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Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime PodcastSMACKDOWN 2 ELECTRIC BOOGALOOWe asked for your opinion Tip-Sters on why women are the main consumers to true crime. And boy did you deliver! Thank you for your beautifully soul baring answers some of which we talk about in this episode.
2022-10-2637 minJust The Tip-Sters: True Crime PodcastSMACKDOWN 2 ELECTRIC BOOGALOOWe asked for your opinion Tip-Sters on why women are the main consumers to true crime. And boy did you deliver! Thank you for your beautifully soul baring answers some of which we talk about in this episode.
2022-10-2637 minJust The Tip-Sters: True Crime PodcastEP227Tip-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 left in a forest in Texas after moving there from Florida, Baby Holly has been found living in Oklahoma. She was adopted after being left at a fire station and thanks to genetic genealogy her family was located and she knows who her biological parents were. Their story is layered and there are definitely people who know what happened and maybe even who is responsible for the murder of her parents. If you...2022-06-2825 minJust The Tip-Sters: True Crime PodcastEP227Tip-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 left in a forest in Texas after moving there from Florida, Baby Holly has been found living in Oklahoma. She was adopted after being left at a fire station and thanks to genetic genealogy her family was located and she knows who her biological parents were. Their story is layered and there are definitely people who know what happened and maybe even who is responsible for the murder of her parents. If you...2022-06-2825 minJust The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast#226 JUST THE TIP-STERS Will Cierzan's Day in Court2022-06-2132 minJust The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast#226 JUST THE TIP-STERS Will Cierzan's Day in Court2022-06-2132 min
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 BrownOver 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 from around the world. Melissa has followed up, done her research, and presented many of them as episodes. The inspiration for “Just The Tip-Sters” itself was inspired by Melissa’s deep devotion to solving the 2017 disappearance of Will Cierzan – an ongoing mission that could be culminating soon with the trial of Will’s nephew Daniel. But hovering over every such case are questions – about the nature of the case itself – and how to actually help when help is...2021-09-071h 00Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast208. Looks Like It's Good To Volunteer - The Missing Persons Cases Of Dane Elkins, John Stivers And Ron BrownOver 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 from around the world. Melissa has followed up, done her research, and presented many of them as episodes. The inspiration for “Just The Tip-Sters” itself was inspired by Melissa’s deep devotion to solving the 2017 disappearance of Will Cierzan – an ongoing mission that could be culminating soon with the trial of Will’s nephew Daniel. But hovering over every such case are questions – about the nature of the case itself – and how to actually help when help is...2021-09-071h 00
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast203. Looks Like Sorrento Jane Doe Is Still Trying To Find Her Way HomeDecember 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 that should live in infamy was unfolding in the woods of the town of Sorrento in Lake County, Florida. It was there that a hiker discovered the brutally beaten body of a woman who has become known as the “Sorrento Jane Doe,” who had been tortured, raped, beaten and strangled to death. Many – many – lucky breaks eventually helped law enforcement find and convict the serial rapist responsible for the crime – including a DNA hit at a time when DNA...2021-08-0345 minJust The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast203. Looks Like Sorrento Jane Doe Is Still Trying To Find Her Way HomeDecember 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 that should live in infamy was unfolding in the woods of the town of Sorrento in Lake County, Florida. It was there that a hiker discovered the brutally beaten body of a woman who has become known as the “Sorrento Jane Doe,” who had been tortured, raped, beaten and strangled to death. Many – many – lucky breaks eventually helped law enforcement find and convict the serial rapist responsible for the crime – including a DNA hit at a time when DNA...2021-08-0345 min
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast194. Looks Like Ten Years Is Too Long - Stephenson Murders Update With Special Guest Det. Coy CoxTen 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 how long it’s been since their family patriarch and matriarch Bill and Peggy Stephenson were murdered – brutally – in their Florence Kentucky townhome on Memorial Day weekend in 2011. And the devoted minister and his wife – both beloved members of the community known for their kindness and generosity – were killed in a most unusual – evil way. The killer (or killers) murdered the Stephensons late at night – and took their time. They not only...2021-06-0158 minJust The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast194. Looks Like Ten Years Is Too Long - Stephenson Murders Update With Special Guest Det. Coy CoxTen 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 how long it’s been since their family patriarch and matriarch Bill and Peggy Stephenson were murdered – brutally – in their Florence Kentucky townhome on Memorial Day weekend in 2011. And the devoted minister and his wife – both beloved members of the community known for their kindness and generosity – were killed in a most unusual – evil way. The killer (or killers) murdered the Stephensons late at night – and took their time. They not only...2021-06-0158 min
