The family of 24-year-old Allahnia Lenoir from Douglasville worries she may have been abducted from an Atlanta apartment complex more than two weeks ago after allegedly making plans with a friend.
Witnesses in the courtroom said Edward LeClair — who had stood trial on child sexual assault charges — "chugged" a bottle of what appeared to be cloudy water right after a jury found him guilty.
Authorities say Dawn Renee Wynn shot her husband, Harold Lee Wynn, in the back of the head as he slept in their southwestern Missouri camper. She later allegedly left a note and vanished from her mother's house while out on bond.
Law enforcement agencies around the country have increasingly begun to print and distribute decks of playing cards with information about various cold cases to incarcerated people.
Tanna Togstad and Timothy Mumbrue - along with Togstad's pet dog - were found stabbed to death more than 30 years ago. Tony Haase claimed to have been drunk on the night of the murder and "was afraid he was involved" after seeing the news on TV.
Police say they used DNA to identify the man who killed Asenath Dukat, an 8-year-old who disappeared in 1980 during her one-mile walk home from school. Her body was found in a ditch three hours later.
Former public defender Juliane Colby will spend 13 months in a federal prison for smuggling heroin to a prisoner believed to be convicted child killer Ce-Antonyo Kennedy, with whom she had a "romantic" relationship.
Rumors swirled early in the investigation that Shanan Lynn Read was killed after using drugs in a Seattle apartment with a group of men. Although her death was initially investigated as a drug overdose, now officials say she was beaten to death.
Following the death of 14-year-old Heather Baynard, authorities found 40 neglected animals at the South Carolina home. One dog was already dead, and two puppies had to be euthanized.
