Voices for Justice

On March 16, 1968, 17-year-old Helen Harrison finished work in Pitt Town, New South Wales, Australia, and set off on her usual bicycle ride home. She never arrived. More than fifty years later, Helen’s name surfaced during the inquest into William Tyrrell’s disappearance. Why was a teenager who vanished in 1968 being discussed in the search for a little boy who disappeared decades later? This week...

Seven years after William Tyrrell disappeared, detectives told his foster mother they knew where he was. But they hadn’t found him. They were accusing her of concealing his body, an allegation she denied.  In the final installment of this series, we follow the investigation’s renewed focus on William’s foster mother, the secret recordings, the searches, and the legal battles that brought the...

On Christmas Day in 2021, 18-year-old Ariana Ptarcinski suffered a fatal stab wound at her family’s home in Spring Hill, Florida. She died the following day. Her death was ruled a homicide, but in August 2023, prosecutors declined to file criminal charges, citing what they described as insufficient evidence of criminal intent.  For this bonus episode of Voices for Justice, I’m joined by Aaron...

The search for William Tyrrell was becoming one of the largest missing child investigations in Australian history. But as the years passed without answers, the investigation itself began to change. In Part 3, we examine a major turning point in William’s case: the coronial inquest, the investigation led by Detective Chief Inspector Gary Jubelin, and the controversy that ultimately removed him from...

A tip about a washing machine repairman gave investigators a name to pursue in William Tyrrell’s disappearance. But as scrutiny of Bill Spedding intensified, the evidence supporting his alibi raised questions about the direction of the investigation. In part two, I examine why police focused on Spedding, what happened when they investigated him, and how their attention shifted toward William’s fos...

On September 12, 2014, three-year-old William Tyrrell disappeared while playing at his foster grandmother’s home on Benaroon Drive in Kendall, New South Wales, Australia. Within hours, an enormous search was underway. Police, emergency services, and members of the community combed the surrounding bushland, creeks, roads, and properties looking for the little boy. But William was nowhere to be foun...

In August of 1977, 22 year old Shari Lynn Roth left her apartment in North Conway, New Hampshire, for a short afternoon hike. She was supposed to arrive at the teen program where she worked by seven o’clock that evening, but she never showed up. Three days later, Shari was found murdered in the White Mountains. Nearly 50 years later, Shari’s case remains unsolved. Investigators are hoping brand ne...

In this episode of The Next Chapter, I welcome survivor advocate and former law enforcement officer Kara Robinson Chamberlain back to Voices for Justice. Since Kara’s first appearance in 2022, she has co-created and hosted Survivor’s Guide to True Crime, helped shape a scripted film about her life, worked on a documentary exploring ethics in true crime, and stepped into a new role as the host and...

Fifteen-year-old Sophie Reeder vanished in the early hours of May 20, 2017. In her bedroom, a candle was still burning. Three hundred dollars was left behind. On her calendar, one date had been marked with a mysterious “X.” Surveillance cameras captured Sophie walking alone along Davie Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Hours later, her phone went silent at a nearby apartment complex and Sophi...

On the morning of March 9, 1996, Amberly Mendoza was found murdered in her bedroom in Yuma, Arizona. She was just 10 years old. Her family’s home had been filled with people following a birthday celebration, yet someone was able to reach Amberly, sexually assault her, take her life, and leave without being identified. Thirty years later, investigators have DNA believed to belong to her killer. So...

Still Seeking Justice is a new Voices for Justice series created to reconnect with families previously featured on the show, learn what has changed, and determine how we can help now. In this first installment, Sarah speaks with Bonnie Bell, whose sister Danielle disappeared from Cantonment, Florida, at just fourteen years old in September 2001. Bonnie shares major developments since Danielle’s or...

On the morning of August 27, 1992, 13-year-old Leigh Occhi woke up expecting a day filled with excitement. She was preparing to start eighth grade, looking forward to visiting her new school, and planning a special dinner with her family. But before the day was over, Leigh would disappear from her home in Tupelo, Mississippi. Anyone with information about Leigh’s disappearance is asked to contact...

On May 24, 1986, nineteen-year-old Shelley Sikes left work at Gaido’s Seafood Restaurant in Galveston and began driving toward her boyfriend’s home. She never arrived. Witnesses saw a pickup force her car off the road, and her Ford Pinto was discovered hours later with the driver’s window shattered and her belongings still inside. Two men were ultimately convicted of aggravated kidnapping, but She...

On the Friday before Mother’s Day in 2018, Ana Del Valle stayed home awaiting what should have been a routine visit. In the neighboring apartment, Basil Gray returned carrying a cup of coffee. By the end of the weekend, both apartments in Brooklyn’s Bushwick Houses would be crime scenes and two seemingly ordinary lives would be connected by a mystery investigators still cannot explain. There was n...

In July 2013, 17-year-old Molly Miller and 21-year-old Colt Haynes vanished after a high-speed police chase ended on a remote back road in Love County, Oklahoma. The driver emerged from the woods. Molly and Colt never did. For nearly thirteen years, their loved ones refused to let the case or their names fade from public memory. Then, in early 2026, something changed. A long-awaited development br...

Today, I’m sharing an episode of The Final Hours, the show I co-host with Kourtney Nichole about missing persons and the final hours leading up to their disappearance or murder. In October 1981, 17-year-old Kurt Sova stepped outside a Cleveland Halloween party to get some air. Two minutes later, he was gone. Five days after that, his body was found in a nearby ravine — arms outstretched, both shoe...

In February 2020, 26-year-old Marquis Martin disappeared after working a night shift at his second job. For nearly a month, his family, friends, and community searched for him, pleading for answers and for help from law enforcement. When Marquis was finally found, it was the worst possible outcome: he had been murdered. But as his loved ones pushed for justice, they were forced to confront another...

In the early morning hours of July 29, 2012, 21-year-old Kortne Stouffer vanished from her apartment in Palmyra, Pennsylvania. But this wasn’t a quiet night. There were people outside her door, arguments, noise complaints and calls to police. Neighbors awake and paying attention. But by morning, Kortne was gone. Kortne Stouffer was last seen in Palmyra, Pennsylvania in the early morning hours of J...

Pepita Redhair was 27 years old when she disappeared from Albuquerque, New Mexico on or about March 24, 2020. In the days and weeks that followed, her family desperately searched for answers while facing roadblocks, conflicting information, and a lack of attention during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.  More than six years later, Pepita’s loved ones are still searching for the truth about wha...

In the final part of Nancy Guthrie’s case, we pick up with the update that changed everything: law enforcement had recovered previously inaccessible doorbell camera footage showing a masked, armed man outside Nancy’s Tucson home in the early morning hours after she was last seen. From there, the case only gets more