Every year for Christmas, Jean Wholaver and her family would make the drive to Johnstown, Pennsylvania, to spend the holiday with her parents. In 2002, the plan was no different than it had been in previous years. However, this year, Jean and her daughters, Vicky and Izzy, would never make it to her parents’ home on Christmas Eve. The following day, Jean, Vicky and Izzy were found murdered in their home. As the investigation began, the first suspect detectives looked into was Jean’s est...

When 50-year-old Bill Hall Jr. was driving his motorcycle on October 10, 2013, he never imagined that it would be the last time he rode it. During a vehicle chase on the Texas Highway 1604 between Bill's wife, Frances Hall, and another woman he was seeing, Bonnie Contreras, Bill was run over and lost his life. After Bill’s death, Frances was arrested and charged with his murder. However, she maintained that it had all been an accident, but Bonnie claimed otherwise. Join us for tod...

On Christmas Eve 2008, the Ortega family gathered for their annual celebration. The family, which included Joseph and Alicia Ortega, their five adult children, and their families, was spread out around the house. Some adults were playing poker, kids were playing video games, and others were hanging out outside by the pool. As everyone was enjoying themselves, there was a knock on the door at around 11:30 pm. The person at the door was someone dressed as Santa Claus. What was supposed to be a ...

When people around Velma Barfield began dying in the late 60s and 70s, it seemed tragic rather than suspicious since they suffered from health issues. It began with her first husband, Thomas Burke, in 1969, followed by her second husband, Jennings Barfield, in 1971. The deaths continued, spanning from other family members to the elderly she began to take care of. However, when she began a relationship and eventually became engaged to a man named Stuart Taylor, who was in good health, and then...

On November 29, 1992, 39-year-old Sara Tokars was on her way back home, with her two kids, to Georgia, from spending the Thanksgiving holiday with her family down in Florida. Sara's family, the Ambrusko's, were waiting for Sara's call to let them know that she had arrived safely, but the call never came. Later that evening, two young boys knocked on the door of an isolated house and informed its occupants that their mother had been shot. Those two boys were Sara's sons, 6-year-old Ricky and 4...

In the early morning of January 9, 2002, 12-year-old Ashley Pond headed to the school bus stop, but never arrived. As the search for Ashley began, her family and friends came together to help in any way they could. One of those people was 13-year-old Miranda Gaddis, who was Ashley's close friend and neighbor. However, in March, Miranda also vanished under the same suspicious circumstances as Ashley. It would take months after the girls' disappearance, but a big break in the case finally arriv...

In the early hours of May 26, 1984, 22-year-old Brad Perry was working his graveyard shift at the local Texaco gas station. After returning the change to customer who had purchased beer, he never expected for an argument to arise. The argument escalated into a brutal fight that ended up in Brad being brutally murdered. As the investigation begins, there were multiple suspects but physical evidence excluded them. In time, the case went cold, and it would take 24 years until Brad’s killer was b...

In April 2014, Darren West was cleaning his garage, in the home he had once shared with his estranged wife, Megan Huntsman, in Pleasant Grove, Utah. As he moved boxes around, he came across a strange white box wrapped in plastic and decided to open it to see what was inside. And what he discovered was something out of a horror film. The small box contained the body of a decomposed baby. Darren told detectives that there was one person he knew of whom the baby could have belonged to, and it wa...

When 58-year-old Kristie Marks went to pick up her daughter, Taylor, from her boyfriend's house on October 24, 2009, she felt ecstatic. They had been going through some issues, and Kristie thought that maybe Taylor was ready to come home for good and work things out, but that wasn’t how things turned out that night. As the mother and daughter headed toward the vehicle to leave, Kristie was randomly attacked by an unknown assailant. Unfortunately, Kristie lost her life that night. As the inves...

On the night of August 22, 2005, 20-year-old Josh Bennet went to his estranged mother, Jacqueline's, house to have dinner and spend the night, as they were trying to repair their strained relationship. However, those hopes were shattered when, in the early hours of August 23, two intruders broke into the home and stabbed Jacquiline and Josh, resulting in Josh's death. As the investigation begins, detectives discover that Josh and Jacquiline were not the intended targets. It was something more...

