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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:

47. Tastes Like NPR Sent A Rejection Letter - Plus Tip-Sters Two Cents Sep 25, 2018

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Hey! 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 stories coming out of the GSK investigation...and then Paul Holes news...and so much more!

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46. Tastes Like Chef Daniel Brophy Chose The WRONG Wife Sep 18, 2018

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In this week's podcast, Melissa rips a story directly from the headlines in a shocking, still-developing story out of Oregon, where Chef Daniel Brophy - a professor and chef at a prestigious school for the culinary arts - was found on the floor dying from a gunshot wound in one of the institute's kitchens in June 2018. Just three months later, Brophy's wife, Nancy - a writer of romance/mystery novels - was arrested for the murder. But the police have convinced a judge to keep the reasons for the arrest under wraps - at least for now...

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45. Tastes Like Catching An Unknown Serial Killer: The Brilliance of Barbara Rae-Venter Sep 11, 2018

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Who could have guessed that the trail to catching the infamous Golden State Killer led straight through the brilliant mind of a retired attorney, medical doctor and Ph.D. who took on genealogy as a hobby! But that's exactly what happened when Det. Paul Holes recruited then 69 year-old Barbara Rae-Venter after reading about her phenomenal work two years earlier in San Bernardino. In this episode Melissa explains in detail how Dr. Rae-Venter used her scientific and deductive skills to help Det. Holes and his team track down GSK - and also hear the story of the amazing case of "Lisa," who, abandoned as a little girl by a convicted serial killer she had thought was her father, finally found a family through the work of Dr. Rae-Venter, a dogged police detective and a whole lot of good people who volunteered to help.

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44. The Golden State Killer Part 6 - Tastes Like KGSK Is On The Air! Sep 04, 2018

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Kicking September off with a Big Bunch of a Bang, Melissa covers some fascinating new ground in the ongoing prosecution of Joseph D'Angelo, the accused Golden State Killer. Including a discussion of the brilliant legal move made by the Contra Costa County District Attorney to turn what could have been a legal dead end into a possible new prosecutorial avenue to get justice for more victims...a background profile of one of the unsung (hopefully soon to be loudly sung) heroes of the case - a retired attorney-turned genealogist who played perhaps the biggest role in capturing the suspect...and Melissa's take on the Sacramento County District Attorney's behavior at the recent boffo press confab (spoiler alert: it ain't pretty).

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43. MURDERTIZER - Tastes Like Yoga Balls Are A Gassss...!!! Aug 30, 2018

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Here's a short but savory MURDERTIZER for your mid-week snack! This time featuring a yellow Mini Cooper, a professor of anesthesiology and a big, bouncy yoga ball...oh, and of course, MURDER. When Professor Khaw Kim-sun's wife and daughter were found dead in their family car on a Hong Kong street, there appeared to be no signs of trauma or any other reason for their mysterious passing. What the police ended up discovering was downright inventive - but as with so many murder plots, a greater idea in theory than in execution.

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42. Tastes Like That Time We Got In The Middle Of A Murder Investigation - The Tragic And Clumsy Homicide Of Pamela Fayed Aug 28, 2018

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...so then...there was that time when Melissa and Producer Mark were sitting down to dinner...and then...the phone rang...and then... - And what a night it was, when Producer Mark's job called him down to the scene of a murder in a building owned by the company he works for. And guess who tagged along? If you guessed Melissa, you get a gold "Just The Tip-Ster" star! From that first harrowing night at the scene to the police investigation to the prosecution of the perpetrators, Melissa takes us deep into the brutal and horrifying death of Pamela Fayed, whose killers had to be the most clueless, stupid (and yes, evil) gang of murder-for-hire bunglers ever to carry out such a horrible deed. You won't feel sorry for any of them at tale's end.

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41. Tastes Like Cap'n Christina Has A Past: The Lyerla Murders Aug 21, 2018

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So what is a girl to do when she's kinda sorta, you know, DONE with her husband and baby and wants to spend more time with her daddy-figure lover? Well - according to some (not us! don't look at us!), you do what Cynthia Knox (allegedly) did - pay to have the ball 'n' chain slaughtered and drown the kid yourself. Oh. And then when the in-laws take exception to your plan and come after you, you simply move to another state, steal a dead girl's identity and become a...wait for it...licensed yacht captain! In a story almost impossible to fathom Melissa unravels the tale of the very unlucky Harold "Skeeter" Lyerla, who married the woman of his dreams only to meet his doom - along with that of their baby daughter - (allegedly) because she was more into older men and her dreams were - darn it! - just a lot bigger than his - and required the proceeds from a life insurance policy to make them come true. Allegedly.

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40. Tastes Like The Car Guy Did It - The Disappearance Of The Salomen Family Aug 14, 2018

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When Shlomo (Sol) Salomen, his wife and two children suddenly disappeared from their suburban Northridge California home in October of 1982, nothing seemed to make sense. But as the serene picture of a happy family life was peeled away, a seamy and steamy truth started to emerge - about Sol's family life, his lifestyle and, most importantly, his business and his business associates. When one of those associates was tried - three times - and finally acquitted of murdering the Salomens - whose bodies have never been found - the case went cold for 20 years before the former best-friend of the Salomens' daughter finally had enough and started looking deeper. The results are fascinating and frustrating - but we just KNOW that a Tip-Ster who holds the clue that will break the case open is out there somewhere - is that Tip-Ster YOU?

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39. MURDERTIZER - GSK Update And Tip-Sters Two Cents Aug 10, 2018

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A 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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38. Tastes Like CSI-Aye-Aye: The Scripted Suicides of Alan Abrahamson And Tom Hickman Aug 07, 2018

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Who 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: Crime Scene Investigation" revealed that both of the deceased men had actually committed suicide based on the plot from the show. Why would they go through all the trouble? The answer is simple and tragic - and in looking at these cases Melissa takes a strong stand on staying alive and embracing life. Funny, fascinating and compelling all at once.

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