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Episode 194: Melissa Brannen | No One Saw a Thing

True Crime Couple

True Crime Couple Podcast

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.72.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2024

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

In the tightknit community of the Woodside Apartments the residents gather each year for the Yuletide fest where everyone in the complex can eat, drink, and be merry as their children play games and visit with Santa. But, as is often the case, when we feel comfortable to let our guard down, that evil takes its opportunity to strike. In the middle of the residents catching up and talking about their holiday plans on that December night in 1989 a 5 year old girl, who had just been seen by her mother a minute prior, was kidnapped in the presence of 115 people. No one had seen anything. 

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Sources:
https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/archive/special/9704a/11branne.htm
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPcap/1999-11/27/005r-112799-idx.html
https://casetext.com/case/hughes-v-commonwealth-7
https://www.woodsideapartmentslorton.com/sitemap.aspx
https://www.newspapers.com/image/1071961330/?match=1&terms=Melissa%20Brannen
https://www.newspapers.com/image/919607331/?match=1&terms=Melissa%20Brannen
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/man-convicted-in-1989-child-abduction-sent-back-to-prison/3728108/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/crime-law/2019/04/19/abductor-year-old-melissa-brannen-be-released-prison-after-years/
Forensic Files: Innocence Lost (TV 1999) Season 4 Episode 5


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0:00.0

Hey guys, welcome to episode 194 of the True Crime Couple podcast. I'm Kay. And I'm John.

0:06.0

We hope all is well and that you're surviving the holiday season. We know that things can be

0:11.5

wonderful and there's so much to celebrate sometimes, but we also know there's a lot going on and it

0:18.0

can be super overwhelming. So it's good that we all get to be

0:21.1

together and we can survive the holidays for the next hour and a half together. Honestly, that's

0:27.4

exactly what I'm thinking in my head right now. It is such a stress reliever, in my opinion,

0:33.7

that we have this to do. Like other people might be like, oh, it's like it's something that we

0:38.5

have to do or it's just an extra chore. I never look at it like that because I truly enjoy my time

0:45.6

with you here and talking to everybody. Well, well, talking to them, obviously I can't hear them.

0:50.6

But just being able to do that. We wish we could hear you guys. That would be pretty cool. Yeah,

0:53.5

absolutely. But like just to me that means so much, you know. So when we get to do this, it's, it's very soothing.

1:01.0

Yes, it's a good outlet. Yes. Unfortunately, the topic is a little, you know, tough.

1:06.0

Morton sometimes. But regardless, we have fun doing it.

1:10.0

So just a quick baby update too, because we know that

1:13.3

you guys have been asking, we just had our anatomy scan at 20. So right now I'm 23 weeks pregnant.

1:21.8

But, you know, before I got pregnant, I was used to be like, why do people say the weeks and not

1:25.9

just the months? Now I know, because they're very specific.

1:29.4

Yes. Very sure.

1:31.1

So we did that anatomy scan and everything's all good. I got an A plus on the pregnancy, which is

1:36.9

not. That's a scale I can recognize. All the organs are good. She's growing well. So we're just

1:42.9

very, we feel very blessed and lucky and happy

1:46.9

that everything is going okay. And John was so cute at the scan because he refuses to like touch

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