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Already Gone Podcast

the murder of Justin Mello

Already Gone Podcast

Nina Innsted

True Crime, Mystery, Missing, History, Murder, Truecrime, Unsolved

4.64K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

October, 2000. The execution style murder of 16 year old Justin Mello. 

this is part 2 of a 4 part series. I will be releasing new episodes on this case each week. 

Written by Jessica Ann 
Researched by Nina Innsted and Jessica Ann 
Audio Production by Bill Bert

Sponsored by - Better Help - Visit BetterHelp.com/Gone and use code GONE for a special savings on your first month. 

#Michigan #Murder #MacombCounty #robbery 

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0:00.0

This is episode two in a multi-part series. We are releasing new episodes of this case each week.

0:06.2

Then we will return to our usual schedule of the first and the 15th in February.

0:13.4

Jennifer vanished sometime in the overnight hours.

0:15.6

Right now there is no trace.

0:17.2

The investigators say evidence leads them to believe that she's dead.

0:21.0

Stick my nose back in that trail. That's all I can do.

0:24.6

This is already gone.

0:26.8

Already gone.

0:36.8

On a Saturday night in October of 2000, Justin Mellow went to work at his part-time job at

0:42.0

Mancino's Pizza and Grinders, a popular pizza place in his hometown of New Baltimore, Michigan.

0:49.4

While his coworker was out on a delivery, 16-year-old Justin, who was alone in the store,

0:54.8

was forced into the restaurant cooler where he was shot execution style, the bullet ricocheting

1:00.2

into bags of shredded cheese. This senseless crime shook the city and a six-department task force

1:06.5

worked to investigate the crime and bring his killer or killers to justice.

1:11.9

Come with me as we return to the lakeside city, as suspects emerge and as a community tries to

1:17.9

put the pieces back together. On October 26th, as Justin was laid to rest at St. Mary's

1:34.2

cemetery, the task force was zeroing in on their suspects. That night, Matthew Daniels, age 16,

1:41.2

Jonathan Callad, age 18, and Frank Quicken, age 19 were taken into the station by police,

1:47.9

read their rights and interrogated. It was a former Mancino's employee who brought these three

1:53.8

young men to the attention of law enforcement, and after an investigation into the trio,

1:59.2

investigators believed that they were on the right track and they obtained a rest warrants.

2:04.4

According to the former employee, Jonathan was overheard talking about Mancino's being an

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