When Karma Comes Calling - The Robin Enockson Murder Confession Tapes
This episode presents the complete police interview of Edward Royal Reitan, recorded following his arrest for the 1990 murder of Robin Enockson in Driscoll, North Dakota. The interrogation is presente...
12 Feb 1h 19min
From North Dakota to Roughing It: Peter Hicks Returns
I’m joined by returning guest Peter Hicks, whose music with Sleepy Driver was heard in Season Two of Dakota Spotlight—but this time to talk about his debut novel Roughing It, written under the pen nam...
5 Feb 30min
Ten Years From Killing - The Murder of Robin Enockson
This Case Snapshot examines the 1990 murder of Robin Enockson in rural North Dakota. Beginning with an escape from a state hospital a decade earlier, the episode lays out the crime, the investigation,...
22 Jan 25min
They Found Her in Water - A Case Reexamined with Trisha Taurinskas
Forty years after 22-year-old Kelly Jean Robinson was found floating in a gravel pit pond in rural Minnesota, her case had gone cold — until DNA tests taken by an adopted man revealed that Kelly was h...
1 Jan 44min
A Christmas Message
James shares a Christmas message with Dakota Spotlight listeners. A moment to pause, say thank you, and reflect before the year comes to a close, with appreciation for everyone who listens, supports t...
25 Des 20251min
Meanwhile in Mankato (6): Reckoning in Rapidan — The Truth That Endured
In the season’s final chapter, Dakota Spotlight returns to Rapidan, Minnesota—to the classmates, friends, and families still living in the shadow of Ray Dahms’s murder. Host James Wolner traces the fi...
18 Des 202558min
Meanwhile in Mankato (5): The Acquittal That Exposed Minnesota’s Blind Spot
By the early 1980s, Brian Lee Hendrickson was still working at the Minnesota Home School in Sauk Centre, supervising teenage girls. When one of them—Michelle—spoke up, she was dismissed as unstable an...
11 Des 202545min
Meanwhile in Mankato (4): The Parole Experiment That Failed at Sauk Centre
This episode looks inside Minnesota’s prison and parole system during the years when Brian Lee Hendrickson was behind bars—and how shifting attitudes toward rehabilitation vs punishment helped lead to...
4 Des 202540min
