Christine Banfield’s sister looked Brendan Banfield in the eye at his sentencing and told him she never truly knew him. Nobody did. Joseph Ryan’s mother reminded a Fairfax County courtroom that her son had a face, a name, and a...
Read moreBill Wegerle was a suspect in his own wife’s murder for eighteen years. From the day Vicki Wegerle was killed in their Wichita home in September of 1986 until the day in March of 2004 when the actual killer mailed...
Read moreSurveillance cameras in Two Rivers, Wisconsin captured Jesse Vang pulling up to the donation door of a St. Vincent de Paul store on February 19, 2024 and dropping off a dark-colored suitcase. He’d borrowed a neighbor’s Nissan Altima. He’d left...
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Jesse Vang had a felony conviction for harming a child when he was seventeen. He’d been charged with human trafficking. He’d done federal time for a drug conspiracy. And when he was released in 2022, he was placed on supervised Read more…
Every case Michael Proctor ever investigated now carries a question mark — and that question mark just got a lot bigger. According to a lawsuit filed against the Town of Canton and Massachusetts State Police, the fired state police trooper Read more…
In Lonoke County, Arkansas, a judge found that investigators’ handling of evidence in Aaron Spencer’s murder case was “so egregious” the prosecution had to be dismissed. The dashcam SD card that could have told the whole story was handled in Read more…
A man who trusted almost no outsiders sat down across from Christine Marie and handed her the access that would eventually put him in federal prison for fifty years. He didn’t know what she was. He didn’t know her history. Read more…
The FBI built its case against Timothy Hudson on DNA evidence, surveillance footage, cellphone data, and a cabin timeline aboard the Carnival Horizon. DNA recovered from Anna Kepner’s body points to her stepbrother with a probability prosecutors called 120 sextillion Read more…
When a judge uses the word “coverup” in a written order, he’s not guessing. Judge Ralph Wilson Jr. looked at how Lonoke County handled the Aaron Spencer murder prosecution and found a pattern — not a mistake, not an oversight, Read more…
Dennis Rader was the BTK Killer. He was also the man who named himself the BTK Killer. He typed the name onto an envelope and mailed it to the Wichita Eagle in October of 1974, and the city has been Read more…
