In a little over a month, it will be two years since Sierra LaMar disappeared — and we still don’t have (a) a body or (b) a crime scene. What we do have is a chief suspect, Antolin Garcia-Torres, now… Continue Reading
Mary Wolfe is a state representative in Iowa and on Friday, two of her sisters — there are eight children in the family total — were found dead in a house they share in Pittsburgh. An official cause of death hadn’t… Continue Reading
Heather Elvis has been missing for about six-seven weeks now; she was a 20 year-old restaurant hostess in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Basic story is here: she went on a date (a first date), the guy apparently taught her to drive… Continue Reading
As of this past weekend, it’s been going on four years in the case of Morgan Harrington’s murder. If you don’t know the basic story, she was a Virginia Tech student attending a Metallica concert at UVA (in Charlottesville) in October… Continue Reading
Here’s the basic story: Ludwig Schumacher and Christina Schumacher were married for 19 years and had two children. Ludwig was a member of the Vermont National Guard and then a Republican campaign official; Christina was a finance/operations person. Last summer, they… Continue Reading
Remember a couple of years back, when Frontline went to task on the forensic science community? (Here’s the full clip.) It was more about doctor and medical examiner offices, but it revealed a deeply-flawed system — and that’s kind of a… Continue Reading
You may have heard this story a little bit this week: in Ohio, a man named Dennis McGuire was executed for the 1989 rape and murder of a pregnant newlywed named Joy Stewart (you can find a little more about… Continue Reading
Rolling Stone just released a long-form article on the Tyler Hadley case, which you can read here. I won’t go too deeply into the background or even into this post because the whole thing is fairly depressing, but essentially, Hadley was a… Continue Reading