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast191. Looks Like Murder Without A Motive - The Illogical Tragedy Of Bonnie NeighborsThe 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 pick up her oldest son Ken from school, taking her three-month old baby boy Glenn along with her. A witness even saw Bonnie’s car leave her driveway that afternoon – although, strangely, she seemed to be driving erratically and at a high rate of speed – and in the opposite direction of Ken’s school. When Bonnie’s husband (Ken, Senior) got a call from young Ken’s school telling him that no one had come to pic...2021-05-1158 minJust The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast191. Looks Like Murder Without A Motive - The Illogical Tragedy Of Bonnie NeighborsThe 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 pick up her oldest son Ken from school, taking her three-month old baby boy Glenn along with her. A witness even saw Bonnie’s car leave her driveway that afternoon – although, strangely, she seemed to be driving erratically and at a high rate of speed – and in the opposite direction of Ken’s school. When Bonnie’s husband (Ken, Senior) got a call from young Ken’s school telling him that no one had come to pic...2021-05-1158 min
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 ArrowoodThis 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 intro is actually half the show – and there’s an important reason why. It’s because Melissa has had some things she’s been wanting to say for a while about kindness – being nice – and those things came to the fore this past week in the form of vaccine side effects and a particularly icky email she received from a clearly unhappy person. So in addition to the usual than-yous (and a dynamite discussio...2021-04-2051 minJust 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 ArrowoodThis 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 intro is actually half the show – and there’s an important reason why. It’s because Melissa has had some things she’s been wanting to say for a while about kindness – being nice – and those things came to the fore this past week in the form of vaccine side effects and a particularly icky email she received from a clearly unhappy person. So in addition to the usual than-yous (and a dynamite discussio...2021-04-2051 min
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 LewisThis 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 Melissa and Producer Mark moved there. The victim was a beautiful and accomplished 29 year-old martial arts instructor and black belt named Veronica Estrada, who left the studio where she was an instructor and, having had an argument with her boyfriend, decided to walk home instead of having him pick her up. The next morning, after no one had heard from Veronica, the owner of the studio, Ken Lewis, and another instructor at the studio named Stuart...2021-03-161h 18Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast183. Looks Like Murder By The Side Of The Road - Finding Justice For Veronica Estrada - With Special Guest Ken LewisThis 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 Melissa and Producer Mark moved there. The victim was a beautiful and accomplished 29 year-old martial arts instructor and black belt named Veronica Estrada, who left the studio where she was an instructor and, having had an argument with her boyfriend, decided to walk home instead of having him pick her up. The next morning, after no one had heard from Veronica, the owner of the studio, Ken Lewis, and another instructor at the studio named Stuart...2021-03-161h 18
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast181. MURDERTIZER - Looks Like An Unassuming Interview - Melissa Chats With Dave KimballHey 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 podcast – the Don’t Assume Podcast hosted by Dave Kimball – a truly interesting and interesting guy who hosts people from all over the country from a wide array of professions and backgrounds and challenges his listeners to not assume they know what they think they know about those backgrounds and professions. Naturally, who better for Dave to discuss true crime podcasts with than our own Melissa? Enjoy this wonderful chat where you’ll have a chance to hear Melissa...2021-03-0448 minJust The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast181. MURDERTIZER - Looks Like An Unassuming Interview - Melissa Chats With Dave KimballHey 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 podcast – the Don’t Assume Podcast hosted by Dave Kimball – a truly interesting and interesting guy who hosts people from all over the country from a wide array of professions and backgrounds and challenges his listeners to not assume they know what they think they know about those backgrounds and professions. Naturally, who better for Dave to discuss true crime podcasts with than our own Melissa? Enjoy this wonderful chat where you’ll have a chance to hear Melissa...2021-03-0448 min
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast172. SPECIAL: Smells Like An Incognito InterviewAs 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 Incognito Society and its host, Elizabeth. In the interview, Melissa shares a lot about herself, her podcast, the relationship between podcasts and law enforcement, as well as a number of cases, including the vexing Delphi Murders out of Indiana, where Elizabeth and her channel are based, and upon which The Incognito Society and its followers focus much of their time searching for clues. We want to thank Elizabeth for allowing us to share...2021-01-051h 18Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast172. SPECIAL: Smells Like An Incognito InterviewAs 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 Incognito Society and its host, Elizabeth. In the interview, Melissa shares a lot about herself, her podcast, the relationship between podcasts and law enforcement, as well as a number of cases, including the vexing Delphi Murders out of Indiana, where Elizabeth and her channel are based, and upon which The Incognito Society and its followers focus much of their time searching for clues. We want to thank Elizabeth for allowing us to share...2021-01-051h 18
