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A teen is left paralyzed; his leg amputated after a city worker driving a garbage truck - crushes the kid on his way to class. But she won't spend a day behind bars for the double-run over devastation. 

A notorious thug blinds a granny in a savage Seattle attack. The career criminal was walking free due to major justice system failures. Plus, a burglary sends a mama bear on a collision course in Cali! Jennifer Gould reports. 

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Danielle Bell is very outgoing, a cheerleader with lots of friends, and loves spending time with her older sister, Bonnie, taking pictures at the beach. Danielle's home life with her mother, Susan, is not strict and she often doesn't know where her daughter is or who she is hanging with most days. 

Susan's older daughter, Bonnie, says Susan is a known to be struggling in her daily life, which is why plans were made for Danielle to move in with her father, Matt Bell.

Danielle meets Alfredo Sanchez, and begins to change. Friends don't like S...

A Florida woman was arrested and charged with murder for killing two of her ex-husbands on the same day.  Drew Nelson reporting. 

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Deep in the Maine woods near the Canadian border, the Damron family sets up a homestead on 20 acres of land with a Yurt they use as a home. The family of 8 consists of Father and mother, Dale and Lisa Damron, their 5 children, and 80-year-old Richard Turgeon. Turgeon is not a blood relative but has lived with the family for so long the children call him grandpa.

After two winters in the yurt with no running water, no indoor plumbing and power supplied by generator, Dale and Lisa Damron, and the youngest children move into a trailer offered...

Investigators in Virginia have announced a breakthrough in the nearly 35-year-old murder of 18-year-old Laurie Ann Powell, finally identifying the individual responsible for her death in 1988.

Police have arrested a suspect in a 1997 Long Island homicide that was once considered potentially linked to the Gilgo Beach serial killings, providing long-awaited clarity for a decades-old investigation.

Two members of the West Virginia National Guard were shot while on duty in Washington, D.C., in an incident that occurred close to the White House, raising questions about security for personnel assigned to federal locations.

An...

At age 10, Erica Bilheimer gets a fresh name with a fresh start. Adopted by Heather and Steven
Snapp, she chooses to now be known as ‘Hollynn’ Snapp. Hollynn and the Snapps remain in
close contact with her previous foster mother, Leslie Hunt, who took care of Hollynn for more
than a year. Over time, Hollynn doesn’t change much.

At 19, Hollynn stands just 4’9” and diagnosed with a low IQ, she has the mental capacity of a 10-year-old child.

On October 5th, Hollynn texts Heather she’s attending a party at a home on Bell Ridg...

Lawyers representing Luigi Mangione are requesting that the death penalty be halted in his federal murder trial, citing a purported "conflict of interest" involving Attorney General Pam Bondi, as detailed in a recent court submission.

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Austin police respond to a home in Del Valle after receiving a 911 call about a 7-year-old girl is discovered starved and locked inside a bedroom closet. Six other children are also found in the home, but police say it appears they are physically healthy. According to reports, the child was soiled and barricaded in a closet with heavy boxes blocking the door.

An arrest affidavit reveals Virginia Marie Gonzales is accused of locking the 7-year-old girl in a closet for “weeks at a time.” The affidavit further states the girl’s grandmother told police that the child had tr...

Content Warning: This episode discusses the deaths of individuals. If you’re sensitive to this topic, this episode may not be for you.

In this episode of Mayhem in the Morgue, Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kendall Crowns reflects on how celebration and death often share the same season. From Christmas music echoing through the medical examiner's office to a door-decorating contest that nearly led to suspension, he recalls the unusual ways morgue culture adapts to the holidays. Dr. Crowns also recounts a corporate holiday party that ended in homicide, explains the science behind neck injuries, and remembers the “dea...

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Sources claim Nick Reiner was diagnosed with Schizophrenia before parents were murdered and the recent medication change "made him erratic and dangerous" 

A scathing lawsuit is calling out a hospital - accusing them of gross negligence after a granny's skull chunk it tossed out - in a bone blunder. They offered a $25 gas card to make up for the e...

Holly Bobo, a beautiful young nursing student, disappears from her family home in Darden, Tennessee. She is last seen by her brother, Clint, walking into the woods at the back of their property with a man wearing camouflage who looks familiar.

The Holly Bobo murder case returns to court years after a Tennessee man’s conviction. A new legal filing has emerged, requesting a new trial based on statements made by a key trial witness who now claims to be recanting his testimony—the same testimony that helped convict his friend. Holly's case has already faced several setb...

