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Murder of Michael Francke Apr 19, 2021

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#068 - After a hard day fighting crime, Michael Franke walked to his car in the night’s shadow. His footsteps echoed in the empty lot. Michael possessed an incredible work ethic. Coupled with a burning desire for positive change. A modern-day superhero.

As Michael opened his car door, horror struck. An attacker pierced a knife through our champion’s heart.

The Director of the Department of Corrections bled to death, a few hundred feet from his office.

No knife found. No evidence. Nobody saw anything?

At the Department of Corrections?

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Fort Worth Missing Trio Apr 12, 2021

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#067 - Christmas time, the most wonderful time of the year. Children laugh. Families bond. Christmas joy lives everywhere.

Everywhere, except Fort Worth Texas. Two days before Christmas, three innocent girls went shopping at the mall, then mysteriously disappeared.

No clues. No suspects. Nothing.

Could forensics give Christmas back to the families?

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Tent Girl Apr 05, 2021

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#066 - In a Georgetown cemetery, a young, unidentified female was buried. No family, no services, and no speeches. Nobody knew anything about her. Except she was dead. Her grave read: "Tent Girl. Found May 17th, 1968."

The horrific tragedy told and retold by the town's community. A determined young man was captivated by this heartbreaking story. How could she be buried with no name? Our name is the most beautiful sound in our lives. No one deserves to die without one.

Could one of the world's first web sleuths give this poor young girl a name?

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Disappearance of Susan Powell Mar 29, 2021

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#065 - In April 2001, Susan married the man of her dreams. A man who gave her two beautiful boys, and her perfect little Mormon home. So why would the faithful Susan run away?

Her quick-tongued husband possessed all the answers. She had an affair. She had a mental illness, or maybe, just maybe... she was tired of his lies.

A fire erupted in February 2012. The murderous flames filled the sky with tragic smoke and troubling questions. Will we ever know what exactly happened? Let’s let the forensics decide.

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The Night Stalker Mar 22, 2021

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#064 - During the 1980’s Los Angeles was the place for glitz, glamour, and terror. A shadow in the night was killing Angelinos with reckless abandon. People feared they would be next.

On March 27th, destiny struck an innocent couple. The night stalker performed his evil ritual. The couple lay dead, with the wife missing her two eyes. Her beautiful eyes carved out with a bloody knife and tossed in a jewelry box. Was this the work of a man, or the devil himself?

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Death of Elisa Lam Mar 15, 2021

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#063 - On January 26, 2013, 21-year-old Elisa Lam rode an Amtrak train to Los Angeles. She dreamt her entire life of visiting LA-LA land. She dreamt of new friends, a happier life, and maybe even love. Her chance finally arrived. She somehow convinced her protective parents to let her see the iconic city of angels.

But, when she arrived in Los Angeles, she found no glamour. Instead, she found herself in the heart of Skid Row. And after a few bizarre days, she found herself missing.

The Cecil Hotel, home to California’s murderers, managed to lure the innocent Canadian tourist. Now, the only trace of her left was a creepy, haunting video. Was the lonely Elisa drugged, kidnapped, or murdered? Let the forensics decide.

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Lonnie Kocontes Mar 08, 2021

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#062 - In May 2006, 52-year old American Micki Kanesaki was reported missing while on a cruise ship in the Mediterranean Sea just off Italy's coast. Lonnie Kocontes, her ex-husband, sweet-talked her into a romantic getaway, to fix their broken relationship.

Micki trusted Lonnie, and after a romantic wine-filled evening. Micki just disappeared.

Two days later, a vessel performing oceanography research made a shocking discovery, a body—a lonely body floating in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. The life-less and broken-hearted body of Micki was miraculously found.

The investigation quickly focused on Micki's ex-husband, Lonnie. But with zero evidence found anywhere on the cruise ship, the only hope remained with forensics. Could forensic science find anything on Micki's body explaining her tragic and permanent romantic getaway?

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Nose Job Murder: Shayna Hubers Mar 01, 2021

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#061 - On October 12th, 2012, 28-year old Ryan Poston, a successful attorney from Kentucky was found dead, shot 6 times in his condo. He’d been shot to death by his girlfriend Shayna Hubers. According to Shayna, she wasn't some sort of cold blooded killer. She said she shot him out of self-defense. It was either kill or be killed.

After a bizarre police interrogation, Shayna was arrested and charged with Ryan’s murder. At trial, it came down to whether you believed the prosecution’s star forensic expert, or the defense’s expert.

It became a story known as the “Nose Job Murder”. A Jodi Arias Copycat. A murder that would be forever talked about.

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Lululemon Murder Feb 22, 2021

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#060 - On the morning of March 12th, 2011, the opening employee to the Lululemon store in Bethesda, Maryland, walked into a bloodbath. Inside the store, 2 of her coworkers were found bound and gagged. One of employees, 30-year old Jayna Murray had been stabbed over 330 times. Her coworker, Brittany Norwood was somehow able to survive the attack.

But in the days following the murder, something about Brittany’s story about what really happened during that closing shift just didn’t add up.

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Wrongful Conviction: Kimberly Long Feb 15, 2021

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#059 - In the early hours of October 6, 2003 Kimberly Long came home and discovered her boyfriend, Oswaldo "Ozzy" Conde's dead body. He'd been bludgeoned to death in the living room.

Police questioned Kimberly and a friend she was with the night of the murder, Jeff Dills. Kimberly and Jeff provided conflicting stories about exactly what time she returned home that night. Jeff's story placed Kimberly at home 49 minutes before she called 9-1-1, leaving plenty of time to commit the murder.

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