On the morning of September 11, 1979, nineteen-year-old Micki Jo West left her mother’s home in St. Joseph, Missouri, as she had every morning. She wore her nurse’s aide uniform, pulled on a khaki coat, carried her white purse, and adjusted her glasses, marked with her name on the right lens. Bright, outgoing, and compassionate, she had a quick laugh and a warmth that drew people to her. She walked the familiar four-block route to the bus stop that would take her to St. Joseph State Hospital.

She never made it.

Join Cam and Jen on this episode of Our True Crime Podcast entitled ‘Dead Girls Don’t Talk: The Case of Micki Jo West.’

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Sources:

https://www.oxygen.com/buried-in-the-backyard/crime-news/micki-jo-west-case-family-killer-marvin-irvin-hunt-body

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94341424/neighbors-awaken-to-nightmare/

https://www.doenetwork.org/cases/2212dfmo.html

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94260117/irvin-pleads-guilty-to-murders-of-3/

https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Micki_Jo_Westhttps://namus.nij.ojp.gov/case/MP18179

https://charleyproject.org/case/micki-jo-west

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94343713/ex-officer-held-in-missing-womans/