Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast

18 year old Michael Kelly is walking home with a friend. On the precipice of his adult life beginning Michael is figuring things out. A dark sedan puills along side him and rolls the window down asking the question "Do you bang?" Michael answers honestly "No." and then shots fing out. Micheal dives for cover but is shot what will turn out to be fatally. Micheal was a beautiful soul who deserves so much more than this. IF you know ANYTHING about who did this to Michael no matter HOW small you think it is Please call Det. Eloy Navarro at (818) 374-9550. Those who wish to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers at (800) 222-8477.   *Visit Magic Mind for the Elixir you did not know you needed! Promo Code: TIPSIS20 for 20% Off and Free Shipping! magicmind.com  

Was Northern CA resident Jim Mordecai the Santa Rosa Hitchhiker Murderer from the 1970's? Many members of his family think so. A documentary series streaming on MAX came out earlier this year produced and presented by members of Jim's family and has gotten some people thinking and finding more stories that may or may not be linked...If you know anything about the Hitchhiker Murders or Jim Moredcai's involvement please contact the Santa Rosa Police Department at 707-543-3600.   www.magicmind.com  Use the Promo Code: TIPSIS20 for 20% off and Free Delivery! https://medium.com/@josephnbest/the-santa-rosa-hitchhiker-murders-the-truth-about-santa-rosa-5b07d71b5777

A beautiful young wife and mother celebrates her last Christmas in 1987 without knowing it will be the last. Her 13 month old daughter is home with her, she talks to her mother on the phone, says she has a headache and will turn in soon. Several hours later, a roommate hears her daughter crying and gets up to find that Missy has been beaten to death in her own bedroom with very few clues left behind. And the clues that are there were mishandled with the entire investigation being botched from the beginning. Project Cold Case of Jacksonville, Florida has done GREAT work and research with Missy's case.   If YOU know anything about what happened to Missy Taylor Ellison in December of 1987 PLEASE contact the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office at (904) 630-0500. To remain anonymous and possibly be eligible for a $3,000 reward, call First Coast Crime Stoppers at (866) 845-TIPS.   www.projectcoldcase.org   GIve yourself your own Magic back with a subscription to Magic Mind Mental Performance Elixir www.magicmind.com Use the Promo Code TIPSIS20 for 20% off and free shipping!

What happened when a fit, young mother of four kids, a marathon runner no less, goes on her first 14 thousand foot peak hike with a very experienced friend? We may never know for sure but we are closer than ever to finding out. Michelle was exhausted and out of water. She told her friend she was going to stop and wait for him to go on and get her on his way back down. 400 yards away from the peak she rested on a rock insisting her companion go on and finish the hike, his 39th out of 53 of Colorados 14K feet peaks. He spent a few minutes at the top confirmed by time stamped pictures and other witnesses. When he heads back down, Michelle is gone. Recently, a team of all female search and rescue hikers have found more items of Michelles. Here the story here. Go to Magic Mind Dot Com to get the most fabulous drink elixir, the energy we all need for the day! PROMO CODE: TIPSIS20 for 20% off and FREE Shipping! www.magicmind.com

Tip-Ster Debbie is starting her own podcast in 2025. She knows dogs. Boy does she know dogs. Listen when it comes out and find out what you might think you know and what you might need to learn. 

Edward Surratt was born into an upper income family and had all of the advantages so many others did not. After his entrepreneur father passes away he takes over the successful company and goes bankrupt within two years. He wanders around and finally settles on long haul trucking as a career. He has been indicted on or confessed to up to 20 murders between 1977 and 1978 but it is suspected he is responsible for many more. His trucking career gave him the transportation to go town to town, break into private homes, kill the men immediately and terrorize, torture and eventually murder the women. Some he left in their homes. Some he took to secluded areas and buried them. Two women he has confessed to murdering he assures detectives they are "unrecoverable.' Thank God this monster has spent and will spend the rest of his miserable life in prison. This is the LAST of the series on truck driving serial killers. For the AMAZING MAGIC MIND www.magicmind.com PROMO CODE:TIPSIS20 for 20% off and free delivery!

Married family man Bruce Mendenhall eventually fell into the long haul trucking industry. Unsuspecting women had no idea the plain looking monster would take their lives in such awful ways. His eventual capture and arrest by Pat Postiglione, Wunderkind Homicide and Cold Case detective from the Nashville PD is more interesting than the terrible things he did to women while trying to blame innocent men. Hear the tenacity of a team who was not going to let him continue on their watch

Being bullied as young person by school mates is never going to be enough of a reason to kill 8 women. Convicted of three murders Keith Jesperson is suspected of killing at least 5 more women. Thinking about tying victims to the back of your semi truck with a chain and dragging them behind you to scrape off their faces and finger prints as evidence is a level of evil thats hard to imagine. This is some of the stories of the Happy Face Killer.

Finally arrested in 1990 after an Arizona state trooper approached Robert Ben Rhoads 18 wheel truck on the side of the highway, the Trooper Mike Miller had no idea he was stopping one of the worst serial killers of the 20th Century. With a mobile torture and murder chamber that he also used to make a living, Rhoads was able to traverse the country appearing to be one of the hard working drivers who supply us with all that we need. His route was different. He may have been arrested for three murders but he is suspected in the deaths of upwards of 50 women.

A task force was formed in the mid 2000's to study highway deaths due to murder. It was found like quite a few of the deaths were murders and that they had signatures that could have related them. Most long haul truckers are hard working, conscientious humans who keep us in food, clothing and so many other things our society would grind to halt without. But a small number of bad people have used this career as a way to hide their terrible deeds. The Highway Serial Killer initiative has been profiled in a new book: Long Haul-Hunting the Highway Serial Killers by former Asst Director of Counterintelligence for the FBI. Hear another part of this multi-part series on the murders on our highways.