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#058 - On August 30th, 2013, 19-year old Bryce Laspisa went missing. In the days and hours leading up to his disappearance, his friends and family noticed unusual changes in his behavior.

His Toyota Highlander was found wrecked near Lake Castaic in southern California, with no sign of Bryce anywhere.

Investigators searched the area for weeks, looking for any sign of Bryce. It was as if the 19-year old simply vanished into thin air.

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#057 - In 1999, a teenager stumbled into the Hong Kong police department telling police officers she’d been having nightmares of a woman who had been kidnapped, tortured, and murdered.

The police followed the girl to the apartment and discovered that the place was entirely decorated in Hello Kitty décor. More disturbing than the décor, was what police officer’s found inside one of those Hello Kitty Dolls.  A woman's skull had been sewn inside the head of a Hello Kitty mermaid doll.

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#056 - On September 13th, 2006, the body of a female victim washed ashore in the upscale city of Newport Beach, California. The victim had 52 stab wounds across her entire body. The knife was found still plunged into one of her eyes.

Unable to identify the victim through fingerprints, police looked to the serial number found on her breast implants to make the identification.

Police quickly zeroed in on their prime suspect, but as the investigation progressed, the forensic evidence seemed to point detectives in a completely different direction.

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#055 - Over the course of 48 hours in February 2007, decorated U.S. Astronaut and Navy Officer, Lisa Nowak, destroyed the life she spent 43 years meticulously crafting.

Lisa Nowak was accused of driving 900-miles cross country from Texas to Florida to confront a woman, who she saw as her rival. She took with her what many would describe as a “kill kit”. Gloves, a BB-gun, rubber tubing, a knife, and a pair of adult diapers.

What caused Lisa Nowak to go from a NASA Astronaut, to a convicted felon? And what did she really intend to do on her cross country trip?

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#054 - In 2008, 2-year old Caylee Anthony from Orlando, Florida was reported missing by her grandmother, Cindy Anthony.  The missing toddler hadn't been seen for 31 days. Her mother, Casey Anthony, claimed her daughter had been kidnapped by the babysitter.

Within hours of the missing persons report, Casey Anthony was arrested in her own daughter's disappearance. What happened next turned Case Anthony into America's most hated mom.

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#053 - In 2014, 12-year old Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier were charged with attempted first degree intentional murder. The girls plotted their attack for months. On the day of the attempted murder, Morgan and Anissa lured their friend, Payton Leutner into the Wisconsin woods and stabbed her 19 times with a kitchen knife.

Morgan and Anissa said it was "kill or be killed". They claimed they needed to kill their fellow 12-year old in order to please the fictional character Slender Man.

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#052 - Part 2 - The brutal murder of kid beauty pageant contestant, JonBenet Ramsey inside her Boulder, Colorado home on Christmas 1996 sent shock waves felt around the country. Her killer left behind a  3-page ransom letter demanding $118,000.

Quickly into the investigation, her parents, John and Patsy Ramsey came under an umbrella of suspicion as possibly being involved in JonBenet's murder.

But as the years turned to decades, without an arrest, the murder of JonBenet Ramsey has become one of the most notorious, unsolved murders our country has ever experienced.

Will JonBenet’s killer ever be identified? And how can forensic science help crack this one?

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#051 - Part 1 - The brutal murder of kid beauty pageant contestant, JonBenet Ramsey inside her Boulder, Colorado home on Christmas 1996 sent shock waves felt around the country. Her killer left behind a  3-page ransom letter demanding $118,000.

Quickly into the investigation, her parents, John and Patsy Ramsey came under an umbrella of suspicion as possibly being involved in JonBenet's murder.

But as the years turned to decades, without an arrest, the murder of JonBenet Ramsey has become one of the most notorious, unsolved murders our country has ever experienced.

Will JonBenet’s killer ever be identified? And how can forensic science help crack this one?

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#050 - On May 29, 2016, eyewitnesses watched as a SUV drove off a 200-foot cliff on the winding Hana Highway on the island of Maui. The SUV was seen accelerating towards the cliff with no signs of breaking.

Inside the SUV were two identical twin sisters, Alexandria and Anastasia Duval. The terrible crash left one twin injured and one twin dead.

The police believed the crime scene evidence pointed to a botched murder-suicide attempt.

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#049 - On January 26, 2011, 27-year old elementary school teacher Ellen Greenberg was found dead inside her locked Philadelphia apartment. She had a total of 20 stab wounds to her chest, stomach, and back of her neck.

The initial autopsy ruled her death a homicide until the ruling was reversed a few weeks later to suicide.

For over 9 years, the Greenberg's have fought to get their daughter justice and have her manner of death changed back to homicide.

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