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An Atlanta teen is shot dead at a reported birthday party. Hundred of teens from high schools across Metro Atlanta attended. Police receive a call about a person shot and find the 15-year-old victim near the entrance, unresponsive.

Investigators say an individual was removed from the party but returned with an accomplice. They fired multiple shots into the building. So far, no suspects have been named. 

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This woman stabs her boyfriend when he doesn't pay his share. Police have to remove traveller from a plane. Don't leave your child alone in a vehicle!

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Steve Goncalves, the father of Idaho victim Kaylee Goncalves, says he is so frustrated by how his daughter's and the other murders have been handled that he is looking at hiring a private investigator.

Goncalves says his daughter and her friend Maddie's deaths are very different, saying Kaylee's injuries are more brutal. He also says that he is receiving little information from the Moscow Police. He's concerned that as more people and students leave the area that the killer has, too.    

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Fight between siblings leaves one dead. New mom's boyfriend abuses baby. Motorcyclist tries to evade cops. 

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Police say Athena Strand was dead with an hour of her abduction. The 7-year-old was taken from her family home by a FedEx delivery driver.  Authorities say a contract FedEx driver who was delivering a package to Strand’s home kidnapped the girl.   

Investigators say Strand got off a bus around 4:15 p.m. and was missing from the residence at some point before 5:15 p.m. after an argument with her stepmother.  An hour- long search ensued, but when Strand could not be found, 911 was called. 

Dozens of law enforcement and hundreds of volunteers joining the search...

Neighbor shoots a woman over her barking dogs. Escaped inmate caught 2 states away in the commission of another crime. Search for a missing woman becomes a homicide investigation.

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Reagan Simmons Hancock, 21, is found dead in her New Boston home by her mother on the morning of October 9th, 2020. She was seven and a half months pregnant, had been stabbed over 100 times, strangled, and had her unborn child removed from her womb. The perpetrator is Taylor Parker, a friend of Hancock’s, who had been faking a pregnancy for over 10 months.

In this episode of Body Bags, forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan and Jackie Howard discuss the blood patterns at the crime scene, the injuries sustained by Hancock, the logistics of performing an at-home C-section, and ho...

Jodi Arias stabs her boyfriend, Travis Alexander, 28 times, shoots him and leaves him to die in a shower. Nancy takes a look back at the trial, finds out more about Arias' life behind bars and comments made by her cellmates. Why does she still get dozens of love letters?

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It's been over a year since Michael Vaughn went missing from his family home.  Tips lead police to the home of a neighbor, Sarah Wondra. The 35-year-old was charged with failure to report the death of 5-year-old Vaughan.  Police then spent more than a week excavating the home's backyard and have now announced their findings.  FPD Chief JD Huff says police  believe Vaughan's body was buried in  Wondra's backyard and then moved to another location.  All the cadaver dogs used in the search "alerted" in the yard. Ground penetrating radar also detected "anomalies."  Additional evidence was found  in the home, bu...

Mother stabs and drowns her children. A man threatens his mother over money. New husband beats wife to death. 

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Idaho police taking a step back from their comments that the four University of Idaho students killed in their bedrooms, were targeted. 

Originally, comments were made by investigators that the public "will just have to trust us," that the evidence collected indicated that the students were the intended victims of the murders and that the public at large is safe.

Now, in a released statement, the Moscow Police Department says these comments came from a miscommunication with the Latah County Prosecutor’s Office, and that "detectives do not currently know if the residence or any occ...

Nancy Grace teams up with 23andMe to dive into the DNA reports and  health profiles of Nancy’s family who have all taken the 23andMe tests. Alongside an all-star panel, Nancy breaks down the reports to better understand the role our genetics play in our overall health.

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Teenager sends friends disturbing video. "Incel" plans attack on college women. Unprovoked stabbing attack leads to a death.

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An Indiana judge orders the release of charging documents in the case of accused murderer Richard Allen, in connection with the 2017 Delphi murders of 14-year-olds Libby German and Abigail Williams. According to the documents, an unspent .40 caliber bullet with extraction marks was found in between the victims.

Witnesses tell police they encountered a "kinda creepy" man at the bridge wearing a blue jacket, black boots, and a black hoodie. Another witness said she spotted a man dressed similarly walking away from the Monon High Bridge on the day in question. She noted his clothes were “muddy and bl...

