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For nearly six years, Texas State student Jason Landry was missing, leaving his family desperate for answers and the internet flooded with theories about what really happened the night he vanished. Now, his remains have finally been identified near the site of his mysterious disappearance. But with investigators still finding no evidence of foul play, the biggest question remains: was this a tragic accident, or is there more to Jason’s story?

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Michelle Le vanished from a hospital parking garage, leaving behind a pool of blood, a missing car, and a trail of disturbing clues. Investigators soon uncovered a shocking motive, years of jealousy, and explicit threats that Michelle would be killed. But the most chilling part? The person responsible had allegedly been planning her next moves long before Michelle disappeared.

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Prosecutors allege a group of men took advantage of LSU student Madison Brooks when she was dangerously intoxicated, and a chilling video may reveal just how far their intentions went. Yet more than three years later, courtroom battles, shocking text messages, and delays have kept the accused from facing a verdict.

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In March 2013, Aliza Sherman was brutally stabbed outside her divorce attorney’s office just two days before her long, bitter divorce trial was set to begin. For more than a decade, her murder remained unsolved, and suspicion swirled around the people closest to her. But when investigators finally made an arrest, the man accused of orchestrating her killing was not who anyone expected.

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Thomas Randolph’s case is one of the most shocking true crime stories spanning decades, and now it’s back in the spotlight thanks to Netflix’s The Widower: ’Til Death Do Us Part. With multiple wives dead, a bizarre murder plot, a second trial more than a decade after the first, and a recent attempt to overturn his conviction, this is a case filled with twists that are almost impossible to believe.

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In 1995, Mark Winger walked upstairs and found a complete stranger brutally beating his wife Donnah with a hammer, so he grabbed his gun and shot the man dead. For years, Mark was treated as a hero, until one of Donnah’s closest friends walked into the police station with a secret that made investigators question everything they thought they knew.

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In 2011, 17-year-old Tyler Hadley threw a massive party at his house, with everyone drinking, laughing, and having a good time. But when Tyler’s friend went upstairs and made a horrifying discovery, his life would be changed forever. Now, 13 years later, Tyler is finally telling his side of the story.
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Since Mica Miller’s death, Pastor John Paul Miller has remained at the center of intense scrutiny, but there is a lot more to his story than what happened in the months leading up to Mica’s death. 
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In 2022, 10-year-old Lily Peters went for a walk with her 14-year-old cousin, Carson Peters-Berger, after he asked her to come explore a nearby trail with him. The two cousins headed off together but Lily would never make it home. What happened next would leave her family and an entire Wisconsin community devastated, and the details investigators eventually uncovered were far more disturbing than anyone could have imagined.
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In 2002, the bodies of Michael Tardio and his friend were discovered inside a burning Mercedes SUV in Studio City, California, both men shot multiple times in the chest. Investigators initially wondered if his killing was connected to organized crime, but as they started digging into his secret life, they found themselves pulled into a world of Hollywood celebrities, Playboy, wealthy businessmen, and dangerous connections. 
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Mica Miller was married to JP Miller, a pastor who built a public life around faith, ministry, and his congregation in Myrtle Beach. But behind that carefully crafted public image, Mica’s marriage was becoming increasingly complicated, and she was documenting things that would later raise serious questions about what she had been experiencing. Now, Netflix’s new Death of the Pastor’s Wife has brought new footage, interviews, and details about Mica’s life to light, bringing those questions back to the surface.
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In June 2023, a quiet Ohio neighborhood was forever changed when police responded to a horrifying scene inside the Doerman family home. Three young brothers, Clayton, Hunter, and Chase, had been killed, and the person responsible was the very person they trusted most: their father, Chad Doerman. When we first covered this case, there were still so many unanswered questions. What led up to that devastating day? What was Chad’s motive? Was there more to the story that investigators had yet to uncover? Now, with the case officially closed, new footage, courtroom developments, and shocking details that emerged over th...

