Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast

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...

With the abduction of Nancy Guthrie the mother of Today Show host, Savannah Guthrie, all eyes have been on Tucson AZ and where can Nancy be? With a deadline looming from supposed kidnappers asking for millions in BitCoin Crytopcurrency, time is of the essence. A special episode of JTT with hopes someone, somewhere comes forward and/or lets Nancy come home. If YOU know anything about what happened...

In this month's special, Melissa from Just The Tip-Sters shares a case close to her heart with Cam & Jen. It's a head-scratcher. In May 2011, Bill and Peggy Stephenson, a kind, generous, and deeply loved couple from Florence, Kentucky, were brutally murdered inside their own home. Both were 74 years old. Their deaths sent shockwaves through Northern Kentucky and left family, friends, and an en...

Tanya Denise Jackson was a hard working woman who entered the military for work and education. She became and Army Medical Assistant. She had a beautiful baby daughter named Tatiana while in a relationship with Army Anatomy Instructor, Andrew Dykes. So how did both Tanya and Tatiana end up murdered and thrown into the brush and a storm drain of Nassau County, NY in 1997? Known until Othram Labs id...

When the youngest of the 8 Sniegowski kids goes missing no one is worried...at first. All of Maggies older siblings has left home at 18 or 19 to start their adult lives. While Maggie was the extrovert and most outgoing of the kids she was 17 and not going to leave the house for awhile. She had plans. How did she end up getting from Toledo, Ohio to the east side of the Northbound entrance ramp from...

Just the Tip-Sters doesn't usually cover cases in progress or cases this recent. But Ms. Rivas death once covered up and attempted to be swept into a trunk is unfurling like a large flag. It is fairly clear that more than one person has been involved in this case and it is going to be revealed like pulling a loose thread on a sweater. If YOU know anything about what actually happened to Celeste Ri...

When a beautiful French TV producer heads to her country home in West Cork Ireland shortly before Christmas in 1996 there is never a doubt she will be back in France by Christmas day. But that did not happen. A neighbor finds her badly beaten body in the dirt driveway to her cottage. So many suspects, so little connection, so much time to have gone by and yet Sophie's case has been recently made p...

Fredericksburg Texas Police are once again asking for the public’s help in solving the brutal 2007 murder of 55-year-old Linda Muegge. Back in May of that year, Muegge was found dead inside her burning home on Franklin Street. Investigators say she had been stabbed multiple times and bludgeoned before the fire and suffered severe burns. Despite efforts from the Texas Rangers and FBI, no arrests we...

Wayne Nance did not have a perfect childhood but neither do a lot of us. He was smart and somehow got himself through highschool and graduated. He joined the military but was "generally" discharged due to having contraband like drugs and knives. Little did we know he had already commited one of the most brutal murders of the mother of a friend. After his own death evidence connecting him...