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This week\\u2019s episode updates two podcasts from the first season of JTT \\u2013 Episode 16, which focused on the weird death of Vicki Morgan, who had been a sort of paid mistress to Alfred Bloomingdale and (sometimes) his high powered friends \\u2013 and Episode 19, which told the tale of Grade A Asshole Scott Peterson \\u2013 who may or may not have murdered his wife Laci and the couple\\u2019s unborn son back in 2002.\\xa0\\xa0The Vicki Morgan case took a fascinating turn over the course of this year when photographer, writer and blogger Brandon Stanton began filling the pages of his Humans of New York blog with stories of one Stephanie Johnson, who in her younger days as a burlesque dancer in New York was known simply as Tanqueray.\\xa0\\xa0Stanton\\u2019s publication of Tanqueray\\u2019s stories have made her a social media star at 76 \\u2013 and her fans have raised over $2.5 million dollars through crowd sourcing to make sure her rent and medical bills will never be a worry,\\xa0\\xa0But it\\u2019s those stories \\u2013 and those stories of stories \\u2013 that brings Tanqueray to the Vicki Morgan murder.\\xa0 Let\\u2019s just say that the rumors of Alfred Bloomingdale\\u2019s powerful friends being given \\u201caccess\\u201d to Vicki have just gotten a lot more credibility \\u2013 turns out Vicki and Tanqueray were good friends back in the day \\u2013 and what Melissa\\u2019s found out about one of those powerful men is\\u2026well\\u2026you\\u2019ll just have to listen\\u2026\\xa0\\xa0Scott Peterson\\u2019s case, on the other hand, is filled with about as much subtlety as a knock on the door with a bulldozer.\\xa0 A total douchebag, Mr. Peterson behaved so badly in the aftermath of Laci\\u2019s disappearance, a lot of people (including Melissa) think he\\u2019d have been convicted if a video had surfaced showing someone else killing Laci.\\xa0 Yeah, the jury hated him and just assumed he was guilty.\\xa0\\xa0And probably, he was \\u2013 but looking at this almost 100% circumstantial case, it\\u2019s hard to say with a straight face that he was convicted on anything.\\xa0 In August of this year, the California Supreme Court vacated Peterson\\u2019s death sentence \\u2013 and now, just this past week, that same High Court ordered a re-examination of Peterson\\u2019s conviction itself \\u2013 signaling the possibility of a new trial and possible acquittal.\\xa0 Like.\\xa0 Wow.\\xa0\\xa0Melissa takes a look at some of the reasons this may have happened \\u2013 including the shocking revelation that one of the jurors at Peterson\\u2019s trial may not have been the most upstanding citizen.