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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…
Episodes
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast168. Smells Like A Complicated Partnership - DNA, Science And Justice
Ever since the mid-1980s, when Sir Alec Jeffreys first developed “genetic fingerprinting” which soon came to be known of DNA profiling, forensic science has…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast167. Smells Like A Hunting Trip Into Oblivion - The Ed Nichols Case With Special Guest Detective Coy Cox
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast166. Smells Like Crystal Rogers And Will Cierzan Updates
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast165. Smells Like An Exorcism Of Logic - Paul Bateson, Addison Verrill And The Six Unknowns
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast164. Smells Like A Vanishing On Route 19 - Diane Augat's Long Walk To Nowhere
Diane Louise Augat did not have an easy life. Diagnosed with bipolar disorder in her early 30s, she lost her marriage and custody of her children as she was…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast163. Smells Like Ingenious Genealogy - With Special Guest David Mittelman
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast162. Smells Like: Who Would Do This To Big Tom Biedenharn?
This episode takes us back to the Tri-State area (the Cincinnati Metro Area), where Episode 147 took us in an overview of the Bill and Peggy Stephenson murder…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast161. Smells Like Multiple Updates - Tanqueray And Scott Peterson
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast160. Smells Like The Eyes Of A Hurricane - How Katrina Found Dana
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast159. Smells Like A Staged Disappearance - No Justice For Michele Harris
Last week’s episode concerning the disappearance of Sneha Philip right on the cusp of the World Trade Center attacks on 9/11/2001 got Melissa to thinking about…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast158. Smells Like A Phantom At Ground Zero - The Evaporation Of Sneha Philip
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast157. MURDERTIZER - Smells Like Tenacity Wins Again - Carla Jan Walker Update
Earlier this year, in Episode 130, Melissa retold the story of a terrible and terribly unsolved murder out of Fort Worth Texas – the tragic 1974 abduction and…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast156. Smells Like 1881 In 1981 - Ken Rex McElroy And The Vengeance Of A Small Town
If you’ve never experienced small town life, it’ll be almost impossible to comprehend the now-infamous tale of tiny Skidmore Missouri and the day nearly forty…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast155. Smells Like Tragic Attraction - The Scorecard Killer Part Two
What makes a prolific serial killer like Randy Kraft – who authorities say brutalized, sexually assaulted and mutilated at least 61 (and almost certainly more…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast154. Smells Like Randy Kraft Is Evil Incarnate - The Scorecard Killer Part One
For more than a dozen years, from the early 1970s through the early 1980s, Randy Kraft, a callous and truly sinister serial killer, terrorized young men and…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast153. Smells Like A Possible Serial Victim - The 1978 Long Beach John Doe
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 town of Cincinnati – and it’s time to get…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast152. Smells Like The Pathology Of Pathology - With Special Guests Drs. Nicole Croom And Jordan Taylor
Even though Nicole Croom (originally from Stockton California) and Jordan Taylor (originally from Waterbury Connecticut) grew up 3,000 miles apart from each…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast151. Smells Like The Truth Is Out There - Randy Sellers Update
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 friends and hang out…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast150. Smells Like A Warning Sign - Animal Cruelty, John Thompson And The Krystal Scott Case
57 years ago psychiatrist J.M. Macdonald wrote a paper published in The American Journal of Psychiatry entitled "The Threat to Kill," in which he proposed that…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast149. MURDERTIZER - Smells Like Progress - Will Cierzan Update
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast148. Smells Like Rotten Excusers And True Crime Abusers
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast147. Smells Like A Gruesome Puzzle - The Stephenson Murders - With Special Guest Detective Coy Cox
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast146. Smells Like Adventure In Grand Theft Auto - With Special Guest Vic Ferrari
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast145. Smells Like Mass Murder Times Two - The Limb Collector (Baton Rouge Serial Killers - Part Four)
In this episode, the last of a four-part series on what came to be known as the "Baton Rouge Serial Killers," we meet Sean Vincent Gillis - the "other" of the…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast144. Smells Like Somebody Should Have Listened - The Key Collector Part Three - With Special Guest Chief David McDavid
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast143. Smells Like This Goes Way Back - The Key Collector (Baton Rouge Serial Killer) Part Two
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast142. Smells Like A Predator In Baton Rouge - The Key Collector Part One
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast141. MURDERTIZER - Smells Like A Mid-June Roundup
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast140. Smells Like A Forty Year Waiting Game - How Never Giving Up Solved Carolyn Rose's Murder
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast139. Smells Like A Lousy Day For A Break-In - The Unfortunate Fate Of Shane Snellman
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast138. Smells Like Dirty Rotten Solvable - The Assassination Of Edward Berber
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast137. Smells Like We're Coming For Ya, A**holes - The Murder Accountability Project And How YOU Can Help
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast136. Smells Like A Flat Out Cover-Up - The Non-Suicide Of LaVena Johnson
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast135. Smells Like Dead In The Water - The Death Of Abdi Sharif - With Special Guest Stephanie Kinney
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast134. Smells Like A Slow Road Out Of Chico - The Disappearance Of Bryce Laspisa
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast133. Smells Like A Grandmother's Wish - Uncovering Crystal Marler's Killer
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast132. Smells Like Dedication - The Jeffrey Lynn Combs Case And The Mission Of CUE - With Special Guest Jerry Sigmon
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast131. Smells Like A Bouquet Of Miracles - Jennifer Morey And The Will To Survive
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast130. Smells Like A Nightmare At The Valentine Dance - The Abduction Of Carla Walker
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast129. Smells Like A Little Boy Lost - The Mystery of Dennis Doe
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast128. Smells Like More Than Just The Dogs Got Rescued - With Special Guest Jon Grobman
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast127. Smells Like Murder Before Home Room - Who Killed Hal Arthur?
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast126. Smells Like Sending Barbara Ann Home - With Special Guest Todd Matthews
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast125. Smells Like Evil Comes To A Small Town - A Requiem For Taylor And Skyla
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast124. Smells Like Injustice In Fort Collins - The Peggy Hettrick Murder - With Special Guest Scott Howard
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast123. Smells Like The U.S. Marshals Got Peter Chadwick
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast122. Smells Like There Must Be Someone Missing Valentine Sally
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast121. Smells Like B.S. In The Hog Pen - Randy Sellers, Melissa And The FBI
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast120. Smells Like Six Minutes And Gone - The Will Cierzan Case Three Years Later
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast119. Smells Like An Impossible Suicide - Who Really Killed Diane Sherman Young?
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast118. Smells Like The Hunter Became The Hunted - The Mysterious Shooting Of Terry Brisk
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast117. Smells Like A Farce - The Bigoted Conviction Of Joe Bryan
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast116. MURDERTIZER - Sounds Like Static - Dan Rather, REM And...Kenneth
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast115. Sounds Like Too Many Coincidences - The Flat Tire Murders
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast114. Sounds Like Terror In The Castro - The Doodler Murders
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast113. Sounds Like Bafflement On The Beltway - The Freeway Phantom Murders
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast112. Sounds Like Not Much Of A Life Sentence - The Murders Of Scott William Cox
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast111. Sounds Like Order In The Court - Justice for Pookie And Daniel - With Special Guest Audry McDonald
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 -…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast110. Sounds Like Fighting Fear - Saugus High School And Simon Kenton High School
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast109. Sounds Like A Tough Way To Break Out Of Jail - The Multiple Lives Of Benjamin Schreiber
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…