557 // The Murder of Melissa Jenkins
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🗓️ 27 July 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Welcome back to missing. I am Tim here today with Lance in this re-airing of an episode that was originally published in December of 2022. |
| 0:43.8 | Lance, how are you doing today? |
| 0:45.3 | I'm doing fantastic today, Tim. |
| 0:47.1 | The episode that we have coming up is a really frustrating one. |
| 0:51.4 | You can hear it in our voices as we're going through the details of this disgusting, horrific crime, this murder of a young woman in Vermont. But before we get into all that, |
| 1:01.6 | Tim, let's start it off on a good note. Let's hear how you are doing today. Well, thanks a lot for |
| 1:07.0 | asking Lance. I am doing well today. Yes, you're right. This case is incredibly tragic. It is the story of Melissa Jenkins, who was 33 years old when she was lured out of her house by Patricia and Alan Pruh. And she was murdered. And this happened in 2012 in St. John'sbury, Vermont, and |
| 1:32.2 | Melissa was a schoolteacher at St. John'sbury Academy. And so she was pretty well known in the |
| 1:39.3 | area, Lance. And this case has always fascinated me in big part because of our coverage into Maura Murray. |
| 1:46.4 | This was a woman whose car was left on the side of the road with her two-year-old son inside the car. |
| 1:54.5 | But I just feel like this case could have been more similar if Melissa Jenkins didn't take a couple of precautions and, in a way, |
| 2:05.2 | solve her own murder. Yeah, we'll get to those precautions that she took, but you're right. This is a |
| 2:09.9 | really fascinating crime in the sense that it has all these layers. She took the precautions. The |
| 2:15.9 | tragedy still happened. Her two-year-old son |
| 2:18.4 | was in the car with her who ended up giving a form of a description of what happened to her, |
| 2:23.6 | but getting to the Maura Murray reference, even to the Brianna-Maitland reference, |
| 2:27.4 | there's just a couple of things that, if done differently, Melissa would have fallen into |
| 2:33.0 | those categories of missing persons. |
| 2:35.6 | And then the other layer is trying to wrap your head around how two people met each other. |
| 2:43.1 | They became partners in marriage, romantic partners, partners, partners even in business. |
| 2:49.2 | And then they became partners in murder. |
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