Just The Tip-sters

Melissa opens Season 4 with a vexing case out of Soutwest Ohio – the town of Kettering, where on February 7, 1999, nine year-old Erica Baker took her aunt’s dog for a walk and never returned.  The dog, with leash still attached, was found just an hour after Erica left the house.  And this disappearance is not just frustrating and sad (as all cold or missing person cases are).  It is also weird.  Because even though someone was arrested and convicted of being involved in young Erica’s death, it really…wasn’t…solved.  It seems that witness accounts indicated that Erica may have been struck by a van near the recreation center where the dog was found.  A crack addict by the name of Christian John Gabriel who with two others had been fleeing in a van after stealing from the local Meijer store, eventually confessed that he may have hit a girl while driving the van and that he and his accomplices buried the body at a local state park.  But then he changed the story – claiming one of the others – on Jan Marie Franks