Badger Bizarre

It runs a 165 miles from Portage to Green Bay, and for over 300 years, it has never stopped collecting the dead. War. Fire. Disease. Explosions. Murder. And beneath all of it — the stories that won't die:  A king once ordered a genocide to control it. A mill worker ran into a fire he couldn't survive to save it.  A drowned chief who still wanders a cemetery in full dress. A boat that killed 9 people still missing in the mud a century and a half later. And of a corridor of water that has learned exactly how to keep its secrets, and only give up what it wants.  This episode, we follow the Fox River mile by mile. Through war, through fire, through true crime cases that never got a real ending, and the ghosts people swear are still walking its banks because of it.  The Fox River gave this valley its life. Scott and Mickey discuss some of what it took as well. Hear the stories you likely have never been told about a beloved Wisconsin waterway, on Episode 65 of Badger Bizarre, "The Fox River: Corridor of Death."    Facebook Twitter Website Email us:  [email protected]   Opening Trailer: Ed Gein Sound Byte : "Hard Copy" - Paramount Domestic/CBS Televsion Frank Lloyd Wright and Jeffery Dahmer Sound Byte - WISN 12 News - Milwaukee, WI Jeffery Dahmer Quotes: "Inside Edition"  - King World/CBS Television/CBS Media   Attribution for Music: Trailer: Composer: Adam Phillip Zwirchmayr https://www.pond5.com/ Intro: https://pixabay.com/ Outro: Composer: Viacheslav Sarancha  https://www.pond5.com/   Attribution for logo design: Red Claw Scratch Photo    Sources:     Appleton Post-Crescent - Archives Edmunds, R David - "The Fox Wars; The Meskwaki Challenge to New France" Green Bay Press Gazatte - Archives Heritage Hill State Park Neville Public Museum Oshkosh Northwestern - Archives Portage Daily Register - Archives Ripon Commonwealth Press - Archives Winnebago Historical Society   Please visit our Sponsor: FrameMakers    

In the summer of 1994 in Baraboo, a fourteen-year-old boy named Chris Steiner went to bed early on the night of July 3rd, anxious for the upcoming July 4th Holiday.  By morning he was gone. A week later, his body was pulled from the Wisconsin River. The cause of death: accidental drowning. Case closed. But the bones told a different story — one that authorities in Columbia County apparently never wanted to hear. It would take another missing child, another house, and forty-three hours of unimaginable horror before anyone was forced to listen. Scott and Mickey discuss the case of the Baraboo Bonebreaker, both a tragic and heroic tale of a small Wisconsin town that thought it was safe. And about what the justice system gave, and didn't give, to the child who survived and the one who didn't.    Facebook Twitter Website Email us:  [email protected]   Opening Trailer: Ed Gein Sound Byte : "Hard Copy" - Paramount Domestic/CBS Televsion Frank Lloyd Wright and Jeffery Dahmer Sound Byte - WISN 12 News - Milwaukee, WI Jeffery Dahmer Quotes: "Inside Edition"  - King World/CBS Television/CBS Media   Attribution for Music: Trailer: Composer: Adam Phillip Zwirchmayr https://www.pond5.com/ Intro: https://pixabay.com/ Outro: Composer: Viacheslav Sarancha  https://www.pond5.com/   Attribution for logo design: Red Claw Scratch Photo   Sources:  Baraboo News Republic - Archives "I Survived" TV Show - Alan Hall - Executive Producer: Thad Phillips Interview State V Joseph C Clark Wisconsin State Journal - Archives   Please Visit our Sponsor:  FrameMakers 51.5% discount on ALL ready-made and custom frames!          

On a quiet spring morning in La Crosse,  a twenty-year-old woman was suddenly gone — dead of a heroin overdose in the apartment she shared with her boyfriend. What followed was a legal case that almost never happens: two men charged not with drug delivery, but with homicide. At the center of it all is a law named for a basketball star who died nearly a quarter century earlier — a law that has since sent hundreds of people to prison across Wisconsin, and that raises questions we still don't have clear answers to.  Who is responsible when addiction ends in death? Where does love end and exploitation begin? And what does justice actually look like for a twenty-year-old girl who just simply dreamed of a life working with children? Scott and Mickey discuss the case of Shelby Perkins, her tragic death and the controversial aftermath of it.  In the opening banter, we discuss Oshkosh going Hollywood, and an article describing some of the oldest cold cases in our state, going back hundred(s) of years!  All here, on Episode 63 of Badger Bizarre: "Shelby Perkins."    Facebook Twitter Website Email us:  [email protected]   Opening Trailer: Ed Gein Sound Byte : "Hard Copy" - Paramount Domestic/CBS Televsion Frank Lloyd Wright and Jeffery Dahmer Sound Byte - WISN 12 News - Milwaukee, WI Jeffery Dahmer Quotes: "Inside Edition"  - King World/CBS Television/CBS Media   Attribution for Music: Trailer: Composer: Adam Phillip Zwirchmayr https://www.pond5.com/ Intro: https://pixabay.com/ Outro: Composer: Viacheslav Sarancha  https://www.pond5.com/   Attribution for logo design: Red Claw Scratch Photo    Sources:   LaCrosse Tribune - Archives State vs Mitchell Perner - Justia Law Superior Telegram - Archives Therealaudz - Interrogation of Mitchell Perner - YouTube Unsloved Murders and Mysterious Vanishings in WI's Haunting History - Up North News Wisconsin vs Mitchell Perner/Cory Koopman - Police Report   Please visit our wonderful sponsor:  FrameMakers        

