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Serial Killer's Wife, Norma Patton: 'I Helped Him Dispose of the Bodies' | Closing Arguments Podcast

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4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

#NormaPatton, testified against her ex-son-in-law, #ChristopherWolfenbarger, and admitted she helped her husband, serial killer #CarlPatton, dispose of bodies. But Wolfenbarger, not Carl, is charged with killing the Pattons' daughter, Melissa.

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0:00.0

The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are simply that.

0:04.8

Opinions.

0:05.8

All are presumed innocent until proven otherwise in a court of law.

0:09.8

Sensitive topics are discussed.

0:11.8

Discretion is advised.

0:16.7

Little Emmanuel Harrow is just seven months old.

0:21.0

His mom, Rebecca, says she went to the sporting goods store and was in the parking lot trying to change his diaper when she says she was attacked and knocked out cold.

0:30.0

When she came to, baby Emmanuel was nowhere to be found.

0:33.7

And now the San Bernardino Sheriff's Department is investigating and Emmanuel's parents are no longer talking.

0:40.3

Tonight we have all the latest in the case everyone is talking about in social media, the search for baby Emmanuel.

0:49.3

But first, it was Thanksgiving of 1998 when Norma Patton said goodbye to her daughter Melissa and told her that she loved her.

0:59.5

That would be the last conversation they would ever have.

1:02.4

Melissa went missing, and for years it remained a mystery.

1:05.8

But in reality, part of that mystery was solved within a year when some of her remains were recovered

1:11.9

chopped up in black trash bags in Atlanta Georgia not far from where she lived but for

1:18.7

several years the remains were unidentified until 2003 when the Flint River

1:24.5

killer was arrested a man who admitted to being a serial killer.

1:30.6

That man is also Melissa's own father.

1:35.9

Well, the mystery then continued as it would take years, decades for someone to actually be charged

1:43.4

with Melissa's murder.

1:45.2

And it wasn't her serial killer father.

1:48.1

It was her husband, Christopher Walthenbarger.

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