349. Dead Girls Don't Talk: The Case of Micki Jo West

Our True Crime Podcast

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Personal Journals, Society & Culture, True Crime

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🗓️ 4 March 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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On the morning of September 11, 1979, nineteen-year-old Micki Jo West left her mother’s home in St. Joseph, Missouri, as she had every morning. She wore her nurse’s aide uniform, pulled on a khaki coat, carried her white purse, and adjusted her glasses, marked with her name on the right lens. Bright, outgoing, and compassionate, she had a quick laugh and a warmth that drew people to her. She walked the familiar four-block route to the bus stop that would take her to St. Joseph State Hospital. She never made it. Join Cam and Jen on this episode of Our True Crime Podcast entitled ‘Dead Girls Don’t Talk: The Case of Micki Jo West.’ Listener discretion by Edward October of @octoberpodVHS All music is by our EP at @theinkypawprint Sources: https://www.oxygen.com/buried-in-the-backyard/crime-news/micki-jo-west-case-family-killer-marvin-irvin-hunt-body https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94341424/neighbors-awaken-to-nightmare/ https://www.doenetwork.org/cases/2212dfmo.html https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94260117/irvin-pleads-guilty-to-murders-of-3/ https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Micki_Jo_Westhttps://namus.nij.ojp.gov/case/MP18179 https://charleyproject.org/case/micki-jo-west https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94343713/ex-officer-held-in-missing-womans/ https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94354374/law-officers-halt-search-for-body/ https://mysterydelver.com/st-josephs-devil/ https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94343327/skeletal-remains-identified/ https://websleuths.com/threads/mo-micki-west-19-st-joseph-11-sept-1979-m-irwin-guilty.88462/ https://murderpedia.org/male.I/i/irvin-marvin-lee.htm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktbaB-i1uZ8 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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