Shenandoah on Fire

😎🤘 You can now WATCH MrBallen Podcast videos the same day they drop on all podcast platforms on my main channel 👉 ⁨ @MrBallen On September 6th, 1988, a middle aged woman named Cindy Borton, was washing dishes in her little house in Shenandoah, Iowa. As she did this, she heard a knock on her back door. She glanced at her watch and saw that she only had a few minutes before she had to get ready for work, and so she just hoped that whoever was there, was not expecting a long visit.… A few hours later, the police would arrive at Cindy’s house and they would discover a crime scene so gruesome, that they had to call in a special investigative unit just to process it. For 100s more stories like this one, check out my YouTube channel just called @MrBallen -- https://www.youtube.com/c/MrBallen If you want to reach out to me, contact me on Instagram, Twitter or any other major social media platform, my username on all of them is @MrBallen SPOILERS BELOW THIS POINT: . . . . Main Sources: 1. Court documents Bettis v Iowa -- https://law.justia.com/cases/iowa/court-of-appeals/1996/94-1680-0.html 2. 6park news -- https://6park.news/iowa/james-bettis-killed-cynthia-borton-why.html 3. Oxygen text description -- https://www.oxygen.com/an-unexpected-killer/crime-news/james-bettis-killed-cynthia-borton-why 4. Unexpected KIller: Nightmare in Shenandoah (2021) -- https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B09KCLYVKY/ref=atv_yv_hom_c_unkc_1_2 5. Murder comes to town (2016) -- https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B01A5WO4KY/ref=atv_yv_hom_c_unkc_1_1 6. Transcript of video Murder comes to town -- https://murder-town.com/solved-cases/cynthia-borton-killed-by-james-bettis/ 7. Where is James Bettis now -- https://thecinemaholic.com/cindy-borton-murder-where-is-james-bettis-now/ 8. Historical weather for Shenandoah Iowa -- https://www.wunderground.com/history/daily/us/ia/shenandoah 9. Famous people from Iowa -- https://www.traveliowa.com/getinspireddetails/famous-people-from-iowa/64/ 10. Shenandoah attractions and events -- https://www.sciaiowa.com/attractions.php 11. Life in Shenandoah going back to the 1960s -- https://offenburger.com/index.php/from-shenandoah-iowa-to-paris-france-what-a-trip-harriet-welty-rochefort-has-taken-a-bunch-of-us-along/ 12. Farm crisis and church closures in the 80s in Iowa -- https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/caucus/2015/07/05/doak-caucus-lens-distorts-real-iowa/29702067/ 13. Farm crisis of the 1980s -- https://www.iowapbs.org/iowapathways/mypath/2422/farm-crisis-1980s 14. Newspaper articles retrieved from subscription service Newspapers.com/NewspaperArchive a) The Des Moines Register (Des Moines, Iowa) · Thu, Sep 8, 1988 · Page 22 Downloaded on Jun 6, 2022: Shenandoah woman slain; was minister’s wife b) The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) · Thu, S ep 8, 1988 · Page 10 Downloaded on Jun 6, 2022 Ex-Garwin woman stabbed to death c) The Des Moines Register (Des Moines, Iowa) · Fri, Dec 30, 1988 · Page 2 Downloaded on Jun 6, 2022 Mayor seeks details of probe d) The Courier (Waterloo, Iowa) · Thu, S ep 8, 1988 · Page 8 Downloaded on Jun 6, 2022 Obituary e) Cedar Rapids Gazette, February 04, 1989 Pg. 5, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, US charges filed against Jim Bettis f) The Des Moines Register (Des Moines, Iowa) · Sun, Apr 8, 1990 · Page 15 Downloaded on Jun 8, 2022 Six month nightmare ends for Robert Borton g) The Des Moines Register (Des Moines, Iowa) · Sun, Apr 8, 1990 · Page 18 Downloaded on Jun 8, 2022 Six month nightmare ends (con’t)