Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast

SOUNDS LIKE THE BOHEMIAN GROVE IS THE WEIRDEST SUMMER CAMP EVER

SOUNDS LIKE ROBERT ZARINSKY REALLY WAS THE WORST

SOUNDS LIKE CARRIE CULBERSON THOUGHT SHE COULD LOVE EVEN HIM

When we are young we sometimes believe our love can change or save someone. That very rarely happens. This is one of the more heart breaking cases I have heard. The most dangerous time for victims of domestic violence are when they make a decision to leave the abuser. It feels like this is what may have happened. The layers of this case with the strange interacations of multiple murders is just one part of the heart break. Hear Carrie's story here. Host-Melissa Morgan Co-Host - Joshua Be...

SOUNDS LIKE 5 SWEET MEN GOT LOST AND TROUBLE FOUND THEM: THE YUBA CITY 5

SOUNDS LIKE BRYAN NISENFELD HAD A COMPLICATED YOUNG LIFE

Did a young man walk into the ocean because he was having some difficulties in his life? Did someone else have a hand in his disappearance? Finding only a small part of him is devastating to his family. And there have to be better answers out there for them. Bryan's story is so layered. Hear it this weeks episode. 

SOUNDS LIKE DEBORAH POE DID NOT WALK AWAY

When a beautiful, ambitious young woman  disappears from her overnight second full time job its not because she walked away from her life. She had everything to live for and many people who loved her so much they would take turns coming into the Circle K where she worked overnights just to make sure she was alright. Hear Debbie's story. IF you know anything about Debbie's disappearance please contact the Orlando PD at 321-235-5300

SOUNDS LIKE TAYLOR KRAMER IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN

I always thought In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida was kind of a heavy metal joke. I had no idea that Iron Butterfly were so influential in the rock world and so many artists credit them with giving them inspiration. I also had no idea that Taylor Kramer, the bassist was a high school drop out who went on to be an engineer for the Departmet of Defense and was an originator of facial recognition technology (IN THE 1990's!) to help find missing children and adults. Hear his very twisty story here. 

SOUNDS LIKE THE BUFFALO WAS CAUGHT- OSCAR ACOSTA AND HUNTER THOMPSON

SOUNDS LIKE JUSTICE DELAYED FOR IRENE GARZA

SOUNDS LIKE TWO WRONGS DO NOT MAKE A RIGHT: ALABAMA BOTCHED EXECUTIONS

I do not have the answer. I feel like those much smarter than me do not either. But botched executions should not happen. Using nitrogen hypoxia might be more humane than a botched lethal injection but how do we know? One thing I do know is that the listeners to this podcast are some of the most brilliant and compassionate souls. I am open to hearing your thoughts, pro or con.

SOUNDS LIKE BIGFOOT IS NOT TO BLAME: THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THERESA BIER, AMBER AIAZ AND MELISSA FU

SOUNDS LIKE THE 1989 GRANT COUNTY JOHN DOE RAN INTO THE WRONG PEOPLE

SOUNDS LIKE SHE FOUND HIM: HOW PHILLIPA FOUND RICHARD III

Can one woman who is determined to find the Lost King actually achieve this?!?! You bet she can. Phillipa Langley did have some help. Some. But she is a force of nature and she alone set in motion a group, a village of researchers, anthropologists, genetic genealogists, experts in many fields to dig up a parking lot and lo and behold, 500 hundred years later, Richard WAS there. The film "The Lost King," is her story. AND Richard's story. 

SOUNDS LIKE ADA BETH KAPLAN SURVIVED A LOT BUT NOT THIS

SOUNDS LIKE TODD MATTHEWS REALLY DID CHANGE THE WORLD - REPLAY OF EP 126

SOUNDS LIKE ROBERTA "BOBBIE" MILLER AND SPORT DESERVE SO MUCH BETTER THAN THIS

54 year old Roberta "Bobbie" Miller  of Gilford, NH was trying to settle into her new home with her dog Sport. She had only been in her house for a few days after a contentious divorce that took over 3 years to settle. Strange circumstances happened in her realm, like the lake house her husband got in the divorce burned to the ground a few days before she and her dog Sport were murdered inside her new home. Hear her story. If you or anyone you might know has ANY idea who did this please cont...

TASTES LIKE GWENN MARIE STORY AND CYNTHIA (CINDY) JANE ANDERSON DESERVE ANSWERS

ANYONE with information about Gwenn Marie Story, or the two males she traveled to Las Vegas with is urged to contact the Homicide Section by phone at 702-828-3521, or by email at [email protected]. You can remain anonymous by contacting Crime Stoppers by phone at 702-385-5555, or online at www.crimestoppersofnv.com. (The sketch done by Carl Kopelman shows the shirt and jewelry worn by Gwenn.) ANYONE with information on the disappearance of Cynthia Jane Anderson please contact Toledo Pol...

SOUNDS LIKE GWENN MARIE STORY AND CYNTHIA (CINDY) JANE ANDERSON DESERVE ANSWERS

ANYONE with information about Gwenn Marie Story, or the two males she traveled to Las Vegas with is urged to contact the Homicide Section by phone at 702-828-3521, or by email at [email protected]. You can remain anonymous by contacting Crime Stoppers by phone at 702-385-5555, or online at www.crimestoppersofnv.com. (The sketch done by Carl Kopelman shows the shirt and jewelry worn by Gwenn.) ANYONE with information on the disappearance of Cynthia Jane Anderson please contact Toledo Pol...

TASTES LIKE HUGO SELENSKI HAS ODD GARDENING TENDENCIES

Most High School predictions aren't precursors for how our lives will go. But the students of Sioux City High School voting Hugo Selenski "Most Likely to be in Detention For Life," seems pretty accurate. A career criminal who escaped a maximum security area of a prison, stole large amounts from mulitple other criminals and had several bodies buried in his backyard, it looks like he will not be outside of prison walls for the foreseeable future if ever. One of the bodies in his yard is still ...

TASTES LIKE EPISODE 300 WITH UPDATES ON TOM STARKEL AND HERSCHEL CHANDLER

TASTES LIKE WHY WAS PATRICK WEBER KILLED?

Patrick Weber, very loved son, father, husband, friend was killed while transporting cannabis in Northern California. Was it a botched robbery? Was it a road rage incident? Was it a contract killing? We know MORE THAN ONE PERSON KNOWS. If YOU know anything about what happened in February of 2019 on Highway 20 in Northern CA please contact the CHP Ukiah Dispatch at 707-467-4000.

TASTES LIKE WHY ON EARTH HAS IT BEEN 25 YEARS AND SUZANNE JOVIN'S CASE IS STILL UNSOLVED?

Many podcasts and documentaries have been created around Suzanne's case. Its almost unbelievable that her case is STILL UNSOLVED 25 years later. Her story isn't unusual but it is unique. Murdered in an odd way on a street in an upscale neighborhood surrounding Yale University where she was a senior. How does something like this remain open? IF you know anything please contact the Connecticut Attorney General at 866-623-8058 or jovin.case.ct.gov

TASTES LIKE THE GUSTAFSON FAMILY WAS ANNIHILATED BY DANIEL LAPLANTE

Who thinks they will come home from work and take their shoes off to relax only to find a teenage nightmare living in your walls who rapes and kills you (a pregnant mother) and kills your two children for your husband to find when he comes home? I know Priscillia Gustafson never expected this.

TASTES LIKE JOSEPH GATTO WAS NOT FINISHED

Joseph Anthony Gatto, a 78-year-old was shot and killed Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2013 in his home in the Silver Lake are of Los Angeles. A visionary, an artist, a teacher who was beloved by thousands of students, other artists and collectors of his many mediums, who would want or feel they would have to shoot Joe in the gut and watch him bleed out?!? IF you know anything no matter HOW small you think it might be please contact the LAPD Homicide Special Section, Robbery-Homicide Division at (213...

TASTES LIKE THIS JANE DOE WAS LOVED AND DELPHI TRIAL UPDATE

Found in 2018 buried in a very shallow grave wrapped in cloth with a rose on her chest, someone loved this woman. Perhaps they were afraid to call police since she was found with drugs in her system. Or maybe they could not afford a funeral. But for sure she was loved. SOMEONE has to know this woman. SOMEONE must recognize her clothing, her jewelry, the new 3-D model of her features. Its a joint effort with the Hamilton County Coroner, the BCI of Ohio, Cincinnati Police and other agencies tr...

TASTES LIKE BAD SANTA CAME TO TOWN

Adolph Laudenberg picked up some useful skills as a young man. He could whittle and helped support his family making well respected and in demand walking sticks. He also obsessed over his two step sons spouses and confessed to both of them his 'Four Sins,' earning him the nickname The Santa Strangler. Hear this monster's story in this weeks episode. 

TASTES LIKE IS NATALEE HOLLOWAY'S CASE REALLY CLOSED?

Even though there was a "confession" proffered by an inveterate liar, Joran Van Der Sloot, I am not sure I will ever believe him. He has told so many lies about what happened that night. This explanation seems like it could be what happened but I will never trust him. If it brings some peace to her parents and loved ones I guess that is the best we can ask for. But its never going to be enough. 

