Podcasts by Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast

TASTES LIKE PATRICK WEBER'S CASE IS SOLVABLE from 2023-12-13T05:10:35

Five years after Patrick Weber was found dead in his van, which was still filled with the cannabis he was transporting his case is still unsolved. So many questions and SOMEONE has the answers. ...

TASTES LIKE WHY ON EARTH HAS IT BEEN 25 YEARS AND SUZANNE JOVIN'S CASE IS STILL UNSOLVED? from 2023-12-06T04:42

Many podcasts and documentaries have been created around Suzanne's case. Its almost unbelievable that her case is STILL UNSOLVED 25 years later. Her story isn't unusual but it is unique. Murdere...

TASTES LIKE THE GUSTAFSON FAMILY WAS ANNIHILATED BY DANIEL LAPLANTE from 2023-11-29T16:48

Who thinks they will come home from work and take their shoes off to relax only to find a teenage nightmare living in your walls who rapes and kills you (a pregnant mother) and kills your two ch...

TASTES LIKE JOSEPH GATTO WAS NOT FINISHED from 2023-11-21T17:12

Joseph Anthony Gatto, a 78-year-old was shot and killed Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2013 in his home in the Silver Lake are of Los Angeles. A visionary, an artist, a teacher who was beloved by thousands...

TASTES LIKE THIS JANE DOE WAS LOVED AND DELPHI TRIAL UPDATE from 2023-11-14T16:46

Found in 2018 buried in a very shallow grave wrapped in cloth with a rose on her chest, someone loved this woman. Perhaps they were afraid to call police since she was found with drugs in her sy...

TASTES LIKE BAD SANTA CAME TO TOWN from 2023-11-08T05:25

Adolph Laudenberg picked up some useful skills as a young man. He could whittle and helped support his family making well respected and in demand walking sticks. He also obsessed over his two st...

TASTES LIKE IS NATALEE HOLLOWAY'S CASE REALLY CLOSED? from 2023-10-31T17:15

Even though there was a "confession" proffered by an inveterate liar, Joran Van Der Sloot, I am not sure I will ever believe him. He has told so many lies about what happened that night. This ex...

TASTES LIKE PEOPLE KNOW WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO WHITNEY COPLEY from 2023-10-26T16:49:21

Beautiful Whitney Copley was 24 when she did not return from staying overnight with some 'friends.' Telling her sister she would return the next day and then going missing for 14 months before h...

TASTES LIKE TREVOR BALDWIN HAS A GREAT TEAM BUT STILL NEEDS OUR HELP from 2023-10-17T23:03

September 2014, Chesapeake VA PD responded to a single car accident. It took a minute to figure out that 20 year old Trevor Baldwin had not run up onto the curb and hit a tree. He had been shot ...

TASTES LIKE DIA ABRAMS HAD 99 PROBLEMS BUT DISAPPEARING ON HER OWN WAS NOT ONE from 2023-10-11T17:31

MURDERTIZER - CHAD O'MELIA NEEDS OUR HELP from 2023-10-08T20:18

Chad O'Melia was murdered by Bryn Spejcher that is not in dispute. What is definitely in dispute is the reason why Ventura County DA Erik Nasarenko lowered the original charge of murder filed by...

TASTES LIKE LESLEY SPARROW WAS TREATED LIKE REFUSE from 2023-10-03T03:37

A British ex-pat moves to the US with a husband in the military. Their marriage ends but she pulls herself up by her boot straps and becomes a very ambitious and successful HR exectuive at a wel...

TASTES LIKE PERMON GILBERT WAS AT THE WRONG PLACE AT THE WRONG TIME from 2023-09-26T16:35:27

Perm (shortened version of his name) Gilbert was the go-to guy when you had a GE appliance that was giving you trouble. He was employed full time during the week with Sears/GE to repair applianc...

TASTES LIKE DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY ROULETTE: THE UNSOLVED MURDER OF SHIRLEY CARTER from 2023-09-19T16:14

June 15, 2015, Jason Carter reported finding his mother deceased from two gun shot wounds to the back, lying on her own kitchen floor. His father Bill Carter is sure Jason killed his own mother....

TASTES LIKE ITS TIME FOR SOME UPDATES from 2023-09-12T15:47:43

Herschel Chandler, Jenny Sue Iles and The BTK monster all had updates this week. 

TASTES LIKE CATHY SPOSITO WAS NOT BRYAN BENNETT'S ONLY VICTIM from 2023-09-05T05:10

Its hard to imagine a high school junior kills a woman who is on a hike while camping with her boyfriend. Bryan Bennett was 16 years old when he killed so very brutally, Cathy Sposito, a 23 year...

TASTES LIKE HERSCHEL CHANDLER WILL NOT BE SWEPT UNDER THE RUG from 2023-08-29T13:32

May of 1984 in a small town in Indiana at a prestigous college in Southern Indiana a night security guard was beaten to death in the Business Adminstration building around 4:30 AM. Was it just a...

TASTES LIKE PAMELA BUCKLEY AND JAMES FREUND GOT THEIR NAMES BACK. NOW WHO KILLED THEM AND WHY? from 2023-08-23T15:46

218 FEELS LIKE CRISTA HELM KEPT A DIARY from 2022-04-20T04:57:14

216. LAKE WACO PART TWO from 2022-04-07T15:36:30

215 Murdertizer-Terry Brisk Case Update from 2022-04-02T21:54:36

EP 214 Season 5 Feels Like Lake Waco is Cold from 2022-03-23T04:33:27

213. Feels Like Like a Peter Chadwick Update-Murdertizer from 2022-03-18T00:41:29

Feels Like Rebekah Barsotti Should Have Come Back From the River from 2022-03-01T18:09:03

Is Rebekah Barsotti Missing or... from 2022-03-01T06:47:46

Rebekah Barsotti went missing from Missoula, MT in July of 2021. There are too many mysterious circumstances that make it hard to believe it was an accident. Rebekah's family are remarkable in t...

WILL CEIRZAN UPDATE MURDERTIZER from 2022-02-08T23:50:43

Update on the Will Cierzan case from 2017 and the indictment of his nephew Daniel Cierzan for his murder. Will's case has been previously covered in Episodes #4, 120, 164 and other murdertizer upda...

Melissa's Apology from 2022-01-18T04:35:41

209 Kim Simon Still Needs Justice from 2021-12-08T17:55:51

208. Looks Like It's Good To Volunteer - The Missing Persons Cases Of Dane Elkins, John Stivers And Ron Brown from 2021-09-07T04:01

Over the course of these first three-and-a-half seasons of this podcast, Melissa has been presented with a wide array of missing persons cases from Tip-Sters from around the world.  Melissa has ...

207. Looks Like A Murderous Conundrum - Paul Kordenbrock, Sirhan Sirhan And The Puzzle Of Sentencing Reform from 2021-08-31T04:01

In this episode Melissa tackles the complex moral, ethical and practical aspects of sentencing reform – in particular the parole of those who have committed heinous murders – and the answers are...

206. Looks Like An Execution At Exit 34 - The Unsolved Killing Of Officer Jason Ellis from 2021-08-24T04:01

In the early morning of May 13, 2013, 33 year-old Bardstown Kentucky police officer Listen

205. Looks Like Facts Over Rumors - Randy Sellers Update With Special Guest Concerned Citizen "Jeremy" from 2021-08-17T04:01

This episode brings the first of what will be two updates on the ever-growingly infamous Randy Sellers case out of Kenton County Kentucky.  It was at the County Fair in 1980 when 17 year-old Ran...

204. Looks Like Melissa Witt Has A Champion - With Special Guest LaDonna Humphrey from 2021-08-10T04:01

On the morning of December 1, 1994, Melissa Witt (her friends and family called her “Missy”) had...

203. Looks Like Sorrento Jane Doe Is Still Trying To Find Her Way Home from 2021-08-03T04:01

December 7, 1991 was the 50th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor – but while America was busy commemorating that momentous date in history, another day that should live in infamy was unfo...

202. Looks Like You Can't Alibi Stupid - Judy Moilanen's Idiotic Murder from 2021-07-27T04:01

November 29, 1992 was the very last day of Hunting Season in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, where 35 year-old Judy Moilanen, her husband Bruce and young daughter Elise were visiting Judy’s parents ...

