When a progressive Methodist minister began receiving threatening letters in 1987, it was believed to have come from an outsider. But evidence led to it being someone in the church. After a brutal attack, the police began to question if this was a set up from the start.

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Sydney Loofe went on a date and never came back. After two persons of interest were named in her disappearance, they posted a video to Facebook that would be only the first of multiple stories told.

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Donna Hall and Mike Margaret planned a weekend camping trip that they never came home from. They had last been seen at a friend’s house, but the police believe they stopped somewhere else before continuing to the place their bodies would eventually be found. That other place may be key to cracking this cold case.

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After an on again, off again relationship for 10 years, Heather Strong and Josh Fulgham decided to get married. Less than 2 months later, Heather was missing but with suspects pointing fingers in different directions, how would a jury decide what really happened?

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I covered the case of fugitive Sharon Kinne back in July of 2021. She was last seen in December 1969 when she escaped from prison. A suspect in 3 murders, she stayed on the run all these years. A tip from December 2023 unlocked some of the mysteries of where she went.

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In 1979 and 1980, three women were murdered with links to the same scene–the streets of Fall River and/or a Satanic cult. Decades after three people went to prison for these crimes, we’re still asking: did the court system get it all wrong?

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In 1979 and 1980, three young women working in the sex trade in Fall River, Massachusetts were murdered. One person claimed to witness them all, tying two of the murders to a Satanic cult and leading to the convictions of two men. But what happens when she later recants?

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In an 18 month period, the city of Lawrence Kansas experienced a higher than usual number of death investigations. Some of them raised eyebrows as they were all connected to the same location: The Haskell Indian College.

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