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- Dr. Teresa Sievers was a rising social media star when she was found bludgeoned to death in her kitchen.
- When Richard Smith failed to show up for work, police discovered the murdered bodies of Smith, his mother Voncile and brother John in their home.
- Shayna Hubers called 911 to report she had killed her boyfriend, Ryan Poston, in self-defense after he attacked her.
- When the body of former policewoman Taylor Wright was discovered buried on a remote Pensacola farm, detectives had a lineup of suspect.
- When Nicole Vander Heyden was found shot to death in a Wisconsin farm field, police immediately arrested her boyfriend Doug Detrie. But do the have the right guy?
- An investigation into the murder of "Dee Dee" Blanchard found face down in the bedroom of her house just outside Springfield, Missouri.
- For decades, the mystery of Michelle Martinko's murder haunted her town in Iowa and her family as police searched for her killer without success.
- High school senior Skylar Richardson told no one of her pregnancy. However, when a newborn's body was found buried in the family's backyard, Skylar was charged with murder.
- When Shirley Carter was found murdered in her farmhouse kitchen, her abusive husband Bill was considered a prime suspect. But the husband pointed the finger at someone else - his son Jason Carter. It was up to the jury
- Todd Mullis claimed his wife fell on a four-pronged corn rake and died; investigators found more than four holes in Amy Mullis' body; they knew her death was no accident.
- New Year's Eve and a seemingly random murder, in the small town of Benton Harbor, Michigan, on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan. Police body cam video captured the heartbroken cries of young Army Sergeant Kemia Hessel as she cradled her handsome, dying young husband in her arms, as he was loaded into an ambulance. But despite the happy outward appearance of the attractive young military couple, investigators soon accused Kemia of directing a murder-for-hire plot with the help of a lover.
- The Amatos were a close-knit, middle-class family with three professional sons, who enjoyed Florida Gators football games together. So, it was a shock when Margaret and Chad Amato and their youngest son Cody were found dead, shot execution-style in their suburban Seminole, Florida home. Suspicion quickly turned to middle son Grant, a trained nurse, who had quarreled with his family over money he had stolen from them to pay for the attention of a Bulgarian sex model, Silviya "Silvie" Ventsislavova, on a pay-per-view website.
- When Victoria Prokopovitz went missing in 2013, her three grown children were beside themselves with worry. Her husband, James, seemed oddly unconcerned, telling police she often wandered off and had twice tried to commit suicide. Despite a massive search, Victoria was never found. But a private detective who saw news reports of the missing woman offered his help. Conducting his own investigation, the detective learned James had been carrying on a secret affair and both he and his mistress had lied to police about their relationship. Now armed with a motive, eight years after her disappearance police charged Victoria's husband with first degree murder. But without a body, what detectives call a "no body case," the jury would have to decide.
- Popular South Carolina University college senior Samantha Josephson was the pride and joy of her family as she prepared to head off to Drexel Law School with a full scholarship. So, it was unusual when Samantha went missing after a night of socializing at the Five Points bar area in Columbia. Tragically her body was found 24 hours later, with more than a hundred stab wounds. When surveillance footage showed her getting into an Uber in Five Points, police put out an all-points bulletin, and quickly arrested Uber driver Nathaniel Rowlands during a routine traffic stop of a look-alike vehicle. But the case was far from over, as Rowlands claimed someone had stolen his car and he was not the driver in the grainy surveillance photo.
- Akron, Ohio 2017: Firefighters made a desperate effort to save a young family from a blazing fire, but rescuers were too late. Police declared that the fire was intentionally set, that it was not caused by an accident. An arson investigation begins, which included another unexplained fire a few blocks away that killed a beloved elderly couple. In the end, Stanley Ford was found guilty of arson and murder for the 2016 fire and deaths of neighbors Gloria Hart and Lindell Lewis. Stanley Ford was also found guilty of arson and murder for the 2017 fire and deaths of neighbors Dennis Huggins, Angela Boggs and their five children: Cameron Huggins, age 1; Alivia Huggins, age 3; Kyle Huggins, age 5; Daisia Huggins, age 6; and Jared Boggs, age 14.
