In April 2018, in the sleepy Florida Gulf Coast town of Eastpoint, it appeared a killer had struck. “I received a call that a body was located .. off of Highway 98,” Lt. Ronnie Jones, from the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office, told “48 Hours” correspondent Peter Van Sant. Badly beaten …
Cellphone chats have become death sentences in the continuing, bloody factional war inside Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel. Cartel gunmen stop youths on the street or in their cars and demand their phones. If they find a contact who’s a member of a rival faction, a chat with a wrong word …
This story originally aired on Feb. 3, 2024. Ray Wright‘s daughters were worried when their dad didn’t show up at his carpentry shop and didn’t answer any calls or texts. “I knew something bad was happening to him. I felt it,” says Haley Kendall. Dean Wright felt it too. He …
It’s the morning of Jan. 26, 2022. Sarah Harris, 25, lies unresponsive on the floor of the home she shares with her boyfriend, 48-year-old Dr. James Ryan. She is found in the living room, which is in disarray. Ryan tearfully talks with Montgomery County, Maryland, police at the scene. The …
Kootenai County Sheriff’s Deputy Miranda Thomas will never forget coming face to face with a distraught Dan Howard, a former state trooper, at his home in Northern Idaho on a cold winter’s morning in February 2021. Deputy Miranda Thomas: He would scream and yell, but there were no tears in …
This story originally aired on March 2, 2024. It was updated on Sept. 28. Lyle and Erik Menendez have been behind bars in California for more than three decades for the 1989 killing of their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez. Convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison …
Investigators say they will never give up looking for the body of Sara Anne Wood. The 12-year-old was abducted in 1993 in central New York. Even though her killer, Lewis Lent, is behind bars, authorities say he refuses to give her family the peace of knowing where Sara is. “48 …
Lewis Lent was convicted for murdering two children in Massachusetts and New York, including 12-year-old Sara Anne Wood. But investigators still don’t know where he buried her. Here’s a timeline of this decadeslong saga. Oct. 22, 1990: Jimmy Bernardo disappears Jimmy Bernardo Bernardo family James “Jimmy” Bernardo, 12, goes missing. …
This story previously aired on Aug. 5, 2023. Bart and Krista Halderson had everything a couple could want: a beautiful home in Windsor, Wisconsin, and two sons they adored. Mitchell, 24, who worked in tech, Chandler, 23, a college student living at home. Chandler had big ambitions – he talked …
This story originally aired on Dec. 2, 2023. At 6:30 a.m. on April 25, 2010, Heidi Firkus called 911 after her husband, Nick Firkus, said an intruder was breaking into their Saint Paul, Minnesota, home. She was shot and killed. Nick Firkus told investigators that his gun discharged when he …
