This week Stacey tells us about Matthew Mellon, the Mellon banking heir and early cryptocurrency investor known for his substantial stake in Ripple, whose life ended mysteriously on April 9, 2022, in a Cancun hotel room while traveling from his home in Florida to an experimental rehab treatment.

Sources:

https://vilk.medium.com/mellons-missing-millions-he-blew-his-family-s-fortune-on-fast-living-then-made-1billion-back-de429e1771e6

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellon_family

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Mellon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Negley_Mellon

https://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/billionaire-news/billionaire-banking-heir-matthew-mellon-dies-rehab

https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43800610

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/17/billionaire-banking-heir-matthew-mellon-dies-at-54.html

https://gulfnews.com/lifestyle/a-matter-of-money-and-heartbreak-1.731418

https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/cleared-the-oil-billionaire-too-absentminded-to-spy-on-his-jimmy-choo-tycoon-ex-7284360.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamara_Mellon

https://www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-members-news/wyden-expands-epstein-investigation-with-probe-of-hundreds-of-suspicious-bank-of-new-york-mellon-transactions

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA01250229.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00433799.pdf

https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/bianca-pratt-christopher-getty-matthew-mellon-nicole-hanley-news-photo/819138180?adppopup=true

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00746142.pdf

https://estateandprobatelawyer.com/a-cautionary-tale-cryptocurrency/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/webarchive/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fblogs%2Fadamcurtis%2Fentries%2F44122901-c2e8-34f5-93e0-d4402c163966

https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/bank-of-mellon-epstein-sex-trafficking-class-action.pdf

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This week Erin tells us about Jason James Mahn, who on April 1, 1993, in Pensacola murdered his father’s girlfriend, Debra Shanko, and her 14-year-old son, Anthony Shanko, in their home before fleeing the state and later being arrested in Oklahoma.

Sources:

https://library.law.fsu.edu/Digital-Collections/flsupct/dockets/83423/83423ans.pdf

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/fl-supreme-court/1254367.html

https://truecrimearchives.blog/jason-james-mahn-from-death-row-to-life-imprisonment/

https://murderpedia.org/male.M/images/mahn_jason_james/op-83423.pdf

https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1993/04/13/suspect-made-death-threats-says-former-co-worker/

https://murderpedia.org/male.M/m/mahn-jason-james.htm

https://www.insideprison.com/state-inmate-search.asp?lnam=mahn&id=1281543

https://library.law.fsu.edu/Digital-Collections/flsupct/dockets/83423/83423ini.pdf

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This week Stacey tells us about Steven Hoffenberg, an American businessman and fraudster who founded and led Towers Financial Corporation, ran one of the largest Ponzi schemes in U.S. history, briefly owned the New York Post, and later became known as a former mentor and associate of Jeffrey Epstein.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Hoffenberg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towers_Financial_Corporation

https://www.sec.gov/news/digest/1994/dig021894.pdf

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/jeffrey-epstein-steven-hoffenberg-intelligence-agencies-spy-1197708/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Yamamah_arms_deal

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/908/1265/1457501/

https://www.npr.org/2019/08/14/751153024/jeffrey-epsteins-former-business-associate-i-want-to-assist-victims

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00270335.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00182748.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01326141.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA01140030.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00339405.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01326139.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01937998.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01937998.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00376722.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00680461.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01433867.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA01106124.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00583986.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00339406.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00339410.pdf

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This week Erin tells us about 18-year-old Ebby Steppach, who vanished from Little Rock in October 2015 days after reporting a sexual assault and was found nearly three years later in a park drainage pipe, her death ruled a homicide that remains unsolved.

Sources:

https://aymag.com/a-ray-of-light-loved-ones-gain-new-allies-as-ebby-steppach-case-reaches-a-decade/

https://www.kark.com/news/local-news/new-information-reveals-where-ebby-steppach-spent-her-final-hours/

https://katv.com/news/local/new-lead-in-ebby-steppach-case-gives-hope-to-family-on-10th-anniversary-of-disappearance-missing-cold-case-investigation-evidence-sexual-assault-investigators-chalamont-park

https://www.truecasefiles.com/2019/08/the-disappearance-murder-of-ebby.html

https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/arkansas-attorney-general-cold-case-unit-ebby-steppach/91-0a98d1d1-bfd8-4ed1-a3ef-b5af6f22335d

https://www.rollerfuneralhomes.com/services.asp?locid=17&page=odetail&id=48749

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/ebby-steppach-arkansas-cold-case-murder-b2886728.html

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This week stacey tells us about Tara Grinstead, a Georgia high school teacher and beauty queen who mysteriously vanished from Ocilla on October 22–23, 2005, a disappearance that would haunt her community for years and later be thrust into the spotlight by the true crime podcast Up and Vanished.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara_Grinstead_murder_case

cbsnews.com/pictures/what-happened-to-tara-grinstead/11/

https://gbi.georgia.gov/press-releases/2017-02-23/gbi-arrest-disappearance-tara-grinstead

https://allthatsinteresting.com/tara-grinstead

https://upandvanished.com/timeline/

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This week Erin tells us about Michelle Theer, a psychologist who manipulated her lover into murdering her Air Force captain husband as part of a deadly love triangle and insurance plot, then went on the run before being caught and sentenced to life in prison.

Sources:

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/nc-court-of-appeals/1201672.html

https://www.osi.af.mil/News/Features/Display/Article/2311497/the-murder-of-capt-marty-theer/

https://cases.justia.com/north-carolina/court-of-appeals/051640-1.pdf

https://murderpedia.org/female.T/t/theer-michelle.htm

https://truecrimearchives.blog/air-force-reservist-michelle-theer-military-love-triangle-murder-conviction/

https://free-john-diamond.blogspot.com/

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This week Stacey tells us about Jean Luc Brunel, a French model scout and agent linked to Jeffrey Epstein who faced multiple sex-trafficking and sexual-assault allegations and died in a Paris jail in 2022 before his trial concluded.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Luc_Brunel

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/epsteins-french-associate-jean-luc-brunel-found-dead-in-paris-prison/2507523

https://www.reddit.com/r/skeptic/comments/swduau

https://www.dw.com/en/epstein-linked-modeling-agent-charged-with-sex-crimes/a-55996337

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/17/jean-luc-brunel-jeffrey-epstein-models-sexual-assault

https://www.reddit.com/r/Epstein/comments/l5ss7m

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/38075982/epstein-files-victim-accomplice-jean-luc-brunel-ghislaine-maxwell/

https://nypost.com/2026/01/30/us-news/unknown-epstein-victim-told-doj-of-accomplice-100x-worse-than-maxwell

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/02/21/jean-f21.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/19/modeling-agent-close-to-epstein-found-dead-in-french-jail.html

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/02/epstein-files-new-batch

https://www.dw.com/en/epstein-linked-modeling-agent-found-dead-in-jail-cell/a-60821124

https://www.corrections1.com//celebrity/articles/jeffrey-epstein-associate-jean-luc-brunel-found-dead-in-paris-jail-0xxvkAU4Psp8dqTc/

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This week Erin tells us about Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb, two wealthy and highly intelligent Chicago teens who in 1924 kidnapped and murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a disastrous attempt to commit the so‑called “perfect crime.”

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche

https://homicide.northwestern.edu/crimes/leopold/

https://homicide.northwestern.edu/docs_fk/homicide/5866/LeopoldStatement.pdf

https://homicide.northwestern.edu/docs_fk/homicide/5866/LoebStatement.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_and_Loeb

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