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 …
A man who was identified as a new possible suspect in the killing and sexual assault of a Virginia woman who was visiting Hawaii more than three decades ago died by suicide recently after police took a DNA swab from him, officials said. The Hawaii Police Department on Monday said …
This story originally aired on Oct. 21, 2023. The murders of two young women, killed months apart while riding their bikes along a canal in Phoenix, Arizona, went unsolved for more than two decades and would become known as the Phoenix canal murders. Investigators got a break 21 years after …
This story previously aired on June 9, 2018. It was updated on July 6, 2024. Produced by Lourdes Aguiar and Cindy Cesare Every morning for the last 37 years, Jim Alt wakes up terrified — thinking that it’s 1978, and that he’s just been brutally attacked on Torrey Pines State …
This story previously aired on Aug. 28, 2021. It was updated on June 29, 2024. Aniah Blanchard, 19, was widely known for always putting other people before herself, but she also had a deep-seated fear of being kidnapped and harmed. On Oct. 23, 2019, Aniah vanished without a trace after …
This story previously aired on Sept. 30, 2023. Josh Jones and Laura Keck have prosecuted hundreds of cases, but no case has troubled them quite like the murder of Becky Bliefnick. Josh Jones: You put yourself in the mind of Becky Bliefnick in the last moments of her life, the …
It was 1 p.m. on May 8, 2018, when Massachusetts State Police detectives arrived at a farmhouse in Westfield. 51-year-old Amy Fanion lay dead in the dining room from a single gunshot wound to the head. Amy Fanion’s husband, Brian Fanion, a detective in the Westfield Police Department, had called …
Scott Sherman is the mayor of Winona, Minnesota, a small city on the banks of the Mississippi. “There’s just something about Winona that keeps pulling you back,” he told “48 Hours” correspondent Peter Van Sant. “Living here in Winona is really cool.” It’s so cool that TV and film star …