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'This Sounds Serious' is a true crime parody, a comedy fiction show sending up the genre and its conventions in a similar way to The Onion's 'A Very Fatal Murder', and the Netflix series 'American Vandal'.
The plot revolves around host Gwen Radford's fascination with listening in on 911 calls as the starting point of stories to cover. In 'Missing Melissa', Gwen finds herself on the trail of America's most missing person: Melissa Turner's a 28-year-old from Idaho who goes AWOL so often she's earned the nickname 'Mel-issing'.
Every other time it's happened she's shown up unharmed, but with Melissa going walkabout yet again there are fears that this time something sinister might have happened to her.
And new information comes to light when an armed man walks into a bank claiming that Melissa has been killed by the town's mayor, and demanding to speak to the local pizzeria operator, Papa Don.
Cue the longest hostage standoff in Oregon (and perhaps US?) history and if you want to listen to more of 'This Sounds Serious' and subscribe you can find it on Castbox, or wherever you get your podcasts.