Amanda Crews was a beloved doctor and mother who seemed to have built a happy life for her family, but behind closed doors, troubling warning signs were beginning to emerge. After her young son suffered a devastating injury, questions surrounding what happened to him would linger for months, and the people closest to the family struggled to understand what was really going on. Then, just when it seemed like things couldn’t get any worse, tragedy hit again, leaving an entire family shattered.
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Samantha Miller's wedding night was supposed to end with a newlywed getaway, not a horrific crash that would leave Samantha dead, Aric Hutchinson seriously injured, and multiple others with life-altering injuries. Just hours after saying “I do,” the newlyweds were hit by a drunk driver while leaving their reception. But the crash was only the beginning. Jamie Komoroski's shocking jail calls, years of legal battles, and eventual 25-year sentence kept this case in the headlines. Now, we're reopening Samantha's story and breaking down everything that happened that devastating night and the aftermath that followed.
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For eight days, an entire country searched for 16-year-old Becky Watts, hoping she had simply run away. Then police opened a garden shed, and every hopeful theory vanished in an instant. The truth was far more disturbing than anyone could have imagined, leading investigators to accuse someone Becky had loved and trusted for nearly her entire life. As chilling evidence emerged, so did an explanation so unbelievable that many still question whether it was ever the real motive…
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*UPDATED EPISODE* If you’ve been following my Lindsay Clancy coverage, some of the beginning of this episode may sound familiar. With everything that unfolded during the trial, I wanted to create one complete deep dive that takes you from the very beginning of the case through the mistrial and everything that happened in between. So even if you’ve heard some of the backstory before, there is a lot of new information and trial coverage ahead.
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A mother wakes up in the middle of the night expecting her daughter's car to be back in the driveway. Instead, 22-year-old Savannah Spurlock is gone. Moments later, she answers a FaceTime call from inside a car with three men her family has never seen before, insisting she's fine and will be home by morning. But morning comes and Savannah never returns. As investigators piece together her final hours, surveillance footage, conflicting stories, and a remote property begin to paint a chilling picture of what may have happened after she left a Lexington bar…
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An 11-year-old girl disappears. Her family didn't report her missing for 23 days. And even now, more than three years later, nobody can explain where she went. The case of Madalina Cojocari has become one of the most frustrating and suspicious child disappearance cases in recent memory, because while there may not be enough evidence to charge anyone with making her disappear, there is certainly no shortage of red flags. Since we last covered the case, there have been criminal convictions, a deportation, newly unsealed documents, and disturbing revelations that have only deepened the mystery. Yet despite years of investigations...

When Michael Blagg arrived home from work on November 13, 2001, he expected to find his wife Jennifer and six-year-old daughter Abby waiting for him. Instead, he stepped into a nightmare. Jennifer's purse was overturned on the floor, blood stained the couple's bed, and both Jennifer and Abby had vanished without a trace. As investigators searched for answers, they uncovered a growing list of red flags that painted a very different picture than the loving family Michael presented to the world. What began as a missing persons case soon evolved into a murder investigation filled with shocking secrets, conflicting stories, and...

A jury convicted him of murdering his 5-year-old daughter. He was sentenced to spend the rest of his life behind bars. Now, that murder conviction has been overturned. A case where 5-year-old Harmony Montgomery was beaten to death, her body hidden for months, and her remains disposed of so thoroughly that she has never been found. A jury heard the evidence, found Adam Montgomery guilty, and many believed justice had finally been served. But now, in a shocking twist, that conviction has been thrown out. Today, we're revisiting Harmony's story, the trial that captivated the nation, and the bombshell...

