of safety. In this episode of Indiana True Crime, host Erica connects the dots across fifty years of local history to explore the anatomy of a threat, the power of collective memory, and the thin line between a normal morning...

  8. Indiana State University and the Pamela Milam Case

    Episode 2: Pamela Milam: Echoes on the ISU Campus (with Special Guest Trevor) On a clear, warm Friday night in September 1972, nineteen-year-old Indiana State University sophomore Pamela Milam walked out to her car after a campus sorority event and vanished into the shadows. The heartbreaking...

  9. Season 1 Episode 1: Shanda Sharer

    In the premiere episode of Indiana True Crime, we examine a case that deeply impacted anyone who grew up in Indiana during the 1980s and 1990s: the tragic loss of 12-year-old Shanda Sharer in January 1992. Moving past the sensationalized headlines of the 1990s, this episode centers on who Shanda...

  10. Episode 0: Digging Beneath Indiana's Surface

    Welcome to the premiere of Indiana True Crime. In this quick introductory episode, host Erica Bohn steps into the studio to strip away the sensationalized headlines and lay out the heart, the history, and the mission behind this project. Discover how growing up in a small town, navigating…

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Indiana True Crime takes a meticulous, victim-centered look into the forgotten history, cold cases, and systemic aftermath of crime in our Hoosier State. Hosted by a professional social worker and researcher, this podcast strips away the sensationalized headlines and scrambled timelines to uncover the hard facts. From high-profile mysteries to cases the rest of the world overlooked, we explore these stories through the lens of trauma informed care and a social worker’s heart.

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Erica Bohn

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Indiana True Crime takes a meticulous, victim-centered look into the forgotten history, cold cases, and systemic aftermath of crime in our Hoosier State. Hosted by a professional social worker and researcher, this podcast strips away the sensationalized headlines and scrambled timelines to uncover...

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Indiana True Crime is created and hosted by Erica Bohn.
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