45: The Murder of Shelby Wilkie

Southern Fried True Crime

Erica Kelley

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 10.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

On New Year’s day of 2012, 38 year old Shelby Wilkie went missing. She left behind her three month old daughter. Shelby had been planning to leave her abusive husband. Michael Wilkie eventually admitted to burning Shelby’s body, though he insisted he didn’t kill her. He claimed that she committed suicide due to post partum depression. But the blood evidence in their home told a very different story.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Three Men in a Mystery.
0:02.9	I'm one of your hosts, John Lorton.
0:05.3	And this is Mike Morford.
0:06.7	I'm great news.
0:07.9	July 31st, 1999.
0:11.5	Teenagers JB Hilton Green Beasley and her friend Tracey Hollett got lost on their way
0:16.5	to a party.
0:18.0	They wound up in Ozark, Alabama.
0:20.0	They used another pay phone to call Tracey's mother to let them know they had been lost,
0:24.5	but were now heading home.
0:26.1	However, they would never get home.
0:29.3	The next morning, the car was found by local police.
0:31.8	An investigator figures out there's a latch release for the trunk inside the car.
0:36.8	He opens it.
0:38.1	In the trunk were the bodies of JB Beasley and Tracey Hollett.
0:42.0	They had each been shot in the head.
0:43.8	That was almost 20 years ago.
0:45.6	For me personally, it's a mystery that shouldn't be a mystery.
0:49.6	It's time for answers for the families of these two young girls.
0:52.9	We do have DNA in this case.
0:55.0	There is a very important aspect.
0:56.8	There is a big company that's been hitting the news for solving numerous cases using
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