August 30, 2023 • 18 mins
No one has seen or heard from Melinda Lopez since November of 2020. Loved ones fear she was the victim of a homicide. The Pend Oreille County Sheriff's Office urges anyone with information to come forward. To reach those potential witnesses, Melinda's family created a video flyer of Melinda herself. With a beloved photo and previous videos of her, it's a chilling plea for justice. If you know anything about Melinda's case, call 509-447-3151.
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(00:08):
We have her last know whereabouts,her last messages. We know she was
in distress, cried out for help. It's been almost three years since anyone
has seen or heard from Melinda Lopezof Newport, Washington. Such a small
town, you know, such asmall town, so and a close knit
(00:28):
town, somewhere where Melinda was bornand raised, and now we're family fears
to their core. Also the possiblelocation where she was killed. Melinda is
gone. That was the voice ofMelinda's mother, Yolanda. I interviewed her
in December of twenty twenty. Shewas overcome with grief and worry, panic,
(00:49):
knowing then that something was terribly wrong. I promised Linda Lamanda, We're
not leaving with her. I'm notgoing to gold with Tell her. My
name is Hayley Gunthner. I'm ananchor at HQTV in Spokane, Washington.
If you follow this series, youknow my passion is covering cold cases,
ensuring our community never forgets. Thisis the case of Melinda Lopez. No
(01:11):
one has seed or heard from hersince November of twenty twenty. Her disappearance
is being investigated by the Pondera CountySheriff's Office, who says, at this
point, the case is that astand still. It's it's very frustrating when
we followed a relief that's available tous and you know, none of it
is leaving us anywhere. That's whyyour family is hopeful through sharing her story,
(01:34):
maybe that could change. Could youboth say your full names and your
relationship to the victim in this case. I'm Joline Mary Lopez. I am
Melenda's ant and Brittany Britney Lopez andI'm Melenda's cousin. It's been fall wall
(01:57):
Mark three years without her. Doyou think do either of you think there's
any way she's still alive? No? Absolutely not No. Do you think
she was murdered? Yes? Absolutely, Yes she was murdered. Melinda would
(02:22):
never run off and just disappear atnot She wouldn't do that. Tell me,
let's go back to November, midNovember of twenty twenty, and she
was in a place of distress.Without getting too much into too much detail,
(02:43):
we don't want to compromise the investigation. Take me through back in November
when when you guys knew something wasterribly wrong. Well, she had messaged
one of her friends saying that ifsomething happened to her that she did not
do it. She had reported that, and then we knew that she was
(03:06):
trying to get out of a placethat she was living at due to them
not getting along and she was worriedabout it. What was your last contact
with Melinda and how was she?She was okay? She didn't seem I
mean, she was living at thatsame place and it sounded like it wasn't
(03:30):
She wasn't really too happy to bethere, but she never said she was
scared or anything. So she didn'tstart messaging people that she was scared until
the final days before she vanished.Yeah, it sounds like a few weeks
prior, there was a couple littleissues with somebody that lived there and she
(03:54):
started to get uncomfortable, and shehad reached out to a couple of her
friends and one of them was thefriend she was going to move in with,
and they had asked her if youknow what was going on and stuff,
and she just said that she didn'tfeel comfortable being there anymore. Friends
have told Melinda's family she was preparingto move wanted to get her things when
(04:14):
no one else was around. Itwas a move They fear Melinda was never
able to make. They say they'veshared all of this with the Pondore County
Sheriff's Office, who they say havelooked into that property where she was last
known to be. They tried totrack her location in her last location on
her phone did show she was atthat same place, but that there was
nothing they could find. They didn'tfind anything that was super substantial. They
(04:41):
did. I think they had cadaverdogs out there. What were two or
three times? Now a lot thefamily can't help but replay every last contact
they had with Melinda. Juliane,what about you? What was your last
contact with her? And how didshe seem? My last contact with her
would have been we had a funeralfor my sister and we were all,
(05:08):
you know, the family being together, and she seemed really sad to you
know, of course beat her aunt'sfuneral, but she was really happy to
see all the family. I gaveher some money. She needed some money,
so I gave her some money.But she just seemed, you know,
like Melenda always was. And whatwas Melinda like when when you talk
(05:31):
about she was how she always was? For people who don't know where paint
a picture of of Melinda for usshe was really outgoing. She's just I
think she's a little spitfire. Shewas a little small, but she definitely
(05:51):
she definitely had a big personality andshe loved loved kids, all the nieces
and nephews. That was probably oneof the favorite things. I mean that
the easiest way to put a smellon her face was the little kids.
