Latest / True Crime and Wine Time / Midday Missing - Melissa Beson & Jon Jacob Morgan Jr. - MISSING IN WISCONSIN
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Hmmm, Hello lovelies, Hello miss Angie, Happy hump Day to everybody.
- 0:56Speaker 2: I am Terry True Crime and welcome to Midday Missing.
- 0:59Speaker 2: We're highlight current missing person cases that need more attension. Now.
- 1:04Speaker 2: We live stream every Monday and Wednesday at noon, Texas time.
- 1:09Speaker 2: I am going to apologize to all of you up front.
- 1:12Speaker 2: I am not my perky, perky self today, dealing with
- 1:15Speaker 2: a little bit of a migraine, but didn't want to
- 1:19Speaker 2: reschedule because we have some very important cases to share
- 1:24Speaker 2: with you today, So let's get started. On the afternoon
- 1:28Speaker 2: of March seventeenth, twenty twenty five, thirty seven year old
- 1:32Speaker 2: Melissa June Beison was seen walking along Indian Village Road
- 1:38Speaker 2: near Wayman Lane, which is a quiet wooded stretch of
- 1:42Speaker 2: the Lac de Flambeau Reservation. Hopefully I said that, okay,
- 1:47Speaker 2: in northern Wisconsin. She was heading in the direction of
- 1:51Speaker 2: Highway forty seven Now. Witnesses last spotted her between four
- 1:56Speaker 2: point thirty and five pm. She was wearing red sweatpants,
- 2:00Speaker 2: a black sleeveless shirt, and a gray sweatshirt. Now. Melissa
- 2:04Speaker 2: is a Native American woman and a member of the
- 2:09Speaker 2: lock Do Flambou band of Lake Superior, Chippewa Indians. Guys,
- 2:15Speaker 2: I even went and put the pronunciations in. I am
- 2:20Speaker 2: so sorry for not pronouncing those correctly. Now. Melissa is
- 2:24Speaker 2: approximately five foot seven, has medium brown hair and brown eyes.
- 2:29Speaker 2: She also has multiple distinctive tattoos on her neck, arms,
- 2:34Speaker 2: and legs. Now Melissa has ties to Wassa manitowk Jeez,
- 2:41Speaker 2: but she primarily lived in Loch Do. Flambou. Family and
- 2:46Speaker 2: friends describe her as big hearted, lovable and funny, and
- 2:51Speaker 2: a woman who stayed closely connected with her mother and
- 2:55Speaker 2: often reached out if she needed help or simply wanted
- 2:59Speaker 2: to talk. But after that walk in mid March, she
- 3:03Speaker 2: has vanished. Now six long days passed before her family,
- 3:08Speaker 2: unable to reach her by phone or social media, reported
- 3:12Speaker 2: Melissa missing to the tribal police on March twenty third.
- 3:16Speaker 2: Her mother, Winifred Winnie Beeson, said it was extremely out
- 3:21Speaker 2: of character for her daughter to go so long without contact,
- 3:25Speaker 2: and she said the silence was unbearable. Guys, I can't
- 3:30Speaker 2: even imagine what these families go through. Now. Authorities traded
- 3:36Speaker 2: this case seriously from the beginning, recognizing both the dangerous wilderness,
- 3:41Speaker 2: terrain surrounding the reservation, and the troubling national trend of
- 3:47Speaker 2: missing Indigenous women going under investigated. The urgency was real
- 3:53Speaker 2: and time was already slipping away. Great job, guys, they
- 3:58Speaker 2: jumped in. The search that followed was a large scale
- 4:01Speaker 2: and complex search. Over three four hundred acres were combed
- 4:07Speaker 2: by foot, drone, aircraft, and specialized canine units. Guys, this
- 4:14Speaker 2: law enforcement jumped into action, and I want to make
- 4:18Speaker 2: sure we give them kudos because a lot of times
- 4:21Speaker 2: here on midday missing we don't see that officials even
- 4:26Speaker 2: conducted underwater drone sweeps in aerial surveillance. With these drones,
- 4:32Speaker 2: ground teams navigated dense woods, frozen lakes, and bogs that
- 4:36Speaker 2: were made more dangerous by the spring thawing conditions. Guys.
