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...
Episodes
FEELS LIKE THE MIYAZAWA FAMILY WERE AMBUSHED - THE SETAGAYA DISTRICT MURDERS
When a upper middle class family of four in the Setagaya District of Japan are slaughtered in their home everyone wonders what could be the motive? The family are well loved and having no known enemies could this be a random robbery gone ba…
FEELS LIKE WE KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO PATRICIA "PATTI" ADKINS - NOW WHERE IS SHE?
When a responsible, caring, much loved mother, sister, daughter, friend does not show up after a "camping" trip with a co-worker to pick up her only beloved daughter Patti's sister knows something is very, very wrong. Patricia Adkins was a …
FEELS LIKE JENNIFER KESSE'S FAMILY WILL NEVER STOP
Jennifer Kesse was a beautiful, brilliant recent graduate from university who was beloved and climbing the ladder of her first job out of school. She had managed to be so valuable that the worldwide company created a new position for her so…
FEELS LIKE KAREN STITT GOT JUSTICE EVEN IF IT WAS DELAYED
When a family from Pittsburgh, PA moves across the country for an employment opportunity in 1982 the last thing they worried about was their daughter Karen fitting in. Pittsburgh was a world away from Palo Alto, CA but 15 year oldl Karen wa…
FEELS LIKE WILLIAM MISCANNON SERVED HIS CITY AND DID NOT DESERVE THIS
HE CASE SHOULD BE CONSIDERED CLOSED BUT IF YOU KNOW ANYTHING THAT HAPPENED ON SEPTEMBER 18TH OF 1970 PLEASE CONTACT THE TOLEDO POLICE DEPARTMENT AT 419-936-3800
FEELS LIKE TWO CASES OF THE 1% KIND: DAVID GRUBBS AND BILL AND PEGGY STEPHENSON
If YOU know anything about the murder of David Grubs in Ashland Oregon in November of 2011 please contact the Ashland Oregon Police Department and Chief Tighe O'Meara at 541-488-2211 If YOU know anything about the murders of Bill and Peggy …
FEELS LIKE LEON LAURELES WAS AN OPEN HEART
If YOU know anything about the unsolved homicide of Leon Laureles in May of 1996 in Brentwood Texas, PLEASE contact the Brown County Sherriff’s Department at 325-646-5510.
FEELS LIKE WE KNOW WHO DID IT; NOW WE HAVE TO CATCH HIM-THE MURDER OF PEGGY BECK
If YOU know ANYTHING about Peggy Beck's case or the whereabouts of James Redmond Taylor, suspected to be in Mexico from his last residence in Las Vegas, PLEASE contact the Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at 720-913-STOP (7867); reference case …
FEELS LIKE WHO WOULD DO THIS TO AGGIE ALBERT?
A retired chemist, from a family that had immigrated to the US from Lebanon, she and her older sister shared a home and the LTD convertible as well as a sisterly friendship that was a beautiful bond. Aggie was a nightowl and would volunteer…
FEELS LIKE NAOMI IRION WAS THE MOST INNOCENT
A young beautiful free spirited girl is waiting at a local Wal-Mart for a work shuttle that picks up hard-working people like herself - every day. What could be more safe than riding with a group of professionals every day to your industria…
FEELS LIKE YOU CAN'T BLAME THE MOON: THE SMITH FAMILY MASSACRE
Money makes people do awful things sometimes. Very rarely do you hear about a son torturing his mother to ger the combination to her safe by starting with cutting his elderly mothers little finger before bludgeoning her and cutting her thro…
FEELS LIKE PEARL BRYAN TRUSTED THE WRONG MAN
A young women, the youngest of 12 kids from an upstanding and well loved Indiana family finds herself pregnant and hoping to find a solution. The alleged father of the baby found a solution...for himself.
