233 - The Murder of Paul Jones & The Disappearance of Melody Jones

Trace Evidence

Steven Pacheco

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2023

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

On the morning of May 5th, 1983, a horrified mother entered the home shared by her daughter and son-in-law and came upon a grisly scene. Her son-in-law, twenty year old Paul Jones, lay dead on the bedroom floor the victim of a stabbing. Despite her desperate search she could find no trace of her nineteen year old daughter, Melody.

Investigators with the Pottawatomie County Sheriff's Office and the OSBI theorized that intruders had entered the couples' home during the night, murdered Paul and abducted Melody. Working with a severe lack of evidence, they struggled to put the pieces together and a lack of tips left them devoid of suspect.

More than forty years later, Paul's killer has never been identified and Melody has never been located. While some believe it to be a random crime, perpetrated by a sick and desperate criminal, others wonder if the truth might be found closer to home.

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0:32.1	memory of Tyler Christopher.
0:34.2	Thanks for all the memories. When 19-year-old Melody Jones didn't make it into work, her mother stopped by to check
0:51.0	on.
0:52.0	Arriving at the home, she discovered the body of her son-in-law,
0:55.6	20-year-old Paul Jones, on the bedroom floor. He had been stabbed to death, and there
1:00.8	was no sign of her daughter. Investigators determined that after Paul's
1:05.6	murder, Melody had likely been abducted by the killer or killers. Almost from the beginning,
1:11.6	detectives found themselves behind the eight ball as they worked with a severe lack of evidence, witnesses, and motives.
1:19.0	The couple had been quiet, kept mostly to themselves, didn't have a lot of money, and there was no evidence
1:25.6	that anything was taken from the residents either.
1:29.0	More than four decades later, the murder of Paul Jones and the disappearance of Melody Jones remained two of only three
1:35.9	unsolved cases in all of Padua Tami County, Oklahoma.
1:40.9	Who killed Paul and abducted Melody?
1:44.0	According to investigators, there are still people living in the area who possess information necessary to unlock this decades-long mystery.
1:53.5	This is Trace Evidence, episode 233,
1:57.3	the murder of Paul Jones and the disappearance of Melody Jones. Welcome to Trace Evidence. I'm your host, Stephen Pacheco.
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