A Heavy Weight

Bryan Haltom was shot on Highway 231, but his final day may have started somewhere else: Keith Flynn’s house near Stinesville. In Episode 7, we look at the adult world forming around Bryan, the rumors...

26 Aug 31min

Episode 6 of the Bryan Haltom series focuses on Trevor Powell, the passenger in Bryan’s red Trans Am and the only known surviving witness to Bryan’s murder. His account shaped the case from the beginn...

19 Aug 39min

Episode 5, Sixty Feet, of the Bryan Haltom series goes back to the road itself. After following Bryan’s final known hours, this episode examines the physical scene: where Bryan’s car was stopped, wher...

12 Aug 34min

In episode 4, The Last Night, we follow Bryan Haltom through the final known hours before he was shot and killed on Highway 231 outside Spencer, Indiana. From the fair to Falk’s, from Trevor getting i...

6 Aug 35min

In Episode 3 of A Heavy Weight’s Bryan Haltom series, we look at the months before Bryan was killed, when small moments that once seemed like normal teenage trouble began to look different in hindsigh...

30 Juli 46min

If you want to understand Bryan Haltom’s case, start with who he was.Not the rumors.Not the theories.Not the road-rage story.Bryan.The son.The friend.The first love.The kid in the red Trans Am.Episode...

23 Juli 37min

Episode 1: The Sign on Highway 231For years, I drove past a small sign on Highway 231 outside Spencer, Indiana.It asked one question:Who killed Bryan Haltom?Bryan was eighteen years old when he was sh...

17 Juli 27min

In June 1985, 19-year-old Cassandra Rhines disappeared from Minneapolis after telling a friend she planned to attend her goddaughter’s birthday party. Nearly thirty years later, her remains were found...

9 Juli 26min