- 4:41Speaker 2: At one point, a lead search official from a neighboring
- 4:44Speaker 2: agency reportedly nearly drowned while trying to access one of
- 4:49Speaker 2: the marshy areas. Guys, I want to take a minute
- 4:53Speaker 2: to just remind everyone that those responders in search and
- 4:58Speaker 2: rescue volunteers, they are truly putting their lives on the
- 5:02Speaker 2: line and we need to make sure they get the
- 5:05Speaker 2: credit that they so deserve now, Guys, the snow didn't help,
- 5:10Speaker 2: and the days after Melissa's disappeared, the area was hit
- 5:14Speaker 2: by two snowstorms totaling nine inches, followed by melting and
- 5:19Speaker 2: refreezing of the snow, which complicated the terrain and the
- 5:23Speaker 2: cent trials even worse. Now. Despite these conditions, searchers pressed
- 5:29Speaker 2: on for weeks, sometimes multiple times per day in different locations.
- 5:35Speaker 2: Now investigators also checked more than three hundred and sixty
- 5:39Speaker 2: surveillance cameras and footage and scan license plate data from
- 5:45Speaker 2: around the surrounding region, but guys, none yielded any evidence
- 5:49Speaker 2: of Melissa's movements after she was last seen. Now. Over
- 5:54Speaker 2: the following weeks, police received dozens of tips from people
- 5:59Speaker 2: who to have seen Melissa in various places, but every
- 6:05Speaker 2: setting was investigated. Some turned out to be a case
- 6:08Speaker 2: of mistaking identity, others were hoaxes, and nothing was confirmed. Now.
- 6:16Speaker 2: At one point, authority shared two working theories, one that
- 6:21Speaker 2: Melissa may have gotten lost in the woods, possibly injured
- 6:25Speaker 2: or suffering from exposure, or two that she may have
- 6:29Speaker 2: left the reservation voluntarily, staying somewhere with acquaintances. However, Guys,
- 6:36Speaker 2: her family finds the second theory very unlikely. Melissa always
- 6:41Speaker 2: reached out for support when she was in need, and
- 6:45Speaker 2: they said she would have never disappeared without a word. Now,
- 6:49Speaker 2: her mother began to voice another concern, the possibility that
- 6:54Speaker 2: her daughter had been abducted, possibly a victim of trafficking.
- 6:59Speaker 2: This fear is tragically well founded. Indigenous women and girls
- 7:03Speaker 2: across the US and Canada face disproportionate rates of disappearance
- 7:09Speaker 2: and violence, and the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous
- 7:13Speaker 2: women is especially severe in rule and reservation communities. Now,
- 7:20Speaker 2: the community rallied tribal officials urged Melissa, if she was
- 7:25Speaker 2: out there voluntarily, to come home and police release this
- 7:30Speaker 2: message directed to Melissa. Melissa, please know that you are
- 7:34Speaker 2: not in trouble. We are not going to rest you
- 7:38Speaker 2: or take you to jail. All anyone wants is for
- 7:42Speaker 2: you to come home. Your family is frantic and the
- 7:46Speaker 2: entire community is worried about you. There will be relief
- 7:50Speaker 2: and much happiness upon your return. We all know that
- 7:54Speaker 2: it is not your intent to cause such concern and worry.
- 7:58Speaker 2: It exists because you cared about and your absence is
- 8:02Speaker 2: felt by everyone. Please contact your family or our department
- 8:08Speaker 2: If you need transportation, it will be provided. If you
- 8:13Speaker 2: need money to assist you in coming home, that too
- 8:16Speaker 2: will be provided to you. Just please reach out and
- 8:21Speaker 2: let your community know that you are safe. As if today, Guys,
- 8:28Speaker 2: the silence has continued her mother when he has spoken
- 8:33Speaker 2: in multiple interviews in community meetings, sometimes breaking down in
- 8:37Speaker 2: tears showing her heartbreak. She emphasized that Melissa wasn't just
- 8:43Speaker 2: a name. She was a daughter, a sister, a friend.
- 8:48Speaker 2: She was someone who laughed loudly, loved deeply, and deserved
- 8:52Speaker 2: to be found. A twenty five thousand dollars reward was
- 8:57Speaker 2: offered by the lock Do Flambou of Lake Superior, Chippewa
- 9:02Speaker 2: for any information that leads to Melissa's safe return or
- 9:07Speaker 2: to the arrest of anyone responsible for her disappearance.
- 9:11Speaker 3: Guys.
- 9:12Speaker 2: As of this month, the investigation into Melissa's disappearance remains active.
