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

LOOKS LIKE WE ARE STILL WAITING FOR NANCY GUTHRIE TO COME HOME

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Melissa Morgan opens from the Homestead studios in Santa Clarita and does not waste much time on the usual nonsense. Joshua Sandpaper Bevan gets a fresh nickname, and the show starts gathering more insults for him from listeners. The bit comes in through email, text, and Facebook Messenger, which gives the episode its first long stretch of chaotic, affectionate noise. Melissa keeps reading the names out loud. Joshua keeps taking the hits and firing back. It sounds like two people who have known each other long enough to make a joke out of being mean. Then the case gets sharper. Melissa and Joshua talk about the sheriff, the FBI, and the department's behavioral analysis unit in Quantico. They focus on a glove that was sent to a lab in Florida. Joshua treats that move like an ego problem more than a careful strategy. Melissa presses on the chain-of-custody issue, because once evidence gets handled in one place, another lab may not want to touch it. They spell out the practical reason for that caution. A defense attorney can turn a bad handoff into a weapon. The hosts stay in that tension without turning it into a dry lecture. They also ask the obvious follow-up: is it better to send everything to one lab, or let outside testing act as a check? The episode does not pretend that answer is simple. It stays in the middle of the mess where real cases live. Then the gloves start stacking up. There have been three of them. One was found in the house on day one. Two more were found on the road on February 11. Melissa pauses to sort the sequence because the order is easy to blur if you are not paying close attention. That untangling matters, because the timeline itself is part of the clue trail. Joshua lands on the ugly inference that three gloves suggest more than one person, or at least one person doing something doubled-up and strange. The hosts keep circling the same question from different angles. What does that evidence count actually mean? What does it rule out? What does it leave hanging? The show keeps its loose, profane, conversational rhythm while it works through those points. It does not polish out the interruptions or the self-corrections. It lets the banter sit right next to the procedural detail. That keeps the episode from getting sterile. It also keeps the uncertainty honest, because the case is still not neatly resolved. The final shape is less a tidy conclusion than a working map of what can be said without pretending there is more certainty than there really is.

As heard by us

A glove, a chain-of-custody dispute, and banter that still lands the facts.

Just the Tipsters keeps this case moving by staying with the ugly little details: a glove sent to a lab, another lab refusing it because chain of custody matters, and the odd fact that three gloves have surfaced along the way.

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If glove evidence and chain-of-custody fights are your thing, this one stays interesting.

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