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JustThoughtLounge

JustThoughtLounge

Welcome to Just Thought Lounge! This is the true crime channel that delivers serious, well-balanced coverage of the cases that really make you think. At JTL, we aim to give our viewers something to contemplate. The cases we choose - some new and some older - often place the viewer in the shoes of the investigators or in the jury box. We always aim to be well-balanced, so you won"t hear Kevin trying to crack jokes or offer his personal opinion or commentary. Just Thought Lounge is about what you

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00:39:05

Husband's Bizarre Text Leads Detectives to a Shocking...

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2025/05/01

On the morning of 15th May, 2020 Katie McLean went missing. That same morning a disturbing text message began circulating amongst her social circle; sparking concerns that something horrific may have befallen the loving mother of three. The text accused Katie of manipulation. It referred to her as “a devil". Friends saw this message and immediately feared the worst…

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00:49:43

One Mistake Led Investigators to a Shocking Murder...

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2025/04/24

True Crime Documentary, The Murder of Samantha Dean Samantha Dean was 26 weeks pregnant when she was found murdered in the vacant parking lot of an empty shopping centre in Bastrop, Texas. The cancer survivor had made it her life’s work to support the victims of violent crime. That is, before she too became a victim. The circumstances surrounding her murder were bizarre. A staged scene, messages luring her to the location from an unknown sender and the vehicle she was found in was missing

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00:37:25

Husband Found Frozen Outside His Home: The Strange...

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2025/04/24

True Crime Documentary On a winter morning in February 2019, 50 year-old Lori Phillips awoke at home and couldn’t find her husband. Before she reached the garage to check for his vehicle, Lori spotted something through the window out of the corner of her eye. It was.a dark figure collapsed in the snowbank. She had found her husband.

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00:34:41

Student's Private Messages Reveal Closeted Affair:...

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2025/04/24

True Crime Documentary In the early morning hours of July 8th, 2022 20 year-old Jimmie Jay Lee donned his silver dressing gown, gold cap and grey slippers and left his student apartment in Oxford, Mississippi. Jay carried only his keys and his cellphone. He left behind his beloved Pomeranian, though he rarely went anywhere without her. Two days later, at an impound lot where it had been towed, detectives searched through Jay Lee’s abandoned vehicle. Inside they found his bank cards and a key

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00:37:21

The Toledo Family Murders

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2025/04/24

In the Autumn of 2013, a young mother and her two children went missing from their home in Deltona, Florida. 28 year old Yessenia’s last contact had been a phone call around midnight the night before she vanished. Her children did not arrive for school the next day. Suspicions immediately turned to the most likely suspect: the husband, who turned up on scene claiming to have no idea what had happened to his family. As evidence mounted against him, he began to tell an unlikely story - but would

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00:30:38

Horrifying Flashback Led Police to a Shocking...

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2025/04/24

True Crime Documentary, the murder of Taylor Escontrias On a rainy Spring night in 2024, deputies from the Scott County Sheriff's Office responded to a car crash roughly 7 miles north of downtown Davenport, Iowa. The driver had struck a pole. Thankfully, no one was injured. What appeared to be a standard case of driving under the influence, however, quickly took a darker and more disturbing turn. As the driver began to sober-up, he slowly began remembering and talking. Deputies were horrified

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00:33:31

Socialite Runs Over Two Boys, Creates Bizarre Story...

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2025/04/24

True Crime Documentary In September 2020, two young boys were fatally hit by a speeding Mercedes in an affluent Los Angeles County community. The alleged driver of the vehicle, 57 year-old well-known socialite and philanthropist, Rebecca Grossman, claimed on-scene to be utterly unaware of what had occurred. While she proclaimed it a tragic accident, investigators came to a different conclusion. This was a double murder. As the facts were compiled, more questions arose. If this was murder, was

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00:33:08

Argument with Children Turns Deadly: The Shocking...

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2025/04/24

True Crime Documentary Susan Lorincz was the neighbor no one liked. She complained about noise. She yelled and cursed at the children. She had “No Trespassing” signs all over her property. Susan called the Sheriff’s Office to complain, frequently. One summer night, tensions boiled over. The Sheriff’s Office was called out again but this time before they could reach the house a gunshot rang out. And a mother of four was dead.

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00:23:25

It Was A 'Perfect Life' Online Until She Was Found...

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2025/04/24

By the summer of 2023, mother of two and positivity coach, April Holt, built a following of over 200,000 followers on TikTok. April built her quirky and optimistic online image around her happy homelife. Her posts told the story of an overcoming adversity, and manifesting great things. In late July, April was found unresponsive in the bathroom of her home. She would die days later. While law enforcement were content to categorise the case as a tragedy of April’s own choosing, the 29 year olds mother

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00:26:28

The Twist You Didn’t See Coming: The Murder of LaNell...

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2025/04/24

True Crime Documentary In the Spring of 2010, investigators in Palmdale, California found 29 year-old LaNell Barsock murdered inside her home. Piecing together the scattered clues left by her killer they were able to recreate the crime. Detectives found that the attack that led to the end of the young nurse’s life came by surprise. But when it came to piecing together her personal life while searching for the killer - the evidence was not quite so straightforward.

