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173. [MISSISSIPPI] Leigh Occhi

Big Mad True Crime

Big Mad Media

True Crime

4.75.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

When a worried mom comes home to check on her young teen daughter, she finds a terrifying scene. But her daughter is nowhere to be found. For photos pertaining to this case, check out Leigh’s highlight at the top of my profile at Instagram.com/TheHeatherAshley. And join me there Mondays at 8:30pm EST for LIVE. If you need more BMTC episodes in your life, check out our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/join/BigMadTrueCrime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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Hey everyone and welcome back to Big Mad True Crime, where we get Big Mad over True Crime.

0:37.0

I'm your host Heather Ashley and today's case is out of Tupelo, Mississippi.

0:41.8

Small talk sucks, so let's dive in.

0:44.2

13-year-old Lee Ochi was a blonde-haired, blue-eyed, timid teen who loved dogs,

1:01.7

pizza, and hugs. Basically, she was all of us. Her mom, Vicki, and her dad, Donald,

1:07.1

were both in the military, and she was lucky enough to be born at a base in Hawaii.

1:12.0

As perfect as that sounds, her parents' marriage wasn't as delightful.

1:16.6

The two split when she was young, and with military parents, that meant that from then on out,

1:21.6

visitation would involve a lot of traveling. Lee went on to live with her mom for most of the time,

1:27.6

but would travel across the country and sometimes even the world to spend time with her dad.

1:32.8

While there was always physical distance between the two, they were still really close.

1:37.7

Though by the time she was 13, her dad told Crime Blogger 1983 that the two would only get to

1:44.2

talk about twice a month. Lee had moved to Tupelo, Mississippi, a southern town small enough for

1:49.6

people to write country songs about, while her dad was stationed all the way over on the East Coast

1:54.7

in Virginia. At that point in Lee's life, both of her parents had remarried, but in the first

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