{"podcast":{"title":"TRUE CRIME with Bratterstein","slug":"true-crime-with-bratterstein-7162898","podcast_index_feed_id":7162898,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/ff35b5b0/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://youtube.com/bratterstein","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/42717100/42717100-1735259976964-37144093cde88.jpg","author":"BRATTERSTEIN","episode_count":211,"summary":"As someone who has been personally effected by homicide, I approach every True Crime case I cover with the goal of balancing facts with empathy—giving victims a voice while exploring the larger cultural and societal implications of the cases. I want you to leave my episodes not only knowing that the people who I talk about are real.. what happened to them is real but also acknowledging that they are much more than just their deaths. Each audio file from this podcast is taken from my videos on YouTube. If you want to see me in action, you can search \"Bratterstein\" there.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-30T00:18:40.255210+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/true-crime-with-bratterstein-7162898"},"episode":{"title":"Missing in Moose Lake : The Katie Poirier Case","slug":"missing-in-moose-lake-the-katie-poirier-case","published_at":"2026-06-01T12:40:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/true-crime-with-bratterstein-7162898/missing-in-moose-lake-the-katie-poirier-case","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/true-crime-with-bratterstein-7162898","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bratterstein/episodes/Missing-in-Moose-Lake--The-Katie-Poirier-Case-e3k6690","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/APO8790993957.mp3","summary":"As always, thank you for hanging out and remembering Katie Poirier with me today. In May 1999, 19‑year‑old college student Katie Poirier disappeared from the D.J.’s Expressway Conoco convenience store in Moose Lake, Minnesota, where she was working alone on the night shift. A grainy black‑and‑white surveillance tape showed a man gripping the back of her neck and forcing her out of the store at closing time, and when customers arrived later they found the shop empty, the lights still on, and Katie gone. The abduction triggered a massive search and investigation that eventually focused on 55‑year‑old local man Donald Blom, a repeat offender with a long history of kidnapping and sexual assaults. Forensic experts matched a partial, distorted imprint of a missing dental bridge from Blom to a bite mark left in a piece of duct tape used in the kidnapping, a key piece of scientific evidence that helped secure his conviction even though Katie’s remains were never definitively identified. Blom was convicted of kidnapping and murdering Katie and sentenced to life in prison, and her case became nationally known both for the terrifying surveillance footage of her being taken and for the innovative forensic work that finally tied her killer to the crime.","meta_description":"As always, thank you for hanging out and remembering Katie Poirier with me today. In May 1999, 19‑year‑old college student Katie Poirier disappeared from…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3863,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/true-crime-with-bratterstein-7162898/episodes/missing-in-moose-lake-the-katie-poirier-case/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/true-crime-with-bratterstein-7162898/missing-in-moose-lake-the-katie-poirier-case.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}