Small Town Forgotten is a true crime podcast that spans five years and focuses on a personal and community-driven narrative rather than sensationalism. It chronicles the story of Jimmie Wade Martin, who was murdered in Bonne Terre, Missouri, in 1989. Despite witnesses and a taped confession, justice was elusive for Martin's family for years. The podcast strives not merely to recount a brutal murder but to highlight the struggle of a family seeking accountability and a community grappling with its troubled past.
Small Town Forgotten isn't just a lurid story about a brutal murder, but a chronicle of a family struggling to hold the world accountable and a community wrestling with a long, dark night of its collective soul.
Over the course of its five-year, fourteen-episode span, the podcast Small Town Forgotten has emerged from the dark and murky sea of true crime as something different, less sensational, more personal, and more real-world impactful than others of its kind.
In a small town like Bonne Terre, drinking and fighting are common outlets for combating ennui and apathy, and as Episode 1 of the podcast puts it, 'letting off steam.'
Jimmie Wade Martin was slain on the streets of Bonne Terre, Missouri, 29 years old, struck several times in the back of the head with a 4 x 4.
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