Melanin Mysteries

🚨 New Love, Lies & Alibis 🚨 Can someone truly love you... and still cheat? This conversation gets people fired up every single time because it forces us to separate two things that many people see as one: love and respect. Can someone have genuine feelings for you while making choices that completely destroy your trust? Or does cheating automatically prove the love was never real? We're...

🎉 Two years. Countless cases. Endless side-eyes. This week on Melanin Mysteries , we're putting the case files away for one episode and celebrating our 2-Year Anniversary the only way we know how... with laughter, memories, questionable life choices, and our very first Annual Melanin Mysteries Awards . 🏆 Some of your favorite (and least favorite) offenders are back one last time as we hand o...

She wanted to buy $50 worth of crack. The dealer told her no. Then he called her a bitch. Hours later, a car pulled back up to the same crack house, more than a dozen shots rang out, and an innocent man who had nothing to do with the argument was dead. In this episode of One Bad Night , we're unpacking the unbelievable case of Lisa Lindsey and Derrick Bolden , a mother and son whose split-seco...

🚨 Melanin Mysteries is officially TWO YEARS OLD! 🎉🥳 This week, we're kicking off our anniversary month with a heartbreaking case out of Concord, California, and I'm joined by a very special guest host, Pantha from the Pantha Politix Podcast ! Twenty-five-year-old Poinsettia "Boonie" Grant-Parks was a young mother with dreams of starting over. She had left an abusive relationsh...

🎙️ LOVE LIES & ALIBIS | How Long Is Too Long? How long is too long to wait for marriage? We hear it all the time... "Marriage is just a piece of paper." But is it really? In this week's Love Lies & Alibis Quick Take, we're talking about long engagements, long-term relationships, and whether there comes a point when waiting becomes settling. Would you stay with someone for...

A welfare check. A missing Army veteran. A boyfriend whose stories weren't adding up. And cousins... the more I learned about this case, the more irritated I got. This week we're headed to Columbia, South Carolina to discuss the murder of 26-year-old Almanita Smith, a decorated Army veteran, educator, homeowner, and all-around powerhouse who had her entire future ahead of her. When Almanit...

🚨 LOVE, LIES & ALIBIS 🚨 Can we have an uncomfortable conversation? Why are we taking relationship advice from men who can't seem to stay faithful to the women they're with? 👀 Every week there's a podcast clip telling women what we're doing wrong, what men want, and how to keep a relationship together... Then a few months later we're finding out the host has a wife, a gir...

A beautiful 22-year-old woman. A festival packed with thousands of people. And one man whose ego couldn't handle being told no. Tiaran Poyau was educated, adventurous, and had her entire future ahead of her. She had just earned her master's degree, landed her first accounting job, and was ready to take on the world. But during Brooklyn's 2016 J'Ouvert Festival, a stranger started dancing on her wi...

Cousins... This week we are headed to Detroit, Michigan to talk about two teenagers who had plenty of options and somehow landed on murder. When 16-year-old Larketha Collier and her 17-year-old girlfriend Sharon Patterson were told they couldn't see each other unsupervised anymore, they came up with a plan so stupid I had to stop reading and stare at the wall a couple times. Instead of doing what...

🎙️ LOVE, LIES & ALIBIS: QUICK HIT "What's up, y'all? Welcome to the very first Love, Lies & Alibis Quick Hit . Now unlike our regular Love, Lies & Alibis discussions, these are gonna be short, sweet, and straight to the point. Just a few minutes of relationship talk, hot takes, and the kind of questions that'll have y'all arguing in the comments and texting your fr...

A love triangle. A jealous rage. A pregnant 20-year-old. And four children whose lives would never be the same. This week on Melanin Mysteries, we're heading to Newark, New Jersey, to discuss the tragic case of Sha-Ron Moens and Nadiyah Venable. What started as a messy relationship involving a much older man, his estranged partner, and his young girlfriend quickly spiraled into a deadly confro...

Cousins...this one is gonna have y'all arguing in the comments. In 1999, six-year-old Tiffany Eunick was left in the care of a trusted family friend. Hours later, she was dead from catastrophic injuries that medical experts compared to those seen in serious car accidents. The person responsible? Twelve-year-old Lionel Tate. What followed was one of the most controversial criminal cases in modern A...

🚨 NEW EPISODE ALERT 🚨 Cousins... What would YOU do if somebody sold you a food stamp card and then something went wrong at the register? Would you... A. Figure it out later B. Call them C. Move on with your life Or... D. Completely lose your damn mind and ruin multiple lives? 👀 This week we're talking about Chicwanda Forbes & Curtis Kyles , and baby... this story is MESSY. What starts a...

