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Murder in the Heartland Season 7 Episodes
Season 7 Episode Guide
4 Episodes 2023 - 2023
Episode 1
Killer on the Res
Wed, Mar 15, 2023
Cloquet, MN: Native American Trina Langenbrunner was stabbed to death in 2000. Detectives and her Fond du Lac Reservation community worked together until 2012 when Joseph Couture was arrested. He was convicted and sentenced to 40 years.
Episode 2
The Killing Kind
Wed, Mar 22, 2023
Brownstown, Illinois, September 17, 2017: James Skinner, age 56, is found dead in his own bedroom, having suffered a fatal severe blunt force trauma wound to his head. The murder weapon was discovered to have been a sledgehammer. The agricultural community of Brownstown enters into a paranoid spiral, unsure who would want to kill this beloved local rodeo rider and cattle rancher. In the end, the killer is identified through DNA as David Leroy Bright. Detectives theorize that there may have been a love triangle between the men and Melissa Watkins, aka Missy Watkins. Now at age 71, David Leroy Bright was found guilty during a 2020 jury trial and sentenced to 30 years in prison.
Episode 3
Last Shift at Pirate's Cove
Wed, Mar 29, 2023
Twenty-year-old Kenyon College junior Emily Murray, a popular religious studies major, went missing late one night on November 3, 2000 after quitting her waitressing job at the Pirates' Cove restaurant and bar. A month later on December 9, 2000, her body was found in rural Vinton County, inside a trailer owned by Gregory McKnight, age 25, who worked in the kitchen at the Pirates' Cove. Detectives also located the body of Gregory Julious, whose charred remains were found elsewhere on Gregory McKnight's property. In the end, Gregory McKnight was convicted of all of the charges against him. Vinton County Judge Jeffrey Simmons sentenced Gregory McKnight to death by lethal injection for the murder of Emily Murray. He also received ten years in prison for kidnapping Emily Murray, ten years in prison for stealing Emily Murray's car, and fifteen years to life in prison for the murder of Gregory Julious. All of the sentences will run consecutively.
Episode 7
The Outsider
Wed, Apr 26, 2023
Hartford, Kentucky, August 2, 2016: Driving over Short Creek Bridge, Doug McKenna spots a large pickup-truck toolbox in Short Creek and alerts the police. Inside the toolbox is the body of 29-year-old military veteran Tromain Mackall, who is originally from Prince Frederick, Maryland, and had only been in Kentucky for a few months. Tromain had met a transgender woman on the Internet and had moved to Hartford to be with her. Law enforcement detectives determine that Tromain was last seen alive at the home of William and Melanie Howard. Using interrogations and cell phone data, they are able to determine who the killer and his associates were. Arrested and convicted of First Degree Murder was William Howard, Jr. who was sentenced to 30 years in prison. Arrested and convicted of Facilitation of Murder were Melanie Howard, Marcus Boyken, Jacob Tobias Miller, and Christopher Hill, who all were all sentenced to 15 years in prison. No trial was held, the perpetrators all pleaded guilty to their crimes. Relatives of Tromain, including his mother, appeared on this show, speaking about the heartache and grief they have suffered due to Tromain's death.