- A camper gathering firewood in Arizona's scenic Sunset Crater National Park, a remote area on the outskirts of Flagstaff, is shocked to discover the body of a young woman, Sasha Krause, age 27, in a traditional long dress. Authorities used cell phone data, financial records, and surveillance video to tie U.S. Air Force airman Mark Gooch to the crimes. Sasha's Mennonite family and friends are stunned. Krause and Gooch were strangers. They did not know each other but both grew up in Mennonite communities; Krause in Texas and Gooch in Wisconsin. In the end, Gooch, now age 22, will spend the rest of his life in prison for the January 18, 2020 kidnapping and murder of the Mennonite woman from Farmington, New Mexico who had been a Sunday School teacher.
- Mengqi Ji Elledge, An exchange student, found a career and a love match in the idyllic Missouri university town of Columbia. So, it was a shock to her friends and family when she disappeared, leaving both her child and cell phone behind.
- Murder in Tennessee, July 2010: Ten days after NBA player Lorenzen Wright went missing, the basketball player's body was found in a swamp, shot 11 times. Lorenzen called 911 but was only able to ask for help, and then the 911 dispatcher heard 11 gunshot sounds. The police carried out an investigation, but came up empty as to who the killer or killers were, and the case went cold. During this time, Lorenzen Wright's mother, Deborah Marion, steadfastly worked hard to keep her son's case active. The investigation 'heated up' when the Memphis police obtained help from the FBI several years after the murder. Using clues from an informant, the investigators were able to successfully arrest Lorenzen's wife, Sherra Wright (the mastermind of the crime, and the mother of their six children) and her gardener, Billy Ray Turner (the actual killer) for the murder. The suspects were found guilty and sentenced to jail.
- When a hairstylist, Joleen Cummings, failed to pick up her children for a planned celebration, she was reported missing by her ex-husband. Investigators discovered a bloody scene at the salon, but the hairstylist and her SUV were gone.
- Jill Halliburton Su, an heir to the Halliburton oil dynasty fortune, is discovered dead in the bathtub by her son Justin at her upscale home in a Florida gated community in 2014.
- Florida, June 2017: Makeva Jenkins, age 33, a successful businesswoman and mother of three, posted on Facebook that she had grown her business to six figures. Just a few years beforehand, she had been homeless. Hours after her Facebook post, she was shot dead with a bullet to the head by a masked gunman. The horrible truth is that her death was a murder-for-hire. The mastermind of the crime was her husband, Euri Durrell Jenkins. The "middle man" of the crime was Dametri Dale. The gunman of the crime was Joevan Marquise Joseph. They were all arrested and charged with the murder. Euri's entire motive to kill his wife was a failed one. When he called to inquire about collecting the proceeds on the life insurance policy that was on his wife, he found out that he was not the beneficiary on the insurance. The case was "cracked" when the "middle man" Dametri Dale came forward voluntarily to confess to the homicide investigators. The killer, Joevan Joseph, took a plea deal for 15 years in prison. The middle man, Dametri Dale, took a plea deal for 15 years of probation with no jail time. The mastermind, Euri Jenkins, pleaded "not guilty" but was found guilty by the jury at trial. He was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole.
- "Geauga's Child" in Geauga County, Ohio was the only name a dead newborn baby boy had during the 26 years it took to solve this gruesome cold case. The baby was found near Sidley Road in Thompson Township, Ohio on March 25, 1993. The child was partially dismembered and still had his umbilical cord attached. Authorities said the child had been placed in a trash bag and left in a wooded area but was dragged to the side of the road by animals. The case was solved with forensic genetic genealogy using DNA. In June 2019, the newborn's mother, Gail Eastwood-Ritchey of Euclid, Ohio, was arrested and charged with his murder. At that time, she told detectives that this was the second newborn child she had abandoned. In the end, now age 51, Gail Eastwood-Ritchey was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole in 15 years.
