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Where True Crime Meets ‘Deaths Of Despair:’ The Melody and Michael Dixon Case

A bad one out of Ohio that checks all the wrong boxes.

Ted Bauer
3 min readSep 1, 2024

If you’re unfamiliar with the Michael and Melody Dixon Case out of Ohio, this video will run it down for you:

In essence, this guy Michael Dixon, about 40 or so, had been living for two years with an older guy (late 60s) named Jimmy Winchester. It seems like Dixon viewed Winchester as “a father figure,” but in reality mostly what they did together was snort meth and work on cars. Somewhere in those two years, Michael got back his daughter Melody, who went into foster care a while back because, well, she was in a sexual relationship with her father. So she came back into the house, and Michael was sleeping with her (incest) and then Jimmy wanted a piece of that action, and according to court documents, Jimmy did in fact also sleep with her, often paying her in the process (prostitution). Things began to get tense, a lot of people involved were doing meth consistently, there’s a rumor along the way that Michael’s mom even bought lingerie

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Ted Bauer
Ted Bauer

Written by Ted Bauer

I write about a lot of different topics, from work to masculinity to relationships and social dynamics, I.e. modern friendship. Pleasure to be here.

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