TASTES LIKE PEOPLE KNOW WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO WHITNEY COPLEY

Beautiful Whitney Copley was 24 when she did not return from staying overnight with some 'friends.' Telling her sister she would return the next day and then going missing for 14 months before her body was found was not what was supposed to happen. What DID happen to this lovely young mother of two and why won't someone come forward with something...anything? If you know anything about what happened to Whitney in Russellville Kentucky please contact the Kentucky State Police Post 15 at 270-3...

TASTES LIKE TREVOR BALDWIN HAS A GREAT TEAM BUT STILL NEEDS OUR HELP

September 2014, Chesapeake VA PD responded to a single car accident. It took a minute to figure out that 20 year old Trevor Baldwin had not run up onto the curb and hit a tree. He had been shot and the car rolled to its inevitable stop. The City of Chesapeake has a website with ALL cold cases listed. They do it right when it comes to asking for the publics help. Trevor's parents Melinda and Dan work tirelessly to find out who did this to their wonderful son and why. If YOU have any informati...

TASTES LIKE DIA ABRAMS HAD 99 PROBLEMS BUT DISAPPEARING ON HER OWN WAS NOT ONE

MURDERTIZER - CHAD O'MELIA NEEDS OUR HELP

Chad O'Melia was murdered by Bryn Spejcher that is not in dispute. What is definitely in dispute is the reason why Ventura County DA Erik Nasarenko lowered the original charge of murder filed by former DA Greg Totten. Lowering the charge to involuntary manslaughter and having Spejcher plead not guilty is the latest insult.  Her jury trial begins October 23rd, 2023. Chad's family is asking anyone who would like to get involved to email or call DA Nasarenko at 805-654-2501 or erik.nasarenko@ve...

TASTES LIKE LESLEY SPARROW WAS TREATED LIKE REFUSE

A British ex-pat moves to the US with a husband in the military. Their marriage ends but she pulls herself up by her boot straps and becomes a very ambitious and successful HR exectuive at a well respected company. Lesley Sparrow was a 35 year old woman living in Louisville, Kentucky who works hard and plays hard. Why does she end up in the trunk of her own car, shot in the head 6 time, beaten with a tire iron up to 15 times, eventually buried in a Potters Field in Northern Kentucky?  Her ...

TASTES LIKE PERMON GILBERT WAS AT THE WRONG PLACE AT THE WRONG TIME

Perm (shortened version of his name) Gilbert was the go-to guy when you had a GE appliance that was giving you trouble. He was employed full time during the week with Sears/GE to repair appliances through their repair service. But the weekends were his to take on side jobs. He was well liked and well   known. So why in the spring of 1982 would someone break his nose, shoot him twice and leave his unclothed body in a ditch in rural Ohio? Hear his story here.  This case was covered twice on ...

TASTES LIKE DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY ROULETTE: THE UNSOLVED MURDER OF SHIRLEY CARTER

June 15, 2015, Jason Carter reported finding his mother deceased from two gun shot wounds to the back, lying on her own kitchen floor. His father Bill Carter is sure Jason killed his own mother. Here is her story and their legal infighting afterwards. IF you have any information on Shirley's case and we know that there are people who know, PLEASE contact the Marion County Sheriff's Office at 641-828-2220

TASTES LIKE ITS TIME FOR SOME UPDATES

Herschel Chandler, Jenny Sue Iles and The BTK monster all had updates this week. 

TASTES LIKE CATHY SPOSITO WAS NOT BRYAN BENNETT'S ONLY VICTIM

Its hard to imagine a high school junior kills a woman who is on a hike while camping with her boyfriend. Bryan Bennett was 16 years old when he killed so very brutally, Cathy Sposito, a 23 year old college student. Thumb Butte Trail in Yavapai County, AZ would never be the same. And Bennett did not stop there. He was linked posthumously through DNA to 3 other brutal sexual assaults. The Yavapai Sheriff's Office does not think his monsterous acts ended there. If you were assaulted by Bryan B...

TASTES LIKE HERSCHEL CHANDLER WILL NOT BE SWEPT UNDER THE RUG

May of 1984 in a small town in Indiana at a prestigous college in Southern Indiana a night security guard was beaten to death in the Business Adminstration building around 4:30 AM. Was it just an interrupted robbery? Herschel's story deservers more than this open ending and his legacy is more than an unsolved homicide. If you have any information on Herschel's case, if you attended Hanover College  at the time, if you know anyone who did or heard anything you think might be too small to matt...

TASTES LIKE PAMELA BUCKLEY AND JAMES FREUND GOT THEIR NAMES BACK. NOW WHO KILLED THEM AND WHY?

TASTES LIKE PAMELA BUCKLEY AND JAMES FREUND GOT THEIR NAMES BACK. NOW WHO KILLED THEM AND WHY?

