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Veteran true-crime producer, Ed (Forensic Files, Cold Case Files, City Confidential) and his crime encyclopedia gal pal, Melissa, bring you the most immersive podcast in the genre - breaking down the barrier between fan and creator.Expect deep dives into obscure stories, interviews with with victim's families, investigators, and other insiders, and behind-the-scenes insight on your favorite crime shows from a seasoned industry professional...all with a touch of humor to lighten even the darkest tales.👉 New episodes every Tuesday. 🌐 For more information about us and the show, visit our website at: www.MurderUnscriptedPod.comE-mail: murderunscriptedpod@gmail.comFollow us on socials 👇FB - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61557418124048Insta - <a href="https://www.i
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- 4 days ago1h 18m
Couple Vanishes After Selling Boat to Power Rangers Kid | Tom & Jackie Hawks | Part ONE | E128
Tom and Jackie Hawks sold their beloved yacht in Newport Beach, California, to a former Mighty Morphin Power Rangers star and his sweet young family. Then they vanished. Two days before Thanksgiving 2004, family found the boat looking sloppy and the couple's car gone, and the story of the sale only got stranger from there. Melissa opens The Art of Conviction, our prosecutor spotlight block, with Part 1 of one of Orange County prosecutor Matt Murphy's biggest cases. Part 1 of 2. Ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon, where 20% of every membership goes to the Courthouse Dogs Foundation: https://www.patreon.com/c/MurderUnscriptedPod/membership Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 1 weeks ago1h 20m
He Picked Two Killers Out of a Photo Pile. Here's How He Did It. | Phil Jordan | Murder Unscripted | E127
He found a missing child 200 searchers couldn’t. Then they gave him a badge. To close out the Psychic Connections block, we sit down with the man whose name has run through the whole month: psychic Phil Jordan. In 1975 he led searchers straight to a six-year-old boy lost in the woods when two hundred people couldn’t find him, and was soon sworn in as a deputy sheriff. For fifty years he has worked missing persons, homicides, and arson alongside law enforcement. We dig into how he actually works a case, the Rose Swartwood murder we covered two weeks ago, and the skeptic questions Ed and Melissa couldn’t let go of. Then, at the very end, Phil turned the tables and gave the two of us a reading. Believer or skeptic, this is one you won't want to miss! Ep. 127 | Psychic Connections Finale | Murder Unscripted | October 2026 Hosted by Ed Hydock & Melissa Spivey | Money Beet Media, LLC Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/murder-unscripted/id1750146409 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2AUGh12ei1wk8x7CvcX9qH Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/MurderUnscriptedPod/membership murderunscriptedpod@gmail.com | @murderunscripted Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 2 weeks ago1h 6m
She Led Police To The Body, Then They Arrested Her | The Murder of Melanie Uribe | Murder Unscripted | E126
A stranger told police exactly where to find the body of a missing nurse. So they arrested her on suspicion of murder. December 1980, the San Fernando Valley. Melanie Uribe, a 31-year-old nurse and single mom, stopped at a red light on her way to an overnight shift and never made it to work. Days later, a woman across town who had never met her, an ordinary Lockheed clerk named Etta Smith, began seeing a place in her mind: a canyon, a curve, a dirt path, something white in the brush. She took it to police. When they wouldn't listen, she drove out and found Melanie's body herself, exactly where she'd pictured it, and detectives made her the prime suspect in Melanie's murder. Ed continues “Psychic Connections” (our October block of cases where a psychic worked alongside police), with a story the detectives could never explain, and a victim who deserves to be remembered for far more than the mystery around her death. E126 | Murder Unscripted | October 2026 Hosted by Ed Hydock & Melissa Spivey | Money Beet Media, LLC Researched by Pam Beiler Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/murder-unscripted/id1750146409 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2AUGh12ei1wk8x7CvcX9qH Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/MurderUnscriptedPod/membership murderunscriptedpod@gmail.com | @murderunscripted Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 3 weeks ago1h 7m
He Knew Things Only the Killers Knew | The Murder of Rose Swartwood | Murder Unscripted | E125
Police handed him a stack of 50 mugshots. He pulled out their two suspects. August 1988, Elmira, New York. Rose Swartwood was 74, a kind, impeccably dressed retiree who would talk your ear off at the mailbox and spent every evening with her little sister. One morning her family found her beaten and stabbed in her own bed, and whoever did it had stayed long enough to scrub the apartment clean. For almost two years, police were sure they knew who was responsible but could not prove it. So two detectives tried something that is not in any manual: they brought in a psychic, told him nothing, and set a stack of unlabeled mugshots in front of him. He described a cleanup no one outside the department knew about, a long knife, a ring on Rose’s hand, and then he reached into the pile and pulled out two faces. Ed continues October's "Psychic Connections" block with a case that we skeptics can't fully explain! LISTEN ON AUDIO Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/murder-unscripted/id1750146409 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2AUGh12ei1wk8x7CvcX9qH SUPPORT THE SHOW Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/MurderUnscriptedPod/membership 20% of every membership goes to the Courthouse Dogs Foundation 🐾 CONNECT Email: murderunscriptedpod@gmail.com | Socials: @murderunscripted #MurderUnscripted #TrueCrime #PsychicConnections Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Oct 6, 20261h 26m
Ep:124 | The Murder of Shilie Turner | Psychic Knew Exactly Where To Find Her Body | Murder Unscripted
