Melissa Morgan hosts an often funny, always compelling adventure into murders and mysteries and other weirdness she finds fascinating. Looking into solved and unsolved homicide cases and looking for tips from anywhere, from anyone, on anything, Melissa's curiosity and love of detective work and forensic science is contagious. Melissa's sense of humor and interest in spirituality also make for a wild ride. A broadcasting professional by training, she has written for a nationally-syndicated co ...
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SOUNDS LIKE MICHAEL KELLY DESERVES JUSTICE
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18 year old Michael Kelly is walking home with a friend. On the precipice of his adult life beginning Michael is figuring things out. A dark sedan puills along side him and rolls the window down asking the question "Do you bang?" Michael answers honestly "No." and then shots fing out. Micheal dives for cover but is shot what will turn out to be fat…
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SOUNDS LIKE THE TRUTH ABOUT JIM IS HARD TO HEAR
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Was Northern CA resident Jim Mordecai the Santa Rosa Hitchhiker Murderer from the 1970's? Many members of his family think so. A documentary series streaming on MAX came out earlier this year produced and presented by members of Jim's family and has gotten some people thinking and finding more stories that may or may not be linked...If you know any…
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SOUNDS LIKE MELISSA "MISSY TAYLOR" ELLISON KNEW HER KILLER
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A beautiful young wife and mother celebrates her last Christmas in 1987 without knowing it will be the last. Her 13 month old daughter is home with her, she talks to her mother on the phone, says she has a headache and will turn in soon. Several hours later, a roommate hears her daughter crying and gets up to find that Missy has been beaten to deat…
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SOUNDS LIKE MICHELLE VANEK IS BEING FOUND
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What happened when a fit, young mother of four kids, a marathon runner no less, goes on her first 14 thousand foot peak hike with a very experienced friend? We may never know for sure but we are closer than ever to finding out. Michelle was exhausted and out of water. She told her friend she was going to stop and wait for him to go on and get her o…
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MURDERTIZER SOUNDS LIKE DEBBIE KNOWS DOGS
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Tip-Ster Debbie is starting her own podcast in 2025. She knows dogs. Boy does she know dogs. Listen when it comes out and find out what you might think you know and what you might need to learn.By JTT
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SOUNDS LIKE EDWARD SURRATT IS THE WORST OF THE WORST
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Edward Surratt was born into an upper income family and had all of the advantages so many others did not. After his entrepreneur father passes away he takes over the successful company and goes bankrupt within two years. He wanders around and finally settles on long haul trucking as a career. He has been indicted on or confessed to up to 20 murders…
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SOUNDS LIKE BRUCE MENDENHALL LEFT A TRAIL OF BLOOD
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Married family man Bruce Mendenhall eventually fell into the long haul trucking industry. Unsuspecting women had no idea the plain looking monster would take their lives in such awful ways. His eventual capture and arrest by Pat Postiglione, Wunderkind Homicide and Cold Case detective from the Nashville PD is more interesting than the terrible thin…
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SOUNDS LIKE KEITH JESPERSON DIDN'T KNOW WHAT A HAPPY FACE WAS
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Being bullied as young person by school mates is never going to be enough of a reason to kill 8 women. Convicted of three murders Keith Jesperson is suspected of killing at least 5 more women. Thinking about tying victims to the back of your semi truck with a chain and dragging them behind you to scrape off their faces and finger prints as evidence…
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SOUNDS LIKE ROBERT BEN RHOADS GIVES TRUCKERS THE WORST NAME
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Finally arrested in 1990 after an Arizona state trooper approached Robert Ben Rhoads 18 wheel truck on the side of the highway, the Trooper Mike Miller had no idea he was stopping one of the worst serial killers of the 20th Century. With a mobile torture and murder chamber that he also used to make a living, Rhoads was able to traverse the country …
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SOUNDS LIKE FRANK FIGLIUZZI HAS THE NUMBER OF SERIAL KILLER TRUCKERS
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A task force was formed in the mid 2000's to study highway deaths due to murder. It was found like quite a few of the deaths were murders and that they had signatures that could have related them. Most long haul truckers are hard working, conscientious humans who keep us in food, clothing and so many other things our society would grind to halt wit…
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SOUNDS LIKE WARREN ALEXANDER DID NOT GET CAUGHT SOON ENOUGH
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Warren Alexander grew up in Southern California and who knows when he started his actual killing spree but he left three victim that we know of for now. These victims were linked to him via DNA all of these years later. But he had many years as a long distance truck driver to be the monster that he is. He may be old now and it may be justice delaye…
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When a tough,vibrant wife and mother is attacked in her own home and she fights like she has never before and still she loses the battle everyone wants to know who could have done this to her.By JTT
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SOUNDS LIKE DR. HAING S. NGOR'S LIFE WAS SO FULL AND TOO SHORT
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When you are born in Cambodia and work hard to get through medical school to be an OB/GYN you cannot imagine the horrors of a despotic dictator taking over your country and putting all intellectuals in work or prison camps. Haing Ngor pretended to be a cab driver to stay alive and had to stand by and not reveal his medical skill just to stay alive.…
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SOUNDS LIKE LORI LYNN'S MURDER IS SOLVED...
