Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast

Debbie Fones and her daughter Deverrie Schiller were best of friends and had recently moved back to Debbie's hometown of California City. It was a small desert town when Debbie left and it had doubled in size when she moved back. Not in the best way. But she felt safe enough being surrounded by family and old friends and with her daughter, Deverrie by her side. The unimaginable happened one night...

Having no idea that Helen Brach, multimillionaire widow and heiress to her husbands family fortune has been missing since 1974 I became fascinated with her life story. Even though the EJ Brach & Sons confectioners make the egregious product, Candy Corn (neither candy nor corn) every missing person deserves to be found and able to rest. Helen's life was fascinating from her strong belief in oth...

When you meet a handsome, seemingly sweet man on a dating app who is on his way to becoming a Federal Marshall, do you think you have found a gem? Michelle Hadley is a beautiful, ambitious, smart woman working full time and attending school at night to work in the legal field. She had no idea the mind games that Ian Diaz would perpetrate on her to keep the condo that they both invested in. Diaz fo...

The teenage years can be difficult for parents as well as the kids going through so many physical and emotional changes. Celeste's parents tried to keep their strong willed daughter at home, safe and under their watch. When she told them she had a "boyfriend," they took her phone away. R&B singer D4vd paid a student at her school to give her a phone he bought for her to use exclusive...

Four days after Nancy Guthrie turned 84 she was taken from her home overnight on February 1st, 2026. It has been 6 months now. 6 months of not knowing what happened, who did this and most importantly, WHY?!?!? Many notes, emails, communications have been sent to Tucson local TV news stations, TMZ and other news outlets. Some have been debunked after having been traced to a Los Angeles man who wasn...

In 1986 four passengers and one driver were in an accident with an SUV in Riverside County, CA. The driver was the only survivor and he knew three of the passengers but one of them he had met a few days earlier and was hitching a ride to Los Angeles. for 50 Years Mark Alan Smith was unidentified but with the help of the GenGenies and a family that would not give up, Mark has been reunited with his...

Groups can attract those who are searching, those who are curious, those who are seekers. Unfortunately not all groups are ethical and some even morph into cults. The abuse can be severe with everything from sexual and physical to extreme mental and emotional abuse and almost always financial. Can you give your time, energy, money to something you believe in? if you are of adult age then of course...

When a beautiful young mother thinks she is making one more stop and then checking into rehab to find herself and her own life again and is never seen again, what exactly happened. Monique Michelle Figueroa went "missing' in May of 2015. Since then her heartbroken father has been raising her young daughter and wondering where is own daughter can be. Her vehicle was found shortly after she wen...

Our new endeavor BLUNT FORCE TRUE CRIME (a subsidiary of Just The Tip-Sters) examines documentaries, television, movies and even written true crime stories to determine their truthfulness, validity and even point of view. These are opinions of the hosts and not a detailed run down of the cases. THIS documentary left us with many questions. A German national grows up in a strict household of what h...

We are at an anniversary no one wants. Its been 15 years since someone entered the home of Bill and Peggy Stephenson after midnight and murdered them brutally. The killer or killers stayed for hours staging the scene to look like something but no one knows what their message to investigators was supposed to mean. NO ONE deserves to die like this. Two beautiful, kind, generous 74 year olds taken fr...

Not being much on conspiracies it was easy to ignore the recent reports of many scientists, astronomers, astrophysicists those employed by or associated with the scientific community going missing or being murdered. As the number kept growing the mystery deepened. The number can no longer be ignored and the details have become more disturbing. One of the missing has been found with unusual circums...

Welcome to Episode 2 of Blunt Force True Crime where we review streaming true crime documentaries, episodic TV shows, books, podcasts, you name it. This episode features the Netflix documentary "The Crash." This particular telling of the horrible event receives 4 Hachets out of 5. It shows a particular point of view but it covers the case in a mostly complete way. I do urge you find othe...

Welcome to our first episode of "Blunt Force True Crime," under the Just the Tip-Sters umbrella. This is a departure for us where we will review true crime documentaries, tv shows, streaming content, etc. The episode of "Accident, Suicide or Murder," from the Oxygen Network gets 4 Hachets out of Five for their coverage of Dee Dee's case. In August of 1994, Delores, "Dee De...