201. Looks Like A Ghost On Video - Leah Rowlands And Her Killer Who No One Knows from 2021-07-20T04:01

One unseasonably cool (as opposed to freezing) late winter morning on March 10, 1997, at a small  travel stop gas station and convenience store right off Interstate 80 in Cozad, a tiny farming c...

200. Looks Like Sherri Rasmussen Won The Fight - The Capture Of Stephanie Lazarus from 2021-07-13T04:01

On February 24, 1986, John Ruetten came home from work to the condominium in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles that he shared with his bride of three months, Sherri Rasmussen.  What he foun...

199. Looks Like An Abandonment - Will Justice Ever Serve Christina Carnes? from 2021-07-06T04:01

When 18 year-old Christina Carnes and her 20 year-old Vernon Cade went out on January 20, 1994 for a night of fun with friends, neither of them could possibly have known what would befall them j...

198. Looks Like Yoga Didn't Do It - The Botched Dana Jones Investigation from 2021-06-29T04:01

If you look up the March 3, 2014 death of 50 year-old interior designer Dana Jones in the official records of the Long Beach, California Police Department, you’ll see that the case is considered...

197. Looks Like A Real Life Lenny Briscoe - Law And Disorder With Special Guest Vic Ferrari from 2021-06-22T04:01

This week we take another small diversion from murder and mayhem and enter the lighter side of the world of law enforcement with retired New York City detective Listen

196. Looks Like A Crooked Blue Line - The Muzzled Murder Of Catherine Braley from 2021-06-15T04:01

On January 15, 1988 in a semi-residential pocket in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley, 25 year-old Catherine Braley – just recently relocated to Southern California from Iowa – was walking home f...

195. Looks Like An Organized Massacre - The Slaughter Of Cyle VanKomen And Kevin Nelson from 2021-06-08T04:01

By all accounts Cyle VanKomen was more than just a good kid.  He was the kind of young man that drew others to him.  Kind, friendly and generous to a fault, the 24 year-old lived with his older ...

194. Looks Like Ten Years Is Too Long - Stephenson Murders Update With Special Guest Det. Coy Cox from 2021-06-01T04:01

Ten years is a long time no matter how you look at it.  But for the Stephenson family of Northern Kentucky, ten years is just simply too long.  Because that’s how long it’s been since their fami...

193. Looks Like A Long Walk To The Store - The Evil That Stole Avery "Peaches" Shorts from 2021-05-25T04:01

For the second time this month we feature the troubling, tragic, SAD murder of a young girl during the Christmas holiday season a long time ago.  This one is incredibly tragic because it’s prett...

192. Looks Like All Angels Go To Heaven - Judith Barsi's Sad Farewell from 2021-05-18T04:01

Ten year-old Judith Barsi was a bona fide, in-demand child actor in the 1980s.  Between her fifth and tenth birthdays she appeared in 72 commercials and dozens of television movies and series.  ...

191. Looks Like Murder Without A Motive - The Illogical Tragedy Of Bonnie Neighbors from 2021-05-11T04:01

The holiday season was in full bloom in the small North Carolina town of Benson on Thursday December 14, 1972 when 33 year old...

190. Looks Like Injustice In San Antonio - The Obvious Unsolved Murder Of Monika Rizzo from 2021-05-04T04:01

This week Melissa brings forth another unnerving “unsolved” murder – this one from May of 1997 - that really isn’t unsolved at all; a case where the search for justice has been unrelenting for n...

189. Looks Like It Wasn't Xenu - The Murders Of Penelope Edwards And Troy Dunn from 2021-04-27T04:01

Penelope Edwards had all but put her life back together in March 2012.  After years of struggling with addiction and psychological problems – so bad that she had turned temporary custody of her ...

188. Looks Like It's Good To Be Kind - Vaccines, Nasty Notes And The Unkind Murders Of Gail Moody And Lori Arrowood from 2021-04-20T04:01

This time around we have what a 1980s television marketing whiz would call a “Very Special Episode” of the podcast.  And that’s because what is normally the intro is actually half the show – and...

187. Looks Like An Ambush At The ATM - Matthew Chase's Final Deposit from 2021-04-13T04:01

Matthew Chase was just like a lot of young artists who move to Los Angeles to seek out their creative development and success.  Back in 1988, then 22 year-old Matthew and his friends, brother-an...

186. Looks Like A Minute And A Half Is A Lifetime - The Erasing Of Mikelle Biggs from 2021-04-06T04:01

January 2, 1999 was an average day in sleepy suburban Mesa Arizona when, as dusk was falling, 11 year-old Mikelle Biggs and her sister Kimber thought they heard the sound of an ice cream truck c...

185. Looks Like A Nightmare On Light Street - Jessica Rae Sacco And The Killer Juggalos from 2021-03-30T04:01

In March 2012, the quiet town of Urbana Ohio (about 50 miles west of Columbus) was rocked to its core when a local murder became nationa...

184. Looks Like A Bad Meeting At The High School Auditorium - The Very Solvable Murder Of Jay Smith from 2021-03-23T04:01

Sometimes it’s so crystal clear that a crime was committed, who did the crime, why the crime was committed and where to go find the bad guy – it’ll drive you nuts.  And that is pretty much the s...

183. Looks Like Murder By The Side Of The Road - Finding Justice For Veronica Estrada - With Special Guest Ken Lewis from 2021-03-16T04:01

This week we focus on a murder from December 1993 that occurred literally less than a five-minute drive from the Homestead Studios – although long before Melissa and Producer Mark moved there.  ...

182. Looks Like Terry Meador Lost His Way - With Special Guest Detective Matt Wharton from 2021-03-09T05:01

This week Melissa’s special guest is the engaging (and really nice guy) Detective Matt Wharton from the Sweetwater County Wyoming...

181. MURDERTIZER - Looks Like An Unassuming Interview - Melissa Chats With Dave Kimball from 2021-03-04T05:01

Hey Tip-Sters!  Surprise!!!  We have a special between-regular-episodes MURDERTIZER (an appetizer of murder)!  Last week Melissa appeared as a guest on a terrific podcast – the Listen

180. Looks Like Chaos In Putnam County - Who Actually Murdered Josette Wright And Robin Murphy? from 2021-03-02T05:01

This week’s episode involves a twisted web of convictions (perhaps wrongful), acquittals (also possibly wrongful), the murder of a young woman and the disappearance and probable murder of a seco...

179. Looks Like A Vanishing On A Rainy Night - Asha Degree's Mysterious Walk-Away from 2021-02-23T05:01

On the night before Valentine’s Day 2000 (which, like this year, was also part of a three-day Presidents Day weekend), a beautiful 9 year-old girl named Asha Degree and her ten year-old brother ...

178. Looks Like Unrelated But The Same - Louise Paciarello And The Ladies Of Brownsville from 2021-02-16T05:01

Sometimes when researching a case, Melissa discovers threads that lead her in multiple directions.  Every once in a while one of those threads leads to a clue in the case she’s investigating.  B...

177. Looks Like THEY Are Hiding Something - Uncovering Tamara Tigard from 2021-02-09T05:01

One day in March 1980, a member of the U.S. Army (her rank still not clear) named Listen

176. Looks Like A Spinoff Into Tragedy - The Senseless Murder Of Barbara Colby from 2021-02-02T05:01

This week’s sad and (like most unsolved cases) totally frustrating case was discovered when Producer Mark read a bio of Academy Award and Emmy-winning actress Listen

175. Looks Like A Puzzle Waiting For Its Missing Piece - The Otha Young Jr. Mystery - With Special Guest Virginia Braden from 2021-01-26T05:01

On October 10 1996, a 65 year-old retired eyeglass maker named Otha Young, Jr., who had been ad...

174. Looks Like Murder Made For Hollywood - Mabel Monohan And Barbara Graham from 2021-01-19T05:01

This week Melissa jumps into the Tip-Ster Wayback machine and journeys to the rough-and tumble era of 1950s Los Angeles, where corruption...

