The Mineshaft Murders // 272

Going West: True Crime

Dark West Productions

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

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🗓️ 20 January 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

On December 30th, 2017, 17-year-old Breezy Otteson and 18-year-old Riley Powell went missing in Utah after meeting up with a friend. When their bodies were found brutally murdered and tossed down an abandoned Utah mine shaft, police uncovered details so shocking that the state sought the death penalty. This is the story of the Mineshaft Murders. BONUS EPISODES patreon.com/goingwestpodcast CASE SOURCES 1. Brelynne's Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/188523501/brelynne-marie-otteson 2. Riley's Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/188523575/riley-lee-powell 3. The Salt Lake Tribune: https://www.sltrib.com/news/2019/07/31/death-penalty-sought-utah/ 4. True Crime Daily: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qeZMJqljZQ 5. The Daily Spectrum: https://www.newspapers.com/image/415003758/?terms=breezy%20otteson&match=1 6. The Daily Spectrum: https://www.newspapers.com/image/500625138/?terms=riley%20powell&match=1 7. KSL: https://www.ksl.com/article/21253403/2-killed-in-head-on-collision-identified 8. Nannette's Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/188523711/nannette-jena-hamby 9. KSL: https://www.ksl.com/article/46293004 10. KSL: https://www.ksl.com/article/46295730/teens-remembered-for-their-carefree-spirit-helpful-nature 11. East Idaho News: https://www.eastidahonews.com/2018/03/man-murdered-couple-dumped-their-bodies-in-a-mine-police-say/ 12. UEN.org: https://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/e/EUREKA.shtml 13. Breezy's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Breezyotteson2000 14. Riley's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/powell.riley 15. Memorial Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/SearchingForBreezyandRiley 16. The Salt Lake Tribune: https://www.newspapers.com/image/612861988/?terms=jerrod%20baum&match=1 17. The Salt Lake Tribune: https://www.newspapers.com/image/613775374/?terms=jerrod%20baum&match=1 18. Lakeside Review: https://www.newspapers.com/image/602777584/?terms=jerrod%20baum&match=1 19. Fox 13: https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/jerrod-baum-sentenced-to-four-life-sentences-for-murder-of-two-utah-teens 20. KSL: https://ksltv.com/472282/utah-county-attorney-announces-he-will-no-longer-seek-the-death-penalty/ 21. Salt Lake Tribune: https://www.sltrib.com/news/2022/06/10/jerrod-baum-says-im-not/ 22. KSL: https://www.ksl.com/article/50420393/narcissistic-brutal-act-of-cowardice-judge-throws-book-at-convicted-killer-jerrod-baum Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What is going on True Crime fans?
0:16.2	I'm your host Tee.
0:17.2	And I'm your host Daphne.
0:18.6	And you're listening to Going West.
0:20.8	Thank you everybody for tuning in.
0:22.8	Think it a done for recommending today's case.
0:25.7	Appreciate you done.
0:27.3	Today we have a case at a Utah that's just really area automatically because it involves
0:32.4	a mine shaft that happens to be over 1000 feet deep.
0:37.5	I feel like we've only talked about one other case that dealt with a mine shaft and I think
0:42.9	it was also in Utah.
0:44.8	It was actually.
0:45.8	I feel like there was one other one and I cannot remember what it was.
0:49.6	Are you talking about Susan Powell?
0:51.0	Oh no, not Susan Powell.
0:52.6	Oh, what are you talking about?
0:53.6	There was another one.
0:54.6	Well, we also covered Susan Powell up so 10.
0:57.6	We did.
0:58.6	Long ago.
0:59.6	Yes, we did.
1:00.6	So maybe there's another one.
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