It was in June 2020 when Linda Dane learned the disturbing circumstances of how her long-lost brother Gary Herbst’s skull had been found by a dog in rural Barron County, Wisconsin. Linda Dane: Yeah, it’s kind of, uh, eerie-type thing to think of, but it still led to finding out …
Lead homicide detective Mark Biondolino began the investigation into Jocelyn Peters’ murder on March 24, 2016. Since then, he has remained connected to the case even though he’s now retired from the St. Louis, Missouri, Police Department. Mark Biondolino: I think you have a responsibility to do that. Anne-Marie Green: …
Investigator Jack Frost, now with the Liberty County, Georgia, district attorney’s office, was one of the first detectives called to the scene of a swamp in south Georgia on Dec. 2, 2022. Investigator Jack Frost: Down here is where the hunters had discovered the torso of a female in the …
Along the Wisconsin shoreline of Lake Michigan sits a rocky, wooded area called Warnimont Park. Det. Jo Donner: It’s not somewhere that you find a lot of people. On April 2, 2024, a young man, out for a walk with a friend, made a gruesome find. A man, left, points …
Jennifer Joakim, Saunders County attorney, and Richard Register, deputy county attorney, worked on what is believed to be the longest unsolved cold case in Nebraska history: the 1969 murder of 17-year-old Mary Kay Heese, a high school junior. Richard Register: Mary Kay Heese’s unsolved murder hung over this community for …
It was just before 9 p.m. on Dec. 23, 2023, when police arrived on scene in Friendswood, Texas. OFFICER (bodycam): What happened? CONNOR HILTON: I screwed up so bad. OFFICER: Somebody hurt? CONNOR HILTON: (nods to affirm) Bodycam video shows Connor Hilton, 17, center, sitting on the curb outside his …
It was Thursday, Dec. 1, 1988, when Deborah Atrops, known as Debe, was found murdered in her car, next to a construction site in Beaverton, Oregon. Debe had been reported missing two days earlier by her estranged husband, Bob Atrops, who lived about five miles away on a rural road. …
On a steamy August night in 2013, Melissa Rocuba was airlifted to a hospital still clinging to life with a bullet wound to her head. Her then 22-year-old daughter Chelsea Cicio, who lived next door, was already there when the helicopter arrived. Chelsea Cicio: I had no idea how I …
On a summer’s night in August 2013, 22-year-old Chelsea Cicio received an alarming call from her father, Bruno Rocuba. He said there had been a terrible accident and her mother, Melissa Rocuba, had been injured. Cicio, who lived next door to her parents in Simpson, Pennsylvania, was captured on a …
On Sunday, Jan. 12, 2020, when 31-year-old Shea Briar didn’t show up for church, Pastor Angela Smiley knew something was wrong. She had just seen him the night before. Pastor Angela Smiley: We served at a noodle dinner. … He’s there walking the old ladies out. … We were last …
