Episode 248 - No Blood at The Lake - The Murder of Melody Hoffman
The Minds of Madness - True Crime Stories
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🗓️ 13 January 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
You'll hear how a mother's desperate attempt to protect her vulnerable daughter through constant digital surveillance couldn't prevent an unthinkable tragedy and how a late-night trip to Walmart to purchase machetes set in motion a chain of events that would end in murder.
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| 0:33.3 | The The If you're a fan of horror movies, then I'm sure you know the name Jason Voorhees. |
| 1:13.1 | The machete-wielding, hockey mask-wearing villain from Friday the 13th. In the Friday the 13th movies, Jason stalks his victims |
| 1:20.2 | near the shores of picturesque Crystal Lake. It's a story that taps into our most primal fears |
| 1:26.9 | about what might lurk in isolated places, |
| 1:30.0 | where the serenity of nature can mask unspeakable violence. |
| 1:35.0 | Most of us find comfort in knowing these are just movies, fiction designed to thrill us, |
| 1:42.1 | before we return to the safety of our everyday lives. |
| 1:46.6 | But in the winter of 2024, those fears materialized around an idyllic lake in eastern Iowa, |
| 1:55.0 | when the body of a 20-year-old woman was discovered on its banks, |
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