This week, in Powell, Wyoming, a college girl's disappearance from a dorm party sends the whole town on a massive search. It's a mystery, until one particular student arrives at his dorm, covered in blood. His roommates decide to turn him in, but that's just the start. He lies about what happened, until confronted with the evidence. When a truly dark tale emerges, we find out about a very creepy past, making it obvious, he was stopped before he could become a serial killer!!Along the way, we find out that it's hard to ride a bicycle during a Wyoming winter, that nobody can predict what will happen to the homecoming king, in the future, and that no matter what your story is, evidence always tells the real story!!New episodes every Thursday!Donate at: patreon.com/crimeinsports or go to paypal.com and use our email: [email protected] to shutupandgivememurder.com for all things Small Town Murder & Crime In Sports!Follow us on...twitter.com/@murdersmallfacebook.com/smalltownpodinstagram.com/smalltownmurderAlso, check out James & Jimmie's other show, Crime In Sports! On Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Wondery, Wondery+, Stitcher, or wherever you listen to podcasts!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Chapter 1: What is the main story of this Small Town Murder episode?
Hello, everybody, and welcome back to Small Town Murder Express. Yay, choo-choo. Yay, indeed, Jimmy. Yay, indeed. My name is James Petrigallo. I'm here with my co-host. I'm Jimmy Wissman. Thank you so much for joining us on another insane 10 pounds of murder in a two pound bag edition of Small Town Murder Express. Again, we have another crazy episode for you this week. Big shocker.
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Right.
And then for Small Town Murder, we are going to talk about the craziest documentary, one of the craziest stories I've ever heard, American Nightmare. It's a documentary on Netflix, and I read the entire book on it, too. You think it's a fake kidnapping. The cops accuse these people. You think it's a Papini situation, a Sherry Papini, but then it's not, and then maybe it is.
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Chapter 2: How does Powell, Wyoming set the scene for this crime?
And we don't go there very often because there's like a half a million people in the state, so... There's way less murders just in volume, and it's just hard. So the people are pretty spread out, too. So the murder rate's pretty low there. It's just one of those places. You've got to find someone to kill them. They're miles away. It's really difficult.
We are going to Powell, Wyoming, which is in northwestern Wyoming up there in the corner by Montana and all that. It's about an hour 35 to Billings, Montana. That's the closest city, I suppose. It's about five hours to Green River, Wyoming, which was our last Wyoming episode. This is episode 584 right now. That was episode 410. So that's the last time we've... Gone to Wyoming. It's been a while.
That was the longest night, which was a crazy love triangle story that was insane. Population in this town, 6,385, and it's a college town. Oh, so they leave. That's including the students, so there's really not a lot of people there.
A lot of people leave around springtime, around summer.
Oh, man. And it's cold in the winter here, as you can imagine, in northwestern Wyoming. This is in Park County, area code 307. Median household income here, a little lower than the national average. It's $60,210. Median home price, though, is a little bit high, $356,800. Wow. Yeah, it's a little pricey here.
A lot of Wyoming seems to be very pricey, which there's so much land and so few people, yet it's expensive. It's the strangest supply and demand. It completely flouts the rules of supply and demand economics.
And there's nothing there.
And there's nothing there. That's the other thing. Unless you're wealthy and a skier, there's nothing there.
Yeah, and want to stare at mountains.
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Chapter 3: Who was Berry Bryant and what was her background?
I wonder if there's something with that.
Bryant's a pretty common last name.
Yeah, but Bear. Oh, Berry? Her name's Bear Bryant.
Her name's Berry Bryant, yeah. Her mom calls her Strawberry. I really don't think they named their daughter after Bear Bryant. I wanted to know that. Really, that's as big a stretch as you could really do. Berry is such a feminine name, too, and you're like, I think it's Bear is what they're going for.
You want to pay homage to bears.
That's the strangest fucking. So she's born in Lewiston, Montana. They stayed in Roy, Montana. They lived in Plummer, Idaho. And then finally to Riverton. That's where they moved in 1980. So in her first two years of her life, she lived in like six different places.
But they're all mountain towns of that area.
Yeah, all that northwest area there. She has a brother, Ryan, that's about two years younger. And her moving around is explained by her mom, Sharon, here. Sharon said, I married a man who groomed me for marriage and took advantage of me. It took me... Yeah, I don't know when they got together. She doesn't say that, but... It took me seven years to leave him and I barely got out with my life.
It had gotten to the point of kill or be killed. So that's all.
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Chapter 4: What was Levi Collin's background and connection to Berry?
Yeah, they probably have specialized programs. So, yeah, when she went to college, she said that her brother Ryan said that he remembered –
taken her up to college and she had so much shit packed there was two cars stuffed full of her shit they were bickering about it and everything like that which is kind of funny she gets into college here this is early September 96 she shows up at Northwestern in Powell And she's right away. She's involved in the jazz and the concert band program. She joined the home ec and ski clubs.
