#165 - On September 20, 1988, Tara Calico left her home in New Mexico to go on a bike ride she took almost every morning. When she didn't return home, her mom anxiously looked for her, but never found her. Over three decades later, Tara is still missing with little forensic evidence in the case.

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#164 - In November 1981, actress Natalie Wood mysteriously drowned off the coast of Southern California during a boating trip with her husband and friends. Her death was ruled as an accidental drowning, but rumors swirled that something far more sinister happened to the Hollywood star. 

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#163 - A young college student was found murdered inside her North Carolina off-campus apartment in September 2012. The more the police released about the investigation, the more questions everyone had about what happened to Faith Hedgepeth.

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#162 - In July 2014, 52year old Lynn Messer mysteriously disappeared from her family's 260-acre farm in Bloomsdale, Missouri. After searching for Lynn for days, the official search was called. And for the next two years, everyone wondered where Lynn Messer was. But when her body was eventually discovered, this led to more questions than answers. What happened to Lynn Messer?

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#161 - In December 2010, a 24-year-old woman was mysteriously found dead at the bottom of a trash chute inside an Australian apartment building. Foul play was quickly ruled out, but her loved ones believe the police conducted a botched investigation. What happened to Phoebe Handsjuk?

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#160 - In 2004, 22-year-old Leonila Stickney left poverty behind in the Philippines. She dreamed of her slice of the American dream. Shortly after arriving in the U.S., she met a much older man who promised to care for her and her family. But only five years later, her American dream ended when she was tragically shot and killed during a hunting accident. Although her death was ruled an accident, not everyone agreed.

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#159 - In April 2016, Jessica Boynton, the wife of a Griffin police officer, was found with a gunshot wound to the head inside her apartment. The case appeared to be a simple case of suicide. But almost three weeks after the shooting, everything changed. Was this a self-inflicted gunshot? Or was someone else responsible for shooting Jessica that night?

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#158 - On November 13th, 2022, four University of Idaho students were murdered in their off-campus house in Moscow, Idaho. All of them had been fatally stabbed to death. After a seven week investigation, the police arrested a suspect in the murders. A 28-year-old Ph.D student. 

The suspect is currently being held in jail without bail and has been charged with four counts of first degree murder. Within hours of his extradition to Idaho, the probable cause affidavit was made public. This chilling document outlines all the evidence against him. And why the police believe they have their suspect.

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#157 - In December 1982, a toddler's body was discovered in the Escatawpa River in Moss Point, Mississippi. With water in her lungs, investigators believed she was smothered before she was thrown off the eastbound Interstate-10 bridge into the river. But the toddler's identity baffled investigators for decades, and she became known as Delta Dawn. 

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#156 - In October 1980, a young college student was discovered brutally murdered inside her southern California condo. Although the police had several suspects early on, the murder investigation eventually went cold. It would take investigators decades and new forensic testing to finally figure out who murdered Michelle Wyatt.

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