Episode 93: Jim & Sandy Melgar

The First Degree

Alexis Linkletter and Jac Vanek

News, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.5 • 10.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2020

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

You get a call that your father is dead. You rush home and find he has been murdered. He was tied up, stabbed 31 times and beaten over the head. What could be worse? Police believe your mother—who was found tied up and locked in the bedroom closet—is the lone suspect in his death. In episode 93, Jac, Alexis and Billy tell the story of the murder of Jim Melgar, and how law enforcement disregarded key evidence and employed tunnel vision to zero in on Sandy Melgar as his killer. 🎟 Catch up to FOUR bonus episodes per month plus full video episodes over on Patreon: patreon.com/thefirstdegree 📸 Instagram: instagram.com/thefirstdegree 🕺 TikTok: tiktok.com/@thefirstdegreee 👤 Facebook: facebook.com/thefirstdegree Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The first degree.
0:02.0	The first degree.
0:04.0	The first degree.
0:06.0	The first degree.
0:08.0	The first degree.
0:10.0	Get on the tree.
0:12.0	Get on the tree.
0:14.0	He thinks they're supposed to have a movie.
0:16.0	He's not real life.
0:18.0	The prosecutor tried to say she came up behind him and supplied him.
0:28.0	He's like, put his neck behind him and he turned around and loved her too much to put his hands on her.
0:34.0	He's like, he just let my mom stab him in the desk.
0:38.0	Which can be ridiculous.
0:40.0	It's just fucking ridiculous.
0:42.0	Welcome to the first degree.
0:46.0	The true crime podcast that you might end up on.
0:48.0	My name is Jack Vannick.
0:50.0	I'm sitting far away from Alexis Lindglitter and farther away from Billy Jensen.
0:54.0	I am officially ready for this distance podcasting to be over.
1:00.0	We're going to jump right into the day because I think that the Jody area series was next level.
1:08.0	We have an incredible case to give to you today and we want to jump right in.
1:12.0	We want to just hit you with one banger after the next.
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