Few things are more terrifying than the thought of something happening to your child. And that's why the case of Grant and Gracie Solomon hits so hard. What began as allegations that their father abused Gracie and may have been responsible for Grant's mysterious death, quickly became one of the most divisive cases we've ever covered. But since our original deep dive, everything has changed. New witnesses, lawsuits, and a shocking murder-for-hire arrest have turned this case completely on its head, leaving more questions than answers…
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When 27-year-old newlywed Sherri Rasmussen was found beaten, shot, and left dead on the floor of her own home, police believed they were looking at a burglary gone horribly wrong. The crime scene was violent, the evidence was confusing, and for years investigators chased the wrong theory while the case slowly went cold. But Sherri's family never stopped believing there was more to the story. What they didn't know was that the answer may have been hiding in plain sight all along…
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When 11-year-old Gannon Stauch vanished during a freezing Colorado winter, his family and an entire community desperately searched for answers. But almost immediately, something about his stepmother Letecia Stauch didn’t sit right. The interviews, the stories, the strange behavior…none of it added up. And as investigators started uncovering disturbing evidence, the case took a horrifying turn that no one saw coming. Now, years after Letecia was convicted of Gannon’s murder, a shocking new court ruling has completely turned the case upside down and could give her another chance in court…
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A 24-year-old bartender leaves work to meet up with members of one of America’s most notorious outlaw motorcycle gangs… and is never seen alive again. What begins as a missing persons case quickly spirals into a horrifying investigation filled with secret clubhouses, alleged coverups, hidden relationships, and a murder trial that shocked Illinois. Prosecutors say Katie Kearns was brutally killed and her body was hidden with the help of fellow gang members, but the defense claimed something even more unbelievable…
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Join Annie as she reopens the chilling case of Sierah Joughin, the 20 year old who vanished during a quiet summer bike ride just minutes from home, setting off a frantic search that quickly turned into something far more disturbing than anyone imagined. What first looked like a tragic disappearance soon unraveled into a dark investigation filled with buried evidence, a secluded property no one wanted to believe existed, and a suspect whose past raised haunting questions about how many warning signs were missed. Now, with new updates, lingering doubts, and a family still fighting for justice years later, we...

April 8th, 2009 started out like any other school day for 8 year old Tori Stafford. She left class excited for a movie night with friends, wearing butterfly earrings she had secretly borrowed from her mom, and began the short two block walk home. But Tori never made it back. Within hours, a quiet town in Ontario was thrown into panic. Then came the surveillance footage. Grainy video showing Tori calmly walking beside an unidentified figure in a white jacket. No screaming. No struggle. Just a little girl disappearing in broad daylight. As the search intensified, suspicion turned toward Tori’s ow...

On May 11, 2022, 25-year-old cyclist Moriah Wilson was found shot to death inside an Austin home, pulling investigators into a case tied to a love triangle with cyclist Colin Strickland and Kaitlin Armstrong, who soon vanished and triggered a global manhunt after evidence pointed in her direction. Join Annie as she reopens this case, digging into the moments leading up to that night, what the trial uncovered, and what some major coverage, including Netflix, didn’t fully explain or left out entirely…
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When 17-year-old Candace Hiltz was found brutally murdered inside her Colorado trailer home, she left behind her infant daughter, a devastated family, and a crime scene that raised more questions than answers. What should have been a straightforward search for justice quickly unraveled into a disturbing story of mishandled evidence, corruption, and the haunting possibility that Candace’s killer was protected from the very beginning…
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Seven-year-old Athena Strand was supposed to be safe at home in December 2022, just days away from going back to live with her mom, when a delivery driver dropping off a Christmas present changed everything. At the time, authorities said she was abducted and likely killed within an hour, her body found miles away. But what’s come out since then tells a far more disturbing story. Newly revealed evidence and trial testimony suggest those final moments were not what anyone originally believed. And now, with the man responsible already pleading guilty, the trial has shifted to whether he will sp...

On a summer afternoon in Circleville, a small city in Ohio, police surrounded 32-year-old Tara Lambert in a Walmart parking lot as she calmly pushed a cart full of dog food, showing almost no reaction as she was arrested for conspiracy to commit aggravated murder. But what shocked investigators even more was that she already knew exactly why they were there. Behind her picture perfect life, a bitter custody battle and a carefully hidden secret had been building for years, one that would unravel into a plot so disturbing it’s hard to believe it was real…
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After Netflix dropped Trust Me: The False Prophet, a chilling story is back in the spotlight, and it’s even more disturbing than you might remember. At the center is Samuel Bateman, a self-proclaimed prophet who built a secretive cult within a cult, hiding shocking abuse, manipulation, and a network of followers willing to do whatever he asked. As new details emerge, including guilty pleas, kidnappings, and the unraveling of his inner circle, the question becomes how far his influence really reached and how so many people became entangled in it. Revisit everything we uncovered before, now with major up...

