The Deep | Chapter 3
Oct 5, 2026 · 39 min · 15 segments
What if Melissa Highsmith had been found 30 years earlier? It almost happened. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oct 5, 2026 · 39 min · 15 segments
What if Melissa Highsmith had been found 30 years earlier? It almost happened. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Billy Graham was in town for some reason that, that week, and, uh, he come over and prayed for Alta, and-
He actually came to your apartment?
Yeah.
You met him?
Uh-huh.
Then they came and they told Alta they wanted to know what she had left of Melissa's that had hair in it.
And, you know, does she have a baby brush or anything, that Jeanne Dixon wanted it, that she was going to do a psychic reading.
And she's, uh, that reader in the, that's in the paper and stuff?
She's world renowned for being a psychic.
The most famous evangelist in the country prayed for her and made a public plea for Melissa's safe return.
Renowned psychic Jeanne Dixon, known for accurately predicting the 1968 assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, told that Melissa was being well cared for somewhere in New England.
And then I remember having talked to Alta after she had left town.
And her and Jeff were getting back together, and it was probably a year later, and, uh, she had called, and she said they were still driving, trying to find that house.
By 16, Melanie Miyoko was living on the run and pregnant with her first child, Michael.
By then, she'd worked the streets the entire time she'd been with her first love, Ricky.
Going on dates to pay for motel rooms, food, and eventually his alcohol and drug habits.
Ricky wanted to end the pregnancy, but Melanie had long dreamed of having a family of her own.
Billy Graham was in town for some reason that, that week, and, uh, he come over and prayed for Alta, and-
He actually came to your apartment?
Yeah.
You met him?
Uh-huh.
Then they came and they told Alta they wanted to know what she had left of Melissa's that had hair in it.
And, you know, does she have a baby brush or anything, that Jeanne Dixon wanted it, that she was going to do a psychic reading.
And she's, uh, that reader in the, that's in the paper and stuff?
She's world renowned for being a psychic.
The most famous evangelist in the country prayed for her and made a public plea for Melissa's safe return.
Renowned psychic Jeanne Dixon, known for accurately predicting the 1968 assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, told that Melissa was being well cared for somewhere in New England.
And then I remember having talked to Alta after she had left town.
And her and Jeff were getting back together, and it was probably a year later, and, uh, she had called, and she said they were still driving, trying to find that house.
By 16, Melanie Miyoko was living on the run and pregnant with her first child, Michael.
By then, she'd worked the streets the entire time she'd been with her first love, Ricky.
Going on dates to pay for motel rooms, food, and eventually his alcohol and drug habits.
Ricky wanted to end the pregnancy, but Melanie had long dreamed of having a family of her own.
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