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What Melissa Left: The Disappearance of Melissa Casias | Episode 3: Missing Pieces

Melissa Casias has been missing since June 26, 2025. In the final episode of this series, Gina and Amber pull back the lens — examining the full scope of the investigation failures, the documented patterns of abuse and financial control inside the Casias marriage, and the three possible scenarios for what happened to Melissa. They don't tell you what to think. But they lay out everything the evidence supports — and everything it doesn't. This is the episode where it all comes together. 🚨 If You Have Information New Mexico State Police: (505) 425-6771  Crime Stoppers (anonymous): (505) 843-STOP | Text ABQCS to 738477 Find Melissa Mondragon Casias on Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/p/Find-Melissa-Mondragon-Casias-61578096118529/] GoFundMe Reward Fund [https://gofund.me/8926478c3] Sources New Mexico State Police Report — on file FBI: No-Body Homicide Cases — A Practical Approach (Special Agent Michael Yoder) Recorded Phone Calls provided by family Interview Transcript with Trudy and Jazmin Weird True Crime is an independent true crime podcast. If this episode moved you, please share it — and share Melissa's face. The more people who know her story, the better the chance that someone comes forward. 📢 Follow & Subscribe: Subscribe on Patreon: www.patreon.com/weirdtruecrime Website: www.weirdtruecrime.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/weirdtruecrime TikTok: www.tiktok.com/weirdtruecrime YouTube: www.youtube.com/@weirdtruecrime Email: weirdtruecrime@gmail.com Music by - @djantonyflower ⭐ Leave a 5-star review if you enjoy the show Proud Member of Fire Eyes Media LLC Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/weird-true-crime--5679751/support [https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/weird-true-crime--5679751/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss].

What Melissa Left: The Disappearance of Melissa Casias | Episode 2: 40 Minutes

Melissa Casias dropped lunch off to her daughter Sierra at 12:57 p.m. on June 26, 2025. She sent her last text at 1:33 p.m. At 1:38 p.m., her phone was reset. At 2:18 p.m., surveillance footage from a home on Highway 518 captured a woman with a black backpack walking eastbound. That's 40 minutes — almost exactly the walking distance between the Casias home and that location. A coincidence? Gina and Amber don't think so. In this episode, they pick up where Part One left off: the days and weeks following Melissa's disappearance, the organized searches, Mark Casias's recorded phone calls, the disturbing patterns emerging from inside the marriage, and the surveillance footage that raises more questions than it answers. 🚨 If You Have Information New Mexico State Police: (505) 425-6771  Crime Stoppers (anonymous): (505) 843-STOP | Text ABQCS to 738477 Find Melissa Mondragon Casias on Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/p/Find-Melissa-Mondragon-Casias-61578096118529/] GoFundMe Reward Fund [https://gofund.me/8926478c3] Sources New Mexico State Police Report — on file FBI: No-Body Homicide Cases — A Practical Approach (Special Agent Michael Yoder) Recorded Phone Calls provided by family Interview Transcript with Trudy and Jazmin Weird True Crime is an independent true crime podcast. If this episode moved you, please share it — and share Melissa's face. The more people who know her story, the better the chance that someone comes forward. 📢 Follow & Subscribe: Subscribe on Patreon: www.patreon.com/weirdtruecrime Website: www.weirdtruecrime.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/weirdtruecrime TikTok: www.tiktok.com/weirdtruecrime YouTube: www.youtube.com/@weirdtruecrime Email: weirdtruecrime@gmail.com Music by - @djantonyflower ⭐ Leave a 5-star review if you enjoy the show Proud Member of Fire Eyes Media LLC Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/weird-true-crime--5679751/support [https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/weird-true-crime--5679751/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss].

What Melissa Left: The Disappearance of Melissa Casias | Episode 1: June 26th

On Thursday, June 26, 2025, Melissa Shirley Casias — a 53-year-old mother, avid hunter, devoted reader, thyroid cancer survivor, and administrative assistant at Los Alamos National Laboratory — vanished from Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico. She dropped lunch off to her daughter Sierra at 12:57 p.m. By 1:38 p.m., her phone had been wiped. By 2:18 p.m., a witness spotted someone who looked like her walking alone along Highway 518 Eastbound in Talpa. She has not been seen since. In this episode, Gina and Amber introduce you to Melissa — who she was, what her life looked like, and why the people who love her are certain she did not choose to disappear. They then walk through the events of June 26th in chronological order, covering her last confirmed movements, the first hours of the investigation, and the early signs that something about her husband Mark Casias's behavior wasn't adding up. 🚨 If You Have Information New Mexico State Police: (505) 425-6771  Crime Stoppers (anonymous): (505) 843-STOP | Text ABQCS to 738477 Find Melissa Mondragon Casias on Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/p/Find-Melissa-Mondragon-Casias-61578096118529/] GoFundMe Reward Fund [https://gofund.me/8926478c3] Sources New Mexico State Police Report — on file FBI: No-Body Homicide Cases — A Practical Approach (Special Agent Michael Yoder) Recorded Phone Calls provided by family Interview Transcript with Trudy and Jazmin Weird True Crime is an independent true crime podcast. If this episode moved you, please share it — and share Melissa's face. The more people who know her story, the better the chance that someone comes forward. 📢 Follow & Subscribe: Subscribe on Patreon: www.patreon.com/weirdtruecrime Website: www.weirdtruecrime.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/weirdtruecrime TikTok: www.tiktok.com/weirdtruecrime YouTube: www.youtube.com/@weirdtruecrime Email: weirdtruecrime@gmail.com Music by - @djantonyflower ⭐ Leave a 5-star review if you enjoy the show Proud Member of Fire Eyes Media LLC Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/weird-true-crime--5679751/support [https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/weird-true-crime--5679751/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss].