Two beautiful young adults meet somewhere (probably on the road) and team up to travel together. They came from different parts of the country, they were likely hitch-hiking in the era of that being more popular, they were nicely dressed and not cheaply accessorized, and murdered and left in a ditch. Not shot once. Or twice. But three times in the chest with a large caliber weapon. It took took 44 years to find out who they were, that they were not related and where they had come from. Even ...

TASTES LIKE MICKEY AND TRUDY THOMPSON WERE TOGETHER THROUGH IT ALL

Mickey Thompson met his soul mate in High School and that was it for him. Trudy was the definition of a partner to Mickey. He was the dare devil/race car entreprenuer and she was right beside him as he created an empire. He owned many patents on safety features he and his team had invented for all kinds of vehicles. He was tough but fair but if you proved yourself and got into the inner sanctum you were in forever. Until business partner Michael Goodwin violated every trust you could put int...

TASTES LIKE JENNY SUE ILES IS STILL WAITING

When 7 year old Jenny Sue lles walked down her street to a friends house and never returned the city of Covington, Kentucky was turned upside down trying to locate her. Ten days later she was discovered on the second story of an abandoned house by someone collection alluminum. A suspect was arrested, indicted and convicted but that was overturned a short two years later. Jenny's case should not remained unsolved. If you know anything about this 1989 abduction, rape and murder of a 7 year o...

TASTES LIKE LINDA PETERSON'S KILLERS ARE KNOWN

Linda Peterson struggled like we all do. A difficult upbringing led her to quelling her pain with substance abuse. But she pulled herself out of that life for her grandchildren who lit up her world. She not only kept clean she would volunteer to help others going through the same struggles. She would even go to rehab when she was clean as a refresher in case she felt like she might falter. Someone with this will to live and help others should not have disappeared over $400 dollars. More than...

TASTES LIKE BOB ROSS SPOKE SOFTLY AND CARRIED A BIG BRUSH

If you, your parents or grandparents ever saw a soft-voiced, gentle man with the strangest afro ever teaching the world how to paint 'Happy Little Trees,' on the PBS show "The Joy of Painting," you know Bob Ross. The OG unintended inventor of AMSR (auto sensory meridian response) with his voice like a 'Liquid Tranquilizer,' he was a fascinating man for sure. But I can tell you with utmost certainty he was not a serial killer who painted areas where he had buried his victims. Between the TV s...

TASTES LIKE TIMMOTHY PITZEN'S FAMILY MISSES HIM

In 2011 Amy Pitzen took her 6 year old son out of kindergarten saying there was a family emergency. She left town with Timmothy and took him to his favorite zoo, an amusement park and finally a resort hotel. She left notes saying Timmothy was with people who loved him and his father and the rest of his family would never find him. She then ended her own life in the hotel bathtub. Timmothy has not been seen or heard from again even though someone claimed to be him in 2019. Where is Timmothy P...

TASTES LIKE BLANCHE WRIGHT ROSE LIKE A PHOENIX

TASTES LIKE VINCE CHAMP IS NOT JUST A COMIC BUT A DANGEROUS PREDATOR

TASTES LIKE CARRIE GASKINS KNEW WHO KILLED HER

Carrie Gaskins daughter comes home from school to the worst scene imaginable: her 30 year old mother has been murdered in their home. There was no sign of a forced entry and detectives think she absolutely knew who killed her. If you have any information on this 1992 homicide from Clermont County, Ohio please call the investigations department of the Clermont County Sheriff's Dept at (513) 732-7545

TASTES LIKE THE GATE IS STILL OPEN: HOWARD UNRUH'S WALK OF DEATH

I tend to think of mass shootings as something more current but what is largely considered America's first mass shooting was in 1949 even before University of Texas. There was such clear, complete and unvarnished coverage of this terrible event. One journalist won the Pulitzer Prize for News Reporting on this case. Howard Unruh took 13 lives and yet he lived 60 more years after the terror he brought to Camden, New Jersey. There are some heros in the story. Try to remember that. 

TASTES LIKE GAIL RUSSELL KNEW WHO TOOK HER

When one person in a troubled relationship disappears and the story told by the remaining partner sounds a bit implausible you hopoe SOMEONE knows more and feels comfortable letting it out by now. Help Gail's sons, Joey and Brian know what happened to their mother. If you know anything about this case please call the Pasco County Sheriff's Office at 727-847-5878m or the Crime Stoppers Number at 800-873 TIPS. 

TASTES LIKE CHRISTIAN LONGO WANTS TO BE MIKE FINKEL

What happens when you are a highly esteemed NYT Magazine writer who is caught up in a self-made scandal and a family annihilator is living in Mexico under your name? True Story: Memoir, Murder, Mea Culpea is Mike Finkel's story woven into Christian Longo's nightmarish violence. Finkel's book came out in 2005 and a movie made from the book came out in 2015. Its a fascinating story and you can hear it on this weeks episode.