Melissa Hasley: Sounding The Alarm

Unfound

Ed Dentzel

True Crime

4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2018

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Melissa Dawn Hasley was a 31 year old from Des Moines, IA. She was the youngest of 3 sisters and loved Led Zeppelin. On October 18, 2002, Melissa went to a party at an apartment building downtown. After a couple hours, and without explanation, she left the complex through a fire door, setting off the alarm. She was never seen again. CHARLEY PROJECT: http://charleyproject.org/case/melissa-dawn-hasley NAMUS: https://www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/400 Websleuths: https://www.websleuths.com/forums/threads/ia-melissa-dawn-hasley-31-des-moines-18-oct-2002.101868/#post-11573767 Iowa Cold Case site: https://iowacoldcases.org/case-summaries/melissa-hasley/ Article about murder of Patricia Howlet: https://www.kcci.com/article/man-convicted-in-patricia-howlett-murder-dies-in-prison/6871799 If you have any information regarding the disappearance of Melissa Hasley, please contact the Des Moines Iowa Police Department at (512) 283-4811. Unfound is on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, iTunes, Podomatic, Stitcher, Podbean, and Spotify. --in particular, please join us on Wednesday nights at 9pm Eastern for the Unfound Facebook Live Video show which is hosted on the Unfound Podcast Page . . . NOT in the private group. Email: [email protected]. The website: Unfoundpodcast.com—please check out the secret Steven Koecher episode. The website at Trib Total Media: triblive.com/news/unfound Unfound has Patreon and PayPal accounts. --I cannot thank all of Unfound’s supporters enough. Unfound merchandise: Volumes 1, 2, 3, and 4 on Amazon in both paperback and ebook form. --let’s try to work on getting some great reviews for Volume 2. --if you’ve bought, please give it a nice review. --the playing cards—go to makeplayingcards.com/sell/unfoundpodcast --shirts for ALMOST ALL Unfound’s cases at unfound-podcast.myshopify.com --this includes the flagships t-shirt, The First Year Cases, that has a collage of everyone from Suzanne Lyall to Jennifer Wilkerson. Please check it out. And please mention Unfound on all true crime Facebook pages, websites, and forums. Thank you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:20.0	Melissa Dawn Hasley was a 31 year old from Des Moines, Iowa.
0:24.0	She was the youngest of three sisters and loved Led Zeppelin.
0:27.0	On October 18, 2002, Melissa went to a party in an apartment building downtown.
0:33.4	After a couple hours, and without explanation,
0:36.6	she left the complex through a fire door, setting off the alarm.
0:40.6	She was never seen again.
0:44.0	I'm going to Oh, I think I've made the point before on this program in the unfounded series of books and in my conversations with all of you
1:26.2	that although violent crime in the US has gone down dramatically for example this country
1:30.9	was a much more violent place in 1970, the year I was born, than it is now.
1:36.7	That despite that, suicides, mental illness, and drug addiction have gone up.
1:41.8	And that those three things have escalated together is not a
1:45.2	coincidence in my opinion. This should be an alarming trend for everyone.
1:49.7	For me personally as a guy who covers disappearances exclusively, I am kind of aware of this even without knowing the statistics.
1:59.0	Because back in the 1960s and 70s, despite them being violent times, a disappearance like Melissa
2:05.7	Hasley's was fairly rare, where her friends seemed to not care at all that she walked
2:10.2	out of door and was never seen again. Their attitude flippet at best, just carrying
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