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In December 1974, three kids take off for a local Fort Worth, Texas, Army-Navy store and mall and fail to return. Known as the "Fort Worth 3," this missing person case is one of the oldest and most mysterious on record. I speak to several victim family members and try to sort out ...  Show more

It's January 14th, 1973. And the parents of 16-year-old Norman Prater call into the Dallas Police to report their son missing. Fifty-two years later, the answer comes with some remarkable police work, a little luck, and it is not what anyone could have ever expected. Welcome to a ...  Show more

DNA has become the gold standard in forensic investigation. As its use is increasing, so is our understanding of its limitations.   Jae Gerhard is the principal forensic scientist at Independent Forensic Services. Starting out as a forensic scientist at the Australian Federal Pol ...  Show more

Prosecutors at the Norfolk County Superior Court in Massachusetts share new details in the murder case against disgraced art salesman Brian Walshe, just two months after they finished one of the biggest trials of the year -- Karen Read. And Michael Proctor, the lead investigat ...

For years, the Golden State Killer haunted California—and then simply vanished. But he wasn’t gone. He was hiding in plain sight. In Part 2, we follow the decades-long investigation that finally unmasked Joseph James DeAngelo, the DNA that cracked the case, and the shocking momen ...  Show more

In 1979, Donald Miller, a graduate of Michigan State University who majored in criminal justice, was sentenced to 30 to 50 years for rape and attempted murder but was suspected in the unsolved murders of four other local young women. In a highly unusual plea bargain, Miller agree ...  Show more