173. Looks Like Unreliable Statements - The Disappearance Of Erica Baker from 2021-01-12T05:01

Melissa opens Season 4 with a vexing case out of Soutwest Ohio – the town of Kettering, where on February 7, 1999, nine year-old Listen

172. SPECIAL: Smells Like An Incognito Interview from 2021-01-05T05:01

As a between-season special, we thought we’d pass along this delightful interview with Melissa from last week when she visited the YouTube Live channel for Listen

171. Smells Like 18 Years Is Too Long To Wait - The Wideman Family Murders from 2020-12-29T05:01

Melissa wraps up Season 3 of the podcast with the tale of an horrific “family annihilator” mass murder from 2002 and the mysterious 18 year delay it took to bring a suspect to justice...mysterio...

170. Smells Like Flim Flam Namaste - Buddhafield And The Attraction Of Cults from 2020-12-22T05:01

On this special episode, Melissa explores the phenomenon of outlier religious or alternative followings – otherwise known as cults.  At the center of this fascinating discussion, Melissa focuses...

169. Smells Like A Lifting Fog - The Cheryll Spegal Case With Special Guest Beth Rowland from 2020-12-15T05:01

On October 19, 1971, ten year-old Cheryll Spegall was last seen running to catch the bus to school near her home in Highland Heights, Kentucky.  No one saw her after that.  No one, that is, exce...

168. Smells Like A Complicated Partnership - DNA, Science And Justice from 2020-12-08T05:01

Ever since the mid-1980s, when Sir Alec Jeffreys first developed “genetic fingerprinting” which soon came to be known of Listen

167. Smells Like A Hunting Trip Into Oblivion - The Ed Nichols Case With Special Guest Detective Coy Cox from 2020-12-01T05:01

Murderers are evil – and yes they’re evil because they take the lives of innocents – but also because of the lives and futures they affect for those left behind.  Sometimes the murder itself is ...

166. Smells Like Crystal Rogers And Will Cierzan Updates from 2020-11-24T05:01

This Thanksgiving week Melissa updates a couple of unsolved missing person cases – one we’ve not yet covered but which has been covered extensively and one we’ve covered extensively and almost n...

165. Smells Like An Exorcism Of Logic - Paul Bateson, Addison Verrill And The Six Unknowns from 2020-11-17T05:01

You wanna hear a really creepy ghost story?  Well…actually…a really creepy satanic possession story…or something? Try this on for size: Guy gets really good at his job.  So good that he’s given ...

164. Smells Like A Vanishing On Route 19 - Diane Augat's Long Walk To Nowhere from 2020-11-10T05:01

Diane Louise Augat did not have an easy life.  Diagnosed with bipolar disorder in her early 30s, she lost her ...

163. Smells Like Ingenious Genealogy - With Special Guest David Mittelman from 2020-11-03T05:01

There is absolutely no doubt that a new era in crime-solving was introduced with the bombshell announcement in the spring of 2018 that the four decades-long search for the infamous and evil Listen

162. Smells Like: Who Would Do This To Big Tom Biedenharn? from 2020-10-27T04:01

This episode takes us back to the Tri-State area (the Cincinnati Metro Area), where Listen

161. Smells Like Multiple Updates - Tanqueray And Scott Peterson from 2020-10-20T04:01

This week’s episode updates two podcasts from the first season of JTT – Episode 16, which focused on the weird death of Vicki Morgan, who had been a sort of paid mistress to Alfred Bloomingdale ...

160. Smells Like The Eyes Of A Hurricane - How Katrina Found Dana from 2020-10-13T04:01

This week’s episode is the third in a row wherein Melissa looks at a case revolving around a state of emergency – the first two are still technically unsolved – this one is solved but every bit ...

159. Smells Like A Staged Disappearance - No Justice For Michele Harris from 2020-10-06T04:01

Last week’s episode concerning the disappearance of Listen

158. Smells Like A Phantom At Ground Zero - The Evaporation Of Sneha Philip from 2020-09-29T04:01

The recent anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City on September 11, 2001 was once again a moment to pause and reflect on the awful events of that day, and the heroi...

157. MURDERTIZER - Smells Like Tenacity Wins Again - Carla Jan Walker Update from 2020-09-25T19:00

Earlier this year, in Episode 130, Melissa retold the story ...

156. Smells Like 1881 In 1981 - Ken Rex McElroy And The Vengeance Of A Small Town from 2020-09-22T04:01

If you’ve never experienced small town life, it’ll be almost impossible to comprehend the now-infamous tale of tiny Skidmore Missouri<...

155. Smells Like Tragic Attraction - The Scorecard Killer Part Two from 2020-09-15T04:01

What makes a prolific serial killer like Randy Kraft – who authorities say brutalized, sexually assaulted and mutilated at least 61 (and ...

154. Smells Like Randy Kraft Is Evil Incarnate - The Scorecard Killer Part One from 2020-09-08T04:01

For more than a dozen years, from the early 1970s through the early 1980s, Randy Kraft, a callous and truly sinister serial killer, terro...

153. Smells Like A Possible Serial Victim - The 1978 Long Beach John Doe from 2020-09-01T04:01

It’s the big Tuesday after the Big Thursday of last week, when our gal got her first taste of TV fame in her home tow...

152. Smells Like The Pathology Of Pathology - With Special Guests Drs. Nicole Croom And Jordan Taylor from 2020-08-25T04:01

Even though Nicole Croom (originally from Stockton California) and Jorda...

151. Smells Like The Truth Is Out There - Randy Sellers Update from 2020-08-18T04:01

40 years ago this past weekend, on August 16, 1980, 17 year-old Randy Sellers went to the Kenton County, Kentucky Fair to meet with...

150. Smells Like A Warning Sign - Animal Cruelty, John Thompson And The Krystal Scott Case from 2020-08-11T04:01

57 years ago psychiatrist J.M. Macdonald  wrote a paper published in The American Journal of Psychiatry entitled Listen

149. MURDERTIZER - Smells Like Progress - Will Cierzan Update from 2020-08-08T22:52:32

One of the very reasons this podcast got started nearly three years ago was that Melissa became involved with her local community in searching for a man who seemingly disappeared into thin air b...

148. Smells Like Rotten Excusers And True Crime Abusers from 2020-08-04T04:01

On this episode Melissa gets real about a couple of true crime-related issues - one about those delightful folks who use (far too) easy racism as a way to excuse or further their awful or simply...

147. Smells Like A Gruesome Puzzle - The Stephenson Murders - With Special Guest Detective Coy Cox from 2020-07-28T04:01

Just across the Ohio River and a few miles south of downtown Cincinnati lies the quiet suburban community of Florence, Kentucky.  It was there, in an average condominium on a quiet residential s...

146. Smells Like Adventure In Grand Theft Auto - With Special Guest Vic Ferrari from 2020-07-21T04:01

Sometimes the life of a cop can be filled with danger and even terror.  Sometimes with grief none but those wearing Blue can even begin to comprehend.  But a police officer's day is also filled ...

145. Smells Like Mass Murder Times Two - The Limb Collector (Baton Rouge Serial Killers - Part Four) from 2020-07-14T04:01

In this episode, the last of a four-part series on what came to be known as the "Baton Rouge Serial Killers," we meet Listen

144. Smells Like Somebody Should Have Listened - The Key Collector Part Three - With Special Guest Chief David McDavid from 2020-07-07T04:01

When you're a veteran cop in a small town, with a deep knowledge of your community and the bad guys in it - and you're smart and everyone knows it...well...you'd think that when a serial killer ...

143. Smells Like This Goes Way Back - The Key Collector (Baton Rouge Serial Killer) Part Two from 2020-06-30T04:01

The string of murders that eventually led to the realization that a serial killer was on the loose in Baton Rouge Louisiana began  on when the body of 41 year-old Gina Wilson Green was found mur...

142. Smells Like A Predator In Baton Rouge - The Key Collector Part One from 2020-06-23T04:01

Beginning in 1993 and continuing for a full decade thereafter, dark haired women were being murdered in and around the river town of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.  The means and methods of the murders...

141. MURDERTIZER - Smells Like A Mid-June Roundup from 2020-06-21T04:45:35

Sometimes there's just too much to talk about at the top of a podcast without getting in the way of the episode's main subject matter.  And so far this June, there are three separate cases that ...

140. Smells Like A Forty Year Waiting Game - How Never Giving Up Solved Carolyn Rose's Murder from 2020-06-16T04:01

Carolyn Rose was a driven, successful real estate agent working in suburban Pensacola Florida when one day, after she didn't return from a mid-day home showing, her colleagues drove over to the ...

