Christina Parcell's Sister
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172 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
Christina Parcell's Sister’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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While Tina may have found Post off-putting, it's another man she thinks police need to investigate.
I can only think of one person in the world that I would instantly think of would have interest in seeing my sister murdered.
John Mello.
In the aftermath of Christina Parcell's murder, it's her sister, Tina, who's left to tell her nine-year-old niece the tragic news. So you had to tell her that her mother was dead? Mm-hmm. She wailed.
And she was inconsolable sobbing. I told her there had been an accident. Mommy had been hurt very, very badly and she died. She didn't make it. And her response was, who did it?
When police talk to Christina's fiance, Bradley Post, after the murder.
He immediately brings up somebody he thinks should be a person of interest. So you asked him, do you know who would do this?
John Mello says he's a music producer. He met Christina in 2004. He was a 43-year-old married father of two. She was 24. Both cameras have it? Yep. All good? So I guess let's start at the beginning. How did you come to meet Christina?
Were you trying to have a relationship?
At what point did it become a romantic relationship?
Mello and Christina dated for the next six years. So you had a discussion, decided you were going to try to have a baby? Yes, yeah, planned it. That's a little surprising to me, because you were married.
But while things were going well with the new baby, by then Christina had become estranged from her sister and the rest of her family.
Between April and May of 2010, my sister cut off ties with our whole immediate family. She sent a letter to my parents, addressed it to all of us. She had been with John for a year when she sent this. She was being increasingly cut off from the world around her. So when you started to talk to her again, how did she explain that letter? It's what John wanted.
The estrangement would last over four years.
When she came back to our family, I mean, we found out she had a daughter. My niece was more than two when I met her the first time.
By the time the child was three years old, relations between Mello and Christina were breaking down. So at some point, you guys end up in kind of a tough custody battle.
In 2016, Mello is granted sole custody. Christina, just visitation. In court documents, Mello describes what he calls her erratic behavior and lack of consistent visitation, while Christina says she's afraid of Mello and doesn't earn enough money to support her daughter.
In the years that follow, Mello repeatedly contacts law enforcement and the Department of Social Services about Christina, accusing her of prostitution, drug use, and even child sex abuse.
In the course of their custody battle, Mello is arrested and charged with stalking and then harassment, accused of repeatedly making unfounded accusations against Christina. Both charges are ultimately dismissed.
It's 2018 when attorney Maggie Bailey gets a visit from Christina.
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