On November 19, 1986, 39-year-old wife and mother Helle Crafts was dropped off by a friend and coworker at her home after returning from an overseas flight, where she worked as a flight attendant. After she made her way inside, she was never seen alive again. When she failed to show up at work, her friends asked her husband, Richard Crafts, about her whereabouts, and he claimed she had gone to visit her sick mother in Denmark. However, as days went by with no word from Helle, it began to seem...

On Halloween night in 1984, 31-year-old Doreen Erbert expected to relax after taking her four-year-old daughter, DeAnna, trick-or-treating. After her husband, Charles, left home to run to the nearby convenience store, Doreen planned to stop giving out candy and watch movies on the couch. Those plans were shattered when a loud knock sounded at the front door around 9 pm. Standing there was a man in a wolf mask, who proceeded to attack Doreen and kill her. In an expected turn of events, as the ...

In early July 1996, a Canadian man named Blair Adams entered the US and never returned home. Before he left, family and friends noted that Blair was acting strangely and even mentioned that someone was after him, trying to kill him. Tragically, on July 11, Blair was found dead at a hotel construction site in Knoxville, Tennessee. As the investigation into his death begins, investigators learn that nothing adds up, nothing about the way he was found, his cause of death, or how there was no sin...

In September 2006, 22-year-old college senior Mindy Morgenstern couldn't wait to graduate that December and start her adult life. Unfortunately, she would never reach graduation. On September 13, friends went to her off-campus apartment since they hadn't been able to reach her all day. When they entered, they made a chilling discovery. There in the entryway was Mindy, dead, with a knife in her throat. As the investigation unfolds, numerous suspects emerge. But after the DNA test results retur...

In the spring of 1999, a 14-year-old girl, using the alias Ah Fong, contacted the Hong Kong police about the ghost of a woman who haunted her. According to Ah Fong, the only way to get rid of this said ghost was to confess to the horrific murder of a woman that she had been part of. When police learn of the heinous details of the murder of 23-year-old Fan Man-yee, they were left speechless. Based on the evidence at the crime scene, she was brutally tortured and raped before finally succumbing...

In the fall of 2017, Brigida Uto, a wife and mother, fell ill with no apparent cause for her illness. Though she sought medical help for months, doctors were not able to figure out what was wrong with her and what was causing her debilitating symptoms. After losing all hope, Dr. LaPoint, also a board-certified toxicologist, would be the one to solve the mystery. Brigida was suffering from an intentional poisoning of the very toxic metal, thallium. As the investigation begins to determin...

In the fall of 1974, 19-year-old Arlis Perry moved to California with her new husband, Bruce Perry, where he was attending Standard University. A few weeks later, on the night of October 12, the couple argued, prompting Arlis to go to nearby Stanford Memorial Church to pray. When she didn't come home, Bruce contacted the police, and she was later found brutally murdered inside the church. It took many decades to finally identify her killer, and while that was accomplished, he was never brough...

When a woman named Brandi Watkins arrived at her boyfriend's home on the late afternoon of May 19, 2002, she was not expecting to walk into the horrific scene that she did. There, lying in the foyer, were the dead bodies of her boyfriend, 48-year-old Carter Elliott, and family friend, 25-year-old Timmy Wayne Robertson. As the investigation begins, detectives are stumped to find no leads as to who could've killed them. But a month after the murders, a big clue that breaks the case wide open ap...

In June of 1977, 10-year-old Denise Milner, 9-year-old Michele Guse, and 8-year-old Lori Farmer were settled into their tent on a stormy night at Camp Scott in Oklahoma. The following morning, on June 13, a camp counselor made a horrific discovery. She came upon the body of a murdered little girl, Denise. Shortly after, the bodies of Michele and Lori were also discovered. As the investigation began, detectives learned of many odd occurrences that had taken place before the girls arrived at ca...

When college junior Jesse Valencia got home from a party in the early hours of June 5, 2004, in Columbia, Missouri, he had no idea it would be the last party he'd ever attend. Later that afternoon, at 2 pm, his deceased body was discovered in a yard between two houses. As the investigation into his murder begins, detectives soon learn that Jesse was a social butterfly and had many friends and no real enemies. That is, until they find out about a possible person of interest they didn't see com...