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When a vibrant 60 year old very active retiree goes to pick up her mother for an appointment and is never seen alive again by her loved ones we are thankful for security cameras on her mothers property. But they do not show everything. Or do they? Lori's daughter is a vocal force of nature and advocate for her mothers case which is still listed as …
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SOUNDS LIKE DAVID CLEMISHAW AND DONNA MCCRACKEN WILL NOT BE FORGOTTEN
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David Clemishaw, 28 and Donna McCracken 22, of Ashville, NC were hard working, fun loving dreamers who were in love with each other and their lives. What happened on the way to the "Unto These Hills" Festival over the Fourth of July weekend in 1978? After Donna's mother reported her and David missing their bodies were found in a drainage ditch on J…
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SOUNDS LIKE MURDERS DON'T OFTEN REOFFEND BUT NEED TO STAY WHERE THEY ARE: ED KEMPER FOR INSTANCE
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Edmund Kemper needs to be denied parole forever. And thank goodness he was again recently. He is a uniquely terrible offender. Research shows the number of reoffenders in the violent crime area was surprisingly low. Join the conversation here.By JTT
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SOUNDS LIKE NO ONE NEEDS FRIENDS LIKE THIS: JIMMY HOFFA DISAPPEARS
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When Teamster leader Jimmy Hoffa headed to a "meeting" in July of 1975 with two leaders of the local underworld he had no idea the betrayal he probably encountered. While this is the 49th year of his disappearance the most likely scenario is that his best friend ended his life in some misguided decision of loyalty. Frank Sheeran's death bed confess…
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SOUNDS LIKE THREE MEN EVAPORATED FROM FLANNAN ISLE
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1900 Scotland saw three responsible, hard working men hand picked for their strength and explempory records as the caretakers of the Flannan Isle lighthouse. It was a very important stop between many ports but definitely between the east coast of the US and Scotland. When a ships captain sounded the horn, flashed a lantern and attempted to locate t…
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SOUNDS LIKE LACHLAN JONES' DEATH WAS A TRAGEDY EITHER WAY
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Did 3 year old Lachlan Jones die at the hands of others in January of 2019 or was it a tragic accident? Coroners (multiple) have ruled it an accident but others including Paul Jones, Lachlan's father disagrees.
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SOUNDS LIKE RUSSELL WILLIAMS IS THE DEFINITION OF "MONSTER"
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SOUNDS LIKE BRANSON PERRY WILL NOT BE FORGOTTEN
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April 11, 2001, 20 year old Branson Perry disappeared from his back yard - literally. Skidmore, MO has a strange history with disappearances and the most bizarre murders, some solved and one famous one that was witnessed by most of the small town and yet... no one "saw' a thing. Branson's case was not like that at all. A sweet, young man goes missi…
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SOUNDS LIKE WE ARE CLOSER TO ANSWERS BUT NEED MORE HELP: BILL AND PEGGY STEPHENSON
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In what world would two kind, generous, loving 74 year olds be murdered in their home in particularly brutal ways? What on Earth could be the motive for something so atrocious? On 5/29/2011 Bill and Peggy Stephenson were taken from their family and all of the good works they did together in their lifetime. We know that more than one person knows. A…
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SOUNDS LIKE MORGAN HARRINGTON AND HANNAH GRAHAM WOULD NOT LET JESSE MATTHEW RUN
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There are stories of famous people working on behalf of victims who were fans or friends. But James Hetfield and Metallica went after the predator of Morgan Harrington and other women, with their teeth bared. Morgan and Hannah Graham, a University of Virginia student went missing and their cases were linked by the horror of Jesse Leroy Matthew, Jr.…
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SOUNDS LIKE ROBERT EUGENE BRASHERS DID EVERYONE A FAVOR
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