Michael Wayne Jones confessed to beating his wife to death with a baseball bat after she allegedly accused him of infidelity. In the weeks following, he then strangled or drowned their children — ranging from ages 1 to 10 — and stored their bodies in suitcases and totes.
Questions surround the recent arrest of Billie Jo Betterton — whose daughter, Leilani Simon, stands accused of murdering her 20-month-old son Quinton Simon — for contempt of court.
The Proof true-crime podcast unearthed misconduct and false incriminating statements that sent Darrell Clark and Cain Storey to prison for their friend Brian Bowling's shooting death.
Betty Rolf, 60, vanished during a 15-minute walk from her Appleton, Wisconsin home to her place of work. The next day, a police officer found her partially-nude body underneath the gravel with a purse strap wrapped around her neck.
Police sought 31-year-old Torrey Moore for the death of gas station employee Ayalew Wondimu, who was shot to death across the street from Moore's apartment. There, investigators found a pregnant woman in an advanced stage of decomposition.
Loved ones say they fear the worst since not speaking with 22-year-old Ken DeLand, whom they spoke with on Nov. 27 before he boarded a train. Surveillance video showed DeLand almost a week later making an $8.40 purchase at a French sports store.
A man known as "Richard King" in upstate New York died recently as a result of a medical emergency, and authorities discovered he was really Connecticut family man Robert Hoagland, who disappeared nearly 10 years ago.
Michael Valva said he was "truly sorry" for making his autistic son, Thomas, sleep in an unheated garage as temperatures dipped into the teens. Home surveillance video showed the police officer taunting his son when he could no longer stand on his own.