139. Smells Like A Lousy Day For A Break-In - The Unfortunate Fate Of Shane Snellman from 2020-06-09T06:10:41

When Tracy Trudgett got the news in late 2018, she passed out. Tracy hadn't seen her brother Shane Snellman, since she visited him in prison nearly a decade before. Tracy and Shane had been sepa...

138. Smells Like Dirty Rotten Solvable - The Assassination Of Edward Berber from 2020-06-02T04:01

So hold on just a minute.  Let's get this straight:  Guy was murdered in his home.  All the doors were locked. No broken or open windows.  All the locks had been recently changed except the Fren...

137. Smells Like We're Coming For Ya, A**holes - The Murder Accountability Project And How YOU Can Help from 2020-05-26T04:01

Since 1980, more than a quarter of a million unsolved homicides have occurred in the United States - which is more than all U.S. military deaths since the end of WWII.  And here's the maddening ...

136. Smells Like A Flat Out Cover-Up - The Non-Suicide Of LaVena Johnson from 2020-05-19T04:01

In one of the most rage-inducing cases she's covered so far, Melissa investigates the outrageous circumstances surrounding the official suicide of U.S. Army PFC LaVena Johnson while stationed at...

135. Smells Like Dead In The Water - The Death Of Abdi Sharif - With Special Guest Stephanie Kinney from 2020-05-12T04:01

18 year- old Abdi Sharif lived with his family in Des Moines, Iowa.  He and his sister both worked at a local Target store to help support the struggling household.  By all accounts a happy, fri...

134. Smells Like A Slow Road Out Of Chico - The Disappearance Of Bryce Laspisa from 2020-05-05T04:41:49

Bryce Laspisa was having problems.  What sort of problems, he wouldn't say.  But at the end of August 2013 it was pretty clear to his friends - and his girlfriend - up in the far-Northern Califo...

133. Smells Like A Grandmother's Wish - Uncovering Crystal Marler's Killer from 2020-04-28T04:01

In October 1998 15 year-old Crystal Marler disappeared from her home in McCreary County Kentucky after being out with friends and - evidence suggests - briefly returning to the house. Where she ...

132. Smells Like Dedication - The Jeffrey Lynn Combs Case And The Mission Of CUE - With Special Guest Jerry Sigmon from 2020-04-21T04:01

This time around we focus not just on another missing persons case where we KNOW that SOMEONE knows something that could close it - but also a look into an amazing organization working hard to s...

131. Smells Like A Bouquet Of Miracles - Jennifer Morey And The Will To Survive from 2020-04-14T04:01

25 year-old Jennifer Morey had just moved into her Houston,Texas-area apartment - her very first - on April 14, 1995.  She went out to dinner with friends to celebrate her move-in, then had a  f...

130. Smells Like A Nightmare At The Valentine Dance - The Abduction Of Carla Walker from 2020-04-07T04:01

It was sometime after midnight in February 1974, not long after the Valentine's Day Dance at Western Hills High School had ended in the Fort Worth suburb of Benbrook, Texas.  17 year-old Carla W...

129. Smells Like A Little Boy Lost - The Mystery of Dennis Doe from 2020-03-31T04:01

In 1999, the remains of a young boy, probably no older than five or six, were found in a cemetery in DeKalb County Georgia - just outside of Atlanta.  The remains were compelling - and heartbrea...

128. Smells Like More Than Just The Dogs Got Rescued - With Special Guest Jon Grobman from 2020-03-24T04:01

Here's a major change of pace to bring a little springtime to your soul in this weird winter of our discontent - a stirring story of human redemption through the beauty of giving to, and caring ...

127. Smells Like Murder Before Home Room - Who Killed Hal Arthur? from 2020-03-17T04:01

Hal Arthur was pretty much what anybody would want from a high school teacher.  One of the most respected and beloved instructors at Grant High School in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Ange...

126. Smells Like Sending Barbara Ann Home - With Special Guest Todd Matthews from 2020-03-10T04:01

You may recall, dear Tip-Ster, way back in Episode 8, when Melissa recalled the tragic-yet-amazing story of "Tent Girl," a young woman whose body was  found wrapped in a canvas designed to wrap ...

125. Smells Like Evil Comes To A Small Town - A Requiem For Taylor And Skyla from 2020-03-03T05:01

On a warm summer Oklahoma day in 2008, two best friends - 13 year-old Taylor Paschal-Placker and 11 year-old Skyla Whitaker - went for a walk along a desolate dirt road near Taylor's home in the...

124. Smells Like Injustice In Fort Collins - The Peggy Hettrick Murder - With Special Guest Scott Howard from 2020-02-25T05:01

In the cold early morning hours of February 11, 1987, 37 year-old Peggy Hettrick left the Prime Minister nightclub in Fort Collins, Colorado, heading across the street to an open field, toward h...

123. Smells Like The U.S. Marshals Got Peter Chadwick from 2020-02-18T05:01

Melissa was lucky enough to be in beautiful Laguna Beach, California a couple of weeks ago,when a longtime friend of the show - "Detective Joe," a law enforcement officer who spent some serious ...

122. Smells Like There Must Be Someone Missing Valentine Sally from 2020-02-11T05:01

On Valentine's Day 1982, eleven miles west of the traveler-stopover town of Williams Arizona, the body of a beautiful young woman was discovered in a ditch on the side of Interstate 40.  She was...

121. Smells Like B.S. In The Hog Pen - Randy Sellers, Melissa And The FBI from 2020-02-04T05:01

In 2019 Melissa covered the 1980 missing person case of 17 year-old Randy Sellers, who disappeared after attending the Kenton County (Kentucky) Fair, becoming drunk and disorderly and after taki...

120. Smells Like Six Minutes And Gone - The Will Cierzan Case Three Years Later from 2020-01-28T05:01

This is the case that inspired Melissa to start this very podcast.  As she has since the first January of "Just The Tip-Sters," Melissa recaps and updates the "shouldn't-be-a" cold case of Will ...

119. Smells Like An Impossible Suicide - Who Really Killed Diane Sherman Young? from 2020-01-21T05:01

In 1988 Diane Sherman Young was a 22 year-old working mother living in rural Indiana.  Diane was married to Scott Young,  whose brother -Mike - was actually married to Susan, one of Diane's sist...

118. Smells Like The Hunter Became The Hunted - The Mysterious Shooting Of Terry Brisk from 2020-01-14T05:01

Terry Brisk was your average Minnesota family man and sportsman - not a big game hunter, but someone who did enjoy deer hunting during Deer Season - and who doesn't like a hot bowl of venison st...

117. Smells Like A Farce - The Bigoted Conviction Of Joe Bryan from 2020-01-07T05:01

Season 3 open with the story of Joe Bryan, a high school principal who lived with the love of his life - his wife Mickey, an elementary school teacher - in (seemingly) idyllic Clifton Texas.  Th...

116. MURDERTIZER - Sounds Like Static - Dan Rather, REM And...Kenneth from 2019-12-31T05:01

Say what you will about Dan Rather - the famed newsman and former anchor of the CBS Evening News has had an ... interesting ... time of it over the years.  There was that time that viewers of th...

115. Sounds Like Too Many Coincidences - The Flat Tire Murders from 2019-12-24T05:01

In 1975 a series of murders of young women in Dade and Broward Counties in South Florida baffled police.  They were dubbed the "Flat Tire Murders" because evidence strongly suggested that tires ...

114. Sounds Like Terror In The Castro - The Doodler Murders from 2019-12-17T05:01

In 1974 and 1975 five white gay men were savagely stabbed to death by a young African American man who attracted his victims by sketching their likenesses in the bars and cafes of San Francisco'...

113. Sounds Like Bafflement On The Beltway - The Freeway Phantom Murders from 2019-12-10T05:01

In 1970 and 1971, the bodies of six girls and young women were tossed onto the side of various freeways in the Washington DC metropolitan area.  Most had been sexually assaulted and then strangl...

112. Sounds Like Not Much Of A Life Sentence - The Murders Of Scott William Cox from 2019-12-03T05:01

Scott Cox is a monster - the question is, how big of a monster - and can the immensity of his monstrosity be proven?  Convicted of the rape and murder of two women in 1990 and 1991, Cox - a truc...

