Welcome back to Missing, I am Tim here today with Lance Lance. How are you today?

I'm doing fantastic today Tim because we are speaking with someone who wrote a

great book, a great true crime book and you know how much I love true

crime books, you love true crime books. I'm an open book about it. You need to be an

open book about how you feel today. Oh good one. Yeah. I'm doing great Lance.

Thanks a lot for asking, especially in such a creative way. I really circled

around that one for a while. You did. And so we speak with a new friend here

today in this episode. Her name is Ladonna Humphrey. She is an author. She's a mom

and she's a private investigator Lance and she is really impressive and she wrote

a book called The Girl I Never New. Who killed Melissa Whitt? And it is about

the tragic and unsolved murder of Melissa Whitt. She went missing in December of

1994 and her body was discovered about 45 miles away in January of 1995. She was

found in the Ozark National Forest and she was 19 years old when her life

was taken from her. And we know that Ladonna has done such a great job. She's

been working on it for almost a decade now and the book, like we said, is great.

And as we speak with Ladonna, we just see how much work she's put into this. How

much of herself she's given to this particular unsolved murder. She's been

working on it for about eight years. So I guess you could say we're going on a

decade with this and she won't stop. I don't know if she actually said it in

this interview, but she's determined to figure out what happened to Melissa Whitt.

She's almost become like a kindred spirit to her, which I think is an

incredible display of empathy. Yeah, it is a tragic case Lance. It seems like it

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