During the Minnesota Sioux Uprising of 1862, which created a stream of settlers fleeing their homes to get out of the way of an advancing warpath, a young mother protecting her small children became a national hero; the poster child for a loving, devoted mother.  A decade later, now living in the western Wisconsin community of Trimbelle, in Pierce County, that same young mother, Charlotte Lamb, started making headines of a different kind.  Her family, as well as others in close proximity to her, began turning up dead. Investigations into her past in Vermont, as well as her actions in Wisconsin over the previous 10 years, created shock and horror when the scope of her potential actions came into focus.  Scott and Mickey discuss the case of Charlotte Lamb, a lesser-known name in our history, though just may have been the most evil of us all. The opening banter entails a listener story that is strikingly simiar to a legendary story of the notorius Summerwind Mansion.  Hear it all, on Episode 62 of Badger Bizarre, "Wisconsin's Angel of Death: Charlotte Lamb."   Facebook Twitter Website Email us:  [email protected]   Opening Trailer: Ed Gein Sound Byte : "Hard Copy" - Paramount Domestic/CBS Televsion Frank Lloyd Wright and Jeffery Dahmer Sound Byte - WISN 12 News - Milwaukee, WI Jeffery Dahmer Quotes: "Inside Edition"  - King World/CBS Television/CBS Media   Attribution for Music: Trailer: Composer: Adam Phillip Zwirchmayr https://www.pond5.com/ Intro: https://pixabay.com/ Outro: Composer: Viacheslav Sarancha  https://www.pond5.com/     Attribution for logo design: Red Claw Scratch Photo      Sources:    The Columbian - Archives (Vancouver, WA) Easton, Augustus - "The History of St Croix Valley" Family Search.org Find A Grave The Hamilton Spectator - Archives Mower County Register - Archives (Minnesota) Neosho Valley Register - Archives (Burlington, KS) New York Herald - Archives Pierce County Historical Society - Special Thanks to Jayne Hoffman  Reneson, Kaitlyn - "A Devil and Her Deeds," Minds @ UW   Please visit our wonderful friends and Sponsor: FrameMakers      

On December 10th, 1967, a crowd was gathering outside of The Factory in Madison, as Otis Redding was scheduled to play 2 shows there that evening. The Factory was a newer venue in Madison, and Otis Redding was one of the fastest growing musical acts in the world, just coming off his renowned performance at the Monterey Pop Festival earlier in the year.  Otis never played that night, and the tragedy of why will forever hover over the city of Madison like a shadow, also launching Otis into immortality.  Scott and Mickey discuss what happened in Madison over Lake Monona, Otis' personal and musical journey that led him there, and his place in music history.  Hear the story of how one of music's greatest rises to superstardom ever ended on an icy Wisconsin afternoon on Episode 61 of Badger Bizarre: "Otis Redding."    Facebook Twitter Website Email us:  [email protected]   Opening Trailer: Ed Gein Sound Byte : "Hard Copy" - Paramount Domestic/CBS Televsion Frank Lloyd Wright and Jeffery Dahmer Sound Byte - WISN 12 News - Milwaukee, WI Jeffery Dahmer Quotes: "Inside Edition"  - King World/CBS Television/CBS Media   Attribution for Music: Trailer: Composer: Adam Phillip Zwirchmayr https://www.pond5.com/ Intro: https://pixabay.com/ Outro: Composer: Viacheslav Sarancha  https://www.pond5.com/   Attribution for logo design: Red Claw Scratch Photo   Sources:   Freeman, Scott - "Otis!: The Otis Redding Story" Lauterbach, Preston - "The Day the Music Died" Memphis Magazine, 2007 Moe, Doug - "Soul Finale" Isthmus Cover Stories, 2017 Wisconsin State Journal - Archives   Songs:  Music samples used under "Fair Use" legal doctrine  Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976 (17 U.S.C. § 107)   "Green Onions" - Booker T & the MGs "These Arms of Mine" - Otis Redding "Hard to Handle"  - Otis Redding "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay" - Otis Redding   Please visit our Sponsor:  FrameMakers