111. Sounds Like Order In The Court - Justice for Pookie And Daniel - With Special Guest Audry McDonald from 2019-11-26T05:06:40

When your cousin and his best friend are attacked - and your cousin is killed - and his best friend suffers permanent brain damage - by three random thugs - for no reason whatsoever - and then a...

110. Sounds Like Fighting Fear - Saugus High School And Simon Kenton High School from 2019-11-19T04:31:46

In the aftermath of the horrific shooting deaths of two innocent high school students on November 14, 2019 - and the suicide of the shooter - in our home town of Santa Clarita, Melissa examines ...

109. Sounds Like A Tough Way To Break Out Of Jail - The Multiple Lives Of Benjamin Schreiber from 2019-11-12T05:01

When you kill someone and you're sentenced to prison "for the rest of your natural life," without the possibility of parole, you're done.  Finished.  Kaput.  No more freedom for you, ever.  Righ...

108. Sounds Like This Is Not A Fire Drill - Catching John Leonard Orr from 2019-11-05T05:01

Setting fires is bad.  Setting fires that destroy property and businesses is worse.  But setting fires so recklessly as to take innocent lives in service of some hidden, inexplicable lust for fl...

107. Sounds Like Anybody Coulda Dunnit - The Dumler-Wilson Murders - With Special Guest Detective Kellyanne Best from 2019-10-29T04:01

October 1969.  Nighttime in a quiet, leafy upscale suburban neighborhood in one of Cincinnati's toniest conclaves.  A young couple with two young children, and the wife's mother, all presumably ...

106. Sounds Like The Missing Toe Was The Snitch - The Murder Of Tammy Esquivel from 2019-10-22T04:01

Here's a twisted little murder story of justice delayed and (at least as of right now) justice denied for the victim - the location of whose body still hasn't been revealed by the killer.  And a...

105. Sounds Like An Australian Abomination - Why Hasn't William Tyrrell Been Found? from 2019-10-15T04:01

There are mysteries.  There are baffling mysteries.  And then there are mysteries that throw an entire nation into fits of frustration and anger.  This is one of those cases.  3 year-old William...

104. Sounds Like The Coldest Cold Case - The Grimes Sisters Murders from 2019-10-08T04:01

In 1956 Chicago, it wasn't unusual for a couple of young women to venture out on foot at night to see a movie at a local theater.  So when 15 year-old Barbara Grimes and her 12 year-old sister P...

103. Sounds Like A Real Pussycat - Lawrence Tierney Followup With Special Guest Cynthia Hawkins from 2019-10-01T04:01:07

Back a few episodes ago (JTT Episode 98 to be precise) Melissa covered the puzzling 1963 murder of young Hollywood actress Karyn Kupcinet.  Karyn's killer has never been identified, but her demi...

102. Sounds Like No One Wants To Know What Happened To Matthew Weaver Jr. - With Special Guests Colleen Weaver-Ferrall and Brooke Tipton from 2019-09-24T04:01

Matthew Weaver Jr. was troubled - but really not that much more troubled than any other 21 year-old young man is troubled.  So when he went for a late night ride in the hills above Malibu Califo...

101. Sounds Like The Real Deadliest Catch - The Bizarre Murder Of Matt Tancevski from 2019-09-17T04:01

In August 1994 a sports fisherman cruising the Hawkesbury River in Sydney Australia got a tug on his line unlike any he'd gotten before.  Hauling what he thought was going to be a prize flathead...

100. Sounds Like Tragedy On The Interstate - The Carrollton Bus Crash from 2019-09-10T04:01

It's the 100th episode of "Just The Tip-Sters" - and Melissa marks the occasion with a tragic story from her home state of Kentucky - in honor of those who perished and in celebration of the pos...

99. Sounds Like Two Dead Guys - Times Two from 2019-09-03T04:01

This episode Melissa details two unrelated cases involving two sets of two best friends, one case a little weird but solved , the other completely mysterious and just as completely unsolved.   I...

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98. Sounds Like Oliver Stone On Acid - The Mysterious Murder of Karyn Kupcinet from 2019-08-27T04:01

Karyn Kupcinet was a beautiful young actress working her way up the Hollywood ladder, using her grit, tenacity (and her dad's solid connections throughout the entertainment industry) to eventual...

97. Sounds Like More Than Just A Survivor - Mary Vincent's Defiant Will To Live from 2019-08-20T04:01

In 1978, while hitchhiking to visit a relative, 15 year-old Mary Vincent  was abducted, then repeatedly raped and sodomized, then tortured by 51 year-old Lawrence Singleton, who then attempted t...

96. Sounds Like Carmina Salcido Has A Life Wish from 2019-08-13T05:26:22

In April 1989, Ramon Salcido, a husband and father of three girls, went on a drunken, ghastly, deadly rampage, killing seven people, including his wife, two of his daughters, his mother-in-law, ...

95. MURDERTIZER - Sounds Like Extradition - Peter Chadwick Update from 2019-08-10T05:41:02

Here's a quick between-regular-episodes MURDERTIZER to abate your appetite for All Melissa, All the Time - and it's got some BIG NEWS - Peter Chadwick, the millionaire (alleged) wife killer who ...

94. MURDER NERD UNIVERSITY - Sounds Like Toxicology Saved Brigida McInvale - With Special Guest Dr. Jeff Lapoint from 2019-08-06T04:01

SURVIVOR MONTH on Just The Tip-Sters begins with our first edition of MURDER NERD UNIVERSITY - where Melissa focuses on the sciences and practices and interesting people - both in the past and i...

93. Sounds Like Trust Turned Into Tragedy - Who Did Rhianna Barreau Let In The Door? from 2019-07-30T04:01

It was October 7, 1992 in Morphett Vale, South Australia, and 12 year-old Rhianna Barreau was on a school holiday.  Rhianna, who lived with her mother and brother, wanted to buy a Christmas card...

92. Sounds Like A Bad Boy Gone Good - Eugene Vidocq And The Invention Of Criminology from 2019-07-23T04:20

Back around the turn of the century...no not 2001....no, no, not 1901...the turn of the century before THAT, in the late 1700s and early 1800s...a young man raised in a good family in France was...

91. Savannah Spurlock Update - Sounds Like "You're Under Arrest" from 2019-07-16T04:20

Back at Season 2, Episode 28 Melissa covered the missing person case of Savannah Spurlock, a young single mother who lived near Lexington, Kentucky and who disappeared after leaving a bar with t...

90. Sounds Like The Last Cry Of An Honest Man - R. Budd Dwyer's Sad Farewell from 2019-07-09T04:20

The tragic 1987 public suicide of Pennsylvania State Treasurer R. Budd Dwyer is one of the most well known, horrifying and sad media events ever to occur in the United States.  A media event bec...

89. Sounds Like LARPing Gone Bad...Or Something - The David Grubbs Murder - With Special Guest Chief Tighe O'Meara from 2019-07-02T04:30

In the dark early evening of November 20, 2011, 23 year-old David Michael Grubbs left his job at a local supermarket in Ashland Oregon, carrying some groceries, to walk home.  Just a couple of h...

88. Sounds Like Kin Comes First - Savannah Spurlock And Her Dedicated Family from 2019-06-25T04:30

On January 4, 2019 Savannah Spurlock, a 22 year-old mother of 4 who had given birth to twins just a month earlier, was told by her mother that she should take a break and go have some fun.  So w...

87. Sounds Like Light Shattering Darkness - Jennifer Ertman, Elizabeth Pena And The Quest For Justice from 2019-06-18T04:30

Recently a Tip-Ster from Boston - "Tip-Ster Jennifer" - brought a case to Melissa's attention that she had not been aware of - the 1993 murders in Houston Texas of 14 year-old Jennifer Ertman an...

86. Sounds Like A Father's Love - Finding Chase Allen Lackey - With Special Guest Craig Lackey from 2019-06-11T04:30

On the last day of June in 2017, Craig Lackey got to watch his 25 year-old son Chase compete in a ballgame in his home town of Houston, Texas.  After the game, Craig hugged his son and told him ...

85. Sounds Like The Cops Don't Trust Us - The Closed (Minded) Search For Peter Chadwick from 2019-06-04T04:30

By all appearances, Peter Chadwick is a pretty rotten human.  A millionaire British ex-pat living in an exclusive Southern California enclave with his wife and three sons, he suddenly disappears...

