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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 comedy radio show, been a music DJ in a major US radio market, run one of the country’s most popular comedy clubs – AND – she teaches yoga! All of which makes for a truly fascinating, often hilarious, often edge-of-your-seat, riveting personality and a completely enthralling listening experience.

Send your tips on ANYTHING to Melissa Morgan by sending an email to JTTIPSTERS@GMAIL.COM – or call the Tip-Ster Hotline and leave a voice mail message at (832) TIP-STER – (832-847-7837)!

Copyright: © (P) (C) Melissa Morgan. All rights reserved.

Latest Episodes:

77. Sounds Like A Bad Tarantino Movie - The Van Cleef And Arpels Massacre Apr 16, 2019

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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 on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. It was there that a 22 year-old would-be thief named Steven Livaditis quickly and without much explanation at all turned himself into a cold-blooded murderer when the robbery he thought he could pull off went terribly wrong. One of the most heart-pounding and horrifying stories ever recounted by Melissa, who shares how this case changed her in ways she never expected.

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76. Sounds Like Crazy Calm Under Deadly Duress - The Courage of Jennifer Holliday Apr 09, 2019

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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 world, when suddenly a truck pulls up beside you and the guy inside fires a shotgun directly at you. And shoots. Blowing your elbow into shattered bone and blood. When you pull over, that same driver tries to pull your cousin out of your car, and when she won't move, blows her head off with that same shotgun. Imagine now that the driver hauls you away, rapes and tortures you, and then you end up in his trailer in the middle of the woods where no one can find him. Jennifer Holliday doesn't have to imagine any of that. Because it actually happened to her. And she survived. Through a combination of sheer guts, keen; raw intelligence and incredible calm under pressure, Holliday has lived to tell of her incredible ordeal - and Melissa shares it with you this episode in chilling, compelling detail.

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75, MURDERTIZER - Sounds Like One Unlucky Leprechaun - David Cotton's Fatal Misadventure Apr 02, 2019

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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 plate - but Melissa wanted to make sure you, dear listener, had a zesty treat until the next full episode. And this one is straight out of the "it's so strange it MUST be true" department... in 2010 a bank robbery took place in Gallatin Tennessee that featured one David Christopher Cotton in the role of Armed Robber...with...a twist. Suffice it to say that while this tale does not end well for Mr. Cotton or his getaway driver, Jonathan Skinner, the details of the event will likely leave you choking back a guffaw or two...or three...

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74. Sounds Like A Malibu Mystery - The Mitrice Richardson Case With Special Guest Dr. Ronda Hampton Mar 26, 2019

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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 home at a ritzy Malibu, California restaurant - behaving weirdly. When she told the wait staff she couldn't pay the bill, the LA County Sheriff's Department was called and Richardson was hauled away to jail What happened next is the stuff of countless mothers' nightmares. Released from custody just after midnight, with no car, no money and no direction as to where to go next, Mitrice disappeared into the night - and into foreverville. Her remains were found months later, but to date clues as to how she died, or whether she was murdered, continue to run dry. Listen as Melissa is joined by clinical Psychologist Ronda Hampton, Ph.D., a mentor and friend to Mitrice, who has led a dedicated army of the young woman's friends and family in an unrelenting search for clues amid a story of - at best - some of the worst bungling ever committed by law enforcement. Tell us: Do you think you might have a tip that will turn this case around?

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73. Sounds Like A Madman's Gang of Killers - The Savage Murders Of Clarence Ray Allen Mar 19, 2019

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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 him by telling on him, but also taking out anyone he THOUGHT MIGHT betray him...and recruiting others to do it for you? Our boy Clarence Ray Allen, that's who. Take a walk to the darkest side of Darkness Avenue with Melissa as she recounts the untold savagery and unexpurgated evil perpetrated by Allen and his dippy cohorts. And while she's at it, Melissa will also demonstrate how Allen just might be tied to the Ryen family murders for which Kevin Cooper was convicted (as was covered in Episodes 10 and 11 this season). Not for the feint of heart...

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72. MURDERTIZER - Sounds Like Scary Stories Are Good For You! Mar 15, 2019

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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, you may be healthier than most people. As Melissa explains in this intriguing MURDERTIZER (an appetizer of murder), exposing yourself to scary tales may just make you feel safer and more secure!

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71. Kevin Cooper Part 2 - Sounds Like A Questionable Conviction Mar 12, 2019

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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 gets into the nitty (and truly) gritty details of the positively botched investigation conducted by law enforcement at the time of the murders, and Cooper's decades-long path to having new DNA testing conducted on items that were overlooked or ignored.

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70. Kevin Cooper Part 1 - Sounds Like Mass Murder And Mass Confusion Mar 05, 2019

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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 Ryen, his wife Peggy, their daughter Jessica and Christopher Hughes, the 11 year-old best friend of the Ryans' son, Josh - Josh himself was near death, but eventually survived. The second story is that of one Kevin Cooper. a full-time convicted burglar and part-time convicted rapist, just escaped from the California Institution for Men - also known as the Chino Hills Men's Prison. Cooper, who had holed up in a house just a few hundred feet away from the Ryen home before (he claims) he headed for Mexico the night before the Ryen murders took place, was convicted of the slayings and sentenced to death. Seems like an open and shut case. Until one takes even a cursory look at how the case was handled. In this first of two parts on Kevin Cooper and the murder conviction that has him sitting on death row today, Melissa examines Cooper's history of burglary, his various name changes and escapes, including the escape from Chino Men's Prison that led him to his fate.

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69. Sounds Like Randy Sellers Hasn't Been Forgotten - With Special Guest Detective Brian Jones Feb 26, 2019

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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 man, and instead put him in their patrol car to take him home. And that's the last time his friends or his loved ones ever saw or heard of him again. The patrol officers stated that Sellers asked to be dropped off prior to getting to his house, and that they obliged. For the past 38-plus years the mystery of his disappearance has remained headline news in Kenton County, with theories of his disappearance ranging from the simple to the complicated to conspiratorial. But no one seems to have found the answer. Enter Kenton County Police Detective Brian Jones - Melissa's special guest on this episode - who is now assigned to the case and is working actively on it. Join Melissa as she and Jones discuss the disappearance, the path to finding an answer and the uniqueness of such a shocking and vexing case arising in small town America.

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68. Sounds Like Psycho Greed - Dana Ewell And Joel Radovcich Feb 19, 2019

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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 greediest, psycho-nut-job evil rat bastards ever to crawl into the world. Melissa's retelling of this gruesome 1992 multiple murder of Ewell's parents and only sibling on Easter Sunday is as chilling as it is disgusting. As usual though, the nastiness is tempered by the heroism of two dogged Fresno County California detectives who took FIVE YEARS to finally bring the case to a close and bring Ewell and Radovcich to justice. Find out why this was known for years as "Fresno's Crime of the Century."

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