FEELS LIKE MARC ANGELUCCI WAS A THREAT TO ROY HOLLENDER'S EGO
A man who is intelligent, highly educated, seemingly personable should have no problem with a wonderful hard working, legal advocate working towards the same goal, right? So why did Roy Den Hollander show up to Marc Angelucci's home with a …
FEELS LIKE BILLY CHERMIRMIR WAS THE BIGGEST COWARD
How do you come from Africa, become a health care worker in the US and then resort to killing over 20 elderly women for their jewelry? People Magazine dubbed Billy Chermirmir's tactics from The 'Serial Killers Playbook." He got away with so…
FEELS LIKE K9 MOZART IS AN EARTH ANGEL
Sgt Christian's K9 partner Mozart has been the literal hero of many cases. He is a specially trained KP officer who can sniff out specific odors emitted from digital and electronic items, SIM cards, flash drives, hard drives, smart phones, …
FEELS LIKE JAMES "JIMMY" TIDWELL RAN INTO THE WORST GUY: ISRAEL KEYES
When hard working, loyal, salt of the Earth guy like Jimmy Tidwell goes missing in February of 2012 after finishing his regular shift at work, no one can imagine what could've happened. After friends and family members were suspected but no…
FEELS LIKE JUDY SMITH WAS A LONG WAY FROM HOME
April of 1997 finds accomplished, loving wife and mother Judy Smith accompanying her attorney husband Jeffrey Smith from their home in Boston to Philadelphia for a health care industry legal conference. April 10th was going to be sight seei…
FEELS LIKE INDIANA WANTS HIM-FOR 22 YEARS: THE MURDER OF ROBIN BAXTER
A small town in South Eastern Indiana, New Albany has gone through some very interesting changes. An area where more wealthy residents lived in large brick homes over looking the Ohio River when it was settled, it was always in the shadow o…
FEELS LIKE TAMMY LYNN LEPPERT HAD A BRIGHT FUTURE
With newspaper headlines like "Brevard's Answer to Shirley Temple," and "Cocoa Beach Girl Star of Tomorrow," you would think Florida native Tammy Lynn Leppert had the world on a string. Performing since she was two years old, Tammy Lynn's c…
FEELS LIKE AT LEAST 2 PEOPLE HAVE HELPED SOLVE THEIR OWN MURDERS: MELANIE URIBE AND TERESITA BASA
Whether you believe in messages from beyond or not, these two cases are compelling to consider. Two women who were never psychics or mediums in their lives were for some reason given information that helped solve two other women's murders. …
FEELS LIKE SOMEONE(S) KNOWS WHAT HAPPENED TO ERICA THOMPSON AND BRIAN SANDERSON
Beloved mother, sister, friend, co-worker doesn't show up for work on September 26, 2019. She is seen on an ATM camera on September 25th at 4:30PM making a deposit after work near her home. She was a contentious Controller at a large compan…
FEELS LIKE ARELIE GARCIA AND KAYELEIGH GAMMILL NEED OUR HELP
When two beautiful young women from Salinas, CA go missing within a few months of each other in 2022 their cases could appear to be related. The same detectives from the Salinas PD are investigating both cases. Kayeleigh was found a few wee…
FEELS LIKE JERRY ANNAN WAS AMBUSHED
WHO would want to harm a beloved husband, father, son, and community activist who gave so much of him self to the military and veteran organizations? A man who performed any fun raising concert to support the troops? Jerry Annan was a South…
SOUNDS LIKE SOMEONE DID NOT EARN TERRY MCCOY'S TRUST
Terry McCoy decided he no longer wanted to live alone after some health issues made him feel more vulnerable. No one had any idea he would not make it until the day he was going to move in with his best friend of 4 decades. Who would want t…
SOUNDS LIKE WILLIAM LESTER SUFF HAS GOTTEN AWAY WITH TOO MUCH FOR TOO LONG
Whether he is known as the Lake Elsinore Killer or The Riverside Prostitute Killer, William Lester Suff skated under the radar for too long. How does a man who was convicted in Texas for beating to death his own two month old daughter get a…
SOUNDS LIKE MICHAEL KELLY DESERVES JUSTICE
18 year old Michael Kelly is walking home with a friend. On the precipice of his adult life beginning Michael is figuring things out. A dark sedan puills along side him and rolls the window down asking the question "Do you bang?" Michael an…
