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Sometimes when researching a case, Melissa discovers threads that lead her in multiple directions.\\xa0 Every once in a while one of those threads leads to a clue in the case she\\u2019s investigating.\\xa0 But other times, they lead to cases clearly unrelated \\u2013 but eerily similar \\u2013 to the matter at hand.\\xa0\\xa0This week\\u2019s episode brings together two such cases.\\xa0\\xa0The cold case Melissa started researching involves the mysterious \\u2013 actually downright strange \\u2013 2007 death of 78 year-old Louise Paciarello, a retired nurse\\u2019s aide who was a beloved neighbor and friend in her Yonkers, New York building and surrounding neighborhood.\\xa0\\xa0Tiny, frail and lovely, Louise by all accounts had no enemies.\\xa0 Yet for some time before her apartment was set fire by someone who had first strangled her, she had told friends some very troubling \\u2013 and weird \\u2013 stories.\\xa0\\xa0She showed several friends a note, written on a napkin, from someone who wrote they\\u2019d been in the apartment while she slept \\u2013 and even though she wouldn\\u2019t say who the note was from, expressed terrible concern that the writer knew where she kept her money.\\xa0 She also claimed, just days prior to her murder, that she\\u2019d heard someone jiggling the doorknob of her newly re-keyed front door.\\xa0\\xa0Spooky business \\u2013 and no one has been arrested, whole thing got Melissa to wondering \\u2013 who would do this to an elderly lady? How does one earn the trust of someone like Louise Paciarello?\\xa0 And that bit of wondering led Melissa 28 miles south of Yonkers to the Brooklyn New York neighborhood of Brownsville, where just last month (January 2021) the arrest of one Kevin Gavin was announced by the NYPD. Gavin has been charged in the murder of Juanita (\\u201cJenny\\u201d) Caballero on January 15, 2021 \\u2013 but subsequently confessed to two other murders, in 2015 and 2019.\\xa0 All three victims were female, all elderly and all residents of the same New York City Housing Authority apartment building.\\xa0\\xa0Turns out Gavin did odd jobs for all three of his victims \\u2013 which is why they likely trusted him enough to let him into their apartments.\\xa0 He claims he killed all three women because of disputes over money.\\xa0 But that doesn\\u2019t seem reasonable when one considers that each of Gavin\\u2019s victims were murdered in very different ways \\u2013 all of which speak \\u201cserial killer\\u201d more than they do \\u201cwhere\\u2019s my money?\\u201d\\xa0\\xa0Listen in as Melissa puzzles over these two places in such close proximity, focuses on the similarities of how four innocent elderly women were murdered and ponders the nature of those who would take advantage of the weakest and most kindhearted among us.