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast171. Smells Like 18 Years Is Too Long To Wait - The Wideman Family MurdersMelissa 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 bring a suspect to justice...mysterious because, right from the very beginning, all signs pointed – with big bright shiny, glowing arrows – to Jason Michael Walker, who was finally arrested on December 2, 2020 after nearly two decades following the murders in question. And those murders were as grotesque and incomprehensible as they come. On March 22, 2002, at approximately 3 a.m. local time, authorities were called to a burning house in the tiny town of Rebecca, Georgia. Inside the ru...2020-12-2952 minJust The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast171. Smells Like 18 Years Is Too Long To Wait - The Wideman Family MurdersMelissa 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 bring a suspect to justice...mysterious because, right from the very beginning, all signs pointed – with big bright shiny, glowing arrows – to Jason Michael Walker, who was finally arrested on December 2, 2020 after nearly two decades following the murders in question. And those murders were as grotesque and incomprehensible as they come. On March 22, 2002, at approximately 3 a.m. local time, authorities were called to a burning house in the tiny town of Rebecca, Georgia. Inside the ru...2020-12-2952 min
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast166. Smells Like Crystal Rogers And Will Cierzan UpdatesThis 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 we’ve covered extensively and almost no one else has…and as with all unsolved cases, it’s a mixed bag. The first update has to do with the 2015 disappearance of Crystal Rogers, the then 35 year-old mother of five from Bardstown Kentucky who went missing during the Independence Day holiday. The last person to see Crystal was her live-in boyfriend, Brooks Houck, who claims that Crystal was playing video games on her phone when he went t...2020-11-2455 minJust The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast166. Smells Like Crystal Rogers And Will Cierzan UpdatesThis 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 we’ve covered extensively and almost no one else has…and as with all unsolved cases, it’s a mixed bag. The first update has to do with the 2015 disappearance of Crystal Rogers, the then 35 year-old mother of five from Bardstown Kentucky who went missing during the Independence Day holiday. The last person to see Crystal was her live-in boyfriend, Brooks Houck, who claims that Crystal was playing video games on her phone when he went t...2020-11-2455 min
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast159. Smells Like A Staged Disappearance - No Justice For Michele HarrisLast 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 other cases revolving around major national emergency events. And so this week’s episode is about someone else whose disappearance – this one occurring just the day after 9/11 – is still a mystery and whose killer has never been convicted – although the authorities thought for sure they had identified that person…and arrested him…and tried him…FOUR TIMES… Michele Harris was splitting with her husband, Calvin (“Cal”) Harris, and the split was not going well. Both living togethe...2020-10-0652 minJust The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast159. Smells Like A Staged Disappearance - No Justice For Michele HarrisLast 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 other cases revolving around major national emergency events. And so this week’s episode is about someone else whose disappearance – this one occurring just the day after 9/11 – is still a mystery and whose killer has never been convicted – although the authorities thought for sure they had identified that person…and arrested him…and tried him…FOUR TIMES… Michele Harris was splitting with her husband, Calvin (“Cal”) Harris, and the split was not going well. Both living togethe...2020-10-0652 min
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast158. Smells Like A Phantom At Ground Zero - The Evaporation Of Sneha PhilipThe 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 awful events of that day, and the heroism of so many people from all walks of life who helped remind us all of the humanity we all share. So many souls were lost that day – the official count is nearly 3,000 – and even after all this time there are so many missing who have never been physically identified – only presumed – as victims of the attack. In this episode, Melissa tells the story of one of th...2020-09-2959 minJust The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast158. Smells Like A Phantom At Ground Zero - The Evaporation Of Sneha PhilipThe 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 awful events of that day, and the heroism of so many people from all walks of life who helped remind us all of the humanity we all share. So many souls were lost that day – the official count is nearly 3,000 – and even after all this time there are so many missing who have never been physically identified – only presumed – as victims of the attack. In this episode, Melissa tells the story of one of th...2020-09-2959 min
