L The Murder of Mike Emert: How DNA Linked an Unsolved Murder to a Suspected Hitman On the morning of January 4, 2001, successful Seattle-area real estate agent Mike Emert left home to meet a prospective buyer for what should have been a routine property showing. Just a short time later, he was found brutally…

Debra Jackson: How DNA Finally Identified “Orange Socks” Doe After More Than 40 Years For more than four decades, she wasn’t known by her name. Instead, she was known simply as “Orange Socks”—a heartbreaking nickname inspired by the only clothing she was wearing when her body was discovered alongside Interstate 35 in Georgetown, Texas. For…

Brandon Lawson: The Mystery of a 911 Call and an 11-Year Search On the night of August 8, 2013, 26-year-old Brandon Lawson left his home in San Angelo, Texas, after an argument with his longtime girlfriend, Ladessa Lofton. He told his family he was heading toward his father’s house, but somewhere along the way, his…

The Suspicious Death of Crystal McCrory Jones: The Forensic Evidence and Unanswered Questions (Part Two) In Part One of this series, we explored the life of Crystal McCrory Jones, the events of February 9, 2023, and the investigation that quickly concluded her death was a suicide. But for Crystal’s family, that ruling marked the beginning—not…

The Suspicious Death of Crystal McCrory Jones: Questions Surrounding the Investigation (Part One) On February 9, 2023, 43-year-old Crystal McCrory Jones was found dead inside her home in West Carroll Parish, Louisiana. She had suffered a single gunshot wound to the head, and within just a few hours, investigators ruled her death a suicide. But…