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"Villisca: Living with Mystery" Documentary to Air on PBS Station in Illinois

America's Greatest Unsolved Mystery

The award-winning and critically-acclaimed historical documentary feature film Villisca: Living with a Mystery will air at 8:00 pm on Sunday, April 12, 2009 on WQPT-PBS Channel 24 in the Quad-Cities area.

The true crime film by Kelly and Tammy Rundle tells the story of the still-unsolved 1912 Villisca, Iowa axe murders and their lingering effects.  Villisca has been previously broadcast on PBS stations in Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri--all states with connections to the story.

Monmouth, Illinois was the site of a similar murder in 1911.  The Villisca crime may have been connected to the Monmouth crime and similar murders in several Midwestern locations.

Villisca qualified for the 2005 Academy Award competition in the Documentary Feature category.

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The Rundles are co-producing a series with WQPT on Midwestern independent filmmaking that will air in 2009.

"Villisca" on Missouri Public Television

"Villisca: Living with a Mystery" will air on KMOS-TV Channel 6 Missouri Public Television at 8:00 pm on October 27, 2007.

KMOS is based at the University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg, Missouri.

Please pass this information along to your friends in the Columbia, Jefferson City, and Warrensburg, Missouri areas.

Coming soon: broadcasts on Wisconsin and Illinois Public Television stations.

KPTS Roundup

Our "Villisca: Living with a Mystery" broadcast on KPTS in Kansas went very well the other night.  The station even received a few calls asking if/when it will be shown again.  If you live in Kansas and missed it, call 316.838.3090 and request that they run it again!

A special thanks to ultra Kansan Peg Britton (she claims to have "mowed" Kansas) for mentioning our "Villisca" on her blog.  Peg's been a great help to us and our project over the years and we encourage you to check out her website as well.  Thanks Peg!

Coming soon...a Missouri public television broadcast.  Stay tuned.