The Trail Went Cold - Episode 381 - Melissa Chilton and Tiffany Campbell

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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February 22, 1996. Nashville, Tennessee. 18-year old Melissa Chilton and 18-year Tiffany Campbell show up for work at Exotic Tan for Men, a tanning salon which doubles as an adult entertainment establishment. At some point during their shift, an assailant murders the two women in the salon’s laundry room and they are stabbed a combined total of over 100 times. Seventeen years later, a suspect named Patrick Streater, who happens to be Tiffany’s former boyfriend, is charged with both murders. However, in 2018, the authorities announce that new DNA testing has significantly weakened their case against Streater, making it impossible to take him to trial, so the murder charges are dropped. Did Patrick Streater actually kill Melissa Chilton and Tiffany Campbell or was someone else responsible? On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore a horrific double homicide which is often referred to as the “Tanning Bed Murders”. Additional Reading: https://www.newspapers.com/image/113504770/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/112002499/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/113512260/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/113465555/ https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/a-17-year-ordeal-ends-for-two-murder-victims-mothers-as-a-grisly-unsolved-crime/article_c0eb8d97-2035-5eb0-b1f1-db90856f8dd2.html https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/crime/2018/06/29/1996-nashville-tanning-bed-killings-charges-dropped-against-suspect-patrick-streater/745475002/ https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/crime/2017/03/13/charged-1996-tanning-bed-killings-man-argues-dismiss-case/99135074/ https://www.wkrn.com/news/during-hearing-inmate-testifies-his-cousin-committed-tanning-bed-murders/ https://fox17.com/fox-17-investigates/unsolved-27-years-later-can-justice-be-found-in-double-homicide-of-two-nashville-teens https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/nashville/mother-urges-police-to-retest-evidence-in-unsolved-nashville-double-murder/ https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/crime/2023/02/14/just-askin-what-happened-to-melissa-chilton-tiffany-campbell-nashville/69879683007/ https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/nashville/90-year-old-grandmother-speaks-for-the-first-time-about-a-murder-that-rocked-nashville-and-her-family/ https://fox17.com/news/local/former-suspect-in-nashville-tanning-bed-murders-charged-with-attempted-rape-in-washington-state-king-county-patrick-streater If you have any information about this case, please contact the Metro Nashville Police Department’s Cold Case Unit at (615) 862-7329. “The Trail Went Cold” is on Patreon. Visit www.patreon.com/thetrailwentcold to become a patron and gain access to our exclusive bonus content. “The Trail Went Cold” is going to be appearing on podcast row at “Crimecon” in Nashville on May 31-June 2, 2024 and “Crimecon UK” in London on September 21-22, 2024. To get a 10 % discount on the purchase of tickets to either event, please use our specialized promo code, “COLD24”, by visiting Crimecon.com or Crimecon.co.uk. “The Trail Went Cold” will be appearing at the True Crime Podcast Festival, taking place at the Denver Marriott Westminster in Colorado on July 12-14, 2024. To get a 15 % discount on tickets, please use our specialized promo code, “TRAIL”, by visiting https://truecrimepodcastfestival.com. The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote. All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

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0:00.0	February 22nd, 1996 Nashville, Tennessee.
0:06.3	18-year-old Melissa Chilton and 18-year-old Tiffany Campbell
0:10.4	show up for work at exotic tan for men, a tanning salon which doubles as an adult entertainment establishment,
0:17.0	but they are stabbed a combined total of over 100 times in the laundry room.
0:21.0	Seventeen years later, a suspect named Patrick Streeter, who happens to be
0:26.5	Tiffany's former boyfriend, is charged with both murders. However, in 2018, the authorities announced that new DNA testing has significantly weakened their case against Streeter, making it impossible to take him to trial, so the murder charges are dropped, and the tanning bed murders are never conclusively
0:46.4	solved. After that, the trail went cold. world. Oh, uh, I'm not. Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
1:15.0	uh, okay.
1:17.0	Oh, uh,
1:18.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of the Trail Went Cold.
1:30.0	I'm your host Robin Warder and today we're going to be covering an unsolved double homicide
1:37.0	the 1996 murders of Melissa Chilton and Tiffany Campbell, aka the Tanning Bed Murders.
1:44.3	This coming weekend, I'm going to be traveling to Nashville, Tennessee in order to be on
1:48.8	podcast row at CrimeCon and, per tradition, whenever I attend a podcasting event, I always like to release
1:55.8	an episode about a cold case from the events host city that very same week.
2:01.6	This is the disturbing story of two young women, Melissa Chilton and Tiffany Campbell, who were employed at a tanning salon called Exotic Tan for Men, which was actually an adult entertainment establishment in disguise,
2:13.7	as both victims would perform strip teases for customers in the back rooms.
2:18.6	While working at shift at the salon, Melissa and Tiffany were both brutally stabbed to death in the laundry room and had a combined total of over 100 stab wounds between them.
2:29.0	For 17 years, investigators failed to uncover any solid suspects until one of Tiffany's former
2:35.6	boyfriends, Patrick Streeter, who happened to be serving time in a California prison for other crimes,
2:41.8	was charged with both murders.
2:44.5	The authorities waited for Streeter to finish serving the sentence before the extradited
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