Melissa Lamesch

Criminology

Emash Digital

True Crime

4.7 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

On November 25, 2020, just one day before Thanksgiving, multiple residents called 911 to report a fire at a house in Mount Morris, Illinois. Inside, first responders found twenty-seven-year-old Melissa Lamesch, who lived at the home with her father.

Join Mike and Morf as they discuss the murder of Melissa Lamesch. Melissa was pregnant and due to be induced two days later. All fingers began pointing at the baby's father, Matthew Plote, a firefighter and EMT. The revelations during the investigation were startling.

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0:00.0	Criminology is a true crime podcast that may contain discussion about violent or disturbing topics.
0:05.9	Listener discretion is advised. Hello everyone and welcome to episode 356 of the criminology podcast.
0:42.2	This is Mike Ferguson.
0:43.5	And this is Mike Morford.
0:45.1	Mr. Morford, how you doing this week, buddy?
0:47.3	I'm doing good.
0:48.0	I was looking this morning at our, you know, how far we've come on criminology.
0:52.6	And I just realized that we're closer to 400 episodes
0:56.1	than we are 300 episodes. So, you know, time really flies. It does. It does. I mean, we've been doing
1:03.9	it for years. And sometimes it seems like a long time. And then sometimes it seems like it was just yesterday that we started
1:12.4	and so and i think that you know that goes along with a lot of things in your life sometimes
1:18.5	it feels like you've been doing something let's say married you know you've been married for a long
1:24.4	time other times it doesn't feel that long yeah and actually you
1:28.8	know along the same lines it's been eight years since we were doing season two when the golden
1:35.1	state killer was arrested this week eight years ago so i it blew my mind that we've been doing
1:41.8	the show that long and you know we're still going strong
1:45.0	yeah that's amazing amazing well speaking of amazing let's do our patreon shoutouts we had
1:51.8	aaron carry laura corando and ender strika so some great new support we really appreciate it
2:00.2	yeah thanks to everyone that takes
2:01.9	the time. Support the show really helps us out. For anyone else that would like to, you can do so
2:06.7	by going to patreon.com slash criminology. All right. We're diving right in. And this week, we're
2:12.7	talking about a case that is layered in tragedy.
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