Ricky Johnson, David Harrington, and Clayton McGeeney were last seen alive on January 7, 2024, watching the final regular-season Kansas City Chiefs game at the home of their friend, Jordan Willis.  Two days later, authorities found their frozen bodies outside the house.

After a yearlong investigation, prosecutors charged Jordan Willis and Ivory Carson in connection with the deaths, which gained national attention. Both men face three counts of involuntary manslaughter and two counts of delivering a controlled substance. Police say Carson, known as "Blade Brown," supplied and sold cocaine to Willis and the victims. Investigators found Carson's DNA on a...

John Paul Miller, a South Carolina pastor, whose wife, Mica Miller, died by suicide last year after she filed for divorce, has been federally indicted after being accused of posting her nude photo online and stalking her before her death.

 Miller, 46, is charged with felony charges of cyberstalking and making false statements to federal investigators, according to authorities.

John-Paul Miller and Mica Miller were married in 2017, and at the age of just 23, Mica Miller becomes stepmom to John-Paul Miller's five children. JP Miller is considerably older than his beautiful young wife, but they move forward l...

Ernesto Cesar Torres, 74,  sentenced for sexually abusing an 11-year-old patient and prosecutors say dozens more victims have come forward. A jury reached a partial verdict in connection with Maya Hernandez, a California mother who left her son inside a hot car while she visited a Bakersfield spa. Sydney Sumner reports.

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Nick Reiner appears in a Los Angeles courthouse on Wednesday for the first time since he is accused of killing his parents, Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner.

While in court, Nick Reiner, 32, appears to be wearing an all blue vest. The only words he utters during the brief appearance are, “Yes, your honor.”

His arraignment is pushed back till January 7, the second time it was delayed since he was arrested Sunday in his parents' deaths.

The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner's Office on Wednesday listed the couple's cause of death as multiple shar...

Talk about a backseat driver! An elderly woman unlocks her car door one morning only to find an escaped inmate hiding inside! 

A husband caught on cam dragging his wife's dead body from their apartment complex...is finally back on U-S soil. He fled to Peru with their kids after the crime. Plus, owners of a tree lot left tree-mendously upset after their giant Santa is snatched! Jennifer Gould reports. 

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Michele and Rob Reiner leave Conan’s party without their son after his off-putting behavior,
like wearing a hoodie to a formal event and interrupting Bill Hader’s private conversation,
leads to an embarrassing public row.

Reiner doesn’t make his own way to Brentwood however, instead popping up in Santa Monica at 4 a.m. Sunday morning, checking into the Pierside hotel. Desk staff don’t notice anything off about Reiner’s appearance, but the next morning, housekeepers find sheets covering the windows, and blood all over Reiner’s bedding and shower.

The Reiners’ trouble...

A judge hands down a life sentence after a young child dies from repeated beatings tied to toilet training, with prosecutors saying the injuries were survivable if help had been called sooner. Police probe a possible hate crime after gunfire erupts outside a home decorated for Hanukkah, leaving a family shaken and investigators searching for suspects who vanished into the night. Federal agents move in just in time to stop a New Year’s Eve bombing plot, arresting suspects in the desert as authorities say explosive devices were already being prepared. Drew Nelson reports.

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Romy Reiner, daughter of Hollywood legend Rob Reiner, is unable to reach her parents all day Sunday, so she decides to stop by their house since she lives just across the street. Around 3:30pm, Romy lets herself in to her parents Brentwood estate and discovers her mother and father Rob and Michele Singer Reiner dead. 

Romy dials 911 in a panic, but EMTs can do nothing but call for LAPD backup. LAPD quickly respond to the residence of Rob and Michele located in West Los Angeles. Working with the coroner's office, detectives are able to identify the victims defi...

A former gymnastics coach has been arrested by the FBI in Iowa—more than three years after being flagged for sexual abuse and suspended by the U.S. Center for SafeSport.

An American identified only as Martin D. has been indicted in Germany on espionage charges.

Wyoming authorities are investigating a second fatal shooting involving an F-E Warren Air Force Base airman.

Prosecutors in Utah have announced plans to seek the death penalty in the case of Ryan Michael Bate, accused of killing two police officers during a domestic disturbance.

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On a Thursday afternoon, Bryce Tate heads to the gym after school as usual.

During his workout, Bryce receives a text from an unsaved number. The texter claims she’s a junior at another high school is close by and has seen Bryce at the gym before.

