Wake Up Wednesday with Mike Gatto

Housewives of True Crime

Tabitha Kane

True Crime, Comedy, History

4.6 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Tabitha welcomes former California assemblyman Mike Gatto to discuss criminal justice reform and the unsolved murder of his father, Joseph Gatto, killed in their Silver Lake home in 2013. Mike shares how his father’s case led him into advocacy and ultimately inspired his book Noir by Necessity: How My Father’s Unsolved Murder Took Me to Dark Places. He explains multiple theories investigators considered, the strange lack of forced entry, unexplained DNA, and how possible robbery motives don’t fit the facts. Tabitha and Mike explore advancing forensic technology, new DNA methods, and why he still believes his father’s case can be solved...

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1:42.9	Welcome, Housewives of True Crime, wake up Wednesday.
2:05.2	It's been a couple Wednesdays since I have seen you guys here, but I wanted to bring in someone that had reached out to me about a very, very personal topic, actually, his dad's own murder. And of course, I am never going to say no to somebody that wants to talk about a family member and so I sat down with Mike Godot he is from California his father was murdered
2:14.8	and he is trying to figure out who did it.
2:20.0	Now, Mike is an assemblyman from California and his father, Joseph Gatto, or Gatto, was murdered
2:29.8	in his own home in 2013.
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