BRAYMER, MISSOURI | I researched and wrote this episode, which begins on July 21, 2019, when two brothers from Wisconsin aged in their twenties and thirties go missing after visiting a rural property interstate. In the following days, police learn that a 25-year-old cattle farmer from the area may know something about the disappearances. He admits to driving the vehicle the brothers took to the farm, but he hasn’t seen them since. When human remains are discovered at the site 10 days after the brothers were last seen, police realize the truth behind the brothers disappearance is darker than they could have imagined. It’s not long before investigators zero in on the cattle farmer, who owes the brothers a six figure sum. In episode 220, Jac and Alexis detail the murders of the Diemel brothers, Nicholas and Justin, at the hands of Garland ‘Joey’ Nelson, and the lengths he went to to avoid repaying his debt.
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