The unknown texter tells Bryce she knows some of his friends, who tell her about his impressive basketball skills, and she wants to introduce herself. The teens flirt back and forth all afternoon.

Bryce comes home from the gym in a great mood, still engrossed in his...

Seventy-year-old William Ahle has officially been charged with the murder of 82-year-old Virginia Cranwell. He told police that he rushed inside his neighbor's home to save her, but did he set her home ablaze?

Rob Reiner and his wife Michele found murdered.

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Convicted socialite Rebecca Grossman's demand for a venue change in a wrongful death suit trial filed against her has been denied.

The parents of two young boys killed when a drunk Grossman plowed into them are civilly suing Grossman and her former MLB star lover Scott Erickson for wrongful death. Grossman’s civil lawyers ar­gued extensive negative publicity surrounding the accident and legal proceedings would bias local jurors, making a fair trial impossible.

Judge Huey Cotton acknowl­edged that Grossman has been portrayed unfavorably on social media and drew attention from the press, but he a...

On June 28, 1997 a dismembered body is discovered by a father and his daughter out for a walk in Hempstead Lake State Park in Lakeview, New York. The torso is found in a rubber-maid container along with a red towel and a floral pillowcase. The head, both arms, both legs below the knee, all severed from the body and have not been found.

A unique tattoo is found of a peach with a bite taken out of it that leads Investigators to publish a picture of the tattoo in a national tattoo magazine in hopes of finding an...

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The sentencing for a Jacksonville father who pleaded guilty to running over and killing his 8-month-old son in September is delayed for the second time in a month Friday afternoon.

Former Michigan Wolverines head football coach Sherrone Moore is detained by police on Wednesday, hours after the University of Michigan announces he was fired for allegedly engaging in an "...

Kouri Richins remains in Summit County Jail, after the judge denies a defense motion to reconsider bail and release. In addition to the murder charges in the death of her husband,  Richins faces over two dozen charges in a separate case alleging she committed mortgage fraud,  submitted falsified banks statements, committed money laundering and issued bad checks. 

Meanwhile, Kouri Richins' defense alleges that the Summit County Sheriff’s Office illegally obtained evidence while investigating the death of Eric Richins.

Defense attorneys Kathy Nester and Wendy Lewis say detectives violated Richins' constitutional rights and argue that the e...

Former Colleton County Clerk of Court Mary Rebecca “Becky” Hill pleads guilty  to four charges — obstruction of justice and perjury for showing a reporter photographs that were sealed court exhibits and then lying about it. There are also two counts of misconduct in office for taking bonuses and promoting through her public office a book she wrote on the trial.  Judge Heath Taylor sentenced Hill to three years of probation.

This as the South Carolina's Supreme Court  granted Alex Murdaugh's request for a new trial in the murders of his wife and son. At the heart of the appeal...

December third, Sebastian County Arkansas, Sheriff's office were called to conduct a welfare check on Charity Beallis at the family mansion in Bonanza. Police fail to get a response from inside the mansion, so two workers escort officers into the home.

Officers locate the body of Charity Beallis and two children. All three appear to have gunshot wounds and are sent to the Arkansas crime lab in Little Rock for autopsy.

Charity Beallis and her twins murder comes one day after attending a final divorce hearing with her ex-husband, Dr. Randal Beallis. 

Randy a...

Federal authorities charged a man who set a woman on fire on a Chicago transit train with terrorism. Oregon mom arrested after police find her low-functioning, non-verbal 11-year-old son unsupervised in a home filled with excrement, rotting garbage, and piles of trash. A missing woman found dead in a trash can, her husband admits to putting her there nearly two years ago.  A teen driver intentionally caused a 12-car pileup up at a Las Vegas traffic light last week, killing his pregnant girlfriend and the driver of one of the other vehicles. Sydney Sumner reports. 

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The president of "D4vd" David Anthony Burke's touring company is grilled by a deputy district attorney in front of a grand jury. The grilling focuses on why he didn't call the cops after the body of Celeste was discovered in his clients car. 

A grand jury is hearing evidence in the death of Celeste Rivas Hernandez.  Robert Morgenroth, the general manager of Mogul Vision, D4vd's record label, is also the president of Zara Brothers Travel, D4vd's tour company.

Reports say, Morgenroth testifies all day before the L.A. grand jury. At one po...

Reading the Alex Murdaugh guilty verdict made her famous; leaking crime scene photos & lying about it just made her a convicted felon. Now his defense is using the newly minted conviction as ammo for his upcoming appeal. 

