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This time around we have what a 1980s television marketing whiz would call a \\u201cVery Special Episode\\u201d of the podcast.\\xa0 And that\\u2019s because what is normally the intro is actually half the show \\u2013 and there\\u2019s an important reason why. It\\u2019s because Melissa has had some things she\\u2019s been wanting to say for a while about kindness \\u2013 being nice \\u2013 and those things came to the fore this past week in the form of vaccine side effects and a particularly icky email she received from a clearly unhappy person.\\xa0 So in addition to the usual than-yous (and a dynamite discussion on one of America\\u2019s longest-operating travel-stop businesses), during the first half of this episode Melissa holds forth on an important fact of life \\u2013 that kindness is the fuel of any well-lived life.\\xa0 And how much the kindness of you Tip-Sters means to her and Producer Mark.\\xa0 \\xa0 \\xa0 \\xa0 \\xa0 \\xa0 The second half \\u2013 this week\\u2019s case \\u2013 is about the tragedy of three friends \\u2013 two of whom were murdered only because they happened to be friends with the third.\\xa0 Gail Moody and Lori Arrowood were both raped, strangled to death and tossed into the woods, three years apart, in two separate but nearby towns in Souhern Georgia.\\xa0 Gail\\u2019s body has never been found.\\xa0\\xa0But three years later, when Lori was murdered, her body was found.\\xa0 And it didn\\u2019t take long for law enforcement to focus on, and arrest, a former corrections officer named Ken Lumpkin, who confessed, was convicted of Lori\\u2019s murder and sentenced to Life Without Parole.\\xa0\\xa0And during the Lori Arrowood murder investigation, an unexpected connection to Gail Moody\\u2019s death was revealed.\\xa0 Turns out that Ken Lumpkin had a wife \\u2013 Shelly.\\xa0 \\xa0And Shelly had been friends with both Gail and Lori.\\xa0 And unknown to Shelly, her friendship with the two women cost them their lives \\u2013 at the hands of a man she never imagined to be a killer.\\xa0\\xa0Get ready for a fast-paced, engrossing and downright stirring visit with Melissa as she not only shares some of her most dearly-held thoughts \\u2013 but relates the ultimate story of a very bad man being very Not Nice.