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Lost In The Woods Podcast

56. Monsters in Tacoma

Lost In The Woods Podcast

lostinthewoods

True Crime

3.9582 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

In 1986 12-year-old Michella Welch and 13-year-old Jennifer Bastian were brutally murdered months apart. It would take more than 30 years, and advances in DNA for police to bring justice to them and their families

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0:00.0

One, two, three, four.

0:16.0

Hi, guys. I'm Marie.

0:17.6

And I'm Maddie.

0:18.5

And we are here recording Lost in the Woods.

0:22.3

Thanks for joining us today.

0:30.5

Yes. We are very excited to be back again for another week. And today we are bringing you a crazy case about Jenny Bastion and Michelle Welch, who both went missing from Tacoma, Washington, which by the way, it's also the home of Ted Bundy,

0:40.3

if you didn't know.

0:42.5

By the way, while doing research for this case, I learned one very important thing.

0:48.3

Which, I'm waiting.

0:51.3

Do not move to Tacoma ever, ever, ever. Oh, also, Tacoma stinks. The aroma of Tacoma. It's like a thing. Yeah, tell me, if you live in Tacoma, do you still smell it? So, on March 26, 1986, 1986, Michelle Welch, who was 12 years old, would go missing.

1:13.0

She was in the sixth grade and had blonde hair and blue eyes.

1:17.2

Barbara Leonard, her mother, purchased a new home for her and her three daughters.

1:22.5

So we have Nicole, Angela, and Michelle.

1:25.9

It was spring break and the girls wanted to go to Puget Park that day,

1:31.2

but their mom is working. This park was a few miles from their new home and just across the

1:37.1

street from where their piano lessons were to be that day. Michellea begged her mom to let them go before their lesson and then they could just

1:47.6

go straight to their lesson after playing at the park. Their mom gave in and let them take their

1:52.4

bikes to the park and then they would go to their lesson. They left home around 10 a.m. And

1:58.6

Michelle and one of her sisters were on their bikes. And the other one was

2:02.8

actually on roller skates, which I used to roller skate the shit out of things when I was this age.

2:10.7

Yeah, I had my own set of roller skates at this age. I was going to the skating rink every single

2:15.8

Friday at this age.

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