And she had always wanted to bea mom, So she definitely had a
lot of maternal Yeah. Well,and that's probably why she was so,
(06:15):
you know, a doting dog mom. If you will, yes, tell
me about Echo. I only methim a couple of times when he was
younger, but she took him everywhere. That dog never ever ever was left
alone, and Echo vanished right alongwith her. Yes, was he a
(06:41):
protective dog? Yeah, I wouldsay. I mean they spent I mean
twenty four seven together. There wastime she would come to my house and
she always had him, and shewas she would teach him tricks and stuff,
and so you could tell they spenta lot of time together. What
do you think this case needs tobe solved. I think that the things
(07:14):
that people have came forward and said, I think they need to be investigated
further. And pushed and the namesthat were given from the very beginning.
I think those people they didn't reallythere wasn't a lot of fight to get
information out of them, and Ithink, you know, they need pushed.
And one of the people that cameforward first, she wasn't what she
(07:39):
had said wasn't really taken very seriously. But it's always came back to that
story, no matter the people we'vetalked to, and we've we've talked to
people on our own, you know, without the detectives, and it's pretty
much always rounded about back to thatstory. So I think that there needs
(08:01):
to be a bigger investigation with thatand not just brushed off. That story
is that something may have happened thatnight, the night Melinda texted saying essentially
if something happened to her, itwas no accidents. This case has a
lot of theories and a lot ofrumors. The Ponderrea County Sheriff's Office certainly
has their work cut out for them. Say your full name and your title,
(08:26):
your connection to the case. butNBlakesley and I'm the sure off of
Ponter County. Ponderrea County has apopulation of less than fifteen thousand approximately.
The biggest city in it is Newport, where Melinda was last known to be
living. It's a region that hasits fair share of disturbing crime. Though,
if you're familiar with this podcast,the suspicious death of Marty Lange was
(08:50):
also from this area. So asthe murder of Jason Fox, his case
was solved and husband adjudicated. SheriffBlakesley tells me it's nothing more than to
solve Melinda's case too. We wouldabsolutely love to find closure for the family
and for obviously the rest of thepublic as well. Melenda's family, as
you heard, refers to her inthe past tense, they do believe with
(09:13):
everything they've got that she was thevictim of a murder. A sheriff says
they need more evidence to officially reclassifyit. Well, currently it's solicited as
a missing person you know, tolictitas a homicide. We have to have
a definite information that this shows usthat she's deceased, and so she's still
a missing person at this point intime until we can develop that other information.
(09:35):
We have it as a personal goalto try to solve these types of
crimes or any crime. And yeah, it's just pretty frustrating that we're not
a whole lot closer than when westarted. You always hear nobody can just
disappear, but I mean she did. She did. Like any case,
there there is evidence out there asa matter of finding it, and at
(09:58):
this point in time, it reallypulls back to people. People know things,
and it's just people don't like totalk for variety of reasons. They're
they're fearful, they don't want tobe a snitch, they don't want to
be involved, or whatever. Itis playing the right situation where somebody is
willing to talk and tell what theyknow that'll lead us to the closure that
we need. So how do youreach those people? Melinda's cousin Brittany and
(10:20):
ant Joline say their family is willingto try it all, including making a
video flyer. I hope you'll watchthis on our web story. We will
link it for you here in thenotes. You can also view it on
YouTube by searching Melinda Lopez Foundation.We want to courtesy them for the clip
you're about to hear. This ispart of the actual video flyer, using
(10:43):
a beloved photo of Melinda and hervoice from an old video. Hello,
my name is Melinda Lopez. Yousee, I became a missing person in
twenty twenty. No one has comeforward to help solve my case, so
I remain missing. My mom andmy dad love me so much and miss
me. Dear that they created thisfoundation on behalf of my name with the
hopes to close my case. Ifyou have any information on my whereabouts,
(11:09):
please please don't hesitate to come forwardby submitting an anonymous tip. Again,
the courtesy for that clip goes tothe Melinda Lopez Foundation on YouTube. This
was an effort from Yolanda and herhusband and a friend, essentially using artificial
intelligence to make this incredibly powerful statement. I've never seen anything like it in
my years covering cold cases and crime. Again, I urge you to watch
(11:33):
it for yourself. Britney says,there's nothing those who love Melinda won't do
to try to help your family.You guys have kind of put on detective
hats if you will, yourselves,and knocked on doors and put up flyers
and posters all over the city ofNewport, and now your family has made
(11:54):
that YouTube video. When you sawthat, Brittany, did you get goosebumps?
