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Crawlspace - True Crime & Mysteries

426 // The Murder of Judith Petty w/ Melissa Sandberg

Crawlspace - True Crime & Mysteries

Crawlspace Media

Society & Culture, True Crime, News

4.11.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Crawlspace. In this episode Tim Pilleri & Lance Reenstierna continue speaking with the amazing people they met at CrimeCon 2023. This is a riveting conversation with Melissa Sandberg. Melissa is a member of the American Military University Cold Case Investigations Team from Charles Town, W.Va., also known as the Safe Haven team. Melissa applies her background as a social worker as she and her team investigate the 2008 murder of Judith Petty. This story has lots of twists and turns so be sure to check out the Safe Haven Podcast, exclusively about the murder of Judith Petty: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/safe-haven-the-unsolved-murder-of-judith-petty/id1651175975 https://open.spotify.com/show/31qdqncKfT25OeDMeVE6z9?si=1e604da496bf4486 Anyone with information about Judy’s death can email our tip line at tips@justice4judy.com or call 224-225-5208. All tipsters are guaranteed confidentiality and anonymity if they wish. Tips can also be reported directly to the Wood County Office of the Sheriff’s tip line at 304-834-3909. Follow us: IG: https://www.instagram.com/crawlspacepodcast/ TT: https://www.tiktok.com/@crawlspacepodcast YT: https://www.youtube.com/crawlspace Twitter: https://twitter.com/CrawlspacePod FB: https://www.facebook.com/Crawlspacepodcast/ Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crawlspace-true-crime-mysteries/id1187326340 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/58cll3enTW2SNmbJUuLsrt The music for Crawlspace was produced by David Flajnik. Listen to his music here: https://www.pond5.com/artist/bigdsound Check out the entire Crawlspace Media Network at http://crawlspace-media.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Tim here today with Lance. Lance, how are you today?

0:32.6

I'm doing fantastic today, Tim. I hope everyone out there, hope they're doing it just as fantastic.

0:37.3

This guest that we have on is bringing to the table the really tragic. Fantastic today, Tim. I hope everyone out there, hope they're doing it just as fantastic.

0:43.1

This guest that we have on is bringing to the table the really tragic death of an individual.

0:50.8

And as you look into this more and you dig deeper, you do find that this death is probably most likely a homicide.

0:53.9

And that is exactly what our guest is going to be talking about today.

0:58.4

But Tim, what I want to be talking about right now is your mood. How are you?

1:04.7

I'm doing all right. Thanks for asking. I'm excited to be here. We are continuing our series of post-crimeCon interviews, and we met Melissa Sandberg at CrimeCon, and she was speaking very passionately about investigating

1:13.1

the unsolved murder of Judith Petty. And she's teamed up with a group of investigators. In fact,

1:20.2

it's called the American Military University Cold Case Investigations team. And they're from

1:24.8

Charlestown, West Virginia. But they're also known as the Safe Haven

1:29.3

team. And Safe Haven is the name of their podcast as well that is looking into Judith Petty's

1:35.9

death. And she was 48 years old when she went missing and her body was found in February of 2008.

1:42.4

And we get into all of the details here in this conversation with Melissa.

1:46.1

But Tim, if people want to listen to all of these details and not get interrupted by commercial

1:50.2

breaks, where would someone find this episode, plus every single other episode that we've

1:55.3

done without commercial breaks?

1:56.5

Well, our lovely listeners can follow CrawlSpace Premium on Apple Podcasts.

2:02.1

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2:05.6

And sign up for the same product there.

2:08.3

You get early releases, add free episodes, and our weekly bonus show that everybody loves.

2:14.0

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