SOUNDS LIKE THE TRUTH ABOUT JIM IS HARD TO HEAR
Was Northern CA resident Jim Mordecai the Santa Rosa Hitchhiker Murderer from the 1970's? Many members of his family think so. A documentary series streaming on MAX came out earlier this year produced and presented by members of Jim's famil…
SOUNDS LIKE MELISSA "MISSY TAYLOR" ELLISON KNEW HER KILLER
A beautiful young wife and mother celebrates her last Christmas in 1987 without knowing it will be the last. Her 13 month old daughter is home with her, she talks to her mother on the phone, says she has a headache and will turn in soon. Se…
SOUNDS LIKE MICHELLE VANEK IS BEING FOUND
What happened when a fit, young mother of four kids, a marathon runner no less, goes on her first 14 thousand foot peak hike with a very experienced friend? We may never know for sure but we are closer than ever to finding out. Michelle was…
MURDERTIZER SOUNDS LIKE DEBBIE KNOWS DOGS
Tip-Ster Debbie is starting her own podcast in 2025. She knows dogs. Boy does she know dogs. Listen when it comes out and find out what you might think you know and what you might need to learn.Â
SOUNDS LIKE EDWARD SURRATT IS THE WORST OF THE WORST
Edward Surratt was born into an upper income family and had all of the advantages so many others did not. After his entrepreneur father passes away he takes over the successful company and goes bankrupt within two years. He wanders around a…
SOUNDS LIKE BRUCE MENDENHALL LEFT A TRAIL OF BLOOD
Married family man Bruce Mendenhall eventually fell into the long haul trucking industry. Unsuspecting women had no idea the plain looking monster would take their lives in such awful ways. His eventual capture and arrest by Pat Postiglione…
SOUNDS LIKE KEITH JESPERSON DIDN'T KNOW WHAT A HAPPY FACE WAS
Being bullied as young person by school mates is never going to be enough of a reason to kill 8 women. Convicted of three murders Keith Jesperson is suspected of killing at least 5 more women. Thinking about tying victims to the back of you…
SOUNDS LIKE ROBERT BEN RHOADS GIVES TRUCKERS THE WORST NAME
Finally arrested in 1990 after an Arizona state trooper approached Robert Ben Rhoads 18 wheel truck on the side of the highway, the Trooper Mike Miller had no idea he was stopping one of the worst serial killers of the 20th Century. With a …
SOUNDS LIKE ROBERT BEN RHOADS GIVES TRUCKERS THE WORST NAME
Finally arrested in 1990 after an Arizona state trooper approached Robert Ben Rhoads 18 wheel truck on the side of the highway, the Trooper Mike Miller had no idea he was stopping one of the worst serial killers of the 20th Century. With a …
SOUNDS LIKE FRANK FIGLIUZZI HAS THE NUMBER OF SERIAL KILLER TRUCKERS
A task force was formed in the mid 2000's to study highway deaths due to murder. It was found like quite a few of the deaths were murders and that they had signatures that could have related them. Most long haul truckers are hard working, c…
SOUNDS LIKE WARREN ALEXANDER DID NOT GET CAUGHT SOON ENOUGH
Warren Alexander grew up in Southern California and who knows when he started his actual killing spree but he left three victim that we know of for now. These victims were linked to him via DNA all of these years later. But he had many year…
SOUNDS LIKE DAISY ZICK FOUGHT LIKE HELL
When a tough,vibrant wife  and mother is attacked  in her own home and she  fights like she  has never  before and still she  loses the battle everyone  wants to know  who could  have done  this to her.
SOUNDS LIKE DR. HAING S. NGOR'S LIFE WAS SO FULL AND TOO SHORT
When you are born in Cambodia and work hard to get through medical school to be an OB/GYN you cannot imagine the horrors of a despotic dictator taking over your country and putting all intellectuals in work or prison camps. Haing Ngor prete…
SOUNDS LIKE LORI LYNN'S MURDER IS SOLVED...
When a vibrant 60 year old very active retiree goes to pick up her mother for an appointment and is never seen alive again by her loved ones we are thankful for security cameras on her mothers property. But they do not show everything. Or d…