UNSOLVED: Indianapolis case of roller-derby star Kobi Walden
Indianapolis Police are still trying to solve the murder of 31-year-old Kobi Walden, a popular rising star of amateur roller derby who was found mysteriously shot dead in May 2017.…
Florida’s ‘Scooter’ Abrahamsen case: Porn stars commit thrill-kill murder
UPDATE: https://bit.ly/3evLaML She’s a small-town wife and mom who leaves her family to become a porn star. He’s a strapping Marine from Kansas who also leaves his family and the…
California’s Lonnie Kocontes case: Romantic cruise gone wrong
UPDATE: https://bit.ly/2Y9WtV0 It was supposed to be the romantic cruise to rekindle the love affair between Lonnie Kocontes and his ex-wife. Romance soon turned to mystery when only Lonnie returned.…
Boston ‘Townie’ rises through Chinese Mafia ranks to become kingpin
John Willis is the unlikeliest of Chinatown mob bosses, believed to be the first white guy ever to rise to the top of an Asian crime syndicate in the U.S.…
’The Abolitionists’: Trained team rescuing child sex-traffic victims across the globe
From 2016: Meet a team of people who have made it their life’s mission to go undercover and bust traffickers and rescue as many children as they can. MORE: https://bit.ly/2VgyUYR…
Fatal family love triangle: Brothers become love rivals for same woman
From 2018: Two Pennsylvania brothers in love with the same woman are driven to an explosive showdown fueled by bad blood and fatal jealousy in a tragic, modern-day Cain and…
Crime writer Emily Winslow pushes for progress in rape-kits backlog
Just how far would you go to get justice? It’s a question Emily Winslow asked herself hundreds of times, and every year it seemed like she would never find the…
Neighbors say ‘Golden State Killer’ suspect had two sides
From 2018: His identity was unknown for decades. The “East Area Rapist,” also known as the “Golden State Killer,” terrorized California in the the 1970s and 1980s, and he almost…
What happened to Laurie Merritt? Cause of death ‘undetermined’ after arson
UPDATES: https://bit.ly/3eOI8mP A beloved mail-carrier in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. A house on fire. And a smoldering mystery consuming a devastated family. Laurie Merritt’s family’s grief explodes into anger as they try…
Jonathan Crews case: Family disputes official cause of death
Jonathan Crews is dead from a single gunshot to the heart. His girlfriend was the only other person in the apartment when he was shot. She claims he did it…
SWAT standoff destroys house; homeowner sues city (Updates in description below)
From 2015: A suburban house in Colorado is destroyed during a 19-hour standoff with a shoplifting suspect. The homeowner, who had no connection to the suspect or the crime, was…
Tennessee’s Lauren Agee case (Updates in description below)
UPDATES: https://bit.ly/2Zqx5tD It was supposed to be a fun camping trip with friends to a popular three-day wakeboarding event — but Lauren Agee did not make it through the weekend.…
WANTED: Fugitive Army recruiter wanted for 2016 murder of wife
UPDATES: https://bit.ly/3eUVuhB Cati Blauvelt, 22, was found brutally stabbed to death in the cellar of an old abandoned house deep in the woods in Simpsonville, South Carolina on October 25,…
Reagan Tokes case prompts Ohio legislators to change incarceration guidelines
From 2018: In early 2017, Reagan Tokes, 21, was enjoying her last semester at the Ohio State University and was looking forward to her upcoming graduation. The psychology major already…
Badge of Honor: Topeka police officer saves special-needs child from drowning
From 2018: “All of a sudden I had seen a little boy floating face down in the water and his arms are flailing out and everything’s happened really fast, and…
Megan Nichols 2014 Illinois cold case (UPDATES below)
UPDATES: https://bit.ly/3jInUO5 Authorities arrested an Indiana man Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020, in the cold-case disappearance and murder of Megan Nichols, whose remains were found in 2017 after she vanished in…
UNSOLVED: Sydney Land, ‘Neo’ Kaufmann killed in Vegas apartment
UPDATE: https://bit.ly/2R8uO2E In Las Vegas, a former high school basketball phenomenon and his beautiful girlfriend were gunned down in the apartment they shared. Who killed Sydney Land and Nehemiah “Neo”…
What happened to Angie Yarnell? Husband convicted of manslaughter, but no body
Many long years since Angie Yarnell was killed, her still-grieving mother continues to search for her, saying she suspects Mike Yarnell lied about how she died, and she believes her…
Baltimore’s Heidi Bernadzikowski case: Scam leads to insurance plot
In late April 2000, around 5 p.m., Stephen Cooke picks up Heidi Bernadzikowski from work downtown in the car they share. He takes her home, then runs some errands. When…
St. Louis woman dies suddenly after reporting abuse by high school coach
For more than a decade, Emilie Morris kept her allegations private. But then, at age 33 and with two kids of her own, she had a change of heart, finally…
Tamala Wells missing: Rickey Tennant speaks out about Detroit case
From 2016: His name is Rickey Tennant. Tamala Wells knew him as her boyfriend. Tennant seemed eager to talk about a cloud of suspicion that hangs heavy over him, even…
Jody Rilee-Wilson case: Father-in-law informs on son, wife (UPDATES below)
UPDATES: https://bit.ly/3kCV8iJ From 2017: Jody Rilee-Wilson, 23, goes missing from her Wister, Oklahoma home after husband Bo, mother-in-law Kathy Wilson and father-in-law Jerry Wilson left for an out-of-state funeral that…
Indiana’s April Tinsley case (UPDATED in description)
UPDATE: https://bit.ly/2PQ7WEj From 2016: It was Easter weekend in 1988 when Janet Tinsley’s golden-haired girl disappeared from their Fort Wayne, Indiana neighborhood. On that fateful Good Friday, April wants to…
Lena Bruce case: Brutal Boston attack solved decades later with DNA evidence
A brilliant young woman is found dead, brutally assaulted and murdered – with no witnesses. The case went cold until a shocking clue surfaced decades later. Who killed Lena Bruce,…
Minnesota’s Amy Allwine case: Preacher stages wife’s death
From 2018: A well-respected church elder wrote sermons and counseled married couples. But that picture-perfect life came crashing down one Sunday evening when the Allwines’ young son is the first…
Oklahoma’s Dena Dean cold case: Teen vanishes after late-night meeting
From 2018: Dena Dean was your typical teenager, on the honor roll at school, working part-time at a local fast-food place and dating boys. One night in 1998, she went…