In Seminole County, Florida, an anonymous tip set off an investigation that quickly escalated from a possible school threat into something far more disturbing. At the center of it all were 15-year-old Isabelle Valdez and her friend Lois Lippert, two teens investigators soon discovered were connected to a chilling plan already in motion. What made the case even more unsettling was a disturbing obsession tied to Sandy Hook shooter Adam Lanza, which appeared to shape the way Isabelle viewed everything. When Isabelle and Lois were confronted, their calm and detached reactions only deepened the unease. As surveillance footage and...

In 2013, Danvers, Massachusetts was rocked by the brutal murder of beloved teacher Colleen Ritzer, at the hands of her 14-year-old student, Philip Chism. What made this case so chilling wasn’t just the violence, but the disturbing behavior that followed and the questions around what could drive someone so young to commit something so horrific. Join Annie as she reopens this case to revisit the full story and uncover the major developments that have unfolded since, including what happened after his conviction...
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In a quiet neighborhood in Great Baddow, a routine welfare check by Essex Police was sparked by a doctor’s growing concern over two patients who seemed to have quietly disappeared. There were no emergency calls, no obvious signs of trouble, just a lingering feeling that something wasn’t right. When officers arrived at the home of John McCullough and Lois McCullough, they were met by their daughter, Virginia McCullough, who appeared calm, cooperative, and almost expectant. But as questions began, it quickly became clear this was anything but a normal check-in. What followed was a deeply unsettling unraveling of s...

He was just 13 years old when police in Hialeah, Florida received a late-night 911 call that no one could have been prepared for. On the line was Derek Rosa, calmly telling dispatchers that his mother, Irina Garcia, had been stabbed to death while sleeping beside her newborn. What followed stunned investigators and ignited national headlines, including a confession, chilling interrogation footage, and legal twists that only deepened the mystery. Beneath the shock and speculation, one question still lingers. What really happened inside that apartment that night?
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Imagine reuniting with your high school crush decades later and finally getting the love story you always wondered about. That was Carol and Reggie Sumner’s second chance. After surviving abusive pasts and years of heartbreak, they found each other again and built a quiet life together in Florida. But in the summer of 2005, their fresh start turned into a nightmare. What began as a trusted friend’s plan to get some quick cash turned into a betrayal so cruel it still haunts this case to this day. What happened to Carol and Reggie was not just murder, it was...

In March 2022, what appeared to be a tragic fentanyl overdose left Eric Richins dead and his family shattered. At the time, investigators believed it was a devastating accident. But a year later, everything changed when his wife, Kouri Richins, a grieving widow, mother of three, and author of a children’s book about coping with a father’s death, was arrested and charged with his murder. Since then, the case has exploded with jaw-dropping twists and now, with a jury seated and the trial officially underway, we’re reopening everything to unpack how this picture-perfect marriage unraveled into one of the...

Few cases have left a mark quite like the murders of Abby Williams and Libby German. Two best friends, just 13 and 14 years old, went out for a simple afternoon walk on the trails in Delphi, Indiana and never returned. What followed was a mystery that gripped the nation for years, filled with haunting audio, chilling images, endless speculation, and five agonizing years before an arrest was finally made. But the arrest was only the beginning. Since then, the case has unraveled into a storm of alleged confessions, leaked evidence, shocking jail calls, courtroom drama, and a divided public questioning...

In the middle of the afternoon, while a little girl played quietly downstairs on her iPad, something unthinkable was unfolding upstairs. A frantic 911 call reported that an intruder had broken in and stabbed a mother in her own bedroom. By the time police arrived, one person was dead, another was fighting for her life, and the two adults in the home were left trying to explain what had just happened. At first, it sounded like a tragic home invasion in broad daylight. But as investigators dug deeper, whispers of a secret affair, hidden online messages, and a plan no...

In part 1 of this exclusive collaboration with Serial Killers & Murderous Minds, I help introduce a chilling murder-for-hire scheme orchestrated by Brenda Delgado, who targeted Kendra after she began dating her former boyfriend. What unfolded was a carefully planned crime driven by jealousy, obsession, and control.

After the story, I sit down with forensic psychologist Dr. Tristin Engels to analyze the psychological motivations behind the murder, breaking down what drives someone to outsource violence and how emotional fixation can escalate into something deadly.

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