Hi, Crime Junkeys. I'm your host Ashley Flowers, and I'm Brett.

And the story I have for you today is about a young mother whose sudden disappearance

immediately set off alarm bells for her family. From child abuse allegations to custody battles

and hair-raising testimony, investigators thought they knew every detail of what happened

to her. But to put a ruthless killer behind bars, they needed proof before time ran out.

This is the story of Munchy G.

It's 3.35pm on October 10, 2019, when a call comes into the 311 Citizens Hotline in Columbia,

Missouri. The caller says his name is Joseph L. Edge. He's 23, and he's calling to report

his 28-year-old wife, Munchy Missing. The hotline operator passes the information on to

the Columbia Police Department, and an officer heads out to their apartment later that evening.

According to Gregory Daley's reporting for KRCGTV, when police arrived, Joe explains

that he hasn't seen his wife since two nights before, at around 11.30pm just before

they went to bed. He says everything was completely normal, literally no red flags, until

he woke up to the sound of their infant daughter crying. And when he got up, he realized

Munchy was just gone.

So, what? It took him two days to get the baby to stop crying?

No. Why is he just calling now?

No, you're not wrong, so that stuck out to me too, and honestly, the officers even make

note of it, but they're not just going to jump right into interrogating this guy. They're

more worried about getting Joe's full version of events first. So, anyways, Joe goes on

to say that when he woke up on the 9th, he found both Munchy's keys and phone in the

apartment, which told him that she hadn't just gone out to run an errand or something.

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