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Brittanee Drexel Jun 13, 2022

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#128 - In April 2009, 17-year-old Brittanee Drexel traveled to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, for a spring break trip with friends without her parent's permission. During the trip, Brittanee walked to another hotel located a short distance from her hotel on Ocean Boulevard. The hotel's security cameras captured her entering and leaving the hotel alone. Shortly after walking out of the hotel, Brittanee texted her boyfriend that she was headed back to her hotel. After sending that text message, Brittanee Drexel was never seen or heard from again.

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Edward Shin and Chris Smith Jun 06, 2022

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#127 - Business partners and friends Edward Shin and Chris Smith formed a successful business together, 800 Exchange, in 2009. Within months, the company was turning over a massive profit. But Edward and Chris's relationship was tested after Edward and Chris were sued for embezzling money from Edward's previous employer. Just before the lawsuit settled, Chris Smith suddenly disappeared. He cashed out his interest in 800 Exchange and told his family he was leaving to sail around the world. For months, his family received emails from Chris. But after a while, his family started to suspect that Chris might not be the one behind the keyboard.

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Stephanie Isaacson May 30, 2022

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#126 - In June 1989, 14-year-old high school student, Stephanie Isaacson, walked to El Dorado High School in Las Vegas, Nevada. On her way to school, she took a shortcut through a vacant lot so she wouldn't be late for her first class. After school let out, Stephanie's father became worried when his daughter didn't return home. He called the school and found out she never made it to class that morning.

Later that night, her body was found at a sandlot just off the path she usually took to school. She had been sexually assaulted and strangled to death. The investigation to track down her killer spanned decades. It wasn't until three decades later that investigators finally got the break they needed. And it came from the equivalent of just 15 human cells.

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Carla Walker May 23, 2022

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#125 - After a high school dance in February 1974, 17-year-old Carla Walker was abducted from her boyfriend's car at gunpoint in Fort Worth, Texas. Three days later, the police found her body in a ditch just a few miles away from her home. Although forensic science was still in t's infancy, the first responding investigators were careful to preserve as much of the crime scene surrounding Carla's body as possible.

For nearly five decades, Carla's killer remained unidentified. Even after all of these years, could advances in forensic science and DNA test finally help the police identify her killer?

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Tina Watson May 16, 2022

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#124 - In October 2003, Tina Watson and her husband, Gabe Watson, boarded a plane headed to Australia. The newlyweds were excited to spend the next two weeks celebrating their honeymoon. Tina and Gabe planned to scuba dive a historic shipwreck in Queensland. But within minutes after entering the water, one of them experienced trouble. And only one of them ever made it out of the water.

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Cindy James May 09, 2022

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#123 - For seven years, 44-year-old pediatric nurse Cindy James from British Columbia reported over 100 incidents of violence and harassment. Five of the incidents were physical attacks on Cindy. Over time, the police began doubting Cindy's stories. Every time the police came around, the harassment stopped. And when the police disappeared, so did the threats and violence.

Almost seven years after the harassment started, Cindy James's body was found lying in the yard of an abandoned house on June 8, 1989.

Who killed Cindy James? Or did she do this to herself like the police thought?

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Daniel Wozniak May 02, 2022

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#122 - In May 2010, 23-year-old college student Julie Kibuishi was found shot dead inside 26-year-old Samuel Herr's apartment in Costa Mesa, California. The police quickly found out that Herr had an extensive military combat background and had been previously charged in another murder case. Herr quickly became the number one suspect in Julie's brutal murder. But Samuel Herr was nowhere to be found.

The more the police dug into the case, the more twist and turns they encountered. What started as an open-and-shut murder case turned out to be anything but that.

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Lindsay Buziak Apr 25, 2022

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#121 - In January 2008, 24-year-old Canadian real estate agent, Lindsay Buziak, received a call of a lifetime. The caller told Lindsay that she needed to purchase a home as soon as possible and had a $1 million budget. Although the call seemed strange, Lindsay agreed to help the woman find the perfect home.

Once Lindsay found the perfect property, the woman and her husband agreed to meet Lindsay to view the house. But after the showing, only two people made it out of the house alive.

Who killed Lindsay Buziak?

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Heather Mack Apr 18, 2022

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#120 - In August 2014, a Bali taxi driver parked outside the St. Regis Hotel in Nasu Dua, Bali, noticed a red substance that looked like blood coming out from the trunk of his taxi. When he drove to the police station, police officers opened the trunk and found a bloody suitcase. Inside the suitcase was the body of a dead adult female. She had been badly beaten to death and then stuffed inside a suitcase.

Bali police quickly zeroed on a potential suspect. Someone very close to the victim. But they claimed they were innocent. What does the forensic evidence say?

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Elijah Snow Apr 11, 2022

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#119 - In July 2021, Elijah Snow and his wife, Jamie, boarded an early morning flight in Arlington, Texas. They traveled to Cancún, Mexico, to celebrate their 10th wedding anniversary. The first day of the trip went just as planned. They spent the day by the beach and had a nice dinner at one of the all-inclusive resort restaurants. But sometime after dinner, this dream vacation turned into a real-life nightmare.

On the second day of the trip, 35-year-old firefighter, Elijah, was found stuck inside a neighboring resort's employee bathroom window. The Mexican police quickly ruled his death an accident, but his family and many others disagreed.

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