Yeah? It was really sad.It was sad to know that that
was her voice and that's the onlyway we'll get to hear it again is
through a video. I mean,it's an amazing thing, but it's also
(12:16):
it's also sad. I think itputs a little more kind of puts a
nail in the coffin that we won'tbe seeing her again. If someone out
there has information and they're listening toour podcast and you could speak directly to
them, Brittany will start with you. What would you say to them?
I would say, just please comeforward if we just want to find her
(12:39):
and put her to rest. AndI hope that you know, if the
people that are involved that they're herethis, think about it being your family
just for a second, your daughter, your sister, and realize that pain
is just it never goes away,especially as a mother, It's just it
stays there forever. Knowing that you'rebaby was out there and nobody knows what
(13:03):
happened, but probably wasn't good,and that she's out there waiting for somebody
to, you know, bring herhome. Jolene, you had told me
in one of our many interviews aboutthis that Yolanda, Melinda's mother has said,
what do we do we do weplan a funeral? Do we wait?
I mean, we could be inthis same agonizing state of limbo for
(13:28):
another decade or who knows. Whatis it like having those conversations with your
sister Melinda's mom. Oh, it'sit's really hard to watch your sister look
in your eyes with her and thepain that she has, not knowing what
happened to her daughter. She feelsthat whatever happened to her daughter was probably
(13:52):
someone that we knew or she knew. It's I don't even know what to
say to her anymore. Or herpain is so real, not knowing every
day and knowing that her daughter wentthrough what she went through alone, you
know, and she might have hadher dog with her, but you know,
my sister would have definitely you know, took the hit for so to
(14:16):
speak. You know, it's hard, it's really super hard to watch Yolanda
every single day go through this andhear it in you could hear it in
her voice, you could see itin her face, you know, and
knowing that she comes and she askedme, she's like, what do we
do? Do we do we havea memorial for her? Do we have
(14:37):
a funeral? We can't have afuneral without a body. But let me
tell you, we both we allhear Molenda saying when I think of that
video, and to hear that videoof her on the flyer, I can
that hearing her real voice is sochilling. But also I hear that voice
saying, you guys, don't keeplooking for me, keep looking for me,
(15:01):
you know, bring me home,put me to rest. And that
keeps us, you know, itgives us some some energy to keep going
forward and keep looking and putting thetime into to finding her. Is she
right under us somewhere? You know, we've we've had several search parties where
(15:22):
we've had you know, fifty ofus all scattered all over the place on
different rumors. And you know,of course they can only go to so
many places because they're private property orright, we're not the law. But
I just gotta keep looking. Shehad In all the photos you guys have
sent me of her, she hadmany different You could tell that she loved
(15:45):
expressing herself with different hairstyles and looks. She had the long, gorgeous blonde
hair. She had that adorable littlelike pixie cut. When she vanished.
What what did she look like shehad her short hair when she banished,
and it was more red. Yeah, and it was more red when she
had banished. And then she hadthree star tattoos over her chest. So
(16:11):
those are kind of some importance,you know, markings to keep watch out
for. I guess yes. Andshe had wonderful like newer tattoos. She
had the Batman symbol on her arm, like on her forearm. She loved
that. Girl loved clothes, yes, and jewelry, but she always like
(16:36):
an outfit you didn't think would lookgood like. She was totally expressional and
more those different things, and sheloved loved it. She was definitely more
feminine than I think she put off, and she expressed it a lot with
you know, when she got alldolled up and the way she dressed.
She kind of had that hard exterior, but she still had that little girly
(17:03):
nissoner. Melinda Lopez would be thirtyseven years old today. She was about
five four hundred and twenty to onehundred and thirty pounds. She had short
hair, blue eyes, and thosetattoos are family mentioned. Sheriff Blakesley says
tiplines are open, just calling themain number for the Sheriff's office. Five
to nine full four seven nineteen hundredwould probably be the best number, and
(17:29):
then just let them knowledge you haveinformation regarding this case and they will hook
you up with the investigators that arecontinuing to follow up on everything is presented
to us. You can find moreinformation on the case on Facebook by searching
Justice for Melinda. You can checkout that YouTube page two. The foundation
her folks started hopes to one dayhelp other families of missing victims, a
(17:52):
pain they can relate to all toowell, a pain perhaps you could help
ease by calling in that one steps. We're willing to follow up on anything
that comes along. It is stillan active case for us, and we
still do hope for closure for thefamily and anybody else involved in it,
and so anybody that does have informationor can help us, we certainly look
(18:12):
forward to chatting with them until thenext one. I'm Hailey Gunner.
