When rollercizing poetry professor Larry Henderson is arrested for the brutal murder of his wife, bright-eyed lawyer Josh Segal comes down from New York to the quirky town of East Peck, South Carolina to defend his first big case. After meeting his eccentric client and odd-ball team, Josh quickly realizes he's in over his head.
In trying to find an alternate theory to Larry throwing his wife through the window, Josh and his team discover another man's DNA in the bedroom, possibly leading to another suspect. Meanwhile, Josh is concerned about Larry's lack of emotion about the murder and his strange obsession with a skate wrench.
When the new suspect turns up in a coma, Josh becomes sidetracked trying to solve this crime, eventually becoming a suspect himself. Meanwhile, prosecutor Carol Anne Keane presents the autopsy report, which reveals Larry's wife was struck by a blunt object, leading to a frantic search for the murder weapon.
As Josh focuses on his new suspect, Larry insists on taking a lie-detector test to help prove his innocence, but the results drop a bombshell on the case and the family. Dwayne briefly becomes a hometown celebrity as the man who found an arm in the lake, and the team gets a surprising new benefactor.
Nina Rudolph kicks off the second season of her wildly popular podcast, M-Towne: Where Murder Happens, focusing on the twists and turns of the Lavinia Peck-Foster murder trial and the small, murder-filled town of East Peck, South Carolina, where you’re more likely to leave in a body bag than with souvenirs.
Most people pull weeds from the ground. In South Peck, people pull Reeds. The lowly Reed family was legal to kill until 1978, making them as common underground as an earthworm. Nina uncovers the bloody and bizarre history of this corpse-filled town.
In this episode of M-Towne, Nina uncovers the alcohol- and drug-fueled sex and giant Jenga parties of East Peck’s notorious criminal family, the Jessups. She also discovers the town’s bizarre history with clocks and how wound up they get about time.
In this episode of M-Towne, Nina learns of East Peck’s obsession with rum and their secret rum-holes. She also discovers what makes the Fosters, a wealthy clock-fixing family, tick.
In this episode of M-Towne, sexual rumors about Josh and Lavinia circulate around town, Nina enters a crime scene, Dwayne beats himself up, and we learn just how angry a mob can get in East Peck.
In this episode of M-Towne, Josh and team receive a Bronze Pecker, Amanda and Josh get cozy, and Lavinia makes a possible confession in private that causes us to examine a possible conspiracy.
In this episode of M-Towne, Judge Kamiltow grants a retrial of the Jesse Ray Beaumont case, Nina examines East Peck’s bizarre “sperms testing” lab, and Carol Anne Keane is under scrutiny for possibly botching the original trial of Jesse Ray.
In this episode of M-Towne, Nina gets to the root of what makes Josh tick. We’ll also take a look at Jesse Ray’s disastrous self-representation in court and his crazy friends Eric Boom and Neil Boom.
In this episode of M-Towne, East Peck’s residents are scared to walk the streets, but they're not too scared to attend the funeral of Mickey Moose. Also, what happens to the Peck legacy when Lavinia is gone? Fluffy, her hairless cat, may hold the answer.
In this episode of M-Towne, new hosts Dwayne Reed and Anne Flatch finish the podcast after that yellow-bellied Nina skips town.