A Grammy-winning singer is gunned down, his voice and life silence by his own son. Plus, prisoners in SC feeling crabby after their airborne contraband is grounded! Jennifer Gould reports. 

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House Democrats release more than 150 never-before-seen images and videos from Jeffrey Epstein's private island, offering a peek look inside the estate which is at the center of his sex trafficking allegations.

The images show empty bedrooms, a wall of masks, a dentist's chair, a chalkboard with cryptic words and more. The release comes just days before the Justice Department's deadline to publish its Epstein files under a new law signed by President Donald Trump.

As Epstein's documents are released, the more questions and trouble Andrew Mountbatten Windsor faces. Stripped of all titles, instructed to vacate...

A Florida man now faces a DUI charge after his wife is killed in a late-night golf cart crash in a Nocatee neighborhood where residents had long feared a deadly accident was only a matter of time. A murder trial is underway in California after a one-year-old boy died in a hot car while his mother got lip filler injections. A California family is now suing a cruise line after a drunken outburst on a ship ends in a death ruled a homicide. Drew Nelson reports.

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New details emerge in Anna Kepner's alleged murder during a family court hearing regarding Thomas Hudson’s emergency petition for custody of the 9-year-old daughter he shares with Shauntel Hudson.

Hudson is concerned for his daughter's safety under Shauntel Hudson and Christopher Kepner’s care, due to their failure to closely supervise their older children during the cruise Thomas didn’t want the children to take.

Shauntel, Anna's stepmom, confirms her 16-year-old son is the only suspect in Anna’s murder, her younger brother Connor having been cleared of any potential wrongdoing.

Hudson’s lawyer s...

Investigators in Virginia have announced a breakthrough in the nearly 35-year-old murder of 18-year-old Laurie Ann Powell, finally identifying the individual responsible for her death in 1988.

Police have arrested a suspect in a 1997 Long Island homicide that was once considered potentially linked to the Gilgo Beach serial killings, providing long-awaited clarity for a decades-old investigation.

Two members of the West Virginia National Guard were shot while on duty in Washington, D.C., in an incident that occurred close to the White House, raising questions about security for personnel assigned to federal locations.

An...

Feeling contractions at 38 weeks pregnant, Rebecca goes to the hospital on November 2, even though her due date is not until November 18.

An exam reveals she is not in labor, and Rebecca goes to pick up her biological mother to run errands. Rebecca has $2,000 cash she receives as an inheritance from family in preparation for her baby. 

Rebecca Park's fiancé, Richard Lee Falor, is trying to get in touch with Rebecca, but she is not answering or replying to text messages.

Knowing Rebecca has been shopping with her biological mother, Falor calls Cortney Bartholomew, wh...

Police have arrested Andrew Dykes, 66, in connection with the killing of the woman—now identified as Tanya Denise Jackson. Dykes is also the father of Jackson’s daughter, Tatiana Marie Jackson. Is there a connection between Jackson and Rex Heuermann?

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A judge has granted an extension for closing arguments in Mark Sievers' latest appeal.    State prosecutors and Mark Sievers' defense had 45 days to file written closing arguments. It was due a week from Monday,  Dec. 15.  November 19th, Sievers post conviction attorneys, Megan Montagno, Julissa Fontan and John LoBianco, filed a motion seeking the time extension. They cited the impending execution of another death row inmate they represent. Lee Circuit Judge Bruce Kyle granted the extension. 

A beautiful and brilliant medical doctor, Dr. Teresa Sievers, takes her family on a vacation trip to visit extended relatives with her husban...

In this week’s Crime Roundup, Sheryl McCollum and Joshua Schiffer Break down the federal hearing surrounding Luigi Mangione, the suspect accused of assassinating UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December of 2024.  What began as a five-day manhunt has become a master class in what not to do, with missed warrants, coached testimony, and evidence on the verge of being thrown out.

Sheryl and Joshua examine how procedural missteps could weaken a potential death penalty case and why “get a warrant” isn't just good advice; it's the foundation of justice. They then turned their attention to Massachusetts, where the tri...

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The Utah parents of an 18-month-old found dead in March have now been arrested in connection with the death of their daughter, Ruby. In the crib where Ruby is found dead, investigators find several sippy cups and waffles. The infant’s mother, Carrie, makes a chilling comment to authorities.

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A mother & stepfather are accused of stabbing their pregnant daughter to...