A Tangled Texas Tale: The Last Christmas of Melissa Sowders
LOVE MURDER
Jessie Pray and Andie Cassette
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2023
⏱️ 82 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
When a mother of four goes missing the day after Christmas in 2013, the authorities take a good hard look at her soon-to-be-husband and her new boyfriend.
Sources:
Homicide for the Holidays S5E4 - "Murder Under the Mistletoe"
Crime Watch Daily
Houston Chronicle articles by Brian Rogers
Oxygen article by Constance Johnson 12/9/21
This Week's Episode Brought To You By:
Lume - Control Body Odor ANYWHERE with Lume deodorant and get $5 off off your Starter Pack (that’s over 40% off) with promo code LOVEMURDER at lumepodcast.com!
EarnIn - Download EarnIn today in the Google play or Apple app store! When you download the EarnIn app type in Love Murder under PODCAST when you sign up – it’ll really help the show. https://app.earnin.com/
Find LOVE MURDER online:
Website: lovemurder.love
Instagram: @lovemurderpod
Twitter: @lovemurderpod
Facebook: LoveMrdrPod
TikTok: @LoveMurderPod
Patreon: /LoveMurderPod
Credits: Love Murder is hosted by Jessie Pray and Andie Cassette, researched and written by Jessie Pray, produced by Nathaniel Whittemore and edited by Kyle Barbour-Hoffman
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | All right, Jesse, the twist last week was extremely unexpected and exciting. |
| 0:05.8 | What's the story this week? |
| 0:07.2 | When a mother of four goes missing the day after Christmas in 2013, |
| 0:11.2 | the authorities take a good hard look at her soon-to-be ex-husband and her new boyfriend. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm Andy Kissette, and I'm Jesse Prey, and this is love murder. Oh, yeah. Hi Andy, hi Jesse. |
| 0:47.0 | Hi, Jesse. |
| 0:49.0 | Welcome back everyone to Love Murder, a podcast about dirtbags, romance drags, and LoveCon, |
| 0:55.6 | fatally wrong. |
| 0:56.7 | You can find Love Murder on Tik-Tock and Instagram at Love Murder Pod and on Facebook |
| 1:01.0 | by searching Love Murder Podcast. |
| 1:02.8 | If you are enjoying the show, please love slash murder, |
| 1:05.5 | a five-star rating on your podcast app, |
| 1:07.3 | subscribe and review to help new people discover the show. |
| 1:10.6 | Thank you to everyone who does that for us every week. We love you. |
| 1:13.6 | Also if you're interested in supporting the show more directly head on over to |
| 1:16.8 | Patreon.com slash love murder pod where you can learn all about the different |
| 1:20.4 | tears of support. This week as usual we are just really really |
| 1:24.2 | really really excited to shout out an amazing new set of patrons it's always |
| 1:27.6 | exciting to have you guys come and join us. Kathy M. Nicky W and Julie H. |
| 1:33.2 | Katie C. Danielle F and Lindsay. |
| 1:36.1 | Whitney B, Sarah B, and Elizabeth T. |
| 1:38.9 | And last but not least, Taylor T. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Jessie Pray and Andie Cassette, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Jessie Pray and Andie Cassette and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.