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Today's case is a case with hard any information on it- and yet it is one of the most intriguing cases I have ever heard. I am willing to bet you haven't heard it either. At around 3 am on the morning of December 22nd, 1939, Stephen Melkey wandered out into a busy highway and was struck by a car. Once officers arrived at the scene, they soon realized that this wasn't an accident- someone had bound and gagged Stephen and either had intentionally led him to the highway or sat back and watched as he stumbled helplessly into oncoming traffic. Today we talk about Stephen Melkey and a case that was known at its time as the Blindfold Murder. Join the Facebook group: www.facebook.com/thisstoryisnutspodcast Send story suggestions to: [email protected] SOURCES: Stephen Melkey, South Bend, Indiana 1939. - Imgur (Also photo source) Stephen Samuel “Steve” Melkey (1895-1939) - Find a Grave Memorial (1) In December 1939, Stephen Melkey, 44, a factory worker, widow, and father of three, was killed when he stumbled onto a snowy highway near South Bend, Indiana. His hands were bound, and surgical tape covered his eyes and mouth. Labeled by the press as the “blindfold death,” his case was never solved. : UnresolvedMysteries (reddit.com) This was an extremely good write up on the case and where most of today's story came from. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/melissa-reece4/support

In January of 1993 Karen Lewis and her daughter Lauren returned home to Amarillo Texas from a shopping trip the two had taken to Dallas. It was Super Bowl weekend and the two were expecting to see David, Karen's husband and Lauren's father-knowing that he, as a fan of the Dallas Cowboys - who had been playing in the Super Bowl that year, would more than likely be watching the game. However, they were shocked to find instead of David there were two fresh sandwiches in the fridge, the VCR tape still recording, David's wedding ring and watch on the counter, and David Glenn Lewis- missing. David Glenn Lewis's case would go cold for the next eleven years, but even when the family had answers to what happened to him the answers only actually led to a series of far more questions. This is one of the most baffling missing person cases I have stumbled across and I have a feeling you might feel the same way when today we ask the question what really happened in the case of David Glenn Lewis? Join the Facebook group to discuss theories or talk about this case: facebook.com/thisstoryisnutspodcast Send stories suggestions to: [email protected] SOURCES: David Glenn Lewis (1953-1993) - Find a Grave Memorial The Bizarre Disappearance and Death of David Lewis (mysteriousuniverse.org) The Trail Went Cold – Episode 177 – David Lewis – The Trail Went Cold (1) In 1993, a mother and daughter returned home to find their husband and father, David Glenn Lewis, missing. Hours later, a deceased hit-and-run victim was found thousands of miles away. It would take 11 years before the victim would be identified as David Glenn Lewis. How did he get there? : UnresolvedMysteries (reddit.com) Photo Source: David Glenn Lewis (1953-1993) - Find a Grave Memorial --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/melissa-reece4/support

25-year-old Chance Englebert would spend the afternoon of July 6th, 2019, golfing with a few of his in-laws. When he called his wife Baylee that day he seemed to be in a good mood. But, by the time Baylee arrived at the golf course however, Chance's mood had drastically changed. Though the two were visiting Baylee's family in Gering Nebraska Chance had insisted that Baylee drive him back home to Moorcroft Wyoming instead- no longer wanting to visit with her family. When Baylee took Chance back to her grandparents' house instead of driving back to Wyoming Chance would angerly get out of the truck and walk out into the night- never to be seen again. Today's case is one where we ask the question...what really happened to Chance Englebert? If you have any information on the disappearance of Chance Englebert please call:  The Gering Police Department at: 308-436-5088 Or: Crime Stoppers at (308)-632-7867. To discuss this case or any other case join the Facebook group: www.facebook.com/thisstoryisnutspodcast Send story suggestions to: [email protected] SOURCES: Chance Leslie Englebert – The Charley Project (Photo source as well) Chance Englebert vanishes in a tiny Nebraska town (newsnationnow.com) More People Come Forward With Info About Missing Moorcroft Man | Cowboy State Daily Search still on for Moorcroft man | Local News | gillettenewsrecord.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/melissa-reece4/support

YOU GUYS!! Today's episode is a super special episode- it's the podcast's 50TH EPISODE!! (It's kind of a big deal!) First, I want to thank all of you for pushing the play button every week- your support means so much to me! I wouldn't have gotten here without you.  For today's episode we are taking a look back on not only my favorite episodes but also yours! The best way I could think of doing that was to separate episodes by categories that were chosen by the listeners! Categories are as follows: Best Older Case Creepiest Case Most Disturbing Story Case We Wish Were Solved  Best Survival Story If you like what I do, please help share the show with your true crime loving friends as well as continue to leave reviews and of course 5 stars on whatever platform you listen on.  For story suggestions please send me an email at [email protected] An all-new episode of This Story is Nuts will be back next week!! Source material on any of the stories featured in today's show is found on the original episode page. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/melissa-reece4/support