84. Sounds Like A DNA Conundrum - The GEDMatch Opt-In Policy from 2019-05-28T04:30

It's been just over a year since the arrest of Joseph James DeAngelo, the alleged Golden State Killer, who was captured through an ingenious ploy by law enforcement, which registered the then-un...

83. MURDERTIZER - Sounds Like San Joaquin Strangeness - Satwant And The Abandoned Big Rig from 2019-05-26T01:46:17

In this special Memorial Day Weekend MURDERTIZER (an appetizer of murder!), Melissa takes a look at a case not even a month old.  One that is seemingly solved...or is it?  On May 15, 2019 sherif...

82. Sounds Like 39 Years Of Frustration - The Tynong North And Frankston Murders from 2019-05-21T04:30

This week, in a tip-of-the-cap to her growing band of Tip-Sters in Australia, Melissa focuses on one of the most agonizingly maddening murder mysteries our brethren Down Under still have no answ...

81. Sounds Like You're Not Getting Your Deposit Back, Sir - Helle Crafts And The Wood Chipper from 2019-05-14T04:30

Say True-Crimers, here's a couple of brain teasers for the next time you want to stump a fellow Murder Maven: What was the investigation covered in the very first episode of "Forensic Files"?  O...

80. Sounds Like A Mess In Queens - The (Possible) Murderer Of Karina Vetrano from 2019-05-07T04:30

The brutal strangulation death of Karina Vetrano in the Howard Beach neighborhood of Queens New York in August 2016 seemed like a slam-dunk, easy-to-solve crime at first blush.  The 30 year-old ...

79. Sounds Like A Shroud Of Silence On Murder Mountain - With Special Guest Vikki Joseph from 2019-04-30T02:43:30

On June 21, 2014 Jeff Joseph - a Southern California cannabis entrepreneur who had opened a marijuana growing operation some 700 miles to the north, was on his way back to his farm when he disap...

78. Sounds Like One Year Later: A Golden State Killer Update - And More! from 2019-04-23T04:30

How about an update on the prosecution of one of our most fascinating topics - the Golden State Killer?  One year after the arrest of Joseph James DeAngelo, Melissa has the latest on the (possib...

77. Sounds Like A Bad Tarantino Movie - The Van Cleef And Arpels Massacre from 2019-04-16T04:30

On June 24, 1986 one of the most sensational and brutal attempted jewelry store robberies in US history took place at the storied Van Cleef and Arpels Jewelers on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills.  ...

76. Sounds Like Crazy Calm Under Deadly Duress - The Courage of Jennifer Holliday from 2019-04-09T04:30

Imagine living what would be every woman's worst nightmare:  You're driving down the road with your favorite cousin in the passenger seat, not a care in the world, when suddenly a truck pulls up...

75, MURDERTIZER - Sounds Like One Unlucky Leprechaun - David Cotton's Fatal Misadventure from 2019-04-02T04:30

A rare MURDERTIZER (an appetizer of murder) in our regular weekly time slot - but as this week's podcast reveals, Melissa and Producer Mark have a lot on their plate - but Melissa wanted to make...

74. Sounds Like A Malibu Mystery - The Mitrice Richardson Case With Special Guest Dr. Ronda Hampton from 2019-03-26T04:30

In 2009 Mitrice Richardson, a young and beautiful twentysomething taking a year off between her graduate and postgraduate studies, showed up one night far from home at a ritzy Malibu, California...

73. Sounds Like A Madman's Gang of Killers - The Savage Murders Of Clarence Ray Allen from 2019-03-19T04:30

What kind of a sick monster would be so crass as to commit a burglary that he really didn't need to commit, then set out to murder anyone who not only betrayed him by telling on him, but also ta...

72. MURDERTIZER - Sounds Like Scary Stories Are Good For You! from 2019-03-15T04:30

Are you addicted to true crime?  Love a really scary ghost story?  Seen all the "Freddy" movies 15 times each?  Good for you!  You are NOT a freak bunky - in fact, you may be healthier than most...

71. Kevin Cooper Part 2 - Sounds Like A Questionable Conviction from 2019-03-12T04:30

In part 2 of Melissa's exploration of the conviction of Kevin Cooper in the bloody slaughter of the Ryen family of Chino Hills California in 1983, your host gets into the nitty (and truly) gritt...

70. Kevin Cooper Part 1 - Sounds Like Mass Murder And Mass Confusion from 2019-03-05T05:30

In June 1983, two separate stories met at a ranch house in Chino Hills, California.  The first story is the brutal stabbing/axing/icepicking mass murder of Doug Ryen, his wife Peggy, their daugh...

69. Sounds Like Randy Sellers Hasn't Been Forgotten - With Special Guest Detective Brian Jones from 2019-02-26T05:30

When Kentucky teenager Randy Lee Sellers got into a drunken brawl at the Kenton County Fair in 1980, the police who arrived decided not to arrest the young man, and instead put him in their patr...

68. Sounds Like Psycho Greed - Dana Ewell And Joel Radovcich from 2019-02-19T05:38:21

Greed is bad - evil greed is worse - and psychopathic evil greed is just downright bloody awful.  And Dana Ewell and his best bud Joel Radovcich were about the greediest, psycho-nut-job evil rat...

67. MURDERTIZER - Sounds Like Developments Are Developin' from 2019-02-17T00:59:58

Melissa's first MURDERTIZER (an appetizer of murder!) of 2019 catches us up on some important developments in the Will Cierzan and Thomas Brown cases.  PLUS a preview of an upcoming interview wi...

66. Sounds Like Canadian Criminology - With Special Guest Tanya Todd from 2019-02-12T05:30

Melissa visits with true crime podcast aficionado and budding criminologist Tanya Todd, who visits the Homestead Studios all the way from Toronto, Canada to share some of her insights, theories ...

65. Sounds Like A Panhandle Cover-Up: What Happened To Thomas Brown? from 2019-02-05T05:30

Melissa takes us through the deeply creepy disappearance of 18 year-old Thomas Brown on Thanksgiving Eve 2016, just moments after being videotaped pumping gas in the small town of Canadian, Texa...

64. Sounds Like Will Is Still Missing: The Continuing Search For William Cierzan from 2019-01-29T05:30

The very case that first inspired Melissa to host her own podcast - the case of the 2017 disappearance in Santa Clarita, California of Will Cierzan, beloved husband, brother and friend of just a...

63. Sounds Like They're The Same (But They're Not): Jasmine Richardson and Jayme Closs from 2019-01-22T05:30

Jasmine and Jeremy and Jayme and Jake.  Two young girls and their boyfriends with cute and alliterative names.  Fun!  Right?  Um.   No.  In 2006, 12 year-old Jasmine Richardson disappeared from ...

62. Sounds Like A PWOK In Feelingsville - With Special Guests Lorraine Schweikhard and Ginger Warren from 2019-01-15T05:30

It takes a lot for Melissa to go wild over a podcast - there are plenty she LIKES but only a handful that turn her into a true fan.  The "Big Feelings" Podcast with Lorraine Schweikhard and Ging...

61. Sounds Like The Sky Is Falling - The Lost Souls Of JFK Junior from 2019-01-08T05:30

Season 2 opens with a case that's haunted Melissa for 2 decades - the untimely deaths of John F. Kennedy, Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette and Carolyn's sister Lauren.  Amid the obvious story line...

60. Tastes Like A Mother's Frustration - Finding Cody Turner from 2018-12-18T05:30

In the Season One Finale of JUST THE TIP-STERS, Melissa is joined on the phone by Michelle Kramer Joe - whose son - Cody Turner - disappeared without a trace in July 2015 after going out for the...

59. MURDERTIZER - Tastes Like DNA Wins Again from 2018-12-14T05:30

Getting ready to gorge on all those holiday appetizers?  Before you start digging in to the fruitcake pops, how about a tangy-but-hearty MURDERTIZER?  Melissa fills us in on the latest in the hi...

58. Tastes Like No Bodies Business - With Special Guest Tad Dibiase from 2018-12-11T05:30

In the second episode of this month's focus on unsolved missing person cases, Melissa is joined on the phone from Washington DC by special guest TAD DIBIASE, a former federal prosecutor and auth...

