277. The Kalamazoo Uber Killer: Jason Dalton
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🗓️ 11 September 2024
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Summary
The Uber driver began driving recklessly, ignoring stop signs and driving into the median. He sped into an oncoming traffic lane, blew through a stop sign, and sideswiped a Ford Taurus. But outwardly, the driver acted like nothing was wrong. Matt was terrified. “Dude, you just hit that car!” he yelled at the driver. But the driver just said, “I didn’t hit anything.” In the back seat, the family dog lunged for the floorboard where she stayed. Matt begged him to stop the car, but the driver wouldn’t.
Matt continued to plead with the driver for the next few minutes to let him out.
The man said, “Don’t you need a ride to your friend’s house?” Matt yelled, “Not anymore! Let me out! Let me out!” But still, the driver ignored his pleas. Finally, the driver pulled onto Iroquois Trail and asked, “Which one is your friend’s house?” Matt took that opportunity to jump out of the car and run. A couple was sitting outside having a cigarette break and saw what happened. They immediately called 911. According to the woman, the 911 operator blew her off.
By the end of the night, that Uber driver would go on to kill six people and severely injure 2 more.
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Written and researched by Lauretta Allen
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Edward October. |
| 0:02.6 | Over the years, I've narrated more ghost stories, horror shows, and creepy pastas than I can count. |
| 0:08.0 | And yet, the crimes discussed on our true crime podcast managed to scare the shit out of me. This program is not |
| 0:16.0 | suitable for children or the faint of heart. If you are such a person go ahead and |
| 0:20.1 | switch off this podcast. Listen to something else. |
| 0:24.0 | Are you still with us? |
| 0:26.0 | Well, we've warned you. So, Hey Jen! Hey Kim, how you doing? I'm doing pretty darn good. How about yourself? I'm doing well. Thank you for much. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Here you got a case for us? I do. I do. It's an interesting one. Yeah. it's all on a timeline, so I'll be mentioning a lot of times. |
| 1:07.0 | So I will let you know. |
| 1:08.0 | Okay, you ready? |
| 1:09.0 | Let's go. On Saturday, February 20th, 2016, Matt Mellon called for an Uber driver around 4 o'clock in the afternoon in Kalamazoo, Michigan. |
| 1:27.0 | When the Uber driver arrived at about 4.20 PM, Matt noticed a dog in the backseat. |
| 1:32.0 | The driver introduced himself to Matt as Mimi. |
| 1:36.0 | Matt set up front next to the driver because the dog was in the back and he wasn't sure what the rules of having a dog in an Uber was, but it didn't bother him because he liked dogs. |
| 1:46.2 | The fair before him, however, had refused to get in because of the big German Shepherd type dog in the backseat. |
| 1:52.8 | According to an article from GQ magazine, quote, |
| 1:56.0 | Melin was headed from the edge of downtown Kalamazoo |
| 1:58.7 | to a friend's house to pick up his car, |
| 2:00.7 | which he had left there after a birthday party the previous night. |
| 2:03.8 | They chatted a little to begin with, you know, just small talk, nothing unusual. |
| 2:09.1 | About a mile into the trip, the driver got a phone call. |
| 2:12.0 | He answered the phone and spoke on Bluetooth just for a minute or two. |
| 2:15.6 | Matt said he could hear the call but he wasn't really paying any attention to what was being said and |
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