NEW SERIES: What Melissa Left // The Disappearance of Melissa Casias

Join hosts Gina and Amber as they deep dive into this compelling case and unleash new and never before shared exclusive case updates. Working with the family, your Weird True Crime team presents this 3 part limited series on their Weird True Crime feed.  All 3 episodes drop May 20, 2026 On Thursday, June 26, 2025, Melissa Shirley Casias — a 53-year-old mother, avid hunter, devoted reader, thyroid cancer survivor, and administrative assistant at Los Alamos National Laboratory — vanished from Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico. She dropped lunch off to her daughter Sierra at 12:57 p.m. By 1:38 p.m., her phone had been wiped. By 2:18 p.m., a witness spotted someone who looked like her walking alone along Highway 518 Eastbound in Talpa. She has not been seen since. 🚨 If You Have Information New Mexico State Police: (505) 425-6771  Crime Stoppers (anonymous): (505) 843-STOP | Text ABQCS to 738477 Find Melissa Mondragon Casias on Facebook: [link]  GoFundMe Reward Fund: [link] Weird True Crime is an independent true crime podcast. If this episode moved you, please share it — and share Melissa's face. The more people who know her story, the better the chance that someone comes forward. 📢 Follow & Subscribe: Subscribe on Patreon: www.patreon.com/weirdtruecrime Website: www.weirdtruecrime.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/weirdtruecrime TikTok: www.tiktok.com/weirdtruecrime YouTube: www.youtube.com/@weirdtruecrime Email: weirdtruecrime@gmail.com Music by - @djantonyflower ⭐ Leave a 5-star review if you enjoy the show Proud Member of Fire Eyes Media LLCNew Limited Series from Weird True Crime: What Melissa Left: The Disappearance of Melissa Casias -search-for-melissa-casias Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/weird-true-crime--5679751/support [https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/weird-true-crime--5679751/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss].

WTF Wednesday: The 1927 Crime Skeleton Patent That Almost Changed Police Interrogations Forever

What if the key to getting a criminal to confess was... a glowing, blinking skeleton in a dark room? Welcome back to WTF Wednesday, little skeletons! This week we're digging up one of our favorite weird-but-true stories that deserves a second listen. We kick things off in the roaring 1920s — a decade absolutely packed with infamous crimes. From the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and the unsolved Wall Street Bombing of 1920, to serial killer Albert Fish (aka the Brooklyn Vampire, the Gray Man) and the Black Sox scandal of 1921 — the '20s were wild. But the real star of today's episode? Helene Adelaide Shelby, a woman so fed up with retracted confessions that on August 16, 1927, she filed a patent for an "Apparatus for Obtaining Criminal Confessions and Photographically Recording Them." What was this apparatus, exactly? A small dark chamber. A hidden interrogator speaking through a megaphone. And a life-sized skeleton with glowing red blinking eyes designed to terrify suspects into confessing their deepest, darkest secrets. Yes. A crime skeleton. She patented a crime skeleton. Sadly, Helene's invention never made it off the drawing board — and the 1961 Supreme Court ruling on coerced confessions probably would have had something to say about it anyway. But we fully stan her energy. We wrap up the episode with 10 hilarious real cop stories pulled from Reddit — featuring horse semen, a stiletto heel where it absolutely should not be, a self-proclaimed "earth ninja," Chuck Norris, Big Macs, and the most relatable donut panic you'll ever hear. 📢 Follow & Subscribe: Subscribe on Patreon: www.patreon.com/weirdtruecrime Website: www.weirdtruecrime.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/weirdtruecrime TikTok: www.tiktok.com/weirdtruecrime YouTube: www.youtube.com/@weirdtruecrime Email: weirdtruecrime@gmail.com Music by @djantonyflower ⭐ Leave a 5-star review if you love laughing at terrible life choices Proud Member of Fire Eyes Media LLC Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/weird-true-crime--5679751/support [https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/weird-true-crime--5679751/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss].