Ep. 282 — The Murder of Mel Kernena Cotton

Send us Fan Mail31-year-old Mel Cotton helped her friend escape a violent relationship. About two weeks later, her sister arrived to babysit Mel’s son to find the boy injured and Mel dead. Her murder was an escalation that anyone could see coming, and her attacker shouldn’t have been free to kill her.   Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/badactspodPodMoth: https://podmoth.network/Ad: Brutal, Bizarre, and Boozy — https://open.spotify.com/show/44Z9VDxjEVGpbPBkYzQorh?si=0556a1a9b65048bd&nd=1&dlsi=7e42cb75c47e4fc4 Episode Source List:https://law.justia.com/cases/texas/court-of-criminal-appeals/2011/ap-76-345.html https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/23-6139.html https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/tx-court-of-appeals/1104863.html https://tcadp.org/2010/03/12/travis-county-sentences-man-to-death/https://www.txcourts.gov/All_Archived_Documents/JudicialInformation/oca/pdf/jchgs/Travis031010JChg.pdf https://abc7chicago.com/archive/7341178/https://archive.gosanangelo.com/news/one-final-outburst-former-abilenian-to-die-for-murder-ep-440943875-357343071.html https://www.tdcj.texas.gov/death_row/dr_info/gobertmilton.html https://www.owensandbrumley.com/obituary/5042637 https://www.safeaustin.org/the-violent-reality-of-strangulation/ “Blind Rage.” The Mind of a Murderer. Season Two, Episode 3. 24 October 2016.