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,…

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…