- Just after 8:00 AM on September 16, 2016, Todd Kendhammer calls 911 in a panic, describing a freak car accident on a rural road outside La Crosse, Wisconsin involving his wife, Barbara Kendhammer, age 46. Police are suspicious of Todd's responses in the interrogation room. Plus, forensic details from the autopsy report cast further doubt on his story. Prosecutors contend Todd Kendhammer fatally beat his wife of 25 years and tried to conceal her death by staging a car accident. Kendhammer says she died when an airborne pipe pierced his windshield and struck her in the head. In the end, Todd Kendhammer was arrested, convicted and sentenced to life in prison, with the possibility of parole in 30 years.
- August 27, 2015: On this summer night, Amanda Colley returns home to a ransacked house at 260 S. Bellagio Drive, St. Augustine, Florida. Her boyfriend Lamar Douberly and two girlfriends, Lindy Dobbins and Rachel Hendricks arrive to join her. Soon, gunshots ring out. Amanda and her friend Lindy Dobbins are found dead. After an investigation, Amanda's estranged husband, James Terry Colley Jr., is arrested. He was convicted of the murders and was sentenced to death.
- Greeley, Colorado, February 2020: Jazz trumpet player Stanley Scott Sessions, age 53, fails to show up for a gig. He was a popular trumpet player for the Colorado band "The Movers and Shakers". His body is found a few days later, wrapped in plastic, partially burned and hidden in a forest. Investigators trace his last known whereabouts to the residence of his new love interest, Heather Frank. Unfortunately, there was a love triangle. In the end, Kevin Dean Eastman, age 50, was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences as well as an additional 27 years after he was convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend, Heather Frank, and the man she was dating, Scott Sessions, within a week of each other in February 2020.
- February 8, 2017, Scioto Grove Metro Park in Grove City, Ohio: Reagan Delaney Tokes, age 21, was a student at Ohio State University. She was abducted while leaving her job in downtown Columbus, Ohio. A caller reported the discovery of her body in a local park. Detectives worked hard to solve this case, and in the end, habitual offender Brian Golsby was arrested. Golsby had been on parole when the attack took place. He was convicted of her rape and murder in March 2018 and was sentenced to life in prison.
- When 20-year-old University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts went missing during her regular evening jog, her disappearance was headline news.
- 25-year-old Ashley Biggs, a single mom and pizza delivery driver, was murdered on a late-night run.
- Melissa Howard, 33, had been divorced for nearly three years on Jan. 6, 2006, when she was found dead at home in Crestview, Florida. It took 13 more years to find and convict her killer.
- Brandi Peters and her three children murdered in Tallahassee in 2010. Her former boyfriend, Henry Segura, was the chief suspect.
- Dallas dentist Dr. Kendra Hatcher was in a deep romance with fellow doctor Ricardo Paniagua when she was murdered in the garage of her apt building in what appeared to be a robbery gone wrong.
- 13 year old Dylan Redwine goes missing. Three years later when Dylan's remains were found by hikers, prosecutors charges Mark Redwine with his son's murder.
- Mishawaka, Indiana: Theresa Burns was murdered in 1988. It took 28 years to find justice.
- In Lithia, Florida, on May 28, 2022, the following crime happened. Kay Baker, a 3rd-grade school teacher and mother of two young boys, was found lying in her neighbor's yard dying from a deep cut to her throat. Soon after discovering her body, police spotted a wounded man on the run in the woods. This lead to a suspenseful chase, arrest and a possible suspect. The fleeing man, a former U.S. Marine named Matthew Terry (aka Matt Terry; Matthew Robinson Terry) was the live-in boyfriend of Kay Baker. His wounds were superficial and, due to the evidence, he was indicted for Kay's murder. At Matthew Terry's trial, a former girlfriend of his, Michelle Rogers, testified about how Matthew attacked her and tried to kill her also. Matthew had spent three years in a Michigan prison for Michelle's assault and had been released. This time, however, the jury found Matthew Terry guilty. He was sentenced to life in prison with no parole.
