Dakota Spotlight: True Crime & Cold Case Investigations
Sep 3, 2026 · 19 min · 14 segments
James shares new information about red scoria, or clinker, found on Shelly’s car and speaks with a North Dakota geologist about what that material could mean for the investigation. Inspired by Dakota…
James WolnerHost
Ray DingmanGuest
Ed MurphyGuest
Once I got the information, and once I connected it with something else in Shelley's cold case file, I heard myself saying out loud, huh, that's interesting.
And if something is interesting enough for me to say that out loud, well, I want to share it with you too.
It might not be something that will immediately blow Shelley's case wide open or anything like that, but it's definitely something that might point us in the right direction, maybe point us down the right road.
Once I got the information, and once I connected it with something else in Shelley's cold case file, I heard myself saying out loud, huh, that's interesting.
And if something is interesting enough for me to say that out loud, well, I want to share it with you too.
It might not be something that will immediately blow Shelley's case wide open or anything like that, but it's definitely something that might point us in the right direction, maybe point us down the right road.
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