On September 14th 2019 33 year old much loved teacher Jonelle Melton failed to show up to teach her class at the local school. Concerned colleagues ask her estranged husband Micheal to drive over  to hers & check on her. When he does he is greeted by a grisly & bloody discovery. Jonelle had been tortured & murdered in her Neptune City apartment, New Jersey.

Jonelles violent death shocked the community & very soon suspicion from all angles fell on the one closest to her, Micheal . 

But no arrest was ever made for Jonelles murder, as months turned into years, as time passed by her case gets colder. And Michael's life continues to unravel under the constant cloak of suspicion.

Until finally a new detective gets a lead that helps to break this ice cold case wide open, exposing three heartless career criminals as the real killers. 

This is a truly tragic story involving a tangled web of deadly misidentification, greed, a botched burglary, heartless criminals & a man whose life was nearly destroyed by wrongful accusations.

Most importantly at the heart of it all one innocent woman Jonelle had her life senselessly taken in such a brutal way.....

This is episode 129...

Mistaken : The Murder Of Jonelle Melton 

Skip straight to the crime talk at 13:03

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