- June 15, 2021: Alexander Jackson, a 20-year-old Eagle Scout, called 911 to report that a mysterious intruder has killed his parents and sister and shot him in the leg. As law enforcement detectives interviewed Alexander in the hospital, they suspected that he was not telling the truth. In the end, the detectives were correct; Alexander was the killer. He shot and killed his father Jan Jackson, 61; mother Melissa Jackson, 68; and younger sister Sabrina Jackson, 19, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. On March 3, 2023, Alexander Jackson was convicted and sentenced to three consecutive life sentences with no possibility of parole.
- Police officer Brian Fanion frantically called 911 for an ambulance, saying his wife Amy had shot herself and lay dying. But when Fanion's fellow officers arrived at the house, the crime scene posed more questions than answers. In the end, it was proven in a court of law that Brian Fanion was the killer. He was convicted and sentenced.
- Outwardly, Mark Jensen seemed to be a mild-mannered, loving husband, grieving over the "suicide" death of his wife. But when police found traces of antifreeze in her body during her autopsy, they started to question what was really going on at home. After two trials and 25 years later, Mark Jensen was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison for killing his wife.
- Andreen Mcdonald and her husband had a beautiful home and successful business they built together. However, when Andreen went missing, law enforcement detectives uncovered her husband's secret love affair and realized this was much more than a missing persons case.
- When Jade Janks discovered her beloved stepfather, Thomas Merriman, had secretly downloaded nude photos of her onto his computer, she set out to put an end to the abuse.
- Disgraced Georgia attorney Richard Merritt is accused of killing his mother the day he was supposed to turn himself in to jail for theft charges. Merritt allegedly beat and stabbed his 77-year-old mother to death, sparking a nationwide manhunt.
- Quincy, Illinois, February 23, 2023; When Becky Bliefnick failed to pick up her boys from school, her father went to her home and found her body, which had been shot 14 times. Law enforcement detectives were able to solve the case in just a few months. Becky had been killed by her estranged husband, Tim Bliefnick, and she had voiced her fear of him prior to her death. Tim was convicted of her homicide and was sentenced to life in prison.
- Upper Montclair (a sub-division of Montclair) New Jersey, October 2018; James Ray III, a prominent attorney, lived in an upscale home with his girlfriend Angela Bledsoe, a successful businesswoman. When Angela didn't show up at the office, police found her dead on the kitchen floor. Law enforcement detectives were able to solve the case a year later. Ray had written about the murder in his diary. His trial was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Eventually, he was convicted and was facing a lengthy prison sentence of 30 years to life. However, he died in his prison cell while awaiting sentencing.
- Wisconsin, 2020; When Sadie Beacham didn't receive a good night call from her boyfriend, Rosalio Gutierrez Jr., she was alarmed. She found his front door open and blood on the floor and walls. Detectives could not locate Rosalio's body, but DNA evidence pointed to someone Sadie Beacham knew well... and that person was her manipulative and controlling ex-boyfriend, Zachariah Anderson. Zachariah was found guilty at his jury trial and was convicted of "first-degree intentional homicide, hiding a corpse, and stalking of both Sadie Beacham and Rosalio Gutierrez, Jr. Zachariah Anderson was sentenced to life in prison, with the possibility of parole after 50 years of incarceration.
- The middle-aged couple were on a routine evening stroll with their dog when a man attacked out of nowhere, injuring the wife and fatally shooting her husband. What was behind the mystery attack?
- A vehicle with three friends inside the car careens into a brick wall at nearly 100 miles an hour, killing two of the people in the automobile. After a lengthy investigation by law enforcement detectives, the young driver, MacKenzie Shirilla, is charged with murder.