- 9:18Speaker 2: Search efforts are ongoing, though they have scaled back. Investigators
- 9:22Speaker 2: are still reviewing tips, analyzing data, and keeping the lines
- 9:27Speaker 2: of communication open with neighboring jurisdictions. Now, Guys, this case
- 9:34Speaker 2: is far from cold, but it desperately needs public support
- 9:38Speaker 2: to stay alive. Authorities continue to ask anyone with even
- 9:44Speaker 2: the smallest piece of information to come forward. Her family
- 9:48Speaker 2: urges the public to share her story, print her poster
- 9:52Speaker 2: and speak up if you know anything. Melissa June Beison
- 9:57Speaker 2: didn't just vanish. Someone saws something, Someone knows something, and
- 10:03Speaker 2: until she is found, her family and community will not rest.
- 10:08Speaker 2: If you have any information, please compact the Loca Do
- 10:15Speaker 2: Flamboo Tribal Police at seven one, five, five eight eight
- 10:21Speaker 2: seven seven. That's too many numbers, seven, seven, one seven, Sorry, guys,
- 10:28Speaker 2: this migraine's playing with my brain and my eyes, or
- 10:32Speaker 2: Villas County Sheriff's Office at seven one five or seven
- 10:36Speaker 2: nine four four four one. Her mother put it best,
- 10:41Speaker 2: She's not just missing, she's ours and we need our home. Guys.
- 10:50Speaker 2: These stories always break break my heart. Okay, please share
- 10:58Speaker 2: Melissa's poster. It will be both on our Midday Missing
- 11:01Speaker 2: Facebook page. Let's help get the word out now. Also,
- 11:05Speaker 2: if you know of or have a loved one missing
- 11:08Speaker 2: and you're interested in having their story featured on an
- 11:11Speaker 2: upcoming episode, or maybe join us for a live interview,
- 11:15Speaker 2: you can contact Amy, our assistant producer, by email at
- 11:20Speaker 2: Amy at tcwtmedia dot com or send us a DM
- 11:25Speaker 2: on any of our social media pages. Sorry, guys, I
- 11:29Speaker 2: got to take a quick drink. Yeah, it's a struggle today.
- 11:37Speaker 2: But next, guys, we're going to talk about John Jacob
- 11:41Speaker 2: Morgan Junior, known affectionately as Jake to his family and friends,
- 11:46Speaker 2: he vanished in the early hours of March six, twenty twenty.
- 11:51Speaker 2: He was just twenty two years old. He was born
- 11:54Speaker 2: and raised in Wisconsin. Jake was working to rebuild his life,
- 11:58Speaker 2: trying to push forward after struggling with addiction. His family
- 12:02Speaker 2: says he was on the path of sobriety and finding
- 12:06Speaker 2: his footing. But in the cold, still darkness of that
- 12:09Speaker 2: early March morning, Jake seemingly disappeared without a trace, leaving
- 12:15Speaker 2: behind a trail of questions, heartbreak, and a lot of suspicion. Now.
- 12:23Speaker 2: March fifth, twenty twenty, began as an ordinary day for Drake.
- 12:27Speaker 2: He finished his shift at A and W in Okay,
- 12:31Speaker 2: I'm going to try to say this why Toma around
- 12:36Speaker 2: five thirty PM, a routine job he had held for
- 12:39Speaker 2: some time. A friend named Jane picked him up after
- 12:42Speaker 2: work and drove him to Waywiga. Later that evening, he
- 12:47Speaker 2: was picked up by another acquaintance, a young woman named Sue,
- 12:51Speaker 2: who brought him to her home in the king area. Guys,
- 12:56Speaker 2: I don't know what it is about Wisconsin, but they
- 13:00Speaker 2: are throwing me a lot of curveballs with these pronunciations today.
- 13:04Speaker 2: Okay now. Surveillance footage later captured Jake and Sue together
- 13:09Speaker 2: at a local gas station around two thirty AM on
- 13:14Speaker 2: March six.
- 13:15Speaker 3: Now.
- 13:16Speaker 2: At some point later that night, reportedly around three twenty
- 13:19Speaker 2: eight in the morning, Jake called Jane to ask her
- 13:23Speaker 2: ride to work the following morning. She agreed, planning to
- 13:27Speaker 2: pick him up around nine thirty EM so he could
- 13:30Speaker 2: get to his ten AM shift. Guys, that call would
- 13:34Speaker 2: be the last confirmed contact Jake ever made. Guys, I
- 13:39Speaker 2: have to also say you can tell Jake was in
- 13:43Speaker 2: his twenties because at the age I am now, if
- 13:48Speaker 2: I'm up at three thirty in the morning being at
- 13:50Speaker 2: work at ten am, is I don't know if I
- 13:53Speaker 2: could do that or not do it?
- 13:55Speaker 3: Well?
