Payton Moreland
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3,581 appearances
30 recordings
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Jun 2025
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So remember how I briefly mentioned that pair of muddy hiking boots police collected from Joe and Munchies apartment the day of his arrest? Well, it turns out that caked and dried mud on those boots held everything the prosecution needed to place Joe at the scene of the crime.
Forensics found 12 different types of vegetation in his boots and plants, just like people and animals, have their own unique strands of DNA. So, Detektives took samples from Mung-Shi's burial site alongside Joe's boots, sent them to the Missouri Botanical Garden.
There they were analyzed by plant population geneticists and once they were finished with their analysis, they concluded the juniper needles in Joe's boots came from the exact trees surrounding Mung-Shi's grave site.
So this is what Joe tells the jury at trial when he took the stand. He said on the night in question, October 8th, 2019, he gave Meng Shi a massage. He tried to initiate sex. But when he went to undress Meng Shi, she stopped him. She told him she was meeting with someone the next morning.
And that's when Joe confronted her about the messages he had found on her devices, the messages she had been sending to another man. Joe said he got dressed and planned to leave for the night. But when he told Meng Shi he was taking Anna with him, she forcefully pushed him away. So, he pushed her back and that's when she hit her head against the kitchen cabinet. She was still conscious.
He said he led Meng Shi to the couch to rest, got Anna and left the house for 45 minutes to cool off. When he came back, he said Meng Shi had moved herself to the bed. She was still fully dressed but asleep. Finally, he woke up at around 5 a.m. when he heard Anna cry. But when he came back to the bedroom and checked on Meng Shi, he realized she had died in her sleep.
Ich weiß nicht, warum Joe oder sein Defensivteam das dem Gericht überzeugen würde. Es gibt so viele Plotschritte in dieser Geschichte.
Wenn du deine Frau unabhängig findest, würdest du wahrscheinlich 911 anrufen. Du würdest sie nicht berühren. Also, während er Mung-Shi berührt, ist seine neunjährige Tochter allein im Auto.
Er lässt seine neunjährige Tochter allein im Auto, um seine Frau zu berühren. Die Mutter. Okay, the details of this case just get worse and worse and worse. After 10 days of testimony, closing statements were made and the jury left to deliberate. And they found Joe not guilty of first degree murder, but guilty of second degree murder. They think that it was in the heat of the moment.
It was a fight that turned ugly.
So they recommended the judge give him 28 years in prison. This is one for every year of Munchies life and the judge agreed. But that wasn't it for Joe. He still had to face trial for those child abuse charges. Charges he pleaded not guilty to initially, but in February of 2022 finally changed his mind.
He was then given an additional 10 years to his sentence, bringing his total time behind bars to 38 years. As of June 2024, Joe Elledge was trying to appeal his second-degree murder conviction, stating ineffective assistance of counsel.
He said the defense brought in unqualified evidence and photographs that were irrelevant to the case and also said he was called as a witness by the defense when he wished to stay silent. Really, what he wanted was a last desperate attempt to control the narrative, just like he tried to control his wife. But in August of 2024, Joe's appeal was denied.
As of this recording, he remains behind bars at the Southeast Correctional Center in Charleston, Missouri. And that is the closing of the case.
I just think, I just think Joe's a bad dude.
Und ehrlich gesagt, Mung-Shi ist nicht die einzige Verletzte in diesem Fall. Wie wir oft sagen, ihre Eltern. Aber auch, es gibt eine 1-jährige Tochter, die nicht nur verletzt wurde, oder zumindest einmal, das wir kennen, auch jetzt ohne Eltern wächst.
Ja, und dein Vater hat deine Mutter getötet, während du im Auto sitzt. Das ist... Actually awful. It's just completely heartless and there were so many minutes and hours that he could have changed that. That he could have decided not to do that. That is the case of Meng Shiji. Please keep her family in your thoughts today. You know, just remember that this is more than a true crime case.
These are real people involved and I just want to Maybe take today to honor that. Thank you guys so much for listening to this week's episode. And we will see you next time with another one. I love it.
Goodbye.
Du hörst einen Ono Media Podcast. Hey alle, willkommen zurück zum Podcast. Das ist Mörder mit meinem Mann. Ich bin Peyton Moreland.
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