William Lewis Reece was convicted last year for the 1997 murder of Tiffany Johnston in Oklahoma. In a bid to avoid the death penalty, Reece subsequently confessed to killing Laura Smither, Jessica Cain and Kelli Ann Cox that same year in Texas.
Many cases of missing transgender and non-binary people go unresolved because their bodies do not match the descriptions listed in their missing persons reports. The Trans Doe Task Force wants to help fix that.
Brenda and Daniel Jones say that their 16-year-old daughter, Kaylee Jones, is autistic, and that her condition left her vulnerable to online predators who may have lured her away from home.
Police say Thadius McGrath beat Samantha Rementer before strangling her to death with a lamp cord. Rementer's 4-year-old daughter told police that she bit the suspect during the attack.
Prosecutors say Johnny Edwards IV used a baseball bat and knife to attack his mother, Dr. Kathy Edwards, and his wife, Venus Quanteh, who was five months pregnant. He pleaded guilty but mentally ill and received a life sentence.
Prosecutors allege Rebecca Ruud drugged her biological daughter, 16-year-old Savannah Leckie, and took what she thought was the teen's dead body to burn in a fire. But when Leckie woke up screaming, prosecutors say Ruud beat her to death.
The wildlife zookeeper and trainer is expected to return to his South Carolina reserve after being released on bond. He stands accused of laundering more than half a million dollars of illegal funds.
Police say Glenn Hirsch harassed employees at a Chinese restaurant for months, believing he didn't get enough duck sauce with an order late last year. Then, he allegedly gunned down delivery driver Zhiwen Yan in April.
Authorities say Sylvia Nicole Smith was considered a runaway after she disappeared from Midland, Texas in 2000. More than 13 years later, partial remains were discovered by workers in the oilfields of western Texas that have since turned out to be her.
Officials say Ricky Dubose died in an apparent suicide just 10 days after he was sentenced to death. He had been convicted of killing corrections officers Sgt. Christopher Monica and Sgt. Curtis Billue while escaping a prison transport bus in 2017.
