A 1990 hit-and-run left a young woman dead by an interstate service road in Oklahoma City, launching an investigation into a mystery with that took years to piece together. A man named Clarence Marcus Hughes, 41, told Oklahoma police that the dead woman was his wife, 23-year-old Tonya Hughes, and that they had a 2-year-old …
A 53-year-old Oklahoma woman has been arrested for the murder of her newborn son nearly 30 years ago. Baby Doe was found buried in a rural Choctaw County yard on December 8, 1993, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said. The medical examiner conducted an autopsy and determined the baby boy was born alive and …
Acting Attorney General Matt Platkin says an investigation into a 2014 cold case, which has been highly researched and publicized by a well-known podcast, is being investigated. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, Platkin’s office confirmed the investigation into the case of 72-year-old John Sheridan and his wife, 69-year-old Joyce Sheridan. Both were found dead in …
Prison letters between William Clarke and Mary Branch tell a sordid story of love and hate. Clarke also wrote to several other people from his prison cell, including a U.S. Senator and one woman who proved to be pivotal regarding a solution to the case. Subscribe to the Shattered Souls podcast now to hear more. …
A Florida man was arrested this week and charged with the murder of a Dallas lawyer who was beaten and then burned alive in 2016. Steven Aubrey had been on law enforcement’s radar from almost the beginning in the death of attorney Ira Tobolowsky. Investigators believe Aubrey was irate because Tobolowsky was representing his mother …
Genetic genealogy has closed the book on another cold case, this one the “I-65 Killer” who raped and murdered three women working as clerks in motels along the interstate corridor in Indiana and Kentucky in the late 1980s. Indiana State Police said Tuesday that Harry Edward Greenwell was responsible for the deaths of Vicki Heath, …
A 35-year-old Michigan murder mystery was solved earlier this year with the help of Western Michigan University criminal justice students participating in the school’s cold case program. Patrick Gilham, 67, was arrested in February and pleaded no contest earlier this month to the murder of Roxanne Wood, a 30-year-old Berrien County woman found dead in …
Long Island investigators have solved a 42-year-old murder case, a 20-year-old secretary who was on her way home from her job in New York City when she was raped and strangled, her body left near the Bay Shore train station. DNA identified Herbert Rice as the likely suspect in the death of Eve Wilkowitz on …
Karen begins reconstructing the moments of the murders of James Mitchell and her great uncle, Emory Smith, which leads to difficult questions. Was it really an inside job like everyone thought? Subscribe to Shattered Souls: The Car Barn Murders on Apple Podcasts, iHeart Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Retired detective Karen Smith discovers that her father kept a family secret for decades. In 2002, her father revealed that Karen’s great uncle, Emory Smith, was the victim of a heinous murder and that her grandfather had been held as a suspect. Karen begins her journey to solve her great uncle Emory’s murder. Subscribe to …
Investigators in North Dakota have made an arrest in the cold case murder of an 18-year-old Minot State University student in 2007. Anita Knutson was found stabbed to death in her home when her father asked for a wellness check because he hadn’t heard from her in a few days, according to KXMB. Investigators found …
On Tuesday, Arizona officials publicly identified a girl whose burned body was found in a desert in 1960. In July 1960, a teacher searching for rocks reportedly found a child’s body in Congress at Sand Wash Creek. The child, who was wearing a buttoned blouse, shorts, cut flip flops, and polish on fingernails and toenails, …