**WARNING**  This Podcast features audio that some listeners might find disturbing. The audio is about 22 seconds in length at the very beginning of the episode. If you wish to skip it fast forward until around 23 seconds in.  At 2:28 am on the morning of September 7th, 2015, Kareen McCabe received a phone call that would completely change her life forever. On the other line her husband, Henry McCabe is screaming out, he screams he has been shot, he is writhing in pain. Words turn to noises, growls and gurgles. It is the last anyone would hear from Henry McCabe, he would be found, weeks later, face down in a nearby lake. But what truly happened to Henry McCabe is still a mystery- how did he end up in the lake? How did Henry die? And possibly the most puzzling question of all- what was happening in that phone call? Want to talk theories? Join the Facebook group www.facebook/thisstoryisnutspodcast Send story suggestions to: [email protected] SOURCES: The Trail Went Cold – Minisode 31 – Henry McCabe – The Trail Went Cold Henry McCabe Death: How Did He Die? What Happened to Henry McCabe? Update (thecinemaholic.com) 'Disturbing' Voicemail Woman Got From Missing Husband's Phone May Hold Clues Into His Disappearance, Police Say - ABC News (audio source) Body found in lake is missing Mounds View man Henry McCabe - StarTribune.com Hacker For Hire Murders Online Radio | BlogTalkRadio (Gregory Evans Podcast explaining his theory that he thinks Kareen is responsible) Photo Source: Vanished without a trace: What really happened to Henry T. McCabe? (spokesman-recorder.com) --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/melissa-reece4/support

When Joe Cinque met Anu Singh in 1995, he was immediately smitten with her, and why wouldn't he be? Anu wasn't only pretty, but she was also smart, going to the Australian University for her law degree. And although Anu was dating someone else at the time of their meeting, she would begin an affair with Joe that would turn into an actual relationship. Two years later however the relationship between Joe and Anu would begin to sour, and Anu would decide she needed to host a dinner party to say goodbye to her lover. But it wasn't a going away party, no, Anu had bigger plans for Joe- plans that included murder. Join the Facebook group: www.facebook.com/thisstoryisnutspodcast Have story suggestions or want to send questions for the 50th episode? [email protected] Photo Source: Daily Mail Sources: Anu Singh's new boyfriend says she's served her time | Daily Mail Online Death of Joe Cinque - Wikipedia Anu Singh | Crimes That Shook Australia | S3E05 - YouTube --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/melissa-reece4/support

On the morning of June 2nd, 2018, as students at the Portland Oregon Culinary Institute filed in for their usual morning classes, they would make a tragic discovery. Beloved Culinary Instructor Daniel Brophy was dead, lying in a pool of his own blood, shot twice. His death would be a mystery, almost like something his wife of 27 years Nancy Brophy would have written about in her suspenseful romance novels that she was known for writing. But, UNLIKE her romance novels investigators would discover not everything in the Brophy home was lovey dovey. Could the motive for Dan Brophy's murder really be summed up as financial hardships? Or is this case still a mystery that hasn't yet been solved? To discuss this case or any others join the Facebook group www.facebook.com/thisstoryisnutspodcast Story suggestions can be sent at [email protected] Please continue to rate and review this podcast! It really helps me out!! Sources: ‘How to Murder Your Husband’ writer on trial for allegedly killing husband - The Washington Post Romance novelist who wrote 'The Wrong Husband' is on trial in her husband's killing - CNN "How to Murder Your Husband" author Nancy Crampton Brophy goes on trial 4 years after chef spouse found dead in culinary school kitchen - CBS News Romance Novelist Murder Trial: Defense Opening Statement Pt. 1 - Bing video Photo Source: nancy brophy murder trial - Bing images --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/melissa-reece4/support

Charles Holden was nervous when he saw the stranger lurking outside of his home on the evening on June 22, 1991. Fearing for not only his safety, but the safety of his mother- 70-year-old Dororthy Donovan, he rushed to the nearest payphone to call the police. When an officer arrived at the residence, she accompanied Charles to check on Dorothy, who had lived in a farmhouse behind Charle's trailer. It was there that the two would find Charles's elderly mother stabbed to death. Charles would quickly tell police he knew who had murdered Dorothy- a man he had given a ride to earlier that evening- who had quickly gotten violent with him-, but police were not buying Charle's outlandish story of a nightmare hitchhiker and suspected Charles as their killer. It would be another 15 years before DNA collected at the scene of the crime would finally reveal the shocking truth of who killed Dorothy Donovan. Join the Facebook Group: www.facebook.com/thisstoryisnutspodcast Have a story suggestion: [email protected] SOURCES: CODIS description is via google Dorothy Donovan | Forensic Files Wiki | Fandom  Killer Hitchhiker: The Murder of Dorothy Donovan | by Verity Partington | Medium Dorothy Donovan | Unsolved Mysteries Wiki | Fandom Medical Detectives (Forensic Files) in HD - Season 13, Episode 11 - Stranger in the Night - Bing video PHOTO SOURCE: Dorothy Donovan | Unsolved Mysteries Wiki | Fandom --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/melissa-reece4/support

