Investigator Mike Mayhew
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559 appearances
31 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard Jun 2025
Investigator Mike Mayhew’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He was keeping a secret, the fact that he fathered a baby in the hopes that the child wouldn't be born.
For Matt, he never had a child before. He didn't want to make it known to other people because he just wanted to keep that part of his life private.
Matthew Plody was a person of interest on day one, simply because he was at the scene.
He admitted he was there. He told them everything that they would have needed to know about his presence there. He didn't have anything to add. They discussed their finances, and then Matt left as she was making some lunch.
Technically, right now, you are under arrest. The motive that the state painted was just an inaccurate portrayal of Matt.
They painted him to be this monster that, at the drop of a hat, after a career of saving people, decided to suddenly start killing people. You were indicted by the grand jury. The evidence doesn't show that Matthew Plody murdered Melissa Lamish or their own bone child.
Melissa Lamish was loved. This is not someone who had enemies lined up around the block who wanted to see her deceased. Rather, there was one person and one person only, and that was Matthew Plody.
What we wanted to portray to the jury is that he was a guy saving lives for his entire career.
Matt's plan was to financially support her. He had offered her money before. His plan was to be there.
He was keeping a secret, the fact that he fathered a baby in the hopes that the child wouldn't be born.
They discussed their finances. They discussed what would happen with the birth of the child. And then Matt left as she was making some lunch.
Yes, every court date.
What was the last thing your sister said to you during that phone call?
He said, There's a deadline to these kinds of things. That was his deadline to murder Melissa.
What is chilling is the fact that he never denied murdering Melissa, and he never denied killing her baby boy. Not one time. It's chilling from a personal perspective, but that's also excellent evidence that the defendant couldn't bring himself to lie about that fact.
Over the course of multiple interviews for several hours, he was calm and reserved.
He had a right to remain silent, but the police are allowed to continue to poke and prod and try to get him confused, and he just didn't buy into any of that.
He told them everything about his presence there. He didn't hide any of that. He just never admitted what they wanted him to admit, which was that he killed Melissa and his child, which he didn't do.
Join the conversation on Facebook and X. The state's expert didn't do a fraction of what he should have done to properly determine the cause of the fire. This should have been an undetermined fire.
The complete lack of investigation of any other individual is shocking. I've never seen such a poorly investigated case.
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