Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast · Melissa Morgan, Bleav

FEELS LIKE WHILE JANET LEE LUCAS WAS IDENTIFIED, WAYNE NATHAN NANCE WAS MORE THAN A MONSTER

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Doug Wells frees himself with one bullet while Wayne Nance is raping Kristin Wells upstairs.

1. Just The Tipsters covers Wayne Nathan Nance, Janet Lee Lucas, and the Missoula cold cases tied to both names. 2. Melissa Morgan hosts with Joshua Bevan as co-host, and they frame the episode around Nance's suspected crimes and the 2021 identification of Janet Lee Lucas. 3. The episode asks what happens when a victim once known as Christie Crystal Creek is finally identified and the main suspect is already dead. 4. Morgan explains that Missoula County Sheriff's Office named the remains as Janet Lee Lucas in 2021 after 36 years. 5. She says Lucas was 23, from Spokane, Washington, and found near Crystal Creek on September 9, 1985. 6. Morgan describes how Othram Labs and forensic genetic genealogy led investigators back to Lucas's relatives in Spokane. 7. The episode notes that Lucas had a five-year-old son, and her family spent years searching for her. 8. Morgan says investigators treated the case as a cold case homicide and asked listeners to call with information from the 1980s. 9. The show then moves backward to Wayne Nance, born in 1955 in Clinton, Montana, and described by teachers as academically gifted yet eccentric. 10. Morgan says Nance branded himself with a satanic symbol, bragged about wanting to know what murder felt like, and started killing young. 11. She recounts the 1972 killing of Donna Lorraine Pounds, including latex gloves, clothesline, rape, and five shots to the back of the head. 12. The episode says witnesses saw Nance near the Pounds house and later evidence linked him to the scene. 13. Morgan notes that Nance served in the Navy from 1974 to 1977 and was discharged for misconduct after thefts involving LSD, marijuana, and knives. 14. The episode traces the disappearance of Davonna Nelson in 1978 and her later identification after her body was found near Interstate 90 in Missoula. 15. Morgan links Nance to Marcella Sherry Bachman, found in 1984 with hair in his home and a strand of her hair later found in his truck. 16. The show details the Shook family attack in December 1985, including the children's survival and stolen items later found in Nance's home. 17. Morgan and Bevan spend time on the emotional contradiction that Nance could seem normal at work while taking photos of women and making harassing calls. 18. The episode's tone is conversational and grim, with jokes between the hosts, then detailed case narration and victim-focused commentary. 19. Listeners interested in forensic genealogy, cold cases, and serial offender patterns would probably listen. 20. Listeners wanting a light or spoiler-free true-crime episode might skip this one.

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A grim, detail-heavy reconstruction of Donna Lorraine Pounds's murder and the witness claims tying Wayne Nance to the scene.

Wayne Nathan Nance's alleged 1972 attack on Donna Lorraine Pounds gives this single-episode review its grim center, but the stronger pull is in the preparation described around it: latex gloves, a black gym bag, white clothesline, and her husband's gun.

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