About this episode

The episode discusses the murder of Mel Kernena Cotton, highlighting the circumstances leading to her death and the failures in preventing it.

Send us Fan Mail 31-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/badactspod PodMoth: https://podmoth.network/ Ad: Brutal, Bizarre, and Boozy — https://open.spotify.com/show/44Z9VDxjEVGpbPBkYzQorh?si=0556a1a9b6...

People in this episode

Host: Danielle Blinka

Topics covered

• murder
• domestic violence
• true crime
• victim advocacy
• family tragedy

Keywords

• Mel Cotton
• murder
• domestic violence
• true crime
• family tragedy

Sponsors

Brutal, Bizarre, and Boozy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Patreon, PodMoth

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