Sat, Dec 17, 2022
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.
Sat, Nov 12, 2022
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.
Wed, Oct 20, 2021
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.
Sat, Oct 22, 2022
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.
Fri, Sep 29, 2023
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.