- 13:55Speaker 2: Okay now. According to Sue, Jake walked out of her
- 14:00Speaker 2: house sometime around eight am that morning. Outside, the temperatures
- 14:04Speaker 2: were bitterly cold. He left on foot, reportedly wearing a
- 14:08Speaker 2: dark Nike hoodie, A gray stocking cap, blue jeans, brown shoes,
- 14:14Speaker 2: and a Columbia style jacket and blue and gray and
- 14:17Speaker 2: a drawstring backpack. Now, he didn't take his phone charger,
- 14:21Speaker 2: his wallet, or any winter gear, and guys, no one
- 14:26Speaker 2: was confirming seeing him after that. Guys, why did he
- 14:30Speaker 2: not take his wallet? That to me is weird Unlessie
- 14:36Speaker 2: just forgot it. I mean, yesterday I took the wrong
- 14:43Speaker 2: car to a doctor's appointment, so I could see leaving
- 14:45Speaker 2: my house without a wallet. But I just found that weird.
- 14:48Speaker 2: What is especially troubling is a jack never ride for work.
- 14:52Speaker 3: Guys.
- 14:53Speaker 2: He also never picked up his paycheck, something his family
- 14:56Speaker 2: said was not like him.
- 14:58Speaker 3: Okay.
- 14:59Speaker 2: Now, later investigators revealed that his phone had pined near
- 15:03Speaker 2: the King area at around nine am on March sixth.
- 15:07Speaker 2: Then it went silent. Now when Jake didn't show up
- 15:11Speaker 2: for his shift, his family reported him missing. Oh boy,
- 15:17Speaker 2: why pa Ca. Whypaca County Sheriff's Office took the lead
- 15:23Speaker 2: on the case, opening an investigation. In the first days
- 15:26Speaker 2: and weeks, search efforts included ground teams and the use
- 15:30Speaker 2: of cadaver docs, particularly around Seus's property, the last known
- 15:35Speaker 2: place Jake had been seen. Despite efforts, no trace has
- 15:40Speaker 2: ever been found. Now, guys, officers did not confirm that
- 15:45Speaker 2: if anything was discovered near the house. I also couldn't
- 15:49Speaker 2: find if they searched in the house, so that I
- 15:53Speaker 2: found weird. Now, they said no charges were filed and
- 15:58Speaker 2: law enforcement stayed that they lacked probable cause to compel
- 16:03Speaker 2: testimony from people who had been with Jake that night. Okay, guys,
- 16:08Speaker 2: I have a question. If you've watched Midday Missing for
- 16:11Speaker 2: a while, I've often asked why we can't compel testimony.
- 16:17Speaker 2: Here Wisconsin is saying they can compel testimony. I didn't
- 16:23Speaker 2: think you could compel testimony from people because they have
- 16:27Speaker 2: the right to not criminate themselves. Or is this migraine
- 16:33Speaker 2: really pushing me over the edge today, I don't know. Now,
- 16:38Speaker 2: more than two hundred tips have come in. Jack's name
- 16:41Speaker 2: was entered into the National Missing Person's Database, and his
- 16:45Speaker 2: case was added to the National Missing and Unidentified Person System.
- 16:50Speaker 2: But guys, despite tips, searches, and vigils, the trail went cold.
- 16:55Speaker 2: Jake's family has not given up. Year after year. They've
- 17:00Speaker 2: marked the anniversaries with hope and with pain. They have
- 17:04Speaker 2: organized candlelight vigils and asked hunters in the area to
- 17:07Speaker 2: keep an eye out for any possible clues in the woods,
- 17:11Speaker 2: especially during dear season. Now, his mother has spoken publicly
- 17:18Speaker 2: urging anyone with information to come forward, even anonymously. She
- 17:24Speaker 2: said Jake wasn't perfect, but he was trying. He was kind,
- 17:29Speaker 2: and he mattered, and he didn't to serve to vanish
- 17:33Speaker 2: without answers. Guess what, I freaking agree. Okay, every person
- 17:40Speaker 2: matters unless you're a serial killer. But that's just my
- 17:45Speaker 2: two cents. As the investigation stretched into its third year,
- 17:49Speaker 2: the family became increasingly frustrated with what they saw as
- 17:53Speaker 2: a lack of urban urgency and transparency. Some believe Jake
- 17:58Speaker 2: may have met without play, either through accident, overdose, or
- 18:02Speaker 2: something more sinister, and that people with knowledge of that
- 18:06Speaker 2: night have simply refused to speak Now. Detectives have stated
- 18:12Speaker 2: that while no charges have been filed, they continue to
- 18:16Speaker 2: view Jake's disappearance as suspicious. Well, yeah, law enforcement, it's
- 18:22Speaker 2: suspicious because he just disappeared. I mean, I don't know now.