Arizona man claims he has nothing to do with a shooting, but evidence suggests otherwise. Family friend kidnaps a young boy. Assault over a parking spot. 

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Classes have resumed at the University of Idaho. It's been two weeks since four students were found stabbed to dead inside their home and seemingly little progress has been made in finding the killer. Even though security has been tightened on campus, many students are not returning, preferring to complete the semester through remote learning. Meanwhile investigators are sifting through more than 700 tips, 100 pieces of evidence, and 4,000 photos looking for evidence. 

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Young man attacks his ex girlfriend, her brother, and police. Welfare check leads to the discovery of a body. Kidnapper leaves girl on side of the road 2 states away from home.

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Shanquella Robinson and six of her friend take a vacation to San José del Cabo in Mexico.  One day later, the 25-year-old is dead. Salamondra Robinson spoke with her daughter the day before she died and tells Nancy Grace that all seemed well. Robinson said she was having a good time.

Initially, Robinson’s mother was told by the friends that Shanquella  had died from alcohol poisoning, but the autopsy told a different story.  

Robinson’s died due to  “severe spinal cord injury and atlas luxation.”  Atlas luxation means an instability or excessive movement in the top neck ver...

Priest faces sentencing for abuse of a young boy. Accidental shooting leads to charges. Father drives drunk and with a loaded gun. Couple attacked by stranger in their backyard. 

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Talented and beloved musician, Scott Sessions, is found brutally murdered in an ambush attack, his throat slashed to near decapitation. Shortly afterward, his lover, who lured him to the moment of his death, Heather Frank, is also found dead with gunshot wounds to her chest. Investigators find Heather Frank wrapped in the same burnt plastic as they found Scott Sessions. The suspect? Heather Frank’s boyfriend, Kevin Eastman.

In this episode of Body Bags, forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan and Jackie Howard discuss the horrific murders of Scott Sessions and Heather Frank. They delve into the mechanics of...

When Jennifer Kesse didn't show up for work, everyone who knew the 24-year-old recognized there was trouble. Kesse was a responsible, habitual person.

She talked to her family regularly. She called her boyfriend every morning on the way to work, and she never missed work, most certainly not without letting her boss know if she needed to be off. 

Not only was Jennifer missing, but so was her car. It's found two days later, parked in an apartment complex over a mile from her home and wiped clean. Jennifer Kesse has not been seen since  2006. 

Killer tries to use explosives to conceal a body. Drunk driver kills one, injures another. Racist outburst on public transit leads to charges.

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Amy Mihaljevic was just 10 years old when she went missing. She told friends at school the day she disappeared that she was going with someone to buy her mom a surprise gift.

Eyewitnesses reported seeing Amy speaking with a white male, at a local ice cream shop and then leaving with him through a parking lot.  Later police discover that Mihaljevic and other girls in the area had been contacted by telephone by the abductor. The estimated 30-something-year-old man arranged to meet Mihaljevic after school.

Just over three months later,  Amy's body was found by a...

Elementary school teacher touches students inappropriately. Teenager shoots two younger boys. Shooting kills one at a small party.

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For 12 years, Emmy award winning actress, Eva La Rue lived in fear of an unknown stalker. The actress received hundreds of letters addressed to her and later, her daughter, that detailed threats of rape, murder, dismemberment, and more. The stalker signed the letters as "Freddie Kruger," the fictional serial killer.

LaRue and her family moved several times, even out of the country, in the hopes that the stalker would not be able to find them, but the letters seemed to resume mere days or weeks after each move. The stalker even called Kaya's school, posing as her...

A "helpful" man has harmful intentions. Argument over a parking escalates. Several armed robberies are tied back to one criminal. A man dies in Las Vegas stabbing.

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Olivia Fowler, 26, was last seen near Manchester, Georgia, on August 13, 2021, at her boyfriend's home around 2 a.m. At 10:30 a.m. that same morning, a Department of Natural Resources ranger spotted Fowler walking along Pebblebrook Road in Meriwether County. After that sighting, there has been no trace of Fowler.

So far, there haven’t been any solid leads to help Fowler's family find her. Fowler was last seen wearing white cut-off shorts, black flip-flops, and a white tie-dye shirt. She has a tattoo on her right arm that reads, "I love you,” and a missing front tooth.

