Episode 192: Roy Melanson | The Smooth Talker

True Crime Couple

True Crime Couple Podcast

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2024

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Over the span of three decades a man left bread crumbs for law enforcement officers to find all over the country. Luckily, time and technology would eventually catch up to him and Roy Melanson would have to pay for the crimes he had committed and what he had taken from his victims and their families.

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https://vocal.media/criminal/murder-on-kebler-pass-road-michele-wallace
https://www.chicagotribune.com/1998/03/22/flower-child/
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9551613/michele_cecile-wallace
https://www.chicagotribune.com/1994/02/20/now-they-can-say-goodbye/
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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/83432208/margaret-cecilia-wallace
https://www.wafb.com/story/12581570/deputies-charge-73-year-old-in-connection-with-1988-murder/
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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey guys, welcome to episode 192 of the True Crime Couple.
0:04.2	I'm Kay.
0:04.7	And I'm John.
0:05.6	We hope that all is well and want you to know that we are lucky to get to bring you another episode.
0:12.2	We appreciate all you do as listeners.
0:15.1	Even just being here listening to us helps the podcast tremendously.
0:19.2	If you've recently joined Patreon, please stay tuned at the end so you can
0:23.7	hear a shout out. Okay. Well, now that all that is out of the way, let's get started with the podcast.
0:31.5	John, are you ready to hear something crazy? Yes, really quickly, though. I am stuffy. So just be prepared for that.
0:39.9	You got a little bit of a cold. I do. And you have to stay far away from me. I'm trying.
0:44.4	But I am ready. Don't sound stuffy. So you're okay. Don't worry. You know what? People say that.
0:48.4	Every time I say I'm stuffy, they're like, no, you're not. But trust me, I feel it. You'll be fine. But I'm prepared. I'm ready. You'll get through.
0:54.6	This, this is worth it. Okay. In today's case, we're going to head back to Gunnison, Colorado.
1:01.6	But when we were last there at the 7-Eleven ranch, it was 2018. For this episode, we're going to go back
1:09.3	another 31 years to 1989.
1:13.8	It was then that a young Gunnison County investigator was given the task of tackling the county's cold cases.
1:21.5	The woman, Kathy Young, was hell-bent on breaking records in Gunnison.
1:26.4	She had been one of the first female officers in the
1:29.3	county, and she was, on top of her regular caseload, determined to solve the case of Michelle
1:36.5	Wallace, the only unsolved murder in the county. And she would do more than that.
1:45.6	Police say the suspect, 31-year-old Jeffrey Dahmer, has confessed to the killings of 11 people
1:51.1	whose remains were found in his apartment. We are all evil in some form or another. Are we not?
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