She was one of the fastest runners in the country. And then, she was gone. January 1993, West Philadelphia. 17-year-old Shilie Turner was one of the fastest high school runners in the country, filling out college applications and dreaming of the Olympics. One freezing night she got off a bus six blocks from home and was never seen alive again. Police had no leads and no body, so, on the FBI's advice, they brought in a psychic. What she described, the park, the shallow grave, the missing shoes, was so exact that detectives couldn't explain it, and it pointed them somewhere no one wanted to look. Melissa opens Psychic Connections, our October block of cases where a psychic helped, with the story of who Shilie was and the heartbreaking truth about who took her future. This one has no happy ending. Ep. 124 | Murder Unscripted | October 2026 Hosted by Ed Hydock & Melissa Spivey | Copyright: Money Beet Media, LLC Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/murder-unscripted/id1750146409 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2AUGh12ei1wk8x7CvcX9qH Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/MurderUnscriptedPod/membership murderunscriptedpod@gmail.com | @murderunscripted Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Sep 29, 20261h 48m
Ep:123 | A Conversation with Ed Nordskog - The Investigator Who Ended The Worst Arson Spree In American History | Murder Unscripted
52 fires in 75 hours. One man terrorized Los Angeles, and this is the investigator who hunted him down. To close out Burning Desires, we sit down with one of the most decorated arson investigators alive: Ed Nordskog. Decades on the LA County Sheriff's Arson-Explosives team, five books that other investigators keep on their desks, and a wall of honors that is frankly ridiculous. Nordskog was the lead investigator on the worst arson spree in American history, the 2011 rampage that brought Los Angeles to its knees. He walks us through how it began in a federal courtroom, how a one-dollar-a-year reserve deputy on his third shift made the arrest, and what it is like to sit for hours across the table from the most dangerous person you have ever met. He also does the thing we have wanted all month: he weighs in on John Orr and Paul Keller, and explains why almost everything the public believes about arsonists is wrong. 🖤 LISTEN ON AUDIO Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/murder-unscripted/id1750146409 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2AUGh12ei1wk8x7CvcX9qH SUPPORT THE SHOW Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/MurderUnscriptedPod/membership 20% of every membership goes to the Courthouse Dogs Foundation 🐾 CONNECT Email: murderunscriptedpod@gmail.com | Socials: @murderunscripted #MurderUnscripted #Arson #TrueCrime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Sep 22, 20261h 15m
Ep:122 | Son Sets 76 Fires Killing Three, Father Turns Him In | Paul Keller | Murder Unscripted
For six months, a phantom arsonist burned Seattle to the ground. The man who finally stopped him was his own father. In 1992, more than a hundred fires tore through the Seattle area. Churches, warehouses, strip malls, and, on one horrifying night, a retirement home where three women lost their lives. Whole neighborhoods slept in shifts. Investigators called the man behind it "the Specter," because chasing him was like chasing a ghost. But he was not the drifter everyone pictured. He was a clean-cut advertising salesman in a nice car. And the person who finally recognized him was the one who knew him best: his own father, reading a police profile at the kitchen table. Ed closes out September's "Burning Desires" block with the story most people reduce to a number, and the three women, Bertha, Mary, and Adeline, whose lives deserve more than a statistic. LISTEN ON AUDIO Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/murder-unscripted/id1750146409 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2AUGh12ei1wk8x7CvcX9qH SUPPORT THE SHOW Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/MurderUnscriptedPod/membership 20% of every membership goes to the Courthouse Dogs Foundation 🐾 CONNECT Email: murderunscriptedpod@gmail.com | Socials: @murderunscripted Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Sep 15, 20261h 24m
Ep:121 | The Pillow Pyro, Part 2 | How A Fire Captain Became A Serial Arsonist | Murder Unscripted
For years, a serial arsonist burned his way across California and vanished before the smoke cleared. In Part 2, we finally put a name and a face to him, and it is the last person anyone suspected: John Orr, a celebrated Glendale fire captain and arson investigator. Orr did not just work near the case, he helped run it. He photographed the scenes, argued the theories, and chased the very fires he had set, including the deadly South Pasadena blaze that killed four people. Then he did something almost unbelievable: he wrote a novel about a fire investigator turned serial arsonist, and the story cut far too close to the truth. Melissa brings the Pillow Pyro story to its conclusion: how a fingerprint, a first-of-its-kind tracking device, and Orr's own manuscript finally brought him down, and how a fire once ruled accidental became four counts of murder. Miss part 1? Start here 👉 https://youtu.be/FD6BHgMF5GA LISTEN ON AUDIO Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/murder-unscripted/id1750146409 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2AUGh12ei1wk8x7CvcX9qH SUPPORT THE SHOW Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/MurderUnscriptedPod/membership (20% of every membership goes to the Courthouse Dogs Foundation 🐾) CONNECT Email: murderunscriptedpod@gmail.com | Socials: @murderunscripted #MurderUnscripted #JohnOrr #Arson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Veteran true-crime producer, Ed (Forensic Files, Cold Case Files, City Confidential) and his crime encyclopedia gal pal, Melissa, bring you the most immersive podcast in the genre - breaking down the barrier between fan and creator.Expect deep dives into obscure stories, interviews with with victim's families, investigators, and other insiders, and behind-the-scenes insight on your favorite crime shows from a seasoned industry professional...all with a touch of humor to lighten even the darkest tales.👉 New episodes every Tuesday. 🌐 For more information about us and the show, visit our website at: www.MurderUnscriptedPod.comE-mail: murderunscriptedpod@gmail.comFollow us on socials 👇FB - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61557418124048Insta - <a href="https://www.i
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