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.

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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

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