Ep:66 - From Disappearance to Justice - A conversation with Cpl. Rob Betnar | Murder Unscripted
Ed and Melissa sit down with Rob Betnar, the Pennsylvania State Police investigator who cracked the 1985 murder of 13-year-old David Wellington Reed in Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania. Drawing from the...
26 Aug 20251h 19min
The Murder of Kay Mortensen | MU Mini
In this MU Mini, Ed dives into the shocking murder of Kay Mortensen, a retired BYU professor whose life was cut short in his quiet Payson, Utah home in 2009. What began as a brutal and baffling crime ...
22 Aug 20258min
Ep:65 - The UNTOLD story of the paperboy whose murder made headlines | David Reed | Murder Unscripted
To skip the banter, jump to 10:25 In August of 1985, a beloved 13-year-old paperboy disappears without a trace in tiny Schuylkill Haven, PA. The next day, his bicycle is found in the weeds by some rai...
19 Aug 20251h 14min
The Murders of Billy Payne & Billie Jean Hayworth aka The Facebook Murders (MU Mini)
In January 2012, the quiet town of Mountain City, Tennessee, was shaken by the brutal murders of Billy Payne and his fiancé, Billie Jean Hayworth, who was found holding their infant son—alive but cove...
15 Aug 20257min
Ep:64 - Who Killed Shannon Siders? A father's journey to justice | Murder Unscripted
To skip the banter, jump to 6:49 On a steamy July night in 1989, 18-year-old Shannon Siders slipped into a friend’s car and vanished into the dark woods outside Newaygo, Michigan. Three months later a...
12 Aug 20251h 4min
MU Mini - Janet Monge, the controversial anthropologist
In this week's MU Mini, we harken back to July's block, GIRL POWER, to spotlight Janet Monge, the controversial anthropologist at the University of Pennsylvania. From her role in the aftermath of the ...
8 Aug 20256min
Ep:63 - DNA cracks DECADES-OLD cold case | The chilling case of Mandy Stavik | Murder Unscripted
To skip the banter, jump to 8:12 In this episode of Murder Unscripted, Melissa unpacks the haunting disappearance and murder of 18-year-old Mandy Stavik along the Nooksack River trail in tiny Acme, Wa...
5 Aug 20251h 15min
The Murder of John McCabe - MU Mini
In 1969, 15-year-old John McCabe was found bound and strangled in a vacant lot—his murder unsolved for over 40 years. When one man finally broke the silence, he unraveled a deadly pact of teenage jeal...
1 Aug 20256min
