Nosey Neighbor
Nosey Neighbors is a podcast for people who can't leave a good story alone. Host Jay goes all the way in... on crimes, characters, historic events, places with secrets, companies with secrets, and anything else that deserves more than a passing glance. If it's interesting, if it's layered, if there's more to it than the version you've heard, we're getting into it.
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Episodes
8 episodes
Who was the Utah Billionaire Jon Huntsman Sr.
His name is on a cancer hospital, a business school, and a basketball arena. Most people in Utah drive right past it and have no idea the man behind it grew up in a two-room shack with no toilet.This is the story of Jon Huntsman Sr., the...
Utah Ran Out of Coffins: The Scofield Mine Disaster
On May 1st, 1900, at 10:28 in the morning, something ignited inside theWinter Quarters No. 4 coal mine in Carbon County, Utah. At least 200 mendied. It is still the deadliest disaster of any kind in Utah history.By lunchtime tha...
Rick Koerber: The $100 Million Utah Scammer Whose Victims Showed Up to DEFEND Him
This guy stole $100 million from people in his own faith community. Changed his name to do it. Used ABBA's "Money, Money, Money" as his actual radio theme song. And somehow, at his sentencing, some of the people he scammed stood up in court to ...
Noah's Event Center: The Wedding Venue That Was Actually a Ponzi Scheme
A beloved Utah wedding venue chain. Ninety retired investors. Five buildings promised and never built. A bride left crying in her dress with nowhere to go. The complete story of Noah's Event Centers, from a small Lehi, Utah startup to one of th...
Utah's $35 Million Mystery Mansion Just Sold, and Nobody Knows Who Bought It
He sold his company to Motorola, built the largest private home in Utah with an underground racetrack and a Disney-themed tunnel, and then just... stopped. Never finished it. Never explained why. Watched the price crash by two thirds before it ...
The crumbl empire
You see the pink boxes everywhere, but you probably don’t know how the empire actually started. This week, we’re looking at Crumbl. Specifically, Sawyer Hemsley and Jason McGowan, two guys with zero baking experience who built a $2 billion comp...
The Hi-Fi Shop Murders in Ogden, Utah
Ogden, Utah. 1974. What started as a routine closing shift at the Hi-Fi Shop turned into one of the most brutal and depraved crimes in American history. When three airmen from Hill Air Force Base walked into the shop with a blue gym bag,...
The $7 Million Foreclosure That's Now a $30 Million Kingdom
Hi Nosey Neighbor. In 1990s Utah, one slogan was king: "One Call, That's All." It belonged to celebrity attorney Keith Barton, and he used his fame and fortune to build a 25,000-square-foot palace in Alpine that became the stuff of local ...