57. Tastes Like A Nightmare - The Unsolved Disappearance Of Shannon Hokanson from 2018-12-04T05:30

Melissa looks at the heartbreaking, frustrating disappearance of Shannon Baldwin Hokanson, a beautiful young mother of three who disappeared in Enid Oklahoma in 2012.  One of literally tens of t...

56. The Grim Sleeper Part 3 - Tastes Like A Killer Cheese Pizza from 2018-11-27T05:30

In her third and final installment on Los Angeles' most prolific serial killer, Lonnie Franklin, Jr. - aka The Grim Sleeper, Melissa examines the details of the botched search for the killer ove...

55. The Grim Sleeper Part 2 - Tastes Like More Than A Cat Nap from 2018-11-20T07:25:16

It's the second installment of Melissa's recounting of the awful life and times of Lonnie Franklin, Jr. - the infamous "Grim Sleeper" killer who terrorized South Central Los Angeles for three de...

54. The Grim Sleeper Part 1 - Tastes Like A Monster Hidden In Plain Sight from 2018-11-12T05:30

Lonnie Franklin, Jr. was everybody's friend.  Gregarious.  Friendly to a fault/.  Had good jobs, first at the City Sanitation Department and then as a mechanic for the LAPD.  Lovely house on a c...

53. Tastes Like Dead North - With Special Guests Laura Frizzo and Jeremy Ogden from 2018-11-05T05:30

Melissa is joined via telephone by one of the most fascinating crime-fighting duos ever to bring really bad guys to justice!  Except this bad "guy" was actually a female, but just as - or even m...

52. Halloween Edition - Tastes Like It Was All The Dog's Idea from 2018-10-30T04:30

What ties together the still-unsolved 1981 Halloween murders of photographer Ronald Sisman and Smith College coed Elizabeth Platzman in a Greenwich Village apartment...and the murder of young, b...

51. Tastes Like Texas Justice Just Ain't Just from 2018-10-23T04:30

In certainly what appears to be a series of gross miscarriages of justice, in the late 1970s Texas millionaire Cullen Davis was (a) acquitted of one murder, (b) not charged in a second murder an...

50. Tastes Like Someone Knows What Happened To Sandra Kerby from 2018-10-16T04:30

Melissa unravels another cold case brought to us by a Tip-Ster - this one frustrating to the point of maddening.  In July 1999 in Fresno, California, teacher/wife/mother, 54 year-old Sandra Kerb...

49. Tastes Like An Innocence Project from 2018-10-09T04:30

On this special edition of JUST THE TIP-STERS, Melissa travels south into deep Orange County California, to the campus of the University of California Irvine School of Law, where she spends a fa...

48. Tastes Like The Bike Path Killer Should Have Stayed In The Gym from 2018-10-02T04:30

Friendly, regular family guy Altemio Sanchez - affectionately known around his neighborhood in suburban Buffalo, NY as "Uncle Al" - couldn't have been more of your basic solid citizen.  A wife, ...

47. Tastes Like NPR Sent A Rejection Letter - Plus Tip-Sters Two Cents from 2018-09-25T04:30

Hey!  Don't be distracted by that...er...more Podcasty sounding introduction...it was just a little something we tried...for about 30 seconds...and then realized we just ain't traditional Podcas...

46. Tastes Like Chef Daniel Brophy Chose The WRONG Wife from 2018-09-18T04:30

In this week's podcast, Melissa rips a story directly from the headlines in a shocking, still-developing story out of Oregon, where Chef Daniel Brophy - a professor and chef at a prestigious sch...

45. Tastes Like Catching An Unknown Serial Killer: The Brilliance of Barbara Rae-Venter from 2018-09-11T00:02:09

Who could have guessed that the trail to catching the infamous Golden State Killer led straight through the brilliant mind of a retired attorney, medical doctor and Ph.D. who took on genealogy a...

44. The Golden State Killer Part 6 - Tastes Like KGSK Is On The Air! from 2018-09-04T04:30

Kicking September off with a Big Bunch of a Bang, Melissa covers some fascinating new ground in the ongoing prosecution of Joseph D'Angelo, the accused Golden State Killer.  Including a discussi...

43. MURDERTIZER - Tastes Like Yoga Balls Are A Gassss...!!! from 2018-08-30T04:30

Here's a short but savory MURDERTIZER for your mid-week snack!  This time featuring a yellow Mini Cooper, a professor of anesthesiology and a big, bouncy yoga ball...oh, and of course, MURDER.  ...

42. Tastes Like That Time We Got In The Middle Of A Murder Investigation - The Tragic And Clumsy Homicide Of Pamela Fayed from 2018-08-28T04:30

...so then...there was that time when Melissa and Producer Mark were sitting down to dinner...and then...the phone rang...and then... - And what a night it was, when Producer Mark's job called h...

41. Tastes Like Cap'n Christina Has A Past: The Lyerla Murders from 2018-08-21T04:30

So what is a girl to do when she's kinda sorta, you know, DONE with her husband and baby and wants to spend more time with her daddy-figure lover?  Well - according to some (not us! don't look a...

40. Tastes Like The Car Guy Did It - The Disappearance Of The Salomen Family from 2018-08-14T04:30

When Shlomo (Sol) Salomen, his wife and two children suddenly disappeared from their suburban Northridge California home in October of 1982, nothing seemed to make sense.  But as the serene pict...

39. MURDERTIZER - GSK Update And Tip-Sters Two Cents from 2018-08-10T04:30

A zesty MURDERTIZER wherein Melissa discusses the recent Oxygen Network documentary "Golden State Killer: Main Suspect," which features many new insights and interviews with friends and colleagu...

38. Tastes Like CSI-Aye-Aye: The Scripted Suicides of Alan Abrahamson And Tom Hickman from 2018-08-07T04:30

Who woulda thunk it?  Two very different guys - ten years apart - used the sub-sub story line of an episode of a TV crime procedural from 2003 and (almost) successfully make it work in real life...

37. The West Mesa Murders Part 3 Featuring Todd Kohlhepp - Tastes Like Multiple Persons Of Interest from 2018-07-31T04:30

Melissa wraps up her examination of the West Mesa Murders in Albuquerque with a closer look at the multiplicity of possible persons of interest in the case - and not just the most obvious ones. ...

36. GSK Update And West Mesa Murders Part 2 - Tastes Like Tragedy from 2018-07-24T04:30

First things first - an update on a couple of new newzbitz on the Golden State Killer prosecution and things we're learning about people and events on the periphery of the investigation (boffo s...

35. MURDERTIZER - Tip-Ster Two Cents - Tastes Like Listener Emails from 2018-07-20T04:30

In this short but totally sweet MURDERTIZER, Melissa reads some comments and suggestions from listeners and hands out some big thanks to other fans of the podcast.  We love our listeners and we ...

34. The West Mesa Murders Part 1 - Tastes Like Bones from 2018-07-17T04:30

Melissa takes a first look at the West Mesa Murders in Albuquerque - murders that happened over a long stretch of time but were not discovered until a mass grave was discovered on the mesa outsi...

33. Tastes Like Homicide Pie And A Bad Movie - The Murder Of Adrienne Shelly from 2018-07-10T04:30

In a delicious mix of serious storytelling, film reviewing and humor, Melissa cuts loose on bad screenwriting AND awful murder as she looks at the life, career and death of writer/director/produ...

32. The Golden State Killer Part 5? - Tastes Like A Familiar Crime Scene - GSK and Patricia Neufeld? from 2018-07-03T04:30

Those question marks in the title of this episode are there for a reason - because a real mystery is evolving regarding the unsolved 1978 murder of Patricia Neufeld in Garden Grove, California. ...

31. Tastes Like Not A Very G'Day Mate - The Evil Sprees of Christopher Wilder from 2018-06-26T04:30

Nearly killed at birth.  Nearly drowned as a toddler.  Australian transplant to America, where he becomes a rich South Florida playboy.  Stone cold sexual predator.  One of the deadliest spree k...

30. The Golden State Killer Part 4 - Tastes Like No Plea And A S***load Of Evidence from 2018-06-19T03:30

It's been less than two months since the arrest of Joseph James DeAngelo, the alleged Golden State Killer - but WOW has new information been pouring out about the case ever since.  In this episo...

