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175. Looks Like A Puzzle Waiting For Its Missing Piece - The Otha Young Jr. Mystery - With Special Guest Virginia Braden
Episode 175
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 Ke…
5 years, 5 months ago
174. Looks Like Murder Made For Hollywood - Mabel Monohan And Barbara Graham
Episode 174
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…
5 years, 6 months ago
173. Looks Like Unreliable Statements - The Disappearance Of Erica Baker
Episode 173
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…
5 years, 6 months ago
172. SPECIAL: Smells Like An Incognito Interview
Episode 172
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 chann…
5 years, 6 months ago
171. Smells Like 18 Years Is Too Long To Wait - The Wideman Family Murders
Episode 171
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 …
5 years, 6 months ago
170. Smells Like Flim Flam Namaste - Buddhafield And The Attraction Of Cults
Episode 170
On this special episode, Melissa explores the phenomenon of outlier religious or alternative followings – otherwise known as cults. At the center of…
5 years, 6 months ago
169. Smells Like A Lifting Fog - The Cheryll Spegal Case With Special Guest Beth Rowland
Episode 169
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 o…
5 years, 7 months ago
168. Smells Like A Complicated Partnership - DNA, Science And Justice
Episode 168
Ever since the mid-1980s, when Sir Alec Jeffreys first developed “genetic fingerprinting” which soon came to be known of DNA profiling, forensic scie…
5 years, 7 months ago
167. Smells Like A Hunting Trip Into Oblivion - The Ed Nichols Case With Special Guest Detective Coy Cox
Episode 167
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 …
5 years, 7 months ago
166. Smells Like Crystal Rogers And Will Cierzan Updates
Episode 166
This Thanksgiving week Melissa updates a couple of unsolved missing person cases – one we’ve not yet covered but which has been covered extensively a…
5 years, 7 months ago