I mean, she was like, what can I do? So she's she's out of her shell. There is no shell to come out of her shell. She left it long behind, you know, before the first belching contest. Her shell was way gone.
That's in homeroom freshman year. That's where that shit's at.
Yep, gone. So October 4th, 1996. She's been in college a month, and she already has a million friends, and everybody knows her. She's just that kind of person. So that night, she's going out with a friend of hers named Jessie, a young lady, i.e. So they're going out to a dance, which turns out to be kind of a boring little... Okay.
Kind of breaks up early, not really much going on, nothing popping at the dance. So then they hear about a party at the dorms. So they're like, all right, let's go to the dorm party. So they do. So Barry and Jesse go to this dorm party. And there's a bunch of other students there. It's a lot of people. It's a party.
So there's an acquaintance of theirs, both Jesse and Barry there, named Levi Collin, C-O-L-L-E-N. He's at the party, too. Now, he has, for the last couple months, kind of been sweet on Barry. I mean that on purpose, pun intended. He's been...
sweet on her a little bit he's been you know just kind of a little bit of interest toward her hasn't overtly asked her out or anything like that and she hasn't overtly rejected him he kind of pursues she juice yeah she kind of demures a little bit and doesn't really respond to it so that's what's been going on little cat and mouse for the last month or so
So, uh, anyway, they go to this small party in a dorm and she's having a couple of drinks and, uh, she was having, this is a fun part too. This is such a college kid thing to do. She was trying a bunch of different mixed drinks, like a sip of each of them to see which ones tasted the least like booze. She was trying to find her drink. That's hilarious.
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Chapter 5: What events led up to the disappearance of Berry Bryant?
He said he had to stab her because she was out of control, just swinging a beer bottle at her, screaming like a banshee, fucking bashing him in the head with a beer bottle in close quarters. I got no choice. I had to stab her. So he said, I thought you'd blame me, obviously, for it. You know, didn't look good.
Right.
And all. So I hit her body, you know, because that's what you do when you get self-defense fights. You hide the body. And then, you know, I just made up this story because I knew I was coming home with blood all over me. So I had to had to make something up.
So he said, I went back to my dorm and I made up the story, told my friends there that a random guy assaulted me and I had to do that and I had to kill him. So they said, well, would you be willing to take us to the site where this all happened? And he said, OK, fine. So now one of the interesting things here is that. And she has taken a lot of self-defense classes, by the way.
Okay, so she can defend herself. She's only like 100 pounds, but she's taken a lot of defense classes and knows some tricks of the trade here. So a lot of these marks are because she was not going down easy. That's the thing, not going down at all. So let's find out if he's telling the truth. They go, it's Levi and the detectives in one car and the prosecutor in another car driving out there.
You don't want to go car rides with the prosecutor. No.
No, no. This is quite the caravan here. This is a scary caravan. So they went off the back roads in the middle of the night looking for the turnoff that he described. They kept coming up empty time and time. They kept going to where he would say and there's no turnoff, like he said. So after a while, they're like, you're full of shit.
You're lying to us. Why?
You're lying about where the fuck you're taking us. That's that's it. Like you're you're not telling us the goddamn truth here. So there's a wild goose chase and there are these people have been up all night and they know that this guy is covered in a teenage girl's blood. So they have no patience for his bullshit at this point.
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Chapter 6: What were the early warning signs about Levi Collin?
Yeah.
If you rape somebody, you have to kill them. Yeah. So that's unbelievable, man. They said he had a reputation for being a charmer and somehow managed to talk her into leaving with him. And I'm sure it was. I need help doing something for five minutes. You know, so that is she said. And everybody said they they were cordial.
So she wouldn't have had any reason to suspect he was going to attack her or anything like that. She's at college. These are all college students. Everybody knows them. They both know each other. You would never think that. So they charge him with first degree murder, first degree sexual assault and later on kidnapping as well.
Which obviously here he's held on a one million dollar bond and or without bond on the murder and a million dollar bond on the sexual assault. So you're not going anywhere, chief. The murder charge carries a maximum penalty of death and the sexual assault charge carries a penalty of up to 50 years in prison. So he's fucked. Yeah, he's he's fucked himself good. And I'm happy for it.
So I'm not happy that what happened, but I'm happy that they caught him. So they said this wasn't the first murder they've ever had around here, but the first one with this kind of brutality. Like, this is a small town, man. Her head's nearly cut off. This is fucking wild. One of the police officers said, man, you talk about a sucker punch to people's morale.
They said the whole town, they literally started locking their doors at that point. This was... This was the breaking point where a small farming town went from, hey, everybody knows everybody. We all wave from our porches to lock them up, roll them up, lock them down.
Someone is capable of that in town, but he is arrested and we're still going to lock him because we're still not. Now we know it exists.
Yeah.
Yeah.
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