True Crime Jackie

Kevin Art Verville Jr. was only 17 days old when a woman pretending to be a social worker took him from his mother in Oceanside, California. With new light on the case and a new image of what Kevin Jr. might look like today, can the public be the key to finally bringing him home and giving his family the answers they've been searching almost five decades for?

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On the evening of Wednesday June 16th, 2010: a woman frantically ran into the Palmdale police station with blood on her clothing to report a murder. She claimed she had just found her friend, 29-year-old LaNell Barsock, murdered by a single gunshot wound to her head inside her own home and that she knew who did it. Within hours, an arrest was made, and to investigators, it seemed like this was a straightforward case. However, as they dug deeper, they realized they made a big mistake. They arrested an innocent person… but by the time they realized who they should have been looking at… it was too late because they were now on the run.

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On March 4th, 2025 - cleaning staff walked into a hotel room and discovered the lifeless body of a young woman who had a gunshot wound to her mouth. There was no weapon left behind, no ID on her, no cellphone, or anything else to confirm who she was. Investigations were slow but there was one lead investigators had. Grainy surveillance footage from outside of the hotel showed a man in a hoodie, running away from the hotel earlier that morning, just hours before the body was discovered.

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In August of 2023, 42-year-old Ester Estepa met a fellow traveler named José at a housing shelter in Alicante, Spain and the two soon became friends as they traveled up the coast together. But toward the end of the month, Ester’s family began receiving strange messages from her phone before she suddenly stopped responding altogether. For months, José stayed in contact with Ester’s mother and publicly posted videos pleading for Ester to come home, insisting that he would help find her. It wasn’t until her family searched his name online that they discovered the horrifying truth: José had been convicted of murdering four people, yet was released early and free to walk the streets of Spain and kill again....

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This is the heartbreaking murder of Ruth Thalía Sayas Sánchez.

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On the morning of August 13th, 2007 - police were called to a home in Garlasco, Italy. Inside, they found a young woman lifeless at the bottom of a staircase leading to her basement, still in her pajamas. She was struck more than a dozen times in the head and face with an object that has never been found. There were no signs of forced entry, and nothing from the home was stolen, so whoever did this, she almost certainly knew, and let in herself. Who was this young woman and what really happened?

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On the morning of January 8th, 2020 - police received a call from a woman who reported a murder inside an apartment building in Mexico City.  When police arrived, they found 25-year-old Ingrid Escamilla lifeless on the kitchen floor, and kneeling next to her remains was a man covered in blood, holding a knife in his hand. He was placed in the back of a police car, and when officers questioned him, he confessed to everything & said he tried hiding what he did out of fear and shame. So, what truly happened to Ingrid Escamilla?

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On the morning of January 27th, 2010 - police were called to a quiet neighborhood in Peru, after neighbors reported thieves attempting to strip a seemingly abandoned blue car for it’s parts. However, upon arriving, officers discovered the body of 45-year-old Elizabeth Vásquez Marín, a successful tax lawyer worth millions. She was in the trunk of the car, she had bruises and marks of violence across her body, and her cause of death was ruled as asphyxiation. Who did this and why?

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On May 13th, 2026, 31-year-old Esmeralda Moronta walked into a gender violence unit office in the Dominican Republic to report her abuser. She was doing everything right. She filed a complaint against her ex-partner, emphasized to authorities that she feared for her life, and asked for protection. But sadly, after walking out of the place that was supposed to keep her safe, she never made it home. What happened the moment Esmeralda walked out? How was the one place meant to help, the same place that failed her?

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On the evening of April 24th, 2018, Eyvi Ágreda boarded a bus in Lima, Peru, and headed to her evening classes after a long, exhausting day at work. But shortly into the bus ride, she felt what she thought was someone accidentally spilling water all over her. She was jolted awake and barely had time to react. And she had no idea that the man sitting just a few seats behind her had been plotting to hurt her for over a month, that he had followed her onto the bus, and that the liquid now dripping all over her was actually gasoline...

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