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00:23:32

From Stealing Content to Stealing Lives: The...

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2025/04/24

JTL delivers the best true crime documentary(ies) and best true crime podcast(s) on YouTube. New true crime cases that you likely haven’t heard anywhere else. Terryon Thomas, known as Mr Prada to his millions of followers, was a recognizable figure online. He was both loved and hated. Often mocked for his shameless content-stealing; he has also been celebrated for his comedic and relatable videos. Having built a reputation of notoriety based on his own image, when he found himself on-the-run from

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00:35:57

He Helped Them Get Pregnant Then Became Her Lover:...

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2025/04/24

In January 2022, a man dressed in a bucket-style hat, sunglasses and two scarves entered an independent health clinic in Waipahu, Hawaii. 48 seconds later, the man left. 47 year-old Jon Tokuhara would be found dead inside. Despite what should have been a wealth of evidence; security cameras, shell casings left at the scene, even the hat that the assailant wore left behind … this is a case that seemed to prove only one thing: that things were more complicated than they appeared.

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00:34:44

He Believed Tattoos Are “A Sin Against God": The...

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2025/04/24

JTL delivers the best true crime documentary(ies) and best true crime podcast(s) on YouTube. New true crime cases that you likely haven’t heard anywhere else. On a Saturday night in the Summer in 2023, Joshua Davies and his wife, Jennifer, were having a night out with a couple friends when they encountered a stranger at a local wine bar. An altercation with this man lasting only moments left Josh on the ground, unresponsive. The stranger fled. There were a handful of eye witnesses to the incident,

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00:35:13

Bizarre Facebook Post Led Detectives to a Shocking...

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2025/04/24

True Crime Documentary 22 year-old community college student, Jasmine Pace, had plans to spend Thanksgiving 2022 with her family. To her mother’s surprise she sent a text message last minute cancelling those plans. On Jasmine’s Facebook account there was a new post. It read: “Enjoying Thanksgiving with my baby.” Except the photo accompanying the post was not from Thanksgiving. In this photo, Jasmine’s distinctive tattoos were missing. The photo must have been taken months before. Concern turned

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00:47:55

He Invited Two Women Home For An 'After Party': The...

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2025/04/24

True Crime Documentary, the murder of Chris Dickerson The last sighting of 35 year-old Christopher Dickerson was outside of a popular bar in downtown Greeley, Colorado at around 2AM on a Saturday night in October, 2021. He was on his own. Chris interacted with the driver of a silver sedan before continuing home. The sedan, followed him. Hours later, responders were called out to a house fire on 15th Avenue Court. Chris’s home had gone up in flames. And neighbours worried that he was

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00:35:18

The Disturbing Case of Susan Mauldin [True Crime...

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2025/04/24

JTL delivers the best true crime documentary(ies) and best true crime podcast(s) on YouTube. New true crime cases that you likely haven’t heard anywhere else. In the Autumn of 2019, 65 year-old Susan Mauldin went missing. A British retiree who loved knitting and gardening, Sue was not a lady known to make enemies. Nonetheless, the investigation into her disappearance uncovered a disturbing series of events. And it was a story that was questioned right up to the end.

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00:43:32

Wife’s New Lover Suspected of Killing Entire Family....

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2025/04/24

True Crime Documentary On the evening of September 17, 2023 police in Romeoville, Illinois made a gruesome and heart-breaking discovery inside of a family home. What followed was a rapidly unfolding investigation that uncovered a truly bizarre and disturbing murder plot and a motive that no one saw coming.

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00:42:10

Missing Student's Secret Texts From Pastor Leads to...

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2025/04/24

True Crime Documentary. The Murder of Aniya Mack When officers from the Kalamazoo Police were called out to a student apartment building on a Spring night in 2018, they believed they were responding to a report like any other. A Western Michigan University student, 24 year-old Aniya Mack, had been out of touch with friends for a few days. It was unusual behaviour for Aniya. However, police found no signs of foul play; only oddities around her home that no one could explain. That is, until an

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00:29:49

How a Wife's Alleged Affair and Murder Plot was Exposed

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2025/04/24

On a winter evening in Evansville, Indiana a hard-working firefighter, husband and father returned home to his wife after yet another long day. As the 51 year-old approached his front door, he was struck from behind by multiple gunshots. Moments later, his wife came rushing from the home, calling 911 in a panic. She had been standing inside making dinner by the kitchen window. A window only feet from the driveway where her husband was gunned down. But she claimed not to have seen anything. She told

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00:25:28

The Twisted Murder of Megan Newborough

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2025/04/24

We bring you the best true crime documentary and best true crime podcast, bringing you new true crime cases that you likely haven’t heard anywhere else. Hope you enjoy! In the summer of 2021, Megan Newborough went missing. She was only days away from her 24th birthday. Meg left her family home on a Friday night to meet with someone she trusted; someone who had confided in her, and in sharing their vulnerabilities, had trusted her in return.

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