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Kurt Sonnenfeld has been in the news for nearly 18 years, both for the death of his wife Nancy and for being an outspoken 9/11 “truther.”  As a videographer for FEMA, Kurt put together footage of the…

It’s been nearly 40 years since young wife and mother Lynette Dawson disappeared from her New South Wales home. Lynette’s last known conversation was with her mother. On the morning of January 8, 198…

Stacey Castor was a recent widow, suspected of two murders, when her eldest daughter Ashley was hospitalized following an apparent suicide attempt.  While some people looked at Stacey with sympathy, …

Summer Shipp reinvented herself after her divorce, but she always had a big heart and a lively, idealistic personality.  When she disappeared in 2004, she was happy with her life.  She had a close re…

Most of our TCB episodes deal with the intricacies of family, friend, or co-worker relationships, where different personalities and vulnerabilities come together in one tragic act of murder.  But wha…

In February, 2010, Joseph McStay, his wife, Summer, and their young sons, Gianni and Joseph Jr., disappeared from their Fallbrook, California home.  Days later, their SUV was found abandoned in a par…

When handsome, wealthy investment banker Ted Ammon missed a Monday morning business meeting and failed to pick up his children from school, friends were concerned.  Ted was nothing if not reliable.  …

Brandon Michael Reid was in and out of hospitals from infancy.  His mother, Tanya, a devoted mother and part-time nurse, seemed to take her son’s illnesses in stride.  But when a pattern emerged sugg…

On the day after Thanksgiving in 2010, Tanya Zuvers reported her three young sons missing from her home in Morenci, Michigan.  Her husband was supposed to bring the boys back to her on Friday morning…

Mom and skilled pilot Kelsey Berreth was last seen on Thanksgiving Day, 2018.  After not hearing from her daughter for over a week, her mother Cheryl Berreth reported Kelsey missing.  Authorities con…

Susan McFarland, a hard-working mother of three, disappeared just before Thanksgiving in 2002.  Three days later, her car was found in an abandoned parking lot with the keys still in the ignition.

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Today’s crime has been compared to the 1987 film “Fatal Attraction” starring Glenn Close and Michael Douglas.  Calling the murder of Betty Jeanne Solomon “The Fatal Attraction Murder” was good for he…

There is no one more innocent than a 14 month old child, the age Jaidyn Leskie was when he disappeared.  Jaidyn was born in and lived his life in poverty and ignorance.  Some would say that his mothe…

Kelly Ann Tinyes was just two days shy of her 14^th birthday when she disappeared in her own neighborhood in 1989.  In the days that followed, children stopped playing outside. Terrified neighbors beg…

Barbara Daly was once one of New York City’s ten most beautiful girls.  She was a model who attended high society parties and married a wealthy man, Brooks Baekeland.  The couple had a luxury apartme…

In a rundown two-story house in Findley, Ohio, 24-year old Vera Jo Reigle was a prisoner and a slave.  The story behind how Vera ended up in such a terrible circumstance is complicated and disturbing…

Long before there was a Susan Smith or a Casey Anthony, there was Alice Crimmins.  When the New York housewife called the police to report her two young children missing in the summer of 1965, the fo…

The shocking story of arson investigator John Leonard Orr began in 1984.  A fire in a Pasadena, California, hardware store killed four people, including a 2-year-old child.  Arson investigators exami…

22-year old Taylor Samson left his fraternity on the night of August 15, 2015.  He had only his cell phone and a large black duffel bag as he walked out the door, telling his girlfriend he would be b…

Michele Wallace was a freelance photographer who disappeared hiking in Colorado in 1974.  She was a free spirit, a pretty and adventurous 25-year old woman with long dark hair she wore in two thick b…