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast153. Smells Like A Possible Serial Victim - The 1978 Long Beach John DoeIt’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 back to the business at hand with a brand new episode...In June of 1978 the body of a young man – aged 15 to 19 years old – was discovered face down on a back street/alley/parking lot in Long Beach, California. He was well dressed. His body appeared to be healthy – there were no drugs found in his system. There were no signs of sexual assault. He had been strangle...2020-09-0149 minJust The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast153. Smells Like A Possible Serial Victim - The 1978 Long Beach John DoeIt’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 back to the business at hand with a brand new episode...In June of 1978 the body of a young man – aged 15 to 19 years old – was discovered face down on a back street/alley/parking lot in Long Beach, California. He was well dressed. His body appeared to be healthy – there were no drugs found in his system. There were no signs of sexual assault. He had been strangle...2020-09-0149 min
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast151. Smells Like The Truth Is Out There - Randy Sellers Update40 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. Sometime during the evening, he had too much to drink, got into a fight, took a swing at one of the policemen who responded to the scene and was eventually taken away in a squad car. He has not been seen or heard from since. In early 2019, on Episode 69 of Just The Tip-Sters, Melissa interviewed the detective then assigned to the case. Then earlier this year on Episode 121, Melissa revealed the wild series of events that...2020-08-1845 minJust The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast151. Smells Like The Truth Is Out There - Randy Sellers Update40 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. Sometime during the evening, he had too much to drink, got into a fight, took a swing at one of the policemen who responded to the scene and was eventually taken away in a squad car. He has not been seen or heard from since. In early 2019, on Episode 69 of Just The Tip-Sters, Melissa interviewed the detective then assigned to the case. Then earlier this year on Episode 121, Melissa revealed the wild series of events that...2020-08-1845 min
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast141. MURDERTIZER - Smells Like A Mid-June RoundupSometimes 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, there are three separate cases that Melissa would have mentioned at the top of JUST THE TIP-STERS if they had happened at different times - but they all converged at once! All three are cases that Melissa isn't planning on doing an episode on - not just yet anyway - two of them are new and one of them is a well-known existing case with stirring new developments. So ins...2020-06-2148 minJust The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast141. MURDERTIZER - Smells Like A Mid-June RoundupSometimes 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, there are three separate cases that Melissa would have mentioned at the top of JUST THE TIP-STERS if they had happened at different times - but they all converged at once! All three are cases that Melissa isn't planning on doing an episode on - not just yet anyway - two of them are new and one of them is a well-known existing case with stirring new developments. So ins...2020-06-2148 min
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast138. Smells Like Dirty Rotten Solvable - The Assassination Of Edward BerberSo 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 recently changed except the French doors in the bedroom. The only person known to have a second key for those French doors is guy's soon-to-be ex-wife, whose new live-in boyfriend hates guy's guts and - in more than one written email and more than one recorded voice mail message - has threatened to kill him. And 15 years later, there have been no arrests. Waitwut? So goes the story of Edwar...2020-06-0252 minJust The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast138. Smells Like Dirty Rotten Solvable - The Assassination Of Edward BerberSo 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 recently changed except the French doors in the bedroom. The only person known to have a second key for those French doors is guy's soon-to-be ex-wife, whose new live-in boyfriend hates guy's guts and - in more than one written email and more than one recorded voice mail message - has threatened to kill him. And 15 years later, there have been no arrests. Waitwut? So goes the story of Edwar...2020-06-0252 min
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast123. Smells Like The U.S. Marshals Got Peter ChadwickMelissa 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 enforcement officer who spent some serious time on loan to the U.S. Marshals, was able to drop by for a chat. And what a chat it is! You see,Detective Joe was attached to the U.S. Marshals unit that tracked down and finally caught suspected serial killer (and the world's lousiest alibi storyteller) Peter Chadwick,who spent nearly five years on the run after skipping bail in 2015. The Chadwick cas...2020-02-181h 16Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast123. Smells Like The U.S. Marshals Got Peter ChadwickMelissa 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 enforcement officer who spent some serious time on loan to the U.S. Marshals, was able to drop by for a chat. And what a chat it is! You see,Detective Joe was attached to the U.S. Marshals unit that tracked down and finally caught suspected serial killer (and the world's lousiest alibi storyteller) Peter Chadwick,who spent nearly five years on the run after skipping bail in 2015. The Chadwick cas...2020-02-181h 16
