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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:

57. Tastes Like A Nightmare - The Unsolved Disappearance Of Shannon Hokanson Dec 04, 2018

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Melissa looks at the heartbreaking, frustrating disappearance of Shannon Baldwin Hokanson, a beautiful young mother of three who disappeared in Enid Oklahoma in 2012. One of literally tens of thousands of unsolved missing persons cases each year in the United States, Shannon's case represents one of the most haunting and nightmarish scenarios any family member or loved one can ever face - the sudden and unexplained disappearance of a mother, a wife, a sister, a friend - into the ether. Maybe you know something that will help bring Shannon - or another missing soul - back home. Call us if you think you may have a piece to a puzzle of an unsolved disappearance - (832) TIP-STER (832-847-7837).

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56. The Grim Sleeper Part 3 - Tastes Like A Killer Cheese Pizza Nov 27, 2018

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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 the botched search for the killer over the decades, the Los Angeles Police Department's eventual recognition of the importance of catching him - and Franklin's arrest and conviction. Most compelling is Melissa's retelling of the victim impact statements during sentencing, and the brilliant work of LAPD detectives, who paved the road to Franklin's demise through his taste buds - and a piece of partially eaten cheese pizza.

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55. The Grim Sleeper Part 2 - Tastes Like More Than A Cat Nap Nov 20, 2018

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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 South Central Los Angeles for three decades before finally being brought to justice. During those years Franklin, raped, tortured and murdered at least nine young women and killed one lone male victim - for reasons that are still only speculation. Join Melissa as she recounts the harrowing - absolutely terrifying - stories of two women who survived Franklin's assaults, and look into the abyss of the real possibility - the likelihood? - that the Grim Sleeper - so dubbed because he "slept" for over a decade at one point before resuming his killing spree - may not really have ever gone to sleep...

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54. The Grim Sleeper Part 1 - Tastes Like A Monster Hidden In Plain Sight Nov 12, 2018

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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 for the LAPD. Lovely house on a corner lot. Lovely and devoted wife. Two kids. Kinda guy that would give you the shirt off his back - or perform sometimes complex repairs to your car for just 20 bucks. The epitome of a great neighbor. Problem is, Lonnie Franklin, Jr. had a side gig that wasn't so friendly. Turns out he was also one of the most prolific serial killers in the annals of crime. And he was good at it - eventually becoming infamous as the elusive "Grim Sleeper" who got away with at least 26 brutal slayings of women in South Central Los Angeles. 26 that we know of, that is. Join Melissa as she opens her case file on this devastating case with an overview of Franklin's evil career, to be followed in coming episodes with the horrifying details of the work of a monster who hid in plain sight for more than two decades before DNA and cheese from a pizza finally put him away. PLUS - Melissa reveals disturbingly hilarious details from her past that MAY explain...er...a lot!

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53. Tastes Like Dead North - With Special Guests Laura Frizzo and Jeremy Ogden Nov 05, 2018

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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 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 an unlikely pair of law enforcement professionals three hours away from each other - Iron River, Michigan police chief Laura Frizzo and Hobart, Indiana detective Jeremy Ogden. The Cochran case - including Frizzo and Ogden's story - is the subject of the Investigation Discovery documentary "Dead North." It's an incredible journey - and Melissa fell in love with the documentary so much that she found Frizzo and Ogden living in Indiana and invited them for an interview on JUST THE TIP-STERS - and they said yes! It's a fascinating, hour-plus conversation with two true original Good Guys pf law enforcement you won't soon forget.

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52. Halloween Edition - Tastes Like It Was All The Dog's Idea Oct 30, 2018

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What ties together the still-unsolved 1981 Halloween murders of photographer Ronald Sisman and Smith College coed Elizabeth Platzman in a Greenwich Village apartment...and the murder of young, beautiful Arlis Perry in the Stanford University chapel some seven years prior to, and 3,000 miles away from, the Sisman/Platzman crime? Well - it ain't anything...or anyONE...you'd suspect. Join Melissa on her favorite holiday as she takes the spooky Halloween Trail linking two completely different cases through the ramblings of a single twisted (and well-known) psychopath. Lots of tricks, no treats from that guy. Buckle up. BOO!

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51. Tastes Like Texas Justice Just Ain't Just Oct 23, 2018

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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, (b) not charged in a second murder and the attempted murder of his ex-wife and two others, then (c) got a hung jury in a SECOND trial where he was charged with soliciting the murder of two other people (and acquitted in the re-trial). ALL of this with evidence that was so compelling it would have resulted in convictions in any other place and with any other defendant. Join Melissa as she relives this outrageous story of mad entitlement, wild jealousy and how the American justice system can be corrupted through wealth and influence.

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50. Tastes Like Someone Knows What Happened To Sandra Kerby Oct 16, 2018

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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, teacher/wife/mother, 54 year-old Sandra Kerby went to Target to pick up a few things - and was never seen or heard from again. In the intervening years, lots of evidence points to one suspect - but not enough of it to issue an arrest warrant. And that is a tragedy - because Sandra Kerby, by all accounts, was one of the truly good people, and she left behind dozens of friends, family and former students who, to this day, seek answers. Someone out there knows something about what happened to Sandra...is it you? Now's the time to drop your tip on us!

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49. Tastes Like An Innocence Project Oct 09, 2018

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On 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 murder of Joan Virginia Anderson - which, some of you Tip-Sters may remember, bore a lot of resemblance to the rapes and murders committed by the Golden State Killer (!). Della Donna and her team have convinced the Orange County D.A. to reopen that case...and they are now hot on the trail of a cold case also familiar to Just The Tip-Ster devotees - that of Garden Grove housewife Patricia Neufeld, whose murder in 1978 also looks suspiciously like the work of our old pal EARONS/GSK. A fascinating discussion with a remarkable champion for justice - and her personal story of her own possible...well... probable...encounter with you-know-who when she was a 17 year-old high school girl...

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48. Tastes Like The Bike Path Killer Should Have Stayed In The Gym Oct 02, 2018

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Friendly, regular family guy Altemio Sanchez - affectionately known around his neighborhood in suburban Buffalo, NY as "Uncle Al" - couldn't have been more of your basic solid citizen. A wife, kids, a good job at a local factory for more than two decades - all the markings of the Friend Next Door. Until he wasn't. Until he used his mornings off to attack, rape and murder unsuspecting women throughout the Buffalo area. With a string of assaults and murders stretching from 1990 to 2006 - and possibly going as far back as 1981 - Sanchez' capture and prosecution in 2007 remains one of law enforcement's most important successes. But the road to the killer's capture was fraught with miscues and outright bungles - and Melissa takes us through all the twists and turns of the investigation, arrest and conviction.

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