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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:

67. MURDERTIZER - Sounds Like Developments Are Developin' Feb 17, 2019

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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 preview of an upcoming interview with one of the world's top DNA experts - AND a report on Melissa's personal taste test on that Trader Joe's garlic dip she's heard so much about from Tip-Ster Charlotte. Oh and so very much more!

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66. Sounds Like Canadian Criminology - With Special Guest Tanya Todd Feb 12, 2019

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Melissa visits with true crime podcast aficionado and budding criminologist Tanya Todd, who visits the Homestead Studios all the way from Toronto, Canada to share some of her insights, theories and general worldview as she embarks on a path toward her criminology degree. A delightful, funny, informative conversation between two lovers of the macabre, the mysterious and true crime solving.

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65. Sounds Like A Panhandle Cover-Up: What Happened To Thomas Brown? Feb 05, 2019

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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 in the small town of Canadian, Texas. Can it really be true that law enforcement botched this case so badly that the victim's mother had to hire a private investigation team to try to get to the truth? Evidently so. Because due to the hard work of that private investigator, Thomas Brown's remains were finally uncovered in January 2019. But still absolutely nothing is known about the manner of his death. The police insist it was suicide - but the bizarre array of evidence, the way it was collected or otherwise discovered and the erratic and baffling way the case has been handled by law enforcement raise far more questions than they do divulge answers.

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64. Sounds Like Will Is Still Missing: The Continuing Search For William Cierzan Jan 29, 2019

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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 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 investigation, the obvious priority shift since the lead detective in the case was assigned to a more glitzy, Hollywood-based investigation and the nagging sense that those responsible for Cierzan's disappearance (and likely demise) may never be brought to justice. A call to all Tip-Sters to be vigilant, look for clues, keep all ears and eyes open and if you know something, TELL SOMEONE.

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63. Sounds Like They're The Same (But They're Not): Jasmine Richardson and Jayme Closs Jan 22, 2019

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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 Richardson disappeared from her home in Medicine Hat, Alberta after her parents and young brother were found brutally slain in their home. At first, authorities believed that Jasmine was kidnapped by the killer and was being held hostage. The truth was far more horrifying: Jasmine and her 23 year-old boyfriend Jeremy Steinke had actually committed the murders of Jasmine's family themselves - in a twisted plan to rid Jasmine of her ties to home so that she could run away with Jeremy. It was a crime so unimaginably horrible that it set a precedent for callousness and pure evil. So in 2018, when 13 year-old Jayme Closs of Barron Wisconsin went missing after HER parents were both brutally murdered in THEIR home, no one could blame some in law enforcement (and in the true crime blogosphere) from suspecting a replay of the Richardson case, and began looking for clues that a boyfriend was lurking somewhere in Jayme's social media background - a boyfriend that - who knows? - Jayme may have run away with after....you know... As it turned out, though, the two cases are completely UNlike each other - this time around, the plot was solely that of one of the most coldblooded, determined yet bizarre murderers anyone could ever imagine. Join Melissa as she delves into both cases, examines their similarities - and their truly frightening differences.

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62. Sounds Like A PWOK In Feelingsville - With Special Guests Lorraine Schweikhard and Ginger Warren Jan 15, 2019

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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 with Lorraine Schweikhard and Ginger Warren shares that rare air. And for good reason - Lorraine and Ginger are hilarious, engaging, thought provoking and a true joy to listen to. Half chat-fest between two moms raising young children in the suburbs; half a unique exploration into the darker edges of true crime, "Big Feelings" is truly quirky and genuinely genuine - which is why Melissa fell in love. Join Melissa, Lorraine and Ginger as they cover topics as wide ranging as the nature of psychopathy (in adults AND children!), dirty diaper cleanup miscues, weird murder - and a not-to-be-missed discussion on the ins, outs, ups, downs and, well, every-other-direction of the bidet. We kid you not. We'll leave it at that, except to say that 'taint a conversation to be missed! A fun, bawdy hour-plus joy ride.

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61. Sounds Like The Sky Is Falling - The Lost Souls Of JFK Junior Jan 08, 2019

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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 Lauren. Amid the obvious story lines of the Kennedy family's tragic history, its place in U.S. culture as the closest thing to an American royal family - and the sadness surrounding the demise of the young 38 year-old John-John, his bride and sister-in-law, Melissa asks a question buried deep beneath the facts of the case to ask a harrowing question: Could JFK, Jr. have been a high-achieving, undiagnosed psychopath?

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60. Tastes Like A Mother's Frustration - Finding Cody Turner Dec 18, 2018

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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 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 discussion with Michelle, it DOES NOT MATTER what sort of mistakes one has made in life - NO ONE deserves to be forgotten and EVERYONE's life has meaning. Join Melissa as she closes out 2018 with a heart- wrenching plea from a mother for clues that might lead to finding her son. JUST THE TIP-STERS/SEASON TWO DEBUTS ON JANUARY 8, 2019.

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59. MURDERTIZER - Tastes Like DNA Wins Again Dec 14, 2018

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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 fills us in on the latest in the hideous swirling vortex of awful that is Joseph James DeAngelo - the latest being a surprising DNA test that may present more questions than it answers. Plus a court hearing sets the stage for a long (and expensive) taxpayer-funded journey to trial...

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58. Tastes Like No Bodies Business - With Special Guest Tad Dibiase Dec 11, 2018

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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 former federal prosecutor and author of the book "No Body Homicide Cases: A Practical Guide to Investigating, Prosecuting and Winning Cases When the Victim is Missing." Dibiase has led a fascinating career, most recently focusing on how prosecutors can best find ways to bring to justice those whom law enforcement has everything to get a murder conviction EXCEPT a dead body. A terrific conversation that unveils some of the techniques that Dibiase makes available to law enforcement all over the U.S.

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