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast121. Smells Like B.S. In The Hog Pen - Randy Sellers, Melissa And The FBIIn 2019 Melissa covered the 1980 missing person case of 17 year-old Randy Sellers, who disappeared after attending the Kenton County (Kentucky) Fair, becoming drunk and disorderly and after taking a swing at one of the Sheriff's Deputies sent to deal with him. He was last seen in the company of four officers, who claimed to have dropped him off a mile from his home so he could avoid getting in trouble with his parents. Uh huh. Well. Let's just say that Randy Sellers never made it home. Or anywhere else. Since the original "Just The Tip-Sters" episode on this case, Melissa had th...2020-02-0449 minJust The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast121. Smells Like B.S. In The Hog Pen - Randy Sellers, Melissa And The FBIIn 2019 Melissa covered the 1980 missing person case of 17 year-old Randy Sellers, who disappeared after attending the Kenton County (Kentucky) Fair, becoming drunk and disorderly and after taking a swing at one of the Sheriff's Deputies sent to deal with him. He was last seen in the company of four officers, who claimed to have dropped him off a mile from his home so he could avoid getting in trouble with his parents. Uh huh. Well. Let's just say that Randy Sellers never made it home. Or anywhere else. Since the original "Just The Tip-Sters" episode on this case, Melissa had th...2020-02-0449 min
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast120. Smells Like Six Minutes And Gone - The Will Cierzan Case Three Years LaterThis 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 "shouldn't-be-a" cold case of Will Cierzan, a regular guy living a simple life with the love of his life in the Southern California suburb of Santa Clarita - whose wife came home from work one early evening in January 2017 to find dinner sitting on the counter, Will's wallet and keys out in the open - and her husband - gone. Disappeared. Seemingly without a trace. Over the next days and months, as h...2020-01-281h 02Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast120. Smells Like Six Minutes And Gone - The Will Cierzan Case Three Years LaterThis 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 "shouldn't-be-a" cold case of Will Cierzan, a regular guy living a simple life with the love of his life in the Southern California suburb of Santa Clarita - whose wife came home from work one early evening in January 2017 to find dinner sitting on the counter, Will's wallet and keys out in the open - and her husband - gone. Disappeared. Seemingly without a trace. Over the next days and months, as h...2020-01-281h 02
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast118. Smells Like The Hunter Became The Hunted - The Mysterious Shooting Of Terry BriskTerry 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 doesn't like a hot bowl of venison stew on a chilly autumn evening? So when Terry took off early from work in November of 2016 to spend a couple of hours on his family's 100-acre property hunting for dinner, it wasn't anything out of the ordinary. And when Terry's 16 year-old son John came home from school and found out his dad was taking advantage of the season, it wasnt unusual for Jo...2020-01-1447 minJust The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast118. Smells Like The Hunter Became The Hunted - The Mysterious Shooting Of Terry BriskTerry 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 doesn't like a hot bowl of venison stew on a chilly autumn evening? So when Terry took off early from work in November of 2016 to spend a couple of hours on his family's 100-acre property hunting for dinner, it wasn't anything out of the ordinary. And when Terry's 16 year-old son John came home from school and found out his dad was taking advantage of the season, it wasnt unusual for Jo...2020-01-1447 min
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast109. Sounds Like A Tough Way To Break Out Of Jail - The Multiple Lives Of Benjamin SchreiberWhen 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 more freedom for you, ever. Right? Right. Except. What does the "your natural life" mean, exactly? Especially when we live in an age where technology can actually revive someone who has literally died for a few seconds? And how does that phrase apply in the ostensibly cold, harsh light of legal interpretation? Enter one Benjamin Schreiber, a nasty fellow who was convicted of a brutal murder and was sentenced to spend the rest of his lif...2019-11-1236 minJust The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast109. Sounds Like A Tough Way To Break Out Of Jail - The Multiple Lives Of Benjamin SchreiberWhen 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 more freedom for you, ever. Right? Right. Except. What does the "your natural life" mean, exactly? Especially when we live in an age where technology can actually revive someone who has literally died for a few seconds? And how does that phrase apply in the ostensibly cold, harsh light of legal interpretation? Enter one Benjamin Schreiber, a nasty fellow who was convicted of a brutal murder and was sentenced to spend the rest of his lif...2019-11-1236 min
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast108. Sounds Like This Is Not A Fire Drill - Catching John Leonard OrrSetting 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 hidden, inexplicable lust for flame and heat is evil. And the most evil among those fire-starters are those who are sworn to protect us from that very danger - those in the uniform of firefighters. And the very worst of all is one John Leonard Orr, the former Fire Chief and Lead Arson Investigator for the Glendale California Fire Department - who during the 1980s and 1990s is believed to have set more...2019-11-0539 minJust The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast108. Sounds Like This Is Not A Fire Drill - Catching John Leonard OrrSetting 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 hidden, inexplicable lust for flame and heat is evil. And the most evil among those fire-starters are those who are sworn to protect us from that very danger - those in the uniform of firefighters. And the very worst of all is one John Leonard Orr, the former Fire Chief and Lead Arson Investigator for the Glendale California Fire Department - who during the 1980s and 1990s is believed to have set more...2019-11-0539 min