We have her last know whereabouts,her last messages. We know she was
in distress, cried out for help. It's been almost three years since anyone
has seen or heard from Melinda Lopezof Newport, Washington. Such a small
town, you know, such asmall town, so and a close knit
(00:28):
town, somewhere where Melinda was bornand raised, and now we're family fears
to their core. Also the possiblelocation where she was killed. Melinda is
gone. That was the voice ofMelinda's mother, Yolanda. I interviewed her
in December of twenty twenty. Shewas overcome with grief and worry, panic,
(00:49):
knowing then that something was terribly wrong. I promised Linda Lamanda, We're
not leaving with her. I'm notgoing to gold with Tell her. My
name is Hayley Gunthner. I'm ananchor at HQTV in Spokane, Washington.
If you follow this series, youknow my passion is covering cold cases,
ensuring our community never forgets. Thisis the case of Melinda Lopez. No
(01:11):
one has seed or heard from hersince November of twenty twenty. Her disappearance
is being investigated by the Pondera CountySheriff's Office, who says, at this
point, the case is that astand still. It's it's very frustrating when
we followed a relief that's available tous and you know, none of it
is leaving us anywhere. That's whyyour family is hopeful through sharing her story,
(01:34):
maybe that could change. Could youboth say your full names and your
relationship to the victim in this case. I'm Joline Mary Lopez. I am
Melenda's ant and Brittany Britney Lopez andI'm Melenda's cousin. It's been fall wall
(01:57):
Mark three years without her. Doyou think do either of you think there's
any way she's still alive? No? Absolutely not No. Do you think
she was murdered? Yes? Absolutely, Yes she was murdered. Melinda would
(02:22):
never run off and just disappear atnot She wouldn't do that. Tell me,
let's go back to November, midNovember of twenty twenty, and she
was in a place of distress.Without getting too much into too much detail,
(02:43):
we don't want to compromise the investigation. Take me through back in November
when when you guys knew something wasterribly wrong. Well, she had messaged
one of her friends saying that ifsomething happened to her that she did not
do it. She had reported that, and then we knew that she was
(03:06):
trying to get out of a placethat she was living at due to them
not getting along and she was worriedabout it. What was your last contact
with Melinda and how was she?She was okay? She didn't seem I
mean, she was living at thatsame place and it sounded like it wasn't
(03:30):
She wasn't really too happy to bethere, but she never said she was
scared or anything. So she didn'tstart messaging people that she was scared until
the final days before she vanished.Yeah, it sounds like a few weeks
prior, there was a couple littleissues with somebody that lived there and she
(03:54):
started to get uncomfortable, and shehad reached out to a couple of her
friends and one of them was thefriend she was going to move in with,
and they had asked her if youknow what was going on and stuff,
and she just said that she didn'tfeel comfortable being there anymore. Friends
have told Melinda's family she was preparingto move wanted to get her things when
(04:14):
no one else was around. Itwas a move They fear Melinda was never
able to make. They say they'veshared all of this with the Pondore County
Sheriff's Office, who they say havelooked into that property where she was last
known to be. They tried totrack her location in her last location on
her phone did show she was atthat same place, but that there was
nothing they could find. They didn'tfind anything that was super substantial. They
(04:41):
did. I think they had cadaverdogs out there. What were two or
three times? Now a lot thefamily can't help but replay every last contact
they had with Melinda. Juliane,what about you? What was your last
contact with her? And how didshe seem? My last contact with her
would have been we had a funeralfor my sister and we were all,
(05:08):
you know, the family being together, and she seemed really sad to you
know, of course beat her aunt'sfuneral, but she was really happy to
see all the family. I gaveher some money. She needed some money,
so I gave her some money.But she just seemed, you know,
like Melenda always was. And whatwas Melinda like when when you talk
(05:31):
about she was how she always was? For people who don't know where paint
a picture of of Melinda for usshe was really outgoing. She's just I
think she's a little spitfire. Shewas a little small, but she definitely
(05:51):
she definitely had a big personality andshe loved loved kids, all the nieces
and nephews. That was probably oneof the favorite things. I mean that
the easiest way to put a smellon her face was the little kids.