A woman. A baby. A relationship soaked in control, violence, and secrets. This week on Melanin Mysteries, we uncover the chilling case of Raymond Eugene Johnson… a name many people have never heard, but a story you won’t forget once you do. Because sometimes the most terrifying cases are the ones hiding in plain sight. 👀🎙️ Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & all streaming platforms. 🖤 We...

This week on One Bad Night, we’re headed to Cleveland where a body found floating in a pond turns into one of the messiest, most chaotic investigations I’ve covered yet. What started with a “mannequin” in the water quickly spiraled into blood-covered stairwells, burning carpet in the middle of winter, taxi records, missing towels, contradictory stories, and a man whose lies got more ridiculous eve...

This week cousins…WHEW. 😮‍💨 A Milwaukee home health aide gives two teenagers a ride and never makes it back home. What unfolds next is a story involving a stolen car, a pregnant 13-year-old, a 17-year-old boyfriend, adult prison sentences, and enough dysfunction to make your jaw hit the FLOOR. And trust me…this case is way deeper than it first appears. This week we’re diving into the case of Lat...

This week on Melanin Mysteries, we’re heading to Dallas, Texas to discuss the horrifying murders of Mischell Fuller and her daughter, Desaree Hoskins. What started as a toxic, jealousy-fueled relationship spiraled into one of the most brutal and disturbing cases we’ve covered yet. After secretly recording Mischell’s private conversations with her ex-husband, Tyrone Cade became enraged over the pos...

One night. One mistake. The wrong twin. What was supposed to be a normal moment turned into a nightmare when a mother of three was carjacked and left dead in a parking lot. No warning. No mercy. Just violence that didn’t make sense… and a case that almost went cold. But here’s where it gets wild. Identical twins. Confusion. And a twist that will have you questioning EVERYTHING you thought you knew...

A good man lost his life… over cheating, lies, and pure stupidity. Salahud-Din “Sal” Shabbazz was a father, husband, and veteran— and NONE of this had to happen. You may have heard this case before… but we missed too much. So I ran it back the RIGHT way. MelaninMysteries.com email: podcast@melaninmysteries.comFollow: @MelaninMysteriesPodcast on IG, FB and TiktokJoin: Love, Lies & Alibis Privat...

This week on Melanin Mysteries… What started as a normal morning turned into a nightmare that would unravel a plot filled with greed, manipulation, and a level of audacity that will have you side-eyeing EVERYBODY involved. A mother. A child who depended on others to survive. A nurse who wasn’t even supposed to be there. And somewhere in the middle of it all… a plan that was way too calculated to b...

One Bad Night: $8 for Sex?? …Be So For Real I’m not even gonna lie… this episode had me pausing my own notes like “nah… what???” Because how does a normal day… turn into something THIS out of control… over something so small it don’t even make sense to say out loud? We’re talking about a “good man on paper,” one encounter that should’ve been nothing, and a situation that spiraled FAST. Like… blink...

This week… cousins… just know you’re walking into pure chaos. We’re talking a killer couple , a full-on swirl situation , a little bit of crack-fueled decision making , and not one… but TWO murders. And when I say this case is messy? Baby… it is MESSY. The kind of messy that has you sitting there like— “Now why would you do that??” Lies, betrayal, secrets, and a whole lot of what in the hell energ...

Some nights change everything… What started as a regular night out — drinks, vibes, nothing out of the ordinary — turned into something nobody saw coming. A situationship that wasn’t as simple as it looked… A man who couldn’t let go… And decisions made in a moment that cost someone their life. But here’s the part that’ll have you side-eyeing the whole story… 👀 People knew each other 👀 Lines were...

He wasn’t even the target… And somehow, he’s the one who didn’t make it home. What started as a night out—music, money, and vibes—turned into chaos that nobody saw coming. One argument. One decision. And suddenly, everything goes left. Fast. In this episode of One Bad Night: The Shots Weren’t Even Meant for Him , we’re getting into a story that spiraled out of control in a matter of minutes… and e...

This week on Melanin Mysteries … whew 😮‍🔥 What starts as a breakup turns into a crashout of EPIC proportions —and when I say unhinged, I mean the kind of case that will have you pausing, rewinding, and asking yourself “ain’t no way this actually happened…” From the moment everything goes left… to the courtroom chaos that follows… this one right here? Yeah… it’s a LOT. Shoutout to @msloveleemee o...