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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 Podcast108. Sounds Like This Is Not A Fire Drill - Catching John Leonard Orr
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast107. Sounds Like Anybody Coulda Dunnit - The Dumler-Wilson Murders - With Special Guest Detective Kellyanne Best
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast106. Sounds Like The Missing Toe Was The Snitch - The Murder Of Tammy Esquivel
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast105. Sounds Like An Australian Abomination - Why Hasn't William Tyrrell Been Found?
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast104. Sounds Like The Coldest Cold Case - The Grimes Sisters Murders
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast103. Sounds Like A Real Pussycat - Lawrence Tierney Followup With Special Guest Cynthia Hawkins
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast102. Sounds Like No One Wants To Know What Happened To Matthew Weaver Jr. - With Special Guests Colleen Weaver-Ferrall and Brooke Tipton
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast101. Sounds Like The Real Deadliest Catch - The Bizarre Murder Of Matt Tancevski
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast100. Sounds Like Tragedy On The Interstate - The Carrollton Bus Crash
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast99. Sounds Like Two Dead Guys - Times Two
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…
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Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast98. Sounds Like Oliver Stone On Acid - The Mysterious Murder of Karyn Kupcinet
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast97. Sounds Like More Than Just A Survivor - Mary Vincent's Defiant Will To Live
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast96. Sounds Like Carmina Salcido Has A Life Wish
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast95. MURDERTIZER - Sounds Like Extradition - Peter Chadwick Update
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast94. MURDER NERD UNIVERSITY - Sounds Like Toxicology Saved Brigida McInvale - With Special Guest Dr. Jeff Lapoint
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast93. Sounds Like Trust Turned Into Tragedy - Who Did Rhianna Barreau Let In The Door?
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast92. Sounds Like A Bad Boy Gone Good - Eugene Vidocq And The Invention Of Criminology
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast91. Savannah Spurlock Update - Sounds Like "You're Under Arrest"
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast90. Sounds Like The Last Cry Of An Honest Man - R. Budd Dwyer's Sad Farewell
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast89. Sounds Like LARPing Gone Bad...Or Something - The David Grubbs Murder - With Special Guest Chief Tighe O'Meara
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast88. Sounds Like Kin Comes First - Savannah Spurlock And Her Dedicated Family
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast87. Sounds Like Light Shattering Darkness - Jennifer Ertman, Elizabeth Pena And The Quest For Justice
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast86. Sounds Like A Father's Love - Finding Chase Allen Lackey - With Special Guest Craig Lackey
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast85. Sounds Like The Cops Don't Trust Us - The Closed (Minded) Search For Peter Chadwick
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast84. Sounds Like A DNA Conundrum - The GEDMatch Opt-In Policy
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast83. MURDERTIZER - Sounds Like San Joaquin Strangeness - Satwant And The Abandoned Big Rig
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast82. Sounds Like 39 Years Of Frustration - The Tynong North And Frankston Murders
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast81. Sounds Like You're Not Getting Your Deposit Back, Sir - Helle Crafts And The Wood Chipper
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast80. Sounds Like A Mess In Queens - The (Possible) Murderer Of Karina Vetrano
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast79. Sounds Like A Shroud Of Silence On Murder Mountain - With Special Guest Vikki Joseph
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast78. Sounds Like One Year Later: A Golden State Killer Update - And More!
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast77. Sounds Like A Bad Tarantino Movie - The Van Cleef And Arpels Massacre
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast76. Sounds Like Crazy Calm Under Deadly Duress - The Courage of Jennifer Holliday
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast75, MURDERTIZER - Sounds Like One Unlucky Leprechaun - David Cotton's Fatal Misadventure
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast74. Sounds Like A Malibu Mystery - The Mitrice Richardson Case With Special Guest Dr. Ronda Hampton
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast73. Sounds Like A Madman's Gang of Killers - The Savage Murders Of Clarence Ray Allen
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast72. MURDERTIZER - Sounds Like Scary Stories Are Good For You!
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast71. Kevin Cooper Part 2 - Sounds Like A Questionable Conviction
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast70. Kevin Cooper Part 1 - Sounds Like Mass Murder And Mass Confusion
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast69. Sounds Like Randy Sellers Hasn't Been Forgotten - With Special Guest Detective Brian Jones
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast68. Sounds Like Psycho Greed - Dana Ewell And Joel Radovcich
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast67. MURDERTIZER - Sounds Like Developments Are Developin'
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast66. Sounds Like Canadian Criminology - With Special Guest Tanya Todd
Melissa visits with true crime podcast aficionado and budding criminologist Tanya Todd, who visits the Homestead Studios all the way from Toronto, Canada to…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast65. Sounds Like A Panhandle Cover-Up: What Happened To Thomas Brown?
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast64. Sounds Like Will Is Still Missing: The Continuing Search For William Cierzan
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast63. Sounds Like They're The Same (But They're Not): Jasmine Richardson and Jayme Closs
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast62. Sounds Like A PWOK In Feelingsville - With Special Guests Lorraine Schweikhard and Ginger Warren
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast61. Sounds Like The Sky Is Falling - The Lost Souls Of JFK Junior
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast60. Tastes Like A Mother's Frustration - Finding Cody Turner
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast59. MURDERTIZER - Tastes Like DNA Wins Again
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast58. Tastes Like No Bodies Business - With Special Guest Tad Dibiase
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast57. Tastes Like A Nightmare - The Unsolved Disappearance Of Shannon Hokanson
Melissa looks at the heartbreaking, frustrating disappearance of Shannon Baldwin Hokanson, a beautiful young mother of three who disappeared in Enid Oklahoma…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast56. The Grim Sleeper Part 3 - Tastes Like A Killer Cheese Pizza
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast55. The Grim Sleeper Part 2 - Tastes Like More Than A Cat Nap
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast54. The Grim Sleeper Part 1 - Tastes Like A Monster Hidden In Plain Sight
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast53. Tastes Like Dead North - With Special Guests Laura Frizzo and Jeremy Ogden
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast52. Halloween Edition - Tastes Like It Was All The Dog's Idea
What ties together the still-unsolved 1981 Halloween murders of photographer Ronald Sisman and Smith College coed Elizabeth Platzman in a Greenwich Village…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast51. Tastes Like Texas Justice Just Ain't Just
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…
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast50. Tastes Like Someone Knows What Happened To Sandra Kerby
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…