When Stacey Castor’s second husband, David, was found dead in 2005, the scene initially appeared to tell a straightforward story. David had ingested antifreeze, and his death was classified as a suicide. But investigators weren’t convinced. The evidence inside the Castor home raised questions almost immediately. And as detectives continued digging, they began looking back…

The Murder of April Tinsley: How DNA Identified Her Killer 30 Years Later On April 1, 1988, eight-year-old April Marie Tinsley was spending Good Friday playing with friends in her Fort Wayne, Indiana, neighborhood. When it began to drizzle, April decided to walk back to a friend’s house to retrieve the umbrella she had left…

The Murder of Betsy Faria and the Lies of Pam Hupp On December 27, 2011, Russ Faria returned home to Troy, Missouri, and found his wife, Betsy, lying on the living room floor. Her wrists had been cut, and a kitchen knife was still lodged in her neck. Because Betsy was battling terminal cancer and…

The Murder of Meredith Kercher: What Did the DNA Evidence Really Prove? On November 2, 2007, 21-year-old British exchange student Meredith Kercher was found murdered inside the apartment she shared with three other women in Perugia, Italy. What followed became one of the most famous—and controversial—murder investigations in modern history. Meredith’s American roommate, Amanda Knox,…

L The Florence Salon Murders: Three Women Killed in Broad Daylight On the morning of November 6, 2001, a customer arrived at The Hair Gallery in Florence, Montana, expecting nothing more than a routine nail appointment. Instead, she walked into one of the most disturbing crime scenes in the state’s history. Inside the small salon,…