The Westside Park Murders: Muncie's Most Notorious Cold Case

Keith Roysdon · Douglas Walker

Aug 2021 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Rudy Sanda

About this audiobook

On a warm night in September 1985, teenagers Kimberly Dowell and Ethan Dixon were brutally murdered in Westside Park in Muncie, Indiana. Their killer has never been charged. Early on, police focused on a family member of one of the teens as a primary suspect. The investigation even ruled out fantastic scenarios, including a theory that the perpetrator was a Dungeons & Dragons devotee. The case grew cold. Only decades later did a dogged police investigator narrow the scope to a suspect whose name has never been publicly revealed until now. Keith Roysdon and Douglas Walker, authors of Wicked Muncie and Muncie Murder & Mayhem, have followed the investigation into the Westside Park murders for decades and, for the first time, report the complete and untold story. Contains mature themes.

About the author

Keith Roysdon is a lifelong writer and journalist. He has won more than two dozen state journalism awards and two national journalism awards-many for his work with writing partner Douglas Walker. The two won the 2018 Indiana Society for Professional Journalists award for best nonfiction book for Muncie Murder & Mayhem.

Veteran journalist Douglas Walker has covered the criminal justice system in east-central Indiana for most of the past three decades. He is coauthor, with Keith Roysdon, of Muncie Murder & Mayhem, Wicked Muncie, and The Westside Park Murders: Muncie's Most Notorious Cold Case.

Rudy Sanda is a versatile actor, singer, voice-over artist, and fight choreographer. He has appeared on stage and screen in the United States and England, including productions at Laguna Playhouse, Ivoryton Playhouse, and Ocean State Theatre. Rudy holds a BFA in acting from the University of Rhode Island.