Investigation Discovery

I don't know if you've seen my show, Hollywood Demons.

It's on Discovery ID and then HBO Max.

And we spent all last season examining all this.

It's perfect then.

So investigators start digging into Sue Sharp's past because if it's not Tina, if they can't find a connection to Tina being kidnapped, let's start looking at Sue and maybe her exes more than just James.

Was she dating anyone? Did she have any creepy boyfriends or anyone in her past, somebody that might have been stalking her? Sheila Sharp was interviewed by Investigation Discovery, and she does say that she believes that these murders had something to do with her mother, that her mother was definitely the target.

Now, police start digging into more about Sue Sharp, and there are all these theories going around that Sue was involved with prostitution, drug trafficking, but there were no drugs found at the home.

There were no drugs found in her system.

This isn't it.

This is no motive.

Now, you can also get a link to that investigation discovery episode in my show notes because that was one of my main sources.

And now Sheila actually thinks that the attack was motivated and the attack was planned for her mother and that her brother and his friend Dana walked in on it.

that's really refreshing like speaking on that like what what elements do you look for when you're looking specifically for a cold case to feature on the podcast i'm sure there's certain things that where you're saying like okay this would actually be a great one

um you know it's it's it's funny you would say this and i think josh has has heard this before but ID, in particular, because this podcast is done in partnership with Investigation Discovery, they have had this weird thing from the beginning where it's like every season they're like, but what's Sarah's personal connection to it? Which was kind of my own fault, I think, for starting season one with the Rene Bergeron case,

which...

um i have a lot of personal like it's not connected to me in any way other than when i started work on it i became very you know personally involved and there were a lot of of things that there were a lot of elements of renee's life that reminded me of my own mother's life and stuff and so there was that right which now feels like not personal at all compared to like every season they're like But what's Sarah's personal connection? It's like Sarah's got a mortgage to pay and a kid in college.

could at that time.

The production company I have worked with, you know, idea has been amazing.

I really, really, I have to say when we eventually were greenlit by Investigation Discovery for the first season of this podcast, um we sort of anticipated there was going to be a lot more of a like a heavy hand from the network and a lot more of like pushing back when we were trying to talk about sex work and and you know stuff like that and it has not been the case we have a phenomenal producer like the the ep at the network who we deal with they're all really really supportive of us doing something which is You know, we do kind of push the envelope in that space.

But what I really feel the most important relationship that I have is, you know, in this bridging of the two worlds is with Arc Media, who is the production company.

Just look

in the ID Discovery channel.

It's like the true crime channel.

It's like that scene off Boondock Saints.

My name's Ed.

For the past two decades, I've been producing true crime content for some of your favorite networks like Hulu, Oxygen, and, of course, Investigation Discovery.

And I'm Melissa, Ed's bestie and walking, talking true crime database.

We've combined my behind-the-scenes insight with Melissa's morbid curiosity to bring you a podcast that immerses you in the true crime genre like never before.