Elaine McKinley's wife had a simple request for her 81st birthday: a short hike and a picnic with Elaine and a friend. Kit knew it was the perfect time of year to see all of the wild flowers in bloom. Its easy to see that Elaine, 79 and her wife Kit were not your average senior citizens. They hiked three days a week and took ballroom dancing classes three times a week. Elaine had Alzheimers but wa...

In June of 2000, George Gibson a successful Veterinarian and researcher for P & G in Cincinnati came home after work, shut this garage door and was never seen alive again. His wife, the equally as successful Paige Smith was headed to New York for a Veterinarian researchers conference. George had a secret life that now would be considered tame, but he had met many women from chat phone lines in...

True Crime stories can move fast sometimes and while we prefer to focus on unsolved cases sometimes you need to put out some info on current cases. Celeste Rivas Hernandez lost her life in a terrible way at the age of 14. Rex Heuermann confessed to killing 8 women even though he was under suspicion of only 7. What is happening to our scientists and astrophyicists? The updates are here. Hosted by S...

We started with the episode about the murder of Carl Grillmair on his front porch a few weeks back. We then covered the disappearance of Major General Neil McCasland into thin air. We are now following the lead of a few agencies and listing ALL of the scientists who have died, were murdered or just plain vanished in the last four years. What do they all have in common? Space exploration, inventors...

New York in the 1840's was a wild and fascinating burgeoning metropolis with many opportunities, not all good. Mary Rogers was known as "The Beautiful Cigar Girl,' working at a local smoke shop as the owner said her beauty brough in many customers. Mary's mother had opened up her house to boarding after Mary's father died in a tragic steamboat accident. It was mother and daughter trying to ge...

Neil McCasland, astronautical engineer, retired US Air Force Major General and former Commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory is missing. Not your average 68 year old, an avid hiker and outdoorsman Neil had ridden in a 60 mile bike race a few weeks before going missing. He was home in his main residence in Albuquerque on the morning of February 27, 2026 while his wife was running some erran...

Sometimes law enforcement handles cases differently depending on a missing persons vocation. It shouldn't matter that Sara was an exotic dancer for a living. She was a working mother, sister, daughter, friend. Disappearing after work one night was unusual for her normal pattern. There are more than one persons of interest in her case but it appears very clear, she did NOT leave her daughter, her f...

When a brilliant scientist/astrophysicist buys land in the outskirts of LA County so he can see the stars and planets without light pollution from his homemade planetarium, he thinks he is safe. Carl Grillmair, a 67 year old genius of world renown was found deceased from a gunshot to his upper torso on the front porch of his remote home. One of the foremost authorities on whether there is water on...

It may have taken 20 years to find Mary Alice Maloney but she has been identified. How she got to La Vergne Tennessee from Connecticut is a mystery but what happened to her and why is the biggest puzzle. Her beautiful mixed races of Puerto Rican and African descent made it a challenge for genetic genealogists from the DNA Doe Project to build out a family tree. But they found her extended relative...

15 Year old Sebastian Rogers lived with his mother and stepfather and Hendersonville Tennessee. February 26 of 2024 was a regular day for Sebastian according to his mother. Katie Proudfoot said that she and her son had a wonderful day. Did some shopping, played some video games, had dinner out, came home and watched television and went to bed. Around 10 PM Katie heard a very loud thud from Sebasti...

Forensic pathologists in the Pacific Northwest want to reopen Kurt Cobain's suicide due to their suspicions it wasn't what it seems. Food Network's judge on "Worst Chef's in America," died on June 2025 of an overdose. But some find it hard to believe she would have taken her own life. Amazing character actor, Peter Greene died in December of 2025 of a most unusual gun shot wound classifi...

Just The Tip-Sters typically does not cover timely cases unless its requested by law enforcement or family members of a missing or murdered loved one. Savannah Guthrie has taken to her Instagram account to ask for the publics help. So many of us are glued to this case and while there are many ethical reporters giving this case the coverage it needs there are bad actors out there who are reckless w...