Murder On The Plains

02/25/25 • 24 min

A chance meeting in Iowa. A business deal gone wrong. A brutal double murder in the wilds of early 1900s Wyoming.

On this episode, the story of Diamond L Slim Clifton, a cowboy whose reputation once stood tall in the Wyoming Territory—until it all unraveled in the most vicious of crimes.

The source for this episode is the book: Murder on the Plains: The Killing of "Diamond L. Slim" Clifton, available for purchase on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Murder-Plains-Killing-Diamond-Clifton/dp/B0CXQSNKM2

For those in the Cody area, I'd love to see you at the Cody Holiday Inn on March 13th for my presentation: "Dead & Gone in Wyoming: Mysterious Tales of True Crime in the Cowboy State".

Find tickets and additional information here: https://centerofthewest.org/event/ccc-dead-gone-true-crime/

A chance meeting in Iowa. A business deal gone wrong. A brutal double murder in the wilds of early 1900s Wyoming.

On this episode, the story of Diamond L Slim Clifton, a cowboy whose reputation once stood tall in the Wyoming Territory—until it all unraveled in the most vicious of crimes.

For those in the Cody area, I'd love to see you at the Cody Holiday Inn on March 13th for my presentation: "Dead & Gone in Wyoming: Mysterious Tales of True Crime in the Cowboy State".

Find tickets and additional information here: https://centerofthewest.org/event/ccc-dead-gone-true-crime/

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The Girl Who Was Next

Kathleen Pehringer, 41, disappeared from her Riverton, Wyoming home on April 17, 1989. She was last seen while her daughter was at school. Kathleen took her purse and glasses but left her car behind.