True Crime Chronicles

In December 1994, 19-year-old Melissa Witt was abducted from the Bowling World parking lot in Fort Smith, Ark. Her body was found in the Ozark National Forest just over a month later. KFSM Anchor Jo Ellison tells us about the mystery that has haunted Fort Smith ever since.

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Listen to the first episode of VAULT Studios' newest podcast series, then search for "Locked Inside" on your podcast app to catch the rest of the season.

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On April 12, 2021, first responders were called to a group home on a quiet street in Gilbert, Ariz., where they found a man washing away blood in the shower. As investigators tried to piece together what happened, neighbors would learn that a convicted killer had been released to live on their street. “Locked Inside” reveals the events leading up to this tragedy and questions how it may have been prevented. Hosted by 12 News investigative reporter Erica Stapleton, “Locked Inside” is a coproduction of 12 News and VAULT Studios. 

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Seventeen=year-old Mandy Steingasser was last seen alive in Sept. 1993, getting into the vehicle of a classmate after a night out. Decades later, a jury would hear two different stories about what happened next.

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Diane Bruce was married to Thomas Bruce for more than two decades. In 2018, Thomas Bruce killed one woman and sexually assaulted others at a Catholic Supply store outside of St. Louis. This week, Diane Bruce tells KSDK Reporter Christine Byers how she came to learn about her husband's crimes and how she's gone on with her life since.

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She said she was raped. She knew the man. There was video evidence. Six years later, when 11Alive Investigative Reporter Kristin Crowley began looking into this woman's story, police had not even questioned him. But since her investigation aired, there has finally been movement in the case.

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She said she was raped. She knew the man. There was video evidence. Six years later, when 11Alive Investigative Reporter Kristin Crowley began looking into this woman's story, police had not even questioned him.

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In March 2020, 20-year-old Mary Collins was tortured and stabbed to death before her killers hid her body inside a mattress. Two years later, her family wants her story to be told. How she died, and how she lived.

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In June of 2021 WBIR reporters Leslie Ackerson and John North covered a 2014 unsolved murder on their podcast series, Appalachian Unsolved. Earlier this year, they learned about a surprising development.

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Four-year-old Serenity McKinney had been missing for more than a year when police in Kentucky recently discovered her body. Her mother and her mother's boyfriend are now behind bars and facing murder charges.

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