Hello, everyone, and welcome back to another episode of True Crime with Kendall Ray.

Thank you so much, as always, for joining me.

And if you are new to the show, then welcome.

Thank you for stopping by.

Okay, guys, so today we are getting into one that is beyond words, upsetting,

devastating, completely unnecessary, ridiculous, enraging. I feel that you are all going to be,

when you hear the details, as pissed off as I have been while researching this case.

Today we're going to be talking about the murder of two people, actually, because we're talking about Melissa Lamish, and when she was murdered, she was very close to giving birth. She was nine months pregnant with her son, Barrett, who never even got a chance to make it into this world.

Barrett was going to be Melissa's first son, and she was very excited about becoming a mother,

and I truly believe she would have been a fantastic mother.

Alyssa was very down-to-earth, very capable, strong woman, also beautiful,

and it's just enraging to think about how completely unnecessary this was.

And it's also just wildly disturbing because of the circumstances of the murder.

I mean, it honestly was just, there's no other way to describe it other than, like, demonic.

Melissa and Barrett should be here today.

Melissa should be raising her son and they're not

because of the actions of a truly sick, disgusting, vile, waste of life human. And I don't even want to

utter his name yet. We will wait until we have to. And I have no doubt that you guys are going to

have the same opinion as me on this one. Let's just get into it, starting with me telling you more about Melissa.

So Melissa was born on Mother's Day, May 10th of 1993.

And God, I actually just realized her and I were less than a month apart in age.

She was one of five siblings to be raised by their parents, Dina and Gus in Mount Morris, Illinois. Her siblings,

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