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Can’t make this story up out of Beltsville, Maryland. A man walks into a pet store, and steals a 3-month-old tuxedo kitten named “Magnolia” and then heads straight to a nearby PNC bank to use the kitten as a distraction to rob the bank. We go over some of the most absurd attempted bank heists from around the country, including would be robbers using flower bouquets, others phoning in the amount they’d like to be waiting for them when they arrived at the bank, or how about a man turning to a life of crime because he’d rather go to jail than go home to his wife.

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For more than 20 years, the murders of Laci Peterson and her unborn son, Conner, seemed like a closed case. But A&E's Scott Peterson: The New Evidence is challenging everything we thought we knew.

This week on Killer Thriller Docu, Jennifer Fessler sits down with veteran defense attorney and ABC News legal consultant Chris Pixley to unpack the explosive new documentary, the evidence that could change the case forever, and why the Los Angeles Innocence Project believes Scott Peterson may not have received a fair trial. From overlooked witnesses to new forensic analysis, this is a conversation that will leave you questioning one of the most notorious murder convictions in modern history.

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A family vacation turns horrific. A 4-year-old shot and killed his 2-year-old cousin after the two were left unattended in a car with a loaded gun. The family was on vacation to celebrate the 2-year-old's birthday. 

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We go in-depth into the latest information surrounding the mysterious death of a black college football player who went to an island off the coast of Mississippi to party with his white friends, and never came home. 18-year-old Nolan Wells’ body was found 2 days later in the waters near Horn Island, and while there is no suggestion of race being an issue in his death, it’s necessary to understand why his parents might not trust Mississippi authorities leading this investigation. The local sheriff immediately announced there was no foul play suspected and suggested it was an accidental drowning…. And while that may all be true, it’s important to recognize the suspicious events surrounding Nolan’s death and the notorious racial history of Mississippi. 

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Tonight, 74-year-old Dennis Sochor is set to die by lethal injection for the 1982 rape and murder of an 18-year-old girl he met on New Year’s Eve. Even though Sochor confessed to the crime, he never revealed where he left her body. To date, Patty Gifford’s body has never been found and the family has been tortured by that fact, in addition to waiting 44 years for Sochor’s execution. Still, there are many who believe it is cruel and unusual to execute elderly inmates, and this is just the second in a series of three executions in Florida that are setting records, each inmate older than the next. At the end of this month, Florida plans to execute an 80-year-old convicted murderer.

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Unbeknownst to neighbors, local schools, or hospitals, sixteen children were being locked in a 12x12 foot room in rural Ohio by their parents and grandparents.

How did police accidentally stumble upon this scene? What is the state of these children, aged 18 months to 18 years old?! Is the mother a victim, considering she was giving birth almost every year for 17 years, or is she an accomplice?

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There are several concerning and conflicting accounts about how a black, 18-year-old elite athlete who knew how to swim, wound up dead after attending a Fourth of July party surrounded by hundreds of partygoers. Nolan Wells family is demanding answers and awaiting results from independent autopsy, as new questions emerge in this case. Perhaps the most glaring: why would any teenager leave their phone, and their friends, to stay on a remote island with no way to communicate with anyone? We go over the latest developments and contradictory statements from witnesses who have an entire community asking for transparency.

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The sixth film in the notoriously dark and gory franchise is the most intense, grisly and gory one yet. We weren’t sure the movie could live up to all the hype, but it certainly did, and even surpassed our expectations. However, speaking of expectations, the film has not lived up to what producers were hoping, falling far short in its opening weekend. Perhaps, it’s just too scary, too violent and too much for most movie-goers… don’t judge us for highly recommending this flick to people with iron stomachs.    

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For years, Natalee Holloway's disappearance left more questions than answers.

Long before Joran van der Sloot finally confessed to killing Natalee on a beach in Aruba in 2023, actress Amy Gumenick helped bring her story to millions of viewers.

Amy looks back on playing Natalee while the case remained unsolved, the emotional responsibility of portraying a real victim, and how Joran van der Sloot's confession forever changed the way she sees the story.

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The first trial to be televised in the U.S. was none other than Pamela Smart: the teacher who had an affair with her student and convinced him to kill her husband… Or so the jury declared.

Do Emily and Shane believe this trial was anything other than a “he said, she said”? Did the overwhelming media presence influence the jury? Did her sentence fit the crime? 

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