By JAY REEVES, Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The mother of Natalee Holloway, a U.S. teenager who vanished during her senior trip to Aruba in 2005, is seeking at least $35 million from the producers of what she contends was a fake television documentary about the case. Beth Holloway said in a federal lawsuit filed …
The town of Hoover, Alabama, has six unsolved murders on their books–a statistic that continues to trouble their police department with each passing day. The Hoover Sun reported that years–in some cases, decades–after their murders, local police are working to give their families closure. Hoover Police Captain Gregg Rector told the paper that all of …
On New Year’s Eve in 1980, 30-year-old Brad Baker, an Indiana native, lost his life just before going on a date with a Virginia radiologist. It took authorities over 30 years to close the case, but their resolve and determination paid off when tips led them to the killer. Shortly before Christmas in 1980, Baker, who studied …
Authorities are seeking the public’s help to close an 18-year-old cold case involving a double homicide and two missing Oklahoma teenagers, KFOR-TV reports. The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation is offering a $10,000 reward for whoever provides credible information about the case. Between Dec. 30 and 31, 1999, the home of Danny and Kathy Freeman …
Sherra Wright received $1 million from her ex-husband’s life insurance policy
No arrests have been made nearly five years after Eastern Michigan University student Julia Niswender was found dead with her clothes cut off in the bathtub of her off-campus apartment. According to M Live, authorities determined the 23-year-old’s cause of death was asphyxiation associated with drowning. Police noted that Niswender was deprived of oxygen before being placed in …
Natalie Wood’s death 36 years ago has been one of Hollywood’s biggest mysteries, but the Los Angeles Sheriff’s department has restarted its investigation as new evidence came to light in recent years. It was ruled an accidental drowning soon after the actress’s body was found along a Catalina Island beach on November 29, 1981, but …
In the middle of a bitter divorce, Tanya Zuvers waited for her three sons, Andrew, Alexander, and Tanner Skelton, to return from a Thanksgiving outing with their father, John Skelton. Seven years later, John still claims he gave the children to a “group” to protect them from their mother—and Zuvers is left wondering if her …
On February 13, 2017, 13-year-old Abby Williams and 14-year-old Libby German took a hiking trip at an abandoned bridge in Delphi, Indiana. The outing was only meant to be for a few hours, yet it was last time their family and friends would ever see them alive. The day started out as usual for the girls. …
Debbie Lynn Randall was a 3rd-grader when she was snatched off a Marietta, Georgia, street, then raped, killed, and thrown in a ditch not too far from her home. It’s been 45 years since her death, and the killer still remains elusive. Detective Morris Nix of the Cobb County Cold Case Unit, who wants nothing …
Kristin Smart was a 19-year-old student at California Polytechnic State University when she disappeared on May 25, 1996, after attending a campus party. No one has ever been charged in her disappearance and she is still missing more than 20 years later. Kristin’s parents Denise and Stan Smart have never given up in their search …
Susan Cox Powell’s family hopes efforts to peer into an encrypted computer hard drive will give them answers about what happened to the Utah mother who disappeared in 2009. The computer belonged to her husband Josh Powell who later killed their two sons and himself. Susan’s sister Denise Ernst, Cox family lawyer Anne Bremner and …
