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The Murder of Stacey Stites: Does DNA Prove Murder?

The Murder of Stacy Stites In the early morning hours of April 23, 1996, 19-year-old Stacy Stites vanished while driving to work in Bastrop, Texas. Hours later, her body...

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The Disappearance of Lauren Spierer

The Disappearance of Lauren Spierer In the early morning hours of June 3, 2011, 20-year-old Indiana University student Lauren Spierer vanished after a night out with friends in downtown...

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Dorothy Jane Scott: “Is Dorothy Home?” — The Stalking and Unsolved Murder

The Murder of Dorothy Jane Scott: The Stalker Who Wouldn’t Stop Calling In 1980, a quiet young mother living in Orange County, California began receiving disturbing phone calls from...

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Lauren Agee: The Mysterious Death at WakeFest

Lauren Agee: The Mysterious Death at WakeFest In July 2015, 21-year-old Lauren Agee traveled to Center Hill Lake in Tennessee for a weekend wakeboarding event known as WakeFest. Thousands...

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The Oklahoma Peeping Tom Killer: The Murder of Gary Larson

The Oklahoma Peeping Tom Killer: How DNA and Footprint Evidence Solved an 18-Year Cold Case In the quiet town of Edmond, Oklahoma, a brutal home invasion in 1986 left...

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Robert Roberson

The Robert Roberson Case: Shaken Baby Syndrome, Junk Science, and a Death Row Controversy In 2002, a two-year-old girl named Nikki Curtis was rushed to a hospital in Palestine,...

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Mackenzie Cowell

The Murder of Mackenzie Cowell It’s easy to believe that something like this could never happen in a place like Wenatchee, Washington. A quiet town. A tight-knit community. The...

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Cathy Swartz

The Murder of Cathy Swartz: How Forensic Genealogy Solved a 34-Year-Old Cold Case In a quiet town like Three Rivers, Michigan, most people don’t expect to hear about a...

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Shirley Ramey

The Murder of Shirley Ramey: How Ballistic Forensics Solved a Random Killing in Rural Idaho On April 4th, 2017, the tiny town of Hope, Idaho was shaken by a...

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Stella Nickell

Stella Nickell and the Excedrin Murders: How Cyanide-Laced Capsules Killed Two Innocent People In the 1980s, Americans were terrified of product tampering. The 1982 Chicago Tylenol murders had shaken...

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Melissa Lucio

The Case of Melissa Lucio: Confession, Forensics, and a Death Row Sentence In 2007, a two-year-old girl died in Texas. Within hours, her mother was under arrest. That mother...

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