Melissa Lucio

ep 321: Maryanne Measles. Today we’re sharing a special collaboration episode we recorded with Dr. Casey Jordan and Dr. Colleen Butler-Sweet of the podcast, Criminal Appeal. We discuss the murder of thirteen-year-old Maryanne Measles of New Milford, Connecticut. The case is deepl ...  Show more

Ep 320: A woman’s phone showed she ordered an Uber. The app claimed the trip never happened. Somewhere in between those two facts a murder forced an entire industry to change This is the Samantha Josephson story. Sources for Today's Episode: People.com Law and crime Medium.com Wi ...  Show more

When Karen Bethea-Shields was in college, she heard a judge say, “No way in the world a Black woman can get raped.” A few years later, in 1975, she helped successfully defend Joan Little—a Black woman—who became the first woman in the U.S. to be found not guilty of murder using t ...  Show more

SPOILER WARNING: Please listen to Episode 53: Melinda and Judy before you listen to this one. Melinda Dawson found out on the same day in 1998 that her adoptive mother had been killed and that her own husband Clarence Elkins was being charged with the murder. He was convicted in ...  Show more

A woman left her home in Florida to pick someone up from the airport. Before she left, she provided very specific details to her daughter in the event she didn’t return home. The woman was obviously concerned about her safety, but she went forward anyway. Sadly, her intuition was ...  Show more

8 year old Sandra Cantu went missing from the mobile home park she lived at on March 27, 2009. A massive search would begin immediately for the little girl. Suspicion would soon fall on the most unlikeliest of suspects, a 28 year old woman who lived in the same mobile home park a ...  Show more