And she had always wanted to bea mom, So she definitely had a
lot of maternal Yeah. Well,and that's probably why she was so,
(06:15):
you know, a doting dog mom. If you will, yes, tell
me about Echo. I only methim a couple of times when he was
younger, but she took him everywhere. That dog never ever ever was left
alone, and Echo vanished right alongwith her. Yes, was he a
(06:41):
protective dog? Yeah, I wouldsay. I mean they spent I mean
twenty four seven together. There wastime she would come to my house and
she always had him, and shewas she would teach him tricks and stuff,
and so you could tell they spenta lot of time together. What
do you think this case needs tobe solved. I think that the things
(07:14):
that people have came forward and said, I think they need to be investigated
further. And pushed and the namesthat were given from the very beginning.
I think those people they didn't reallythere wasn't a lot of fight to get
information out of them, and Ithink, you know, they need pushed.
And one of the people that cameforward first, she wasn't what she
(07:39):
had said wasn't really taken very seriously. But it's always came back to that
story, no matter the people we'vetalked to, and we've we've talked to
people on our own, you know, without the detectives, and it's pretty
much always rounded about back to thatstory. So I think that there needs
(08:01):
to be a bigger investigation with thatand not just brushed off. That story
is that something may have happened thatnight, the night Melinda texted saying essentially
if something happened to her, itwas no accidents. This case has a
lot of theories and a lot ofrumors. The Ponderrea County Sheriff's Office certainly
has their work cut out for them. Say your full name and your title,
(08:26):
your connection to the case. butNBlakesley and I'm the sure off of
Ponter County. Ponderrea County has apopulation of less than fifteen thousand approximately.
The biggest city in it is Newport, where Melinda was last known to be
living. It's a region that hasits fair share of disturbing crime. Though,
if you're familiar with this podcast,the suspicious death of Marty Lange was
(08:50):
also from this area. So asthe murder of Jason Fox, his case
was solved and husband adjudicated. SheriffBlakesley tells me it's nothing more than to
solve Melinda's case too. We wouldabsolutely love to find closure for the family
and for obviously the rest of thepublic as well. Melenda's family, as
you heard, refers to her inthe past tense, they do believe with
(09:13):
everything they've got that she was thevictim of a murder. A sheriff says
they need more evidence to officially reclassifyit. Well, currently it's solicited as
a missing person you know, tolictitas a homicide. We have to have
a definite information that this shows usthat she's deceased, and so she's still
a missing person at this point intime until we can develop that other information.
(09:35):
We have it as a personal goalto try to solve these types of
crimes or any crime. And yeah, it's just pretty frustrating that we're not
a whole lot closer than when westarted. You always hear nobody can just
disappear, but I mean she did. She did. Like any case,
there there is evidence out there asa matter of finding it, and at
(09:58):
this point in time, it reallypulls back to people. People know things,
and it's just people don't like totalk for variety of reasons. They're
they're fearful, they don't want tobe a snitch, they don't want to
be involved, or whatever. Itis playing the right situation where somebody is
willing to talk and tell what theyknow that'll lead us to the closure that
we need. So how do youreach those people? Melinda's cousin Brittany and
(10:20):
ant Joline say their family is willingto try it all, including making a
video flyer. I hope you'll watchthis on our web story. We will
link it for you here in thenotes. You can also view it on
YouTube by searching Melinda Lopez Foundation.We want to courtesy them for the clip
you're about to hear. This ispart of the actual video flyer, using
(10:43):
a beloved photo of Melinda and hervoice from an old video. Hello,
my name is Melinda Lopez. Yousee, I became a missing person in
twenty twenty. No one has comeforward to help solve my case, so
I remain missing. My mom andmy dad love me so much and miss
me. Dear that they created thisfoundation on behalf of my name with the
hopes to close my case. Ifyou have any information on my whereabouts,
(11:09):
please please don't hesitate to come forwardby submitting an anonymous tip. Again,
the courtesy for that clip goes tothe Melinda Lopez Foundation on YouTube. This
was an effort from Yolanda and herhusband and a friend, essentially using artificial
intelligence to make this incredibly powerful statement. I've never seen anything like it in
my years covering cold cases and crime. Again, I urge you to watch
(11:33):
it for yourself. Britney says,there's nothing those who love Melinda won't do
to try to help your family.You guys have kind of put on detective
hats if you will, yourselves,and knocked on doors and put up flyers
and posters all over the city ofNewport, and now your family has made
(11:54):
that YouTube video. When you sawthat, Brittany, did you get goosebumps?
