Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast

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)!

Episodes

December 18, 2025 53 mins

Just the Tip-Sters doesn't usually cover cases in progress or cases this recent. But Ms. Rivas death once covered up and attempted to be swept into a trunk is unfurling like a large flag.

It is fairly clear that more than one person has been involved in this case and it is going to be revealed like pulling a loose thread on a sweater.

If YOU know anything about what actually happened to Celeste Rivas Hernandez please contact the LA...

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When a beautiful French TV producer heads to her country home in West Cork Ireland shortly before Christmas in 1996 there is never a doubt she will be back in France by Christmas day. But that did not happen. A neighbor finds her badly beaten body in the dirt driveway to her cottage.

So many suspects, so little connection, so much time to have gone by and yet Sophie's case has been recently made public again with a new DNA extracti...

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Fredericksburg Texas Police are once again asking for the public’s help in solving the brutal 2007 murder of 55-year-old Linda Muegge.

Back in May of that year, Muegge was found dead inside her burning home on Franklin Street. Investigators say she had been stabbed multiple times and bludgeoned before the fire and suffered severe burns.

Despite efforts from the Texas Rangers and FBI, no arrests were ever made.

This year, Muegge’s m...

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Wayne Nance did not have a perfect childhood but neither do a lot of us. He was smart and somehow got himself through highschool and graduated. He joined the military but was "generally" discharged due to having contraband like drugs and knives. Little did we know he had already commited one of the most brutal murders of the mother of a friend. After his own death evidence connecting him to this murder was found in his po...

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Rural Oklahoma in 1985 and hitchhiking had not fallen out of favor. Rozlin and Fawn Abell two sisters were walking into town to apply for jobs....maybe. Their older brother Otto heard one of them say "Hurry up, they are waiting for us down the road..." 18 year old Rozlin and 15 year old Fawn were never seen again.

There was much gossip, theories and rumors over the years including stories of bad behavior very close to hom...

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Lots of teenagers have drama and high emotions. Some teenagers run away from home and in some cases they stay away. It is an unusal case when a 13 year old go goes missing in spring of 2024 from her family home a few hours east of Los Angeles and then is found one day after what would have been her 15th birthday, decomposed so badly in a bag in the front trunk of a Tesla sedan in the tony neighborhood of Hollywood Hills, it was at ...

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In 1987 Stephen Pandos was in college happy to put some distance between he and his abusive father and passive mother. But he did not expect to find out that his sister had gone missing in the middle of the night.

A weird letter with strange demands, suspicious people in Jennifers life, odd behavior from those involved including her parents make for a truly bizarre missing person story.

IF you know ANYTHING about the where abouts o...

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I cannot imagine the deepest pain of losing ones child. It is difficult to dispute video camera footage but Haley's family still has questions. They do not believe she would leaver her 6 month old son motherless.

Haley's mother is looking for an attorney to file a wrongful death lawsuit. Hear Haleys story here and if you have any information on this case or a way to be of service and help her family please reach out to Haley's fami...

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Since November of 2022, the country has been mesmerized by the events in the small town of Moscow, Idaho. Four well loved, beautiful young people had their lives not only taken from them but they were scrutinzed, turned upside down, investigated and doubted only to find out that a demented murderer decided to enact his own twisted desires. There are many outlets who have produced great content about the case. I have never wanted to...

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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 bad? Except money was left, the killer stayed for hours after killing father Mikio, mother Yaskuo, daughter Ninna and son Rei, ate food from their kitchen, used their bathroom leaving excrement in ...

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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 motivated, ambitious single mother who had a supportive family to help out with child care occasionally and a house full of pets she treated better than most people treat their human fa...

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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 the whole company could benefit from her acumen. Not a lot of early 20 somethings can afford to buy their own home. But hard work and some help from her very close family helped her get a condo ...

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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 was a spitifire. She was athletic and creative, made new friends easily and even had a high school crush on a boy named Michael who was crushing back on her. She had learned the bus system to get t...

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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


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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 Stephenson in Florence, KY please contact the Boone County Sheriff's office at 859-334-84796 or toll free at 844-210-1111 You can also email the department on this specific case at: stephensontip...

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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.


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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 63-10335.


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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 at the church that her family had belonged to for decades, Sacred Heart Catholic Church on Main Street in Covington. on July 2, 1992. 69 year old Aggie Albert went to Sacred Heart with her keys ...

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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 industrial center office, all together? On March 12, 2022 Naomi disappeared from the parking lot waiting for her work shuttle. The Monster who did this believed he had thought of everything. Not even clos...
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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 throat. Lets not forget about killing his two half brothers including one who was special needs. "Pink Moon," Nick Drake - Island Records, 1972 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https:...
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