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Explore the people, evidence and decisions behind criminal cases. Follow what the records establish, how an investigation changed, and what remains unresolved.
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60 source-based case files
CASE FILE 0001
Joseph James DeAngelo's identification changed a decades-old investigation. The evidence that connected crimes, the genealogy that supplied a name and the court proceedings each did a different job.
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A murder conviction, later appellate decisions and a continuing search describe different parts of the case of a nineteen-year-old Cal Poly student.
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An unresolved Orlando disappearance, the recovered vehicle and the investigation that remained active twenty years later.
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The murder case against Jodi Arias ended in a conviction and natural-life sentence, despite two juries being unable to agree on the penalty.
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A restrained historical account of the deaths of Daniel and Linda Broderick, with a clearly attributed 2026 update.
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What the Clara Harris case established—and why a sudden-passion finding did not turn the verdict into an acquittal.
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A 1990 death in Derry, the evidence against Pamela Smart and the court decision issued in September 2026.
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DNA from a bite-mark swab helped identify an LAPD detective, leading to a murder conviction and later parole proceedings.
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The murder convictions, the reversal of a death sentence and the post-conviction decision reported in 2026.
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The Utah missing-person case and the later deaths of Charlie and Braden Powell are connected tragedies with different records.
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A murder conviction followed the re-examination of one death. A separate disappearance remained unresolved.
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The 2023 proceeding supplied an account of her death while resolving extortion and wire-fraud charges.
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The FBI continues seeking information about the woman who vanished during a Caribbean family cruise in 1998.
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Sherrill Levitt, Suzanne Streeter and Stacy McCall vanished after a graduation weekend inJune 1992.
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The nursing student was missing when police reached the New Hampshire crash scene on February 9, 2004.
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Fifteen years after her disappearance, police reported that tips and interviews were still arriving.
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The Iowa television journalist disappeared in 1995. A lead investigator described an active inquiry in 2026.
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The FBI’s account places the last sighting on a New Mexico highway in September 1988.
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A 1991 phone call remains a central point in Missouri’s missing-person appeal.
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An Orange County cold-case appeal separates the recovered evidence from the identity still unknown.
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A cross-country trip left dated traces before the vehicle was found on a Washington logging road.
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A legal declaration recognized her death at the World Trade Center without reconstructing every missing hour.
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Her disappearance after work became part of a wider campaign for missing people.
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The search changed in 2014, but an official suspicion was not a criminal verdict.
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A retrial order and dismissal changed the legal meaning of a once-announced solution.
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The punishment changed on appeal; Thomas Capano’s murder conviction remained.
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A mistrial was followed by a conviction that Connecticut’s highest court upheld.
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A disabled car in California and a stolen-truck inquiry in Arizona became parts of one prosecution.
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Her family’s work continued after the prosecution and the 2026 execution of her killer.
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The federal indictment and later FBI account explain what was charged and what remained unresolved.
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The appellate record explains why life imprisonment did not mean the jury had rejected guilt.
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Her parents worked to change access to emergency phone-location information after her killing.
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Her disappearance in 2009 was resolved in court alongside a separate killing years later.
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Her case ended in a guilty plea, within a resolution that also accounted for Morgan Harrington.
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The survivor was found in Maryland; the abductor later pleaded guilty and received a federal sentence.
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The federal case traced the abduction to Matthew Muller and a later search of his property.
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A campus encounter led two UC Berkeley police staff members to contact a parole officer.
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A nine-month abduction was followed years later by Brian David Mitchell’s conviction and sentence.
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Amanda Berry’s escape in May 2013 brought police to the home where Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight were also held.
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A guilty plea resolved false statements and mail fraud after investigators disproved the kidnapping account.
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The California and New York proceedings establish specific outcomes that a familiar television label can obscure.
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An anonymous map left an investigative trail. Travis died before the criminal accusations could be tried.
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The court history and a scholarship created in her memory show different parts of a life too often reduced to a news clip.
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A false account of a morning run gave way to an admission in court and an indeterminate prison sentence.
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The Colorado prosecution ended with a life sentence despite the absence of a recovered body.
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The Michigan appellate record follows the disappearance from a Halloween party to a sustained conviction.
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Heather Mack’s American sentence and Tommy Schaefer’s later federal plea must retain their different legal labels.
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The Florida appeal addressed entrapment and trial evidence while leaving the conviction intact.
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The initial appearance of two victims changed as investigators examined what happened inside the Bethesda shop.
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The Central Park killing ended in a manslaughter plea, not a murder verdict.
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The number of bodies, charges and convictions described different stages of the Sacramento case.
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The legal record separates a disputed self-defense account from the conviction sustained on appeal.
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The conviction count and the continuing work of finding people belong to different parts of the case.
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Digital examination helped investigators identify Dennis Rader; the later judgment accounted for ten killings.
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A multistate investigation and separate prosecutions should not be collapsed into a single victim count.
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The appellate record identifies the convictions; the corrections record distinguishes death in custody from execution.
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The FBI’s 2019 announcement described an ongoing effort to identify victims, rather than ninety-three completed prosecutions.
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Lonnie Franklin Jr.’s death sentence was imposed in 2016; he died before it was carried out.
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The Black Dahlia case illustrates the different questions fingerprints can answer.
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Letters and cryptanalysis created a second puzzle alongside the murders themselves.
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