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Die Mutter des Tatverdächtigen stand unangemeldet vor meiner Tür. Sie wollte, dass ich ihren Sohn verteidige. Ich ging hinüber ins Gerichtsgebäude, um das erste Gespräch zu führen – und traf auf einen jungen Mann, der mir sehr entschlossen sagte, er habe mit dem Tatgeschehen nichts zu tun. Er war guter Dinge, dass sich das schnell … Read more

Candace Cooley could make sense of her son walking across the desert back to his camper. What she couldn’t make sense of were the guns being gone. “He always has his guns,” she said. “Always. ” Nineteen-year-old Dylan Rounds was a farm kid through and through. Born during grain harvest, he spent his earliest months … Read more

On February 3rd, 1984, twenty-five-year-old Terry Lynn Brooks clocked in for her evening shift at a Roy Rogers restaurant in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. She was a hard worker, recently promoted to manager, and she was in the middle of planning her wedding to a cook named Alfred. She was supposed to be home by two … Read more

Two hunters walked through the woods of Walland, Tennessee, in April of 1981 and found bones scattered on the ground. They weren’t sure what they were looking at, but something about the fragments felt wrong. They called the Blount County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies arrived and determined the bones were human. They were sent to the … Read more

On December 19, 2014, at 11:14 p. m. , Sarah’s neighbors called 911 after seeing smoke drift from her apartment. They had opened her door to check on her, calling her name, but got no response. The fire had almost burned itself out in the living room, and the sudden oxygen from the open door … Read more

The 35-year-old cold case of 12-year-old Jonelle Matthews, who vanished from her Greeley, Colorado home just days before Christmas in 1984, has been solved with a stunning revelation that has sent shockwaves through the true crime community and the nation. The remains of the young girl, discovered in July 2019 by construction workers preparing land … Read more

The final, brutal act was captured not on camera, but in the silent, damning testimony of a ten-year-old boy’s broken body. Anthony Nolan Avalos, a child who loved the Dallas Cowboys, dancing, and his mother’s pupusas, died on June 21, 2018, in a Lancaster, California hospital. His death was not a tragic accident, but the … Read more

The 40-year-old autopsy slide sat in a property room, a fragile relic of a brutal crime that had confounded investigators for decades. Chemically preserved and sealed beneath glass, it held the only remaining biological trace of a child whose naked, beaten body was dumped on a Texas highway on November 1, 1980. For years, the … Read more

The suburbs of Detroit are haunted by a ghost that has never been named, a predator who fed, bathed, and cared for his child victims before strangling, smothering, or shooting them, then leaving their bodies in plain sight like discarded packages. Nearly 50 years after the first child vanished, the Oakland County Child Killer remains … Read more

The body of 23-year-old Deborah Sue Schatz, a beloved postal worker known to her family as May, was discovered stuffed into a garbage bag and buried deep in the mud of Cypress Creek, two bullet holes in her head, after she vanished while delivering mail in an affluent Houston neighborhood on June 7, 1984. The … Read more