Dec 23, 2022

Hello Dakota Spotlight followers: I have a bit of a holiday treat for you today, which I am very excited to share with you.

A few weeks ago, I traveled to the town of Montevideo, Minnesota. I was there to take part in a meeting with three of my colleagues to plan and discuss work for The Vault - which is Forum...

Dec 12, 2022

Announcing the subject of Season 8:  The murder of Joel Lovelien.

On the evening of Oct. 27, 2007--the weekend before halloween--much of Grand Forks, ND was in an alcohol-infused state.  Thirty-eight-year-old Joel Lovelien was enjoying the halloween festivities with his fiance at The Broken Drum Bar when a pulsating...

Nov 24, 2022

Episode 10: In this update episode: Can the red dirt on Shelly's car lead our investigation down the right road? Connecting the dots between clues in Shelly's cold case file and the red dust on her vehicle. 

In 1994 26-year-old Michele Julson dropped off her young son at his paternal grandparents home so she could run...

Nov 2, 2022

Episode 9: Vandalism, hang-up phone calls, strange occurrences, just before she vanished from the face of the earth Michele ‘Shelly’ Julson was feeling harassed. She told friends one person harassing her at work was a Bismarck, ND police officer named Donald Schaffer.  In this episode we look into Donald Schaffer...

Oct 12, 2022

In this stand-alone episode we do a follow up interview with Alison Sandy, journalist and producer of the Australian podcast The Lady Vanishes about the fascinating and captivating news being uncovered in the investigation into Marion Barter's disappearance.  To date The Lady Vanishes podcast has had 13 million...