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast100. Sounds Like Tragedy On The Interstate - The Carrollton Bus CrashIt'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 perished and in celebration of the positive strides, both culturally and in the law, that sprang forth after that terrible day. On May 14, 1988, a converted school bus carrying 63 (mostly) young teenagers and four adults (including the bus driver) left the Assembly of God church in Radcliff, Kentucky to spend the day at the King's Island amusement park in Ohio. That night, on the way home, just south of the tow...2019-09-101h 02Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast100. Sounds Like Tragedy On The Interstate - The Carrollton Bus CrashIt'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 perished and in celebration of the positive strides, both culturally and in the law, that sprang forth after that terrible day. On May 14, 1988, a converted school bus carrying 63 (mostly) young teenagers and four adults (including the bus driver) left the Assembly of God church in Radcliff, Kentucky to spend the day at the King's Island amusement park in Ohio. That night, on the way home, just south of the tow...2019-09-101h 02
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Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast94. MURDER NERD UNIVERSITY - Sounds Like Toxicology Saved Brigida McInvale - With Special Guest Dr. Jeff LapointSURVIVOR MONTH on Just The Tip-Sters begins with our first edition of MURDER NERD UNIVERSITY - where Melissa focuses on the sciences and practices and interesting people - both in the past and in modern-day criminology - that contribute to the art of criminal justice. In late 2017 Brigida Uto (who later changed her surname back to maiden name McInvale for reasons that will become obvious) got very sick for no apparent reason. The young special needs teacher, who by all accounts had a happy life and rewarding career, a naval officer husband and a young child - was suddenly se...2019-08-061h 12Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast94. MURDER NERD UNIVERSITY - Sounds Like Toxicology Saved Brigida McInvale - With Special Guest Dr. Jeff LapointSURVIVOR MONTH on Just The Tip-Sters begins with our first edition of MURDER NERD UNIVERSITY - where Melissa focuses on the sciences and practices and interesting people - both in the past and in modern-day criminology - that contribute to the art of criminal justice. In late 2017 Brigida Uto (who later changed her surname back to maiden name McInvale for reasons that will become obvious) got very sick for no apparent reason. The young special needs teacher, who by all accounts had a happy life and rewarding career, a naval officer husband and a young child - was suddenly se...2019-08-061h 12
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast82. Sounds Like 39 Years Of Frustration - The Tynong North And Frankston MurdersThis 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 brethren Down Under still have no answers for - the 1980-1981 killings of six women in the southeastern suburbs of Melbourne. Known simply as the Tynong North and Frankston Murders (based on the two locations where the bodies of the victims were found and the general areas in which they lived), the six slayings were originally treated as two separate serial killer matters. Six women - aged as young as 14 and as elderly as 75 - t...2019-05-211h 00Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast82. Sounds Like 39 Years Of Frustration - The Tynong North And Frankston MurdersThis 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 brethren Down Under still have no answers for - the 1980-1981 killings of six women in the southeastern suburbs of Melbourne. Known simply as the Tynong North and Frankston Murders (based on the two locations where the bodies of the victims were found and the general areas in which they lived), the six slayings were originally treated as two separate serial killer matters. Six women - aged as young as 14 and as elderly as 75 - t...2019-05-211h 00
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast64. Sounds Like Will Is Still Missing: The Continuing Search For William CierzanThe 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 husband, brother and friend of just about everyone he met. On the two-year anniversary of his vanishing, Melissa takes another look, determined to keep the case alive until Will is found. The facts of Cierzan's disappearance (he has not been located to this day) are frustrating, angering - and above all, sad. In this episode Melissa catches up on the developments of the case in the past 12 months, the maddening slowness of the inv...2019-01-2947 minJust The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast64. Sounds Like Will Is Still Missing: The Continuing Search For William CierzanThe 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 husband, brother and friend of just about everyone he met. On the two-year anniversary of his vanishing, Melissa takes another look, determined to keep the case alive until Will is found. The facts of Cierzan's disappearance (he has not been located to this day) are frustrating, angering - and above all, sad. In this episode Melissa catches up on the developments of the case in the past 12 months, the maddening slowness of the inv...2019-01-2947 min
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast60. Tastes Like A Mother's Frustration - Finding Cody TurnerIn 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 in July 2015 after going out for the night and never returning to his grandparents' home in Yakima, Washington. Michelle has spent the last three years struggling to keep Cody's name in the forefront of police and the press, both of which she believes have never given their full attention to the case due to the stigma attached to Cody's drug and alcohol abuse. As Melissa points out in her di...2018-12-1841 minJust The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast60. Tastes Like A Mother's Frustration - Finding Cody TurnerIn 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 in July 2015 after going out for the night and never returning to his grandparents' home in Yakima, Washington. Michelle has spent the last three years struggling to keep Cody's name in the forefront of police and the press, both of which she believes have never given their full attention to the case due to the stigma attached to Cody's drug and alcohol abuse. As Melissa points out in her di...2018-12-1841 min
