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Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast
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…
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- Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast
SE5 EP229 FEELS LIKE CONNIE CONVERSE STARTED A MUSICAL FIRE
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SE 5 EP228 FEELS LIKE KENNY TUTTLE HAS AN EARTH ANGEL
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EP227
Tip-Sters have an opportunity to help with this episode. The Attorney General of Texas is asking for our help. 42 years after her parents were murdered and…
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#226 JUST THE TIP-STERS Will Cierzan's Day in Court
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SE5 EP225
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SE 5 EP 224
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SE5 EP223 FEELS LIKE WE CAN HELP NAIL LISK
The Long Island Serial Killer has preyed on victims for too many decades. Someone probably knows something they may not think is important. IF you know…
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SE 5 EP 222
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EP 221 AL GREEN AND THE GRITS MURDERTIZER
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EP 220 Shanessa Chappie Deserved So Much Better
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EP 219
Melissa Lucio's death penalty conviction has been given a stay of execution pending a lower court review. We aren't done yet, though. There are ways we can all…
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218 FEELS LIKE CRISTA HELM KEPT A DIARY
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216. LAKE WACO PART TWO
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215 Murdertizer-Terry Brisk Case Update
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EP 214 Season 5 Feels Like Lake Waco is Cold
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213. Feels Like Like a Peter Chadwick Update-Murdertizer
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Feels Like Rebekah Barsotti Should Have Come Back From the River
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WILL CEIRZAN UPDATE MURDERTIZER
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…
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Melissa's Apology
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209 Kim Simon Still Needs Justice
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Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast208. Looks Like It's Good To Volunteer - The Missing Persons Cases Of Dane Elkins, John Stivers And Ron Brown
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast207. Looks Like A Murderous Conundrum - Paul Kordenbrock, Sirhan Sirhan And The Puzzle Of Sentencing Reform
In this episode Melissa tackles the complex moral, ethical and practical aspects of sentencing reform – in particular the parole of those who have committed…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast206. Looks Like An Execution At Exit 34 - The Unsolved Killing Of Officer Jason Ellis
In the early morning of May 13, 2013, 33 year-old Bardstown Kentucky police officer Jason Ellis, just weeks away from his seventh anniversary on the job, was…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast205. Looks Like Facts Over Rumors - Randy Sellers Update With Special Guest Concerned Citizen "Jeremy"
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast204. Looks Like Melissa Witt Has A Champion - With Special Guest LaDonna Humphrey
On the morning of December 1, 1994, Melissa Witt (her friends and family called her “Missy”) had a small tiff with her mom over money. The 19 year-old college…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast203. Looks Like Sorrento Jane Doe Is Still Trying To Find Her Way Home
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast202. Looks Like You Can't Alibi Stupid - Judy Moilanen's Idiotic Murder
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast201. Looks Like A Ghost On Video - Leah Rowlands And Her Killer Who No One Knows
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast200. Looks Like Sherri Rasmussen Won The Fight - The Capture Of Stephanie Lazarus
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast199. Looks Like An Abandonment - Will Justice Ever Serve Christina Carnes?
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast198. Looks Like Yoga Didn't Do It - The Botched Dana Jones Investigation
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast197. Looks Like A Real Life Lenny Briscoe - Law And Disorder With Special Guest Vic Ferrari
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast196. Looks Like A Crooked Blue Line - The Muzzled Murder Of Catherine Braley
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast195. Looks Like An Organized Massacre - The Slaughter Of Cyle VanKomen And Kevin Nelson
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast194. Looks Like Ten Years Is Too Long - Stephenson Murders Update With Special Guest Det. Coy Cox
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast193. Looks Like A Long Walk To The Store - The Evil That Stole Avery "Peaches" Shorts
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast192. Looks Like All Angels Go To Heaven - Judith Barsi's Sad Farewell
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast191. Looks Like Murder Without A Motive - The Illogical Tragedy Of Bonnie Neighbors
The holiday season was in full bloom in the small North Carolina town of Benson on Thursday December 14, 1972 when 33 year old Bonnie Neighbors was planning to…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast190. Looks Like Injustice In San Antonio - The Obvious Unsolved Murder Of Monika Rizzo
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast189. Looks Like It Wasn't Xenu - The Murders Of Penelope Edwards And Troy Dunn
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast188. Looks Like It's Good To Be Kind - Vaccines, Nasty Notes And The Unkind Murders Of Gail Moody And Lori Arrowood
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast187. Looks Like An Ambush At The ATM - Matthew Chase's Final Deposit
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast186. Looks Like A Minute And A Half Is A Lifetime - The Erasing Of Mikelle Biggs
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast185. Looks Like A Nightmare On Light Street - Jessica Rae Sacco And The Killer Juggalos
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 national news – not just…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast184. Looks Like A Bad Meeting At The High School Auditorium - The Very Solvable Murder Of Jay Smith
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast183. Looks Like Murder By The Side Of The Road - Finding Justice For Veronica Estrada - With Special Guest Ken Lewis
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast182. Looks Like Terry Meador Lost His Way - With Special Guest Detective Matt Wharton
This week Melissa’s special guest is the engaging (and really nice guy) Detective Matt Wharton from the Sweetwater County Wyoming Sheriff’s Office. It’s…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast181. MURDERTIZER - Looks Like An Unassuming Interview - Melissa Chats With Dave Kimball
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast180. Looks Like Chaos In Putnam County - Who Actually Murdered Josette Wright And Robin Murphy?
This week’s episode involves a twisted web of convictions (perhaps wrongful), acquittals (also possibly wrongful), the murder of a young woman and the…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast179. Looks Like A Vanishing On A Rainy Night - Asha Degree's Mysterious Walk-Away
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast178. Looks Like Unrelated But The Same - Louise Paciarello And The Ladies Of Brownsville
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast177. Looks Like THEY Are Hiding Something - Uncovering Tamara Tigard
One day in March 1980, a member of the U.S. Army (her rank still not clear) named Tamara Tigard, who was living (or was she stationed?) in Las Vegas, went for…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast176. Looks Like A Spinoff Into Tragedy - The Senseless Murder Of Barbara Colby
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast175. Looks Like A Puzzle Waiting For Its Missing Piece - The Otha Young Jr. Mystery - With Special Guest Virginia Braden
On October 10 1996, a 65 year-old retired eyeglass maker named Otha Young, Jr., who had been admitted to a hospital in his hometown of Louisville Kentucky for…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast174. Looks Like Murder Made For Hollywood - Mabel Monohan And Barbara Graham
This week Melissa jumps into the Tip-Ster Wayback machine and journeys to the rough-and tumble era of 1950s Los Angeles, where corruption ran rampant, the mob…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast173. Looks Like Unreliable Statements - The Disappearance Of Erica Baker
Melissa opens Season 4 with a vexing case out of Soutwest Ohio – the town of Kettering, where on February 7, 1999, nine year-old Erica Baker took her aunt’s…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast172. SPECIAL: Smells Like An Incognito Interview
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 The…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast171. Smells Like 18 Years Is Too Long To Wait - The Wideman Family Murders
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast170. Smells Like Flim Flam Namaste - Buddhafield And The Attraction Of Cults
On this special episode, Melissa explores the phenomenon of outlier religious or alternative followings – otherwise known as cults. At the center of this…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast169. Smells Like A Lifting Fog - The Cheryll Spegal Case With Special Guest Beth Rowland
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…