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Kidnapping of Sherri Papini Sep 28, 2020

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#039 - A 34-year old wife and mother of 2 young children is kidnapped in Redding, California while out for a jog. Her cell phone and headphones are discovered less than a mile from her house, with a clump of her long blonde hair.

Her disappearance was dubbed as the kidnapping of ‘Super Mom”. A beautiful woman simply vanished.

After 22 long days, Sherri Papini, Super Mom, was discovered on Thanksgiving morning wandering near a California Freeway. Her nose was broken, she was covered in bruises, her long blonde hair cut short, and she had been branded on her shoulder.

What happened to Super Mom back in 2016? Was she targeted, or was there another explanation behind her disappearance?

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Murder on Board PSA Flight 1771 Sep 21, 2020

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#038 - On December 7, 1987, Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771, carrying 38 passengers and 5 crew members, departed from Los Angeles for what should have been a short flight to San Francisco.

Moments after reaching the standard cruising altitude of 22,000 feet, the pilots inside the aircraft signaled distress, telling air traffic controllers that shots had been fired. The airplane was sent falling down to the ground almost breaking the speed of sound.

All 43 people on board Flight 1771 were killed.

Was this some tragic accident, a malfunction in the aircraft? Or did someone intentionally cause that PSA flight to crash?

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Disappearance of Yingying Zhang Sep 14, 2020

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#037 - In June 2017, a young Chinese scholar, Yingying Zhang, was abducted in broad daylight while she waited at a bus stop near the University of Illinois campus. The entire encounter was caught on nearby surveillance cameras.

With no body, could forensic science and good old fashioned detective work put a wannabe serial killer behind bars?

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Girl Scout Murders Sep 07, 2020

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#036 - In the summer of 1977, over 140 young girls attended Girl Scout Camp in the remote woods of Oklahoma. Lori Farmer, Michelle Guse, and Denise Milner were among the girls who attended camp that summer.

On the morning of June 13,1977, only the second day of the 2-week long camp, the bodies of 3 young girls were discovered brutally murdered, sexually assaulted, and stuffed inside their sleeping bags.

The murders left everyone wondering what kind of person could do something so terrible to girls who were not even over the age of 10 years old.

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Florida Lotto Murder Aug 31, 2020

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#035 - In November 2006, assistant truck driver and 2-time felon, Abraham Shakespeare turned $2 into over $30 million by winning a Mega Millions Jackpot.

The money didn’t just have a profound impact on his life, and the lives of his family and friends. But, did becoming a Mega Millions jackpot winner also cost him his life?

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The Old Lady Killer Aug 24, 2020

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#034 - During the early 2000’s, Mexico City was terrorized by a serial killer targeting elderly, single women. From 2002 until 2006, almost 50 elderly women had been brutally murdered inside their very own homes.

But, what was even more terrifying than a serial killer on the loose, was that police started to suspect that the killer they were hunting, was a female herself.

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The Harvard Murder Aug 17, 2020

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#033 - In January 1969, 23-year old Harvard graduate student, Jane Britton failed to show up to take an important exam. Her boyfriend and friends were immediately alarmed because this was completely out of character for the high performing student.

Jane's body was discovered later that afternoon. She had been brutally raped and savagely beaten to death inside her own Boston apartment, just blocks away from campus.

It would take almost 5 decades, 50 long years, for advancements in DNA testing to finally identify a possible suspect in Jane's murder.

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Noura Jackson Aug 10, 2020

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#032 - In 2005, 18-year old Noura Jackson was arrested and charged with stabbing her mother, Jennifer Jackson, over 50 times. Jennifer was found inside her Memphis, Tennessee home brutally murdered.

Although there was no forensic evidence linking Noura to her mother's murder, she did have a large cut on her hand on the night of the murder.

Is Noura Jackson a wrongfully accused teenager, charged with killing her own mother? Or is she a cold, blooded killer, guilty of committing one of the most heinous types of homicide?

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The Parachute Murder Plot Aug 03, 2020

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#031 - On April 5, 2015, experienced free-fall instructor Victoria Cilliers, was set to complete her 2,650th jump. The jump was a gift from her husband, Emile, to celebrate the birth of their 2nd child.

At 4,000 feet, both her main chute and reserve failed. Sending her falling to the ground over 100 miles per hour, without a working parachute. Miraculously, she survived.

Was this some freak accident? Or was there someone behind the cut wires of her parachute?

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Darlie Routier Jul 27, 2020

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#030 - In 2020 there are only 53 women on Death Row in the United States. Darlie Routier from Rowlett, Texas is one of those women.

In 1997, she was convicted of murdering her 2 sons, Devon and Damon and sentenced to death. Devon and Damon were stabbed to death with a kitchen knife while Darlie sustained stab wounds on her arms and across her throat.

Darlie said it was an intruder who broke into the house, killed her boys and stabbed her. But, the prosecution said she's a stone-cold killer.

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