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast53. Tastes Like Dead North - With Special Guests Laura Frizzo and Jeremy OgdenMelissa 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 a female, but just as - or even more - evil than your average serial killer. Kelly Cochran was more than just a "black widow" - she is suspected of knocking off at least 10 men, including her last husband, Jason - whom she had enlisted in helping murder the man she was cheating on Jason with - Chris Regan. Cochran was finally brought to justice by the cunning, determination and sheer will of...2018-11-051h 10Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast53. Tastes Like Dead North - With Special Guests Laura Frizzo and Jeremy OgdenMelissa 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 a female, but just as - or even more - evil than your average serial killer. Kelly Cochran was more than just a "black widow" - she is suspected of knocking off at least 10 men, including her last husband, Jason - whom she had enlisted in helping murder the man she was cheating on Jason with - Chris Regan. Cochran was finally brought to justice by the cunning, determination and sheer will of...2018-11-051h 10
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast49. Tastes Like An Innocence ProjectOn this special edition of JUST THE TIP-STERS, Melissa travels south into deep Orange County California, to the campus of the University of California Irvine School of Law, where she spends a fascinating just-under-an-hour with Super Ninja Justice Lawyer Annee Della Donna, a private practice attorney in Laguna Beach who started and leads Innocence Rights Orange County. Together with a hearty band of law students from the UC Irvine Law School, Ms. Della Donna's homegrown innocence project has already worked on several impressive cases - including the case of the man she believes was wrongly convicted of the 1979 brutal m...2018-10-0958 minJust The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast49. Tastes Like An Innocence ProjectOn this special edition of JUST THE TIP-STERS, Melissa travels south into deep Orange County California, to the campus of the University of California Irvine School of Law, where she spends a fascinating just-under-an-hour with Super Ninja Justice Lawyer Annee Della Donna, a private practice attorney in Laguna Beach who started and leads Innocence Rights Orange County. Together with a hearty band of law students from the UC Irvine Law School, Ms. Della Donna's homegrown innocence project has already worked on several impressive cases - including the case of the man she believes was wrongly convicted of the 1979 brutal m...2018-10-0958 min
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast47. Tastes Like NPR Sent A Rejection Letter - Plus Tip-Sters Two CentsHey! Don't be distracted by that...er...more Podcasty sounding introduction...it was just a little something we tried...for about 30 seconds...and then realized we just ain't traditional Podcasty People! Plus this is no time to mess around, since it's time for another TIP-STERS TWO CENTS, featuring listener emails, comments and general chit-chat. PLUS Melissa and Producer Mark mix it up on a wide variety of topics ranging from weirdly-pronounced city and street names to mispronounced words to...yes...peeing in the back yard. PLUS PLUS - there are scintillating updates in the seemingly bottomless trough of new stori...2018-09-2543 minJust The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast47. Tastes Like NPR Sent A Rejection Letter - Plus Tip-Sters Two CentsHey! Don't be distracted by that...er...more Podcasty sounding introduction...it was just a little something we tried...for about 30 seconds...and then realized we just ain't traditional Podcasty People! Plus this is no time to mess around, since it's time for another TIP-STERS TWO CENTS, featuring listener emails, comments and general chit-chat. PLUS Melissa and Producer Mark mix it up on a wide variety of topics ranging from weirdly-pronounced city and street names to mispronounced words to...yes...peeing in the back yard. PLUS PLUS - there are scintillating updates in the seemingly bottomless trough of new stori...2018-09-2543 min
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast39. MURDERTIZER - GSK Update And Tip-Sters Two CentsA zesty MURDERTIZER wherein Melissa discusses the recent Oxygen Network documentary "Golden State Killer: Main Suspect," which features many new insights and interviews with friends and colleagues of accused GSK Joseph James D'Angelo. PLUS Melissa reveals breaking news regarding two new cases from 1974 and 1975 that send a strong hint that the Golden State Killer's murderous ways started long before anyone suspected - until now. AND Melissa checks in with listener comments and emails in another edition of TIP-STER TWO CENTS. More murder, mystery and mail than anyone deserves in a single podcast!
2018-08-1051 minJust The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast39. MURDERTIZER - GSK Update And Tip-Sters Two CentsA zesty MURDERTIZER wherein Melissa discusses the recent Oxygen Network documentary "Golden State Killer: Main Suspect," which features many new insights and interviews with friends and colleagues of accused GSK Joseph James D'Angelo. PLUS Melissa reveals breaking news regarding two new cases from 1974 and 1975 that send a strong hint that the Golden State Killer's murderous ways started long before anyone suspected - until now. AND Melissa checks in with listener comments and emails in another edition of TIP-STER TWO CENTS. More murder, mystery and mail than anyone deserves in a single podcast!
