Nine-year-old Andrew Hockensmith helped police find the gun-slinging pastor responsible for the murders of his parents and another, all while protecting his baby sister. 

Today, some still defend Jeff West, the man accused of using an absinthe bottle to fatally strike his wife in the head. 

Authorities had to investigate the possible motive behind why trans native Jamie Wounded Arrow was found stabbed to death in her Sioux Falls apartment.

Detectives in Jacksonville, Florida, were stumped over the whereabouts of single mother Sherry Prather, who was last seen riding on the back of a motorcycle with an unknown man. 

Christian camp counselors Lindsay Cutshall and Jason Allen enjoyed a sight-seeing excursion in San Francisco for the last leg of their summer ministry. Why someone would fatally shoot them as they camped on a beach would go unsolved for more than a decade. 

The search for a missing businessman, Charles Butler, led detectives to a brutal murder and a jealous ex who claimed he'd been "possessed by a demon."

Winnipeg Police say 34-year-old Ricardo Hibi stopped a violent man from entering a group home he managed before being stabbed in the chest. 

Harry Branson admitted he "completely f-ck-ng lost it,” as seen in security footage that captured the murder of 46-year-old St. Augustine artist Jordie Hudson.  

Bud and Melanie Billings were loved for opening their home to children with special needs, so why would a group of masked men break into their home and fatally shoot them?

In 2022, a long-time person of interest cited as "a very disturbed individual" confessed to the rape and murder of 17-year-old Brittanee Drexel, 13 years after the teen vanished from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.