The Peacemaker
9
Episodes
3.1 / 5
Rating

The Peacemaker

by iHeartPodcasts

Category
True Crime
Frequency
Weekly Series
Language
English
The Peacemaker podcast explores a harrowing suicide cluster that unfolded in a rural college town. Hosted by BEN WESTHOFF and RYAN KRULL, this series is set at Truman State University, sometimes called the Harvard of the Midwest, where a few years back a string of suicides at the Alpha Kappa Lambda house shook the community to its core. As fraternity member after fraternity member took his own life, police realized they all had a common link— a fellow brother named Brandon Grossheim, who was clo...

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Recent Reviews

Been waiting for this!

Guesswhatyoureadick•5/7/2026

Interesting

No producer?

Matt_B_W•5/7/2026

No one in this production told the narrator to stop his bizarre, unnatural way of stretching out the end of almost every word? Makes it unlistenable after a while.

Disappointing & Harmful

MelissaBA InformedListener•2/3/2026

Irresponsible storytelling. Inaccurate details, sweeping assumptions, and dangerous language undermine what should have been careful, ethical reporting. The series ultimately veers from the framing sources were given, raising serious trust concerns. Casual, dismissive phrasing and a flippant tone—while treating real people as narrative devices—signal a profound lack of understanding of both harm and responsibility. For those closest to this story, the damage is unmistakable. Do better.

Meh

J-Boche•2/2/2026

Wild story I hadn’t heard about before. Definitely interesting. But the narrator is tough to get used to - strange cadence and dull delivery. And I second others in saying the number of ads was obnoxious. I skipped. But there was A LOT of skipping. Generally an issue that keeps me away from iheart podcasts.

Too many ads

SMSpgh•2/2/2026

Good podcast but way way too many ad breaks that are way too long - 1/3 of the podcast is ads.