Yeah? It was really sad.It was sad to know that that
was her voice and that's the onlyway we'll get to hear it again is
through a video. I mean,it's an amazing thing, but it's also
(12:16):
it's also sad. I think itputs a little more kind of puts a
nail in the coffin that we won'tbe seeing her again. If someone out
there has information and they're listening toour podcast and you could speak directly to
them, Brittany will start with you. What would you say to them?
I would say, just please comeforward if we just want to find her
(12:39):
and put her to rest. AndI hope that you know, if the
people that are involved that they're herethis, think about it being your family
just for a second, your daughter, your sister, and realize that pain
is just it never goes away,especially as a mother, It's just it
stays there forever. Knowing that you'rebaby was out there and nobody knows what
(13:03):
happened, but probably wasn't good,and that she's out there waiting for somebody
to, you know, bring herhome. Jolene, you had told me
in one of our many interviews aboutthis that Yolanda, Melinda's mother has said,
what do we do we do weplan a funeral? Do we wait?
I mean, we could be inthis same agonizing state of limbo for
(13:28):
another decade or who knows. Whatis it like having those conversations with your
sister Melinda's mom. Oh, it'sit's really hard to watch your sister look
in your eyes with her and thepain that she has, not knowing what
happened to her daughter. She feelsthat whatever happened to her daughter was probably
(13:52):
someone that we knew or she knew. It's I don't even know what to
say to her anymore. Or herpain is so real, not knowing every
day and knowing that her daughter wentthrough what she went through alone, you
know, and she might have hadher dog with her, but you know,
my sister would have definitely you know, took the hit for so to
(14:16):
speak. You know, it's hard, it's really super hard to watch Yolanda
every single day go through this andhear it in you could hear it in
her voice, you could see itin her face, you know, and
knowing that she comes and she askedme, she's like, what do we
do? Do we do we havea memorial for her? Do we have
(14:37):
a funeral? We can't have afuneral without a body. But let me
tell you, we both we allhear Molenda saying when I think of that
video, and to hear that videoof her on the flyer, I can
that hearing her real voice is sochilling. But also I hear that voice
saying, you guys, don't keeplooking for me, keep looking for me,
(15:01):
you know, bring me home,put me to rest. And that
keeps us, you know, itgives us some some energy to keep going
forward and keep looking and putting thetime into to finding her. Is she
right under us somewhere? You know, we've we've had several search parties where
(15:22):
we've had you know, fifty ofus all scattered all over the place on
different rumors. And you know,of course they can only go to so
many places because they're private property orright, we're not the law. But
I just gotta keep looking. Shehad In all the photos you guys have
sent me of her, she hadmany different You could tell that she loved
(15:45):
expressing herself with different hairstyles and looks. She had the long, gorgeous blonde
hair. She had that adorable littlelike pixie cut. When she vanished.
What what did she look like shehad her short hair when she banished,
and it was more red. Yeah, and it was more red when she
had banished. And then she hadthree star tattoos over her chest. So
(16:11):
those are kind of some importance,you know, markings to keep watch out
for. I guess yes. Andshe had wonderful like newer tattoos. She
had the Batman symbol on her arm, like on her forearm. She loved
that. Girl loved clothes, yes, and jewelry, but she always like
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an outfit you didn't think would lookgood like. She was totally expressional and
more those different things, and sheloved loved it. She was definitely more
feminine than I think she put off, and she expressed it a lot with
you know, when she got alldolled up and the way she dressed.
She kind of had that hard exterior, but she still had that little girly
(17:03):
nissoner. Melinda Lopez would be thirtyseven years old today. She was about
five four hundred and twenty to onehundred and thirty pounds. She had short
hair, blue eyes, and thosetattoos are family mentioned. Sheriff Blakesley says
tiplines are open, just calling themain number for the Sheriff's office. Five
to nine full four seven nineteen hundredwould probably be the best number, and
(17:29):
then just let them knowledge you haveinformation regarding this case and they will hook
you up with the investigators that arecontinuing to follow up on everything is presented
to us. You can find moreinformation on the case on Facebook by searching
Justice for Melinda. You can checkout that YouTube page two. The foundation
her folks started hopes to one dayhelp other families of missing victims, a
(17:52):
pain they can relate to all toowell, a pain perhaps you could help
ease by calling in that one steps. We're willing to follow up on anything
that comes along. It is stillan active case for us, and we
still do hope for closure for thefamily and anybody else involved in it,
and so anybody that does have informationor can help us, we certainly look
(18:12):
forward to chatting with them until thenext one. I'm Hailey Gunner.
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