We're kicking off the new year by bringing you updates on three of our most noteworthy cases over the past 12 months. Our updates include Episode 71 - the murders of four young University of Idaho students; Episode 81 - the murder of Reeva Steenkamp and conviction of Olympian Oscar Pistorius; and Episode 112 - the disappearance of Suzanne Morphew and the discovery of her remains.

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This week's episode is a flashback to one of our earliest episodes! It was the second episode we dropped more than two years ago (!!) and is one of our all-time favorites. It takes place in 1983 and is about Sidney Merrick, a young woman found stabbed to death in her car on the side of a major interstate freeway. Thanks to numerous witnesses coming forward, not only were police able to solve her case but also a cold case that happened in another state. 

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In 1989, 18-year-old Mandy Stavik was home from college to spend Thanksgiving with her family. She was from a small town in Washington, where everyone knew each other and looked out for each other. Mandy was an avid athlete and went for a run with her dog... but only her dog returned home. After several days of searching, her body was found. And it would take an unlikely reunion to provide police the break they needed.

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In 2002, Elizabeth Garcia was working hard to create a better future for herself and her children. To keep her afternoons free for her kids, she took a part time job working overnight at a convenience store. It was during her second shift that she disappeared and was found deceased in a field. The case went cold until another murder happened in the small town a year later. The cases didn’t seem to overlap… but was it possible they were looking for the same perpetrator?

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In December 1996, Juli Busken had just completed her studies at the University of Oklahoma and was packing up to go back to her native Arkansas and begin graduate school. The day she was scheduled to leave, she did an early morning airport run to drop off a friend… and disappeared. Police contacted almost every person they could find who had ever known her, but the DNA was never a match. It took years, but finally there was a hit in CODIS that changed everything.

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In 2007, Rhoni Reuter and her longtime boyfriend, former Chicago Bears player Shaun Gayle, were awaiting the birth of their first child. But one morning when Rhoni opened her front door to leave for work, someone was waiting for her. Police scoured the scene for clues, but when all of the suspects had alibis, investigators had to dig deeper to find the secrets that had been hidden from almost everyone.

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In December 2004, Johnia Berry was ready to start her life after college. She was applying to graduate school and was four months away from her dream wedding to her dream guy. And then her life was brutally taken. There were very few clues and even fewer suspects. How would detectives solve her murder?

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In an upscale suburb of Brownsville, TX an urgent call came into 911. Prominent businessman Bill Mowbray was dead, and the coroner didn't know if it was by his own hand or if someone else was involved. Bill's wife Susie said it was the former, but law enforcement didn't agree. She was arrested and went to trial. Bit was justice served or did they get it wrong?

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In 1981, Linda Slaten was found by her sister lying on the bed. She’d been dead for several hours. The window in Linda's bedroom was wide open and the screen was on the grass outside. Despite an extensive investigation, the case went cold. With renewed attention to the case decades later, it was finally solved. And the perpetrator's name had been in their case files the entire time.

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We couldn't let a Halloween episode - especially one that has 13 in the number! - go past without telling a creepy story. This one takes us to Long Beach in 1976 - but the tale starts well before then, at a time when the public's fascination with all things macabre reached a fever pitch. You'll never go to a funhouse again without wondering just who's in there with you...

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