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 Dec 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 Dec 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 Dec 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 Dec 202540min
Thanksgiving Treat (2): You Killed Chris - A Friend’s Fight for Justice
The second half concludes the You Killed Chris story — newly abridged and remastered. Through interviews, archives, and reflection, I revisit Linda’s decades-long effort to confront the man she believ...
27 Nov 20251h 51min
Thanksgiving Treat (1): You Killed Chris - A Friend’s Fight for Justice
A newly abridged and remastered two-part version of You Killed Chris: A Friend’s Fight for Justice. In 1968, 18-year-old Christine Rothschild was found murdered outside Sterling Hall on the University...
27 Nov 20251h 52min