Amber Ashfaq was growing concerned for her co-worker Karen Navarra. Karren, who had worked with Amber as pharmacy technician at Reginal Medical Center in San Jose California hadn't been known for missing days for even being late in her last 27 years of employment. And yet Amber hadn't heard from her friend despite both calling and texting her. So, on September 13, 2018, Amber would decide she need to go and check on Karen to make sure everything was ok with the 67-year-old. Instead, what Amber would walk into that afternoon was a horrific scene. Karen was dead. Karen's murder did not make sense, Karen was a kind woman without any known enemies, who could have wanted to kill her? The answer is one that would completely shock those working on this case- and like the case of Nicole Vanderheyden the answer would be found due to a Fitbit. Join the Facebook group: www.face.com/thisstoryisnutspodcast Have a story for the show or story suggestion: [email protected] Please help bring more listeners by rating and reviewing!! I appreciate your support!! Sources: A Brutal Murder, a Wearable Witness, and an Unlikely Suspect | WIRED Caught in the Net - S1 E1 Heart Rate & Time - ID GO (investigationdiscovery.com) Photo Source: Caught in the Net - S1 E1 Heart Rate & Time - ID GO (investigationdiscovery.com) --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/melissa-reece4/support

When a human torso is found sitting in a shopping cart in the middle of New York City detectives are immediately aware they have a situation on their hands. They don't know whose headless body it is or who could have possibly put it there. Days later, a few blocks away, a leg from the same body would be found. The killer would quickly be identified, but who it was- was someone no one expected of such a heinous crime. Since this is still a breaking case new information is still coming out about this crime.  I will continue to keep you up to date by posting any other information related to this case on the Facebook page. www.facebook.com/thisstoryisnutspodcast If you have a story you would like covered on the show: [email protected] SOURCES: Harvey Marcelin, 83, arrested in connection to woman's body parts found in Brooklyn, was previously convicted of killing 2 women - CBS New York (cbsnews.com) Wheelchair no handicap for NYC serial killer Harvey Marcelin (nypost.com) Harvey Marcelin: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know | Heavy.com She Killed Two Women. At 83, She Is Charged With Dismembering a Third. - The New York Times (nytimes.com) PHOTO OF SUSAN LEYDEN SOURCE: Wheelchair no handicap for NYC serial killer Harvey Marcelin (nypost.com) --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/melissa-reece4/support

*WARNING*  Today's episode is graphic in nature, listener discretion is advised.  Taylor Schabusiness had several run-ins with law enforcement prior to February 2022. She also had an addiction, an addiction that would lead her to commit arguably one of the most horrific crimes in Wisconsin history since the 1990s.    It's a case unlike any I have covered so far on the show, and despite the fact that I try to tell stories that aren't splattered all over news headlines this one was too crazy not to tell.  Although I left some of the details out, I will tell you though, this one definitely was one of the most graphic cases I have researched so far. For that reason, listener discretion is highly advised. If you would like to donate to the Thyrion family, they have set up a Go Fund Me page after the loss of Shad. Funds will go to funeral costs and other arrangements. If you can help, please do. What a terrible loss for this family. Fundraiser for Tara Pakanich by Michelle Paulson : Living & Funeral expenses for Tara (gofundme.com) Sources: Taylor Schabusiness: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know | Heavy.com Taylor Schabusiness Allegedly Murdered Man In Drug-Related Sex Killing | Crime News (oxygen.com) Woman accused of decapitating man after drug-fueled sex act (wisn.com) This is the criminal complaint: Taylor Denise Schabusiness - Criminal Complaint - DocumentCloud Photo Source: Shad Thyrion's Facebook page --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/melissa-reece4/support

When two family members die from natural causes and yet another one falls terribly ill it seems as though the Staudte family is under some sort of terrible curse. But the truth in today's case is something far FAR more sinister. Join the Facebook group: facebook.com/thisstoryisnutspodcast Have a story suggestion or personal story to share: [email protected] Sources: Antifreeze Murders in Missouri: How a Mom and Daughter Planned to Kill Family | PEOPLE.com Diane and Rachel Staudte: The Antifreeze Murderers | by DeLani R. Bartlette | Medium '20/20' will feature Diane Staudte, Springfield woman who killed husband and son with antifreeze (yahoo.com) 20/20 A Family Plot | Mom & Daughter Poison Family [2020 FULL DOCUMENTARY] - YouTube The family in happier times- Photo Source: People Magazine --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/melissa-reece4/support