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Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast38. Tastes Like CSI-Aye-Aye: The Scripted Suicides of Alan Abrahamson And Tom HickmanWho woulda thunk it? Two very different guys - ten years apart - used the sub-sub story line of an episode of a TV crime procedural from 2003 and (almost) successfully make it work in real life! Or...er..death... On this episode of JUST THE TIP-STERS Melissa takes a look into the deaths of two men - one from just weeks ago in 2018 in Florida and another from a decade ago in New Mexico, both of which at first glance appeared to be murders But solid detective work and a search of the archives of the television show "CSI: Crim...2018-08-0749 minJust The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast38. Tastes Like CSI-Aye-Aye: The Scripted Suicides of Alan Abrahamson And Tom HickmanWho woulda thunk it? Two very different guys - ten years apart - used the sub-sub story line of an episode of a TV crime procedural from 2003 and (almost) successfully make it work in real life! Or...er..death... On this episode of JUST THE TIP-STERS Melissa takes a look into the deaths of two men - one from just weeks ago in 2018 in Florida and another from a decade ago in New Mexico, both of which at first glance appeared to be murders But solid detective work and a search of the archives of the television show "CSI: Crim...2018-08-0749 min
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast34. The West Mesa Murders Part 1 - Tastes Like BonesMelissa takes a first look at the West Mesa Murders in Albuquerque - murders that happened over a long stretch of time but were not discovered until a mass grave was discovered on the mesa outside of town in 2009. An incredibly frustrating case - especially for the families of the "Lost Girls" who went missing in the years before the discovery of the bones on the mesa - the majority of whom are still missing and who (for all the authorities know) may be buried in other mass graves. To add to the crushing pain of the families of th...2018-07-1740 minJust The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast34. The West Mesa Murders Part 1 - Tastes Like BonesMelissa takes a first look at the West Mesa Murders in Albuquerque - murders that happened over a long stretch of time but were not discovered until a mass grave was discovered on the mesa outside of town in 2009. An incredibly frustrating case - especially for the families of the "Lost Girls" who went missing in the years before the discovery of the bones on the mesa - the majority of whom are still missing and who (for all the authorities know) may be buried in other mass graves. To add to the crushing pain of the families of th...2018-07-1740 min
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast27. Tastes Like Half Of Buffalo Bill - The Horror Of Gary HeidnikWhen one of our beloved Tip-Sters - Laurencia all the way from Maine! - sent Melissa an email to suggest this gruesome little tale, we were surprised to learn that its subject - Pennsylvania's own Gary Heidnik - was one of TWO real-life killers writer Thomas Harris used to create his monstrous "Buffalo Bill" character in "Silence of the Lambs." We knew that Harris had used mass murderer Ed Gein to create his character, but we'd never heard of Heidnik. Laurencia - who's actually written a treatise on this case - set us straight on the story - which...2018-05-291h 05Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast27. Tastes Like Half Of Buffalo Bill - The Horror Of Gary HeidnikWhen one of our beloved Tip-Sters - Laurencia all the way from Maine! - sent Melissa an email to suggest this gruesome little tale, we were surprised to learn that its subject - Pennsylvania's own Gary Heidnik - was one of TWO real-life killers writer Thomas Harris used to create his monstrous "Buffalo Bill" character in "Silence of the Lambs." We knew that Harris had used mass murderer Ed Gein to create his character, but we'd never heard of Heidnik. Laurencia - who's actually written a treatise on this case - set us straight on the story - which...2018-05-291h 05
Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast7. Tastes Like The Astral Plane - with Special Guest PAM CORONADO - Psychic DetectiveMelissa is joined by renowned spiritual counselor and psychic detective PAM CORONADO, who for more than two decades has helped law enforcement solve a wide array of murders and other crimes. Known for her numerous appearances in film and television, including "Sensing Murder" and "The Unexplained," Coronado is also an educator and personal spiritual advisor. In this episode of "Just the Tip-Sters, Melissa and Pam discuss the essence of psychic detective work and re-visit Pam's very first case from 1996 - as well as the 2010 homicide committed by one of her former business partners - who may have m...2018-01-301h 07Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast7. Tastes Like The Astral Plane - with Special Guest PAM CORONADO - Psychic DetectiveMelissa is joined by renowned spiritual counselor and psychic detective PAM CORONADO, who for more than two decades has helped law enforcement solve a wide array of murders and other crimes. Known for her numerous appearances in film and television, including "Sensing Murder" and "The Unexplained," Coronado is also an educator and personal spiritual advisor. In this episode of "Just the Tip-Sters, Melissa and Pam discuss the essence of psychic detective work and re-visit Pam's very first case from 1996 - as well as the 2010 homicide committed by one of her former business partners - who may have m...2018-01-301h 07