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Listen to the full episode in the 'Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan' podcast feed. Four University of Idaho students are brutally murdered in their home in Moscow, Idaho on November 13th, 2022. In a brand new episode of Body Bags, forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan and Jackie Howard discuss the gruesome nature of this case, the murder weapon, making sense of the chaos of the crime scene, what police are looking for in the surveillance footage, and more.

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Playful fight between friends turns violent. Drinking and driving ends in a death, but not because of crash. An Oklahoma inmate breaks out of prison. 

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Four University of Idaho friends are found murdered in an off-campus home. Their killer still walks free. 

Madison Mogen, 21; Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Ethan Chapin. 20; and Xana Kernodle, 20, were found stabbed to death in the rented off-campus home the three women shared with two other women. They were killed sometime between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. on November 13.

The Moscow Police Department has received more than 646 tips, conducted over 90 interviews, and are now working with state police, state troopers, the FBI, and multiple behavior and forensics experts to track down the killer.

Investigators have not l...

A ship captain abandons ship without trying to save passengers and crew. The man behind the threats against the New Jersey Jewish community caught. Supposed friends throw their victim into the river.

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On April 16th, 2022 a mushroom hunter calls 911 to tell them he’s found an abandoned suitcase in the middle of the woods. Inside the suitcase is the body of a young boy. The boy is later identified as 5-year-old Cairo Ammar Jordan from Atlanta, Georgia. He was never reported missing. 

In this episode of Body Bags, forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan and Jackie Howard discuss the state of Cairo’s body when it was found, his cause of death, how police process a crime scene like this, what it’s like to discover a body, and much more.<...

May 4, 2007: 19-year-old Brittany McGlone is working two jobs to save money for college. After an overnight shift at a Lowe’s Distribution Center in Mount Vernon, Texas, McGlone drives to her boyfriend’s family home in Winnsboro to sleep.

Boyfriend, Jeff Stogner, and his family start their days. Stogner's mom drives her children to school and then goes to work herself. Stogner and his stepfather leave for the airport hours away.

Sometime in the next seven hours, McGlone is sexually assaulted and bludgeoned to death. An autopsy ruled the teen died from massive head trauma.  

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38-year-old Justin Fields and his girlfriend have an evening out, celebrating his birthday. Back at home after the evening, Fields asks for sex, but the girlfriend turns him down. Fields gets angry and stabs 52-year old Tammy Bailey dead. Fields says he stabbed her once, then blacked out.  

According to the sheriff, Fields says he went into his own room, and fell asleep. When he woke up, he reportedly said he thought he was having a bad dream and went on to stab his girlfriend over 100 times.  Bailey was decapitated and her head was found near her fe...

Husband is unhappy about his estranged wife's pregnancy. Montana drug dealer and predator's crimes detailed in his day in court. A recently released Alabama felon goes on a crime spree. Nebraska cops make a huge drug bust.

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21-year-old Julian Chavez repeatedly violates not only bond conditions, but a restraining order filed by a 20-year-old woman. Chavez stalked the woman and broke into her home, yet still bonded out of jail. While Chavez is out on bond, he was convicted of four misdemeanors, yet remained free and in possession of a handgun.  Reports say the District Attorney's Office asked 232nd Criminal District Court Judge Josh Hill to revoke Chavez's bond and deny bail for the latest charge. Instead, bond was set at  $100,000.

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The FBI gets involved in a murder-for-hire plot. Criminal out on bond strikes again. Domestic violence aggressor picks a fool proof hiding spot. Bold thief steals patrol car.

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Four University of Idaho friends found murdered in an off-campus home. Police  arrived at the home around noon on Sunday, following a call about an "unresponsive person"  and found the bodies inside. Police are releasing few details but say the murders were a targeted attack with an edged weapon. Police assisting in the investigation were reportedly shocked at the amount of blood found at the crime scene. A source told DailyMail that, “there was blood everywhere," with the scene described as   “blood oozing through the walls” of the rented home. Blood was also reportedly found on the side of the house...

Pre-K teacher bring drugs to school? Senator Ted Cruz attacked at World Series parade. This home took on more pets than they could handle. 

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The family of Claudio Mandia sues an elite New York school after their 17-year-old son commits suicide. Mandia was accused of cheating and admitted to having another student compose a math paper for him.

The school, EF Academy, expelled Mandia and is accused of putting him in solitary confinement until his family could arrive from Italy. School officials dispute the claim.

The year leading up to Mandia's death was rife with personal issues that affected the boy's academic performance. There was a bout with Covid and a close family member died after an illness. There...