Murder Unscripted

Jackie Hawks was forced to sign over her boat and her bank accounts right before she was tied to a boat anchor alongside her husband Tom, and thrown overboard. But in a heroic show of bravery, she purposely left the “S” off of her own last name as a clue for investigators - pointing investigators to the five monsters responsible. In Part 2 of our coverage of the Tom and Jackie Hawks case, Melissa takes us from a jail cell, where a man is accused of plotting four more murders, to a courtroom, where a prosecutor squares off against the attorney he used to work for. A wife turns down an offer of complete immunity. And one question from the prosecutor is so brutal the whole room goes silent. Listen on Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/murder-unscripted/id1750146409 | Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/2AUGh12ei1wk8x7CvcX9qH?si=bd750581f2294738 Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/c/MurderUnscriptedPod/membership. 20% of every membership goes to the Courthouse Dogs Foundation. Email: [email protected] Follow: @murderunscripted #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #MurderUnscripted Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tom and Jackie Hawks sold their beloved yacht in Newport Beach, California, to a former Mighty Morphin Power Rangers star and his sweet young family. Then they vanished. Two days before Thanksgiving 2004, family found the boat looking sloppy and the couple's car gone, and the story of the sale only got stranger from there. Melissa opens The Art of Conviction, our prosecutor spotlight block, with Part 1 of one of Orange County prosecutor Matt Murphy's biggest cases. Part 1 of 2. Ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon, where 20% of every membership goes to the Courthouse Dogs Foundation: https://www.patreon.com/c/MurderUnscriptedPod/membership Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

He found a missing child 200 searchers couldn’t. Then they gave him a badge. To close out the Psychic Connections block, we sit down with the man whose name has run through the whole month: psychic Phil Jordan. In 1975 he led searchers straight to a six-year-old boy lost in the woods when two hundred people couldn’t find him, and was soon sworn in as a deputy sheriff. For fifty years he has worked missing persons, homicides, and arson alongside law enforcement. We dig into how he actually works a case, the Rose Swartwood murder we covered two weeks ago, and the skeptic questions Ed and Melissa couldn’t let go of. Then, at the very end, Phil turned the tables and gave the two of us a reading. Believer or skeptic, this is one you won't want to miss!  Ep. 127 | Psychic Connections Finale | Murder Unscripted | October 2026 Hosted by Ed Hydock & Melissa Spivey | Money Beet Media, LLC   Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/murder-unscripted/id1750146409 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2AUGh12ei1wk8x7CvcX9qH Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/MurderUnscriptedPod/membership [email protected] | @murderunscripted Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A stranger told police exactly where to find the body of a missing nurse. So they arrested her on suspicion of murder. December 1980, the San Fernando Valley. Melanie Uribe, a 31-year-old nurse and single mom, stopped at a red light on her way to an overnight shift and never made it to work. Days later, a woman across town who had never met her, an ordinary Lockheed clerk named Etta Smith, began seeing a place in her mind: a canyon, a curve, a dirt path, something white in the brush. She took it to police. When they wouldn't listen, she drove out and found Melanie's body herself, exactly where she'd pictured it, and detectives made her the prime suspect in Melanie's murder. Ed continues “Psychic Connections” (our October block of cases where a psychic worked alongside police), with a story the detectives could never explain, and a victim who deserves to be remembered for far more than the mystery around her death. E126 | Murder Unscripted | October 2026 Hosted by Ed Hydock & Melissa Spivey | Money Beet Media, LLC Researched by Pam Beiler Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/murder-unscripted/id1750146409 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2AUGh12ei1wk8x7CvcX9qH Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/MurderUnscriptedPod/membership [email protected] | @murderunscripted Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Police handed him a stack of 50 mugshots. He pulled out their two suspects. August 1988, Elmira, New York. Rose Swartwood was 74, a kind, impeccably dressed retiree who would talk your ear off at the mailbox and spent every evening with her little sister. One morning her family found her beaten and stabbed in her own bed, and whoever did it had stayed long enough to scrub the apartment clean. For almost two years, police were sure they knew who was responsible but could not prove it. So two detectives tried something that is not in any manual: they brought in a psychic, told him nothing, and set a stack of unlabeled mugshots in front of him. He described a cleanup no one outside the department knew about, a long knife, a ring on Rose’s hand, and then he reached into the pile and pulled out two faces. Ed continues October's "Psychic Connections" block with a case that we skeptics can't fully explain! LISTEN ON AUDIO Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/murder-unscripted/id1750146409 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2AUGh12ei1wk8x7CvcX9qH SUPPORT THE SHOW Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/MurderUnscriptedPod/membership 20% of every membership goes to the Courthouse Dogs Foundation 🐾 CONNECT Email: [email protected] | Socials: @murderunscripted #MurderUnscripted #TrueCrime #PsychicConnections Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices