Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast

Episodes
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.
TASTES LIKE BARBARA HOWE TALKED TO HER KILLER
You live 87 years being the best person you canbe. You have a long and enduring marriage, you build a home with 3 daughters. After losing your husband of many decades you move to a retirement village where the employees are vetted and are part of the team to protect and help care for you. Or are they? Barbara Howe did not go down easily and according to her killer she "talked" to him after she died. Daniel French was convicted of her homicide and requested a lobotomy to erase what he did and Bar...
TASTES LIKE RUTH BELLE WAYMIRE KNEW HER KILLER
When a young woman goes missing and no one seems to be connected enough to report this and then a torso ends up in a river in Spokane Washington she is named Millie Doe in a heartbreaking but beautiful event. Hear how it takes over 4 decades to get enough information to give Ruth her name back. But who killed her? The Spokane PD has a very strong suspect but they can use more information. If you lived in Spokane, knew Ruth or her second husband (Trampus) David Lee Vaughn AKA David Vaughn, AKA Da...
TASTES LIKE DANIEL CRESPO WAS A DIFFICULT MAYOR
TASTES LIKE STEPHANIE QUEZADA KNEW HER KILLER
No one should be missing and their family not have answers. No one should be murdered after a sexual assault and saying it would be reported. Who exactly killed Stephanie Quezada? There are two really good suspects. Some additional info is needed. If you know anything ANYTHING at all about the Stephanie Quezada murder or any of the people mentioned in the podcast PLEASE contact the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department Homicide Bureau at 323-890-5500
TASTES LIKE 70 YEARS HASN'T CHANGED MUCH THE MURDERS OF DIDDIE COOPER AND CASSANDRA JONES
TASTES LIKE SANDRA ROSAS WAS A TRUE EARTH ANGEL
TASTES LIKE KATELYN MARKHAM/SCOTTY MORRIS UPDATES
When a beautiful soul goes missing and then is presumed deceased its something a family never recovers from. When the missing persons husband is a famous musician and on tour when his wife goes missing its a difficult situation. When its found out she went missing at the hands of a family member that she tried so many times to help get on their feet, it feels like a betrayal that should never, ever happen. Sandra Rosas was the center of a large family and group of friends who felt like family. H...
TASTES LIKE LISA KOPANAKIS WAS TARGETED
TASTES LIKE JUSTICE FOR CAROL SUE KLABER...FINALLY
How do detectives investigating a 46 year old homicide end up solving a 43 year old kidnapping and rape? This episode shows the lengths some cold case detectives will go to and how their efforts finally pay off.
TASTES LIKE THERE IS NOT MUCH OF A CONNECTION BETWEEN THE DELPHI AND STEPHENSON MURDERS
TASTES LIKE KATELYN MARKHAM DESERVES BETTER THAN THIS
Fairfield Ohio doesn't seem like a place where an ambitious, beautiful, hard working young college student would disappear from her home only to have her remains found almost two years later across state lines in Indiana. A recenet update in her case has a lot of us wondering...what do John and Jon know? If you have any information about what happened to Katelyn Markham Please call the Fairfield PD at (513) 829-8201 Or the Butler PD at (260) 868-2171
TASTES LIKE WHERE IN THE WORLD IS TOM STARKEL? WITH FRIENDS LIKE THIS...
A sweet boy from the Antelope Valley, CA disappeared after a "friend" came up with a very sketchy story about what happened. If YOU know anything about what happened to Tom Starkel or what Craig Moore may have had to do with any of this, please call LASD Missing Persons Detective Tamara 323-890-5500
TASTES LIKE UPDATES ON THE IDAHO 4, VENTURA DOUBLE HOMICIDE AND LAUREL JEAN MITCHELL
DNA indicts three men in 40 year old investigations and the profiling of the murdered of the Idaho 4.
TASTES LIKE JESSICA KALISH WAS THE FIRST VICTIM OF CAROL ANNE BURGER
TASTES LIKE GINA TOVAR'S CASE NEEDS SOME ATTENTION
1997 is a long time ago but it seems like a minute to Gina Tovar's sister Michelle. She is looking for help and hopefully we can give her some. If you were in Midland Texas in the mid to late 90's, If you knew Gina or anyone who knew her, the smallest detail that you think might mean nothing could mean something. Please call the San Antonio PD at 210-207-7781
TASTES LIKE GUNS, ALEC BALDWIN AND TAKING CARE OF OUR MENTAL HEALTH
A differnet kind of episode this week. A discussion on how caring for ourselves is really taking care of the world. National Suicide and Crisis Hotline 800-273-8255 or 988 on your mobile device.
TASTES LIKE THE MILLS-HALL MURDERS ARE OLDE AND NEW
TASTES LIKE DO WE NEED TO KNOW EVERYTHING? THE IDAHO 4
TASTES LIKE THE BETRAYAL OF JESUS
Welcome to 2023! Season 6 and I thought 'why not start off with something that will get you lots of hate mail?' I am hoping believers and non-believers can listen to this episode with an open mind. No religion, no politics. Just the discussion of the crucifixion of Jesus from a forensic standpoint.
FEELS LIKE LINDA BENNETT GOT HER NAME BACK: OWEN COUNTY JANE DOE
Linda Bennett was a resident of Columbus, Ohio. She ended up in a field in Owen County, Kentucky where she was unidentified for 34 years. Othram Labs in Houston, TX gave her back her name. Now we need to find who killed her.
FEELS LIKE WHEN BERNIE MET MARJORIE IT WAS A TEXAS SIZED MESS
FEELS LIKE THE OG MACHINE GUN KELLY WAS MORE AUTHENTIC
FEELS LIKE TIM MILLER WILL NEVER GIVE UP FOR LAURA MILLER
FEELS LIKE PATRICK MULLINS DIDN'T JUST GO FISHING
Patrick Mullins story is told beautifully on Unsolved Mysteries if you are a more visual person. A much loved high school librarian married for almost 30 years to his wife, also a librarian and they shared two sons and a quiet, happy life. What happened the day Patrick wanted to get in a little fishing?
FEELS LIKE MEAGHAN RICE SHOULD STILL BE IN PRISON
When a 16 year old girl and a 17 year old boy think they are in love and another 17 year old boy gets murdered in a particularly awful way, how is love even invoked? Its not. Its a lie. Randal Mercier was a kid. A kid who had a big heart and helped his mother care for his dying sister. He returned home to fall into a monsters trap.