In 1988, Brenda Schaefer had a bright future ahead of her. She was engaged, had a job she loved and was part of a very close-knit family. When she suddenly disappeared, her family was frantic to find her… because this wasn’t the first time the family faced tragedy.

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In the early morning hours of New Year’s Day 1985, husband and father Vicente Gonzales was targeted by gang members and lost his life in a brutal attack. The attackers were quickly arrested, but it still took five days of deliberations to reach a verdict. AND WE HAVE ONE OF THE JURORS AS A GUEST ON OUR PODCAST! Listen for all the behind-the-scenes details about the trial… and what happened afterward.

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In 1954, 16-year-old Diane Hank wasn’t exactly a typical teenager. She’d just had to change schools after having a baby, and her closest friends were the couple in their early 20s whom she babysat for. Her life was a very small circle, which was why her mom was shocked when she was told her daughter had skipped school. And that shock resonated even more when she learned the secrets that Diane had been hiding.

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The first letter arrived in Mary Gillispie’s mailbox in spring 1977 and threatened to expose an affair. Then more letters began arriving, not just addressed to Mary, but also to her husband Ron and hundreds of other residents who were accused of illegal or illicit behavior. This went on for years before someone was arrested. But was it the letter writer, or was it a set up?

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Whenever Joan Diver had a few minutes away from her busy life as a mom of four, she’d run on one of Buffalo’s bike path trails. But one day in 2006, she never returned home. Tragically, her body was found two days later underneath some heavy brush alongside the trail. Sketches were released, but did it lead them to her killer, or was it someone they never suspected?

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In order to spend more time with our families at Christmas, this is the one time each year that we do a repeat of an episode. Kathy chose the episodes for our first two years, so this year Cathy chose - and she went with Episode 29 - the first case in the US that used genetic genealogy to find the perpetrator and went to trial, resulting in a conviction.

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The day after Christmas 1996, John and Patsy Ramsey woke up to their worst nightmare… their six-year-old daughter JonBenét was gone. When the little girl’s body was found, detectives immediately believed that the parents were responsible. But almost 30 years later, the case remains unsolved. The world wants to know… who killed JonBenét Ramsey???

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10-year-old Alison Chadwick grew up in a tight-knit community just outside of London, England. Her family and friends lived close by and kids were always playing in the street together. Alison left home one morning to go to a friend's house, but never returned. The police search was immediate and far reaching, but no one had seen anything... it was like she just disappeared off the face of the Earth. 

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In the mid-1980s, the murders of two teenage girls in England – Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth – shook their community and the country. No one could’ve predicted that a scientific breakthrough to catch their killer would forever change how killers were caught.

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In 2014, Dan Markel was well-regarded and admired in the Florida legal community and had a dream job as a professor at Florida State. To him, however, his most important role was that of father, and he adored his two young sons. But how did a man loved by his family and friends and respected by his community wind up the target of a hit?

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