Maya Millete vanished from her Chula Vista home on January 7, 2021. Her body has never been found. But prosecutors say her husband Larry left behind something even more damning than physical evidence: 1,700 pages of messages to spellcasters, documenting an escalating pattern of desperation that turned violent — and stopped the exact day she disappeared.

The acquittal of former Uvalde officer Adrian Gonzales on child endangerment charges, and what it reveals about criminal accountability for law enforcement response failures

Detective Matt Hutchison of Sunnyvale, California, has solved seven cold cases using forensic genealogy — including two teenage girls killed decades apart by different men who were never caught. Karen Stitt was 15. Estella Mena was 18. Both cases went cold for over forty years. Then Hutchison took over.

On January 11, 1974, five-year-old Jonathan Waldman found his mother Barbara face down in her bedroom. For 52 years, Nassau County detectives chased false confessions and dead ends until genetic genealogy finally identified Thomas Generazio—a sanitation worker who lived blocks away and died in 2004, never knowing he'd been caught.

In March 2022, Eric Richins died in his bed after drinking a Moscow mule his wife made to celebrate a real estate deal. A year later, Kouri published a children's book about grief — written with her three sons. Weeks after, she was arrested for murder. This episode examines the financial forensics and witness testimony that led to her March 2026 conviction.

From a discarded pizza crust to digital 'blueprints' for murder—how investigators built the case against a suburban architect accused of killing seven women over 17 years. Rex Heuermann's expected guilty plea marks the end of one of Long Island's most haunting cold cases.

In March 2026, FBI agents arrested 68-year-old Benjamin Wagner, a retired Detroit Police sergeant, in North Carolina on charges of kidnapping and sexually assaulting six girls and women between 1999 and 2003. The breakthrough came from Detroit's notorious rape kit backlog—over 11,000 untested kits discovered abandoned in a police warehouse in 2009. This episode examines how the evidence that could have stopped Wagner sat untested for years in a department where he worked and rose through the ranks.

How a .380 shell casing and forensic genealogy finally linked the infamous Yogurt Shop Murders to a serial killer who died by suicide in 1999—and revealed a killing spree spanning nearly a decade across seven states.

On February 1, 2026, Nancy Guthrie — the 84-year-old mother of NBC's Savannah Guthrie — was taken from her home in Catalina Foothills, Arizona. Security footage captured a masked, armed intruder. Multiple ransom notes demanded cryptocurrency. DNA evidence was recovered from a glove left near the scene. Six weeks later, a massive federal investigation continues — but Nancy Guthrie's fate remains unknown.

Indiana State Police's forensic investigative genetic genealogy (FIGG) team has cracked cases dating back five decades, including the 1975 abduction and assault of three young girls by the 'Slasher.' The unit combines scientists, genealogists, and detectives to transform cold case investigation in Indiana.