- 18:29Speaker 2: Jake stood about six feet one inches tall, weigh between
- 18:32Speaker 2: one hundred and thirty five and one hundred and fifty
- 18:34Speaker 2: five pounds. He had brown hair, blue eyes, pierced ears
- 18:39Speaker 2: and tongue, a scarb above his left eyebrow, and a
- 18:42Speaker 2: distinctive tattoo on one leg. At the time of his disappearance,
- 18:46Speaker 2: he was reportedly doing better. He was showing up to work,
- 18:51Speaker 2: staying in contact with his family, and he was maintaining
- 18:54Speaker 2: a routine. His mother has said he didn't just walk away.
- 19:00Speaker 2: Something happened, and someone knows what happened. As of today,
- 19:04Speaker 2: the case remains open. Jake would be twenty seven years
- 19:08Speaker 2: old today. A ten thousand dollars reward has been offered
- 19:11Speaker 2: for information that helps locate him or leads to someone
- 19:15Speaker 2: responsible for his disappearance. Law enforcement urges anyone with knowledge
- 19:21Speaker 2: of what happened to come forward confidentially or anonymous. Guys,
- 19:26Speaker 2: remember you can always contact the FBI dot gov and
- 19:31Speaker 2: leave a tip. Oh my goodness, I just did Alama
- 19:36Speaker 2: little burp and I'm not even drinking sparkling anything now.
- 19:40Speaker 2: Jake's disappearance left avoid not just in one family, but
- 19:44Speaker 2: in a community. As the years stretch on, the hope
- 19:48Speaker 2: for answers remain fierce. Each new season brings renewed heartbreak,
- 19:54Speaker 2: but also renewed determination. I just want my son home,
- 19:59Speaker 2: his mother said during a twenty twenty three interview, or
- 20:04Speaker 2: at least to know what happened. Please, someone knows. We
- 20:10Speaker 2: need you to come forward. Guys, if you know something
- 20:14Speaker 2: about Jake's disappearance, please now is the time to come forward.
- 20:21Speaker 2: Please call the Wapaka County Sheriff's Office at seven one
- 20:26Speaker 2: five two five eight four four sixty six, or contact
- 20:31Speaker 2: Kevin Rogers at Magnum Investigations Plus at seven one five
- 20:36Speaker 2: five two four nine zero four four. Guys, let's please
- 20:42Speaker 2: share the missing post the missing person flyers for John Jacob.
- 20:48Speaker 2: Who are gonna call Jake and Melissa?
- 20:50Speaker 3: Guys.
- 20:51Speaker 2: I heard a family member over on a YouTube video
- 20:55Speaker 2: was watching who said their daughter was missing for years
- 21:01Speaker 2: and then her remains were found and they found out
- 21:04Speaker 2: she was murdered. They said the hardest part of the
- 21:08Speaker 2: whole thing was the years they went wondering what happened
- 21:13Speaker 2: to her. They said, her being murdered was horrific, but
- 21:16Speaker 2: at least they had some answers and they were able
- 21:20Speaker 2: to now put her to rest and say a proper goodbye.
- 21:24Speaker 2: I want everyone to think about that. Okay, every family
- 21:30Speaker 2: of a missing person, they just want to know, and
- 21:34Speaker 2: I want every person out there who has done something
- 21:39Speaker 2: and taken someone and they are missing, do the right thing,
- 21:45Speaker 2: even anonymously, put these families suffering to rest. They do
- 21:51Speaker 2: not deserve it. Guys, there is no Terry's Tips for today.
- 21:57Speaker 2: My tip for today is just take one breath at
- 22:02Speaker 2: a time, one minute out of time. That's my tip
- 22:05Speaker 2: for the day.
- 22:06Speaker 1: Okay.
- 22:07Speaker 2: Now, I want to thank you all for joining me today.
- 22:10Speaker 2: I look forward to seeing you again on Monday for
- 22:13Speaker 2: our next episode of Midnight Midnight Missing, Oh my God
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- 23:56Speaker 2: next time, please as always stay safe. If you see something,
- 24:01Speaker 2: say something, because guys, I've said this for your silence
- 24:08Speaker 2: is protecting the criminal. Okay, You're not helping the victim
- 24:13Speaker 2: by staying quiet. You are literally an accessory in my mind.
- 24:18Speaker 2: If you know something and you're not telling. Okay, So
- 24:22Speaker 2: do the right thing and let's help these families get
- 24:24Speaker 2: the answers they deserve. Bye, guys, I will see our
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