29. Tastes Like A Hit Man Hired From A Yelp Review - The Mary Morris Murders from 2018-06-12T03:30

One of the most frustrating cold cases in America comes to Melissa straight out of Houston Texas, where in late 2000 two completely unrelated women who happened to share the same exact first and...

28. Tastes Like Life Imitated Art Imitating Life - John List and Ed Sherman and BLACKOUT from 2018-06-05T03:30

A blast from Melissa's college days turns into a rollercoaster ride of Murder-to-Movie- to-Murder!  A recollection of a movie from 1985 called "Blackout" - released when Melissa was still in col...

27. Tastes Like Half Of Buffalo Bill - The Horror Of Gary Heidnik from 2018-05-29T03:30

When one of our beloved Tip-Sters - Laurencia all the way from Maine! - sent Melissa an email to suggest this gruesome little tale, we were surprised to learn that its subject - Pennsylvania's o...

26. The Golden State Killer Part 3 - Tastes Like Southern California from 2018-05-22T03:30

In the final years of GSK's known (and we stress KNOWN) string of vandalism, rapes and murders - from 1980 to 1986 - the killings were less frequent but far more brutal as he transitioned from C...

25. The Golden State Killer Part 2 - Tastes Like The Central Coast Years from 2018-05-15T03:30

In the second part of this multi-part series on California's infamous Golden State Killer, Melissa follows the path of the former East Area Rapist, now headed south to the state's Central Coast ...

24. The Golden State Killer Part 1 - Tastes Like The Early Years from 2018-05-08T03:30

In the first part of a multi-part series focusing on the infamous, decades-long mystery of the Golden State Killer - and the recent arrest of a suspect after 42 years - Melissa investigates not ...

23. Tastes Like A Queen City Massacre - The Bricca Family Murders from 2018-05-01T01:30

In this episode, Melissa takes the suggestion of a loyal Tip-Ster calling the Tip-Ster Hotline from Cincinnati, Ohio - and explores one of that city's most haunting and frustrating cold cases - ...

22. MURDERTIZER - Golden State Killer Preview - Tastes Like A Micro-Penis In Lockup from 2018-04-28T06:12:25

He was only arrested a few days ago, but already the capture of Joseph James DeAngelo - the alleged "Golden State Killer" accused of committing 12 murders and innumerable rapes and robberies ove...

21. MURDERTIZER - Tastes Like Zankou Revisited from 2018-04-27T01:30

In a special zesty MURDERTIZER between full episodes, Melissa follows up on the Zankou Chicken Massacre with a lighter chat about her numerous visits - some with Producer Mark and some by hersel...

20. Those Darn Peterson Boyz, Part 3 - Tastes Like Michael from 2018-04-24T01:30

Melissa completes her 3-part series on murderous men named Peterson with maybe the most fascinating of all - the tangled tale of Michael Peterson...who was convicted of killing his wife and maki...

19. Those Darn Peterson Boyz Part 2 - Tastes Like Scott from 2018-04-17T01:30

Yeah, he probably did it.  You can feel in in your gut, right?  That's pretty much what the jury said when it convicted Scott Peterson of the murder of his wife, Laci in 2004.  But is demeanor e...

18. Those Darn Peterson Boyz Part 1 - Tastes Like Drew from 2018-04-10T05:03:08

Who would have guessed that three of the most notorious, murderous men in recent history all share the same last name?  Not for nothing, ladies, but maybe if that dream date turns out to have a ...

17. MURDERTIZER - Tastes Like The Crusty Shell Of Charles Manson from 2018-04-07T18:08:50

...crusty AND flaky too!  Here's another palette-cleansing, tasty and refreshing MURDERTIZER between regular episodes - this time so that Melissa can catch everyone up on the recent court ruling...

16. Tastes Like Nancy Reagan Comin' Up To Bat: Vicki Lynn Morgan And Alfred Bloomingdale from 2018-04-03T01:30

A beautiful young girl with dreams of stardom moves from small town Colorado to Los Angeles to make her way to stardom...sound familiar?  Vicki Morgan's story actually did lead her to fortune - ...

15. Tastes Like The Secret Is Avoiding Sweat Lodges - The Rise And Fall Of James Ray from 2018-03-27T01:30

James Ray's self-help enterprise made him a zillionaire after Oprah Winfrey knighted him - however briefly - her favorite Guide to Self-Realization.  All of it came crashing down in 2009 when th...

14. Tastes Like Blood On The Tripod - Bob Crane And John Henry Carpenter from 2018-03-20T01:30

What's more deranged than a TV sitcom set in a Nazi prisoner of war camp?  How about a drummer, radio personality and TV star who likes to feature himself in dirty home movies and gets himself b...

13. Tastes Like Hands-Free Driving: Gary DeVore's Long Night's Journey Into Darkness from 2018-03-13T01:30

The mystery of screenwriter/producer Gary DeVore's 1997 disappearance on a dark and lonely highway - and the discovery of his body a year later - sans both hands! - continues to baffle and distu...

12. Tastes Like Leopold, Loeb And Acid On The Genitals - With Special Guest PAUL ZOLLO from 2018-03-06T02:30

Melissa is joined by author, singer/songwriter, columnist and photographer PAUL ZOLLO to talk about the infamous case of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, two young men who, in 1924 stunned the c...

11. Tastes Like Winos, Yoga and Twinning from 2018-02-27T05:30

They say that the fun is doubled when twins are involved...but whoever thought up that little gem never met the Duval Sisters of Maui, formerly of Park City, formerly of West Palm Beach - and fo...

10. Tastes Like Buried Kill Kits - The Unraveling Of Israel Keyes from 2018-02-20T06:44:46

Ever wonder why so many serial killers live their entire lives without ever getting caught?  They're CLEVER, that's why.  And the clever ones who do get caught?  Maybe it's just because they wan...

9. Tastes Like A Dark Day In Castaic from 2018-02-13T05:30

Melissa investigates a murder right in her own town - a 2007 "unsolved but solved" case involving the bludgeoning of Lawana Clary, a housewife and special education teacher whose killer will nev...

8. Tastes Like Tent Canvas from 2018-02-06T05:30

Melissa discusses the tragic case of Barbara Ann Hackman, known only as "Tent Girl" when her body was first found wrapped in a circus tent canvas in rural Kentucky in 1969.  Through the determin...

7. Tastes Like The Astral Plane - with Special Guest PAM CORONADO - Psychic Detective from 2018-01-30T07:29:54

Melissa is joined by renowned spiritual counselor and psychic detective PAM CORONADO, who for more than two decades has helped law enforcement solve a wide array of murders and other crimes.  Kn...

6. MURDERTIZER - The Story of Frances Glessner Lee, The Mother Of Forensic Science from 2018-01-29T07:07:54

A delicious appetizer to whet your whistle until the next full episode - today Melissa  tells the tale of Frances Glessner Lee, who, at the age of 52 and with no college education, began a caree...

5. Tastes Like Lululemon, Yoga and Murder from 2018-01-16T06:20:57

Melissa delves into the tragic 2011 "Lululemon Murder" in Bethesda Maryland by way of a riveting and personal exploration of one woman's passion for yoga.  Often erroneously described as "the mu...

4. Where There's A Will There's A Way - Will Cierzan (w/Special Guest Kari Hewitt) from 2018-01-09T06:08:23

Melissa is joined by special guest KARI HEWITT of The Finders, a Southern California band of dedicated volunteers who work with law enforcement and other volunteer organizations to help families...

3. Tastes Like My Homey Chuck Manson from 2018-01-02T18:26:20

Melissa is horrified to learn not only that she and Chuckles were born just a few miles apart - but that the guy who built a temple to Everything Manson and who is suing to get all of Manson's b...

2. Tastes Like Zankou Chicken from 2018-01-02T18:17:43

Mmmmm garlic paste.  And chicken!  What could be more tasty?  How about a nasty family feud over a multi-million dollar restaurant chain that turns bloodier than a you-kinow-what with its head c...

1. Tastes Like Homicide For The Holidays from 2018-01-02T16:54:46

Melissa explores the strange case of Gene Simmons (no, not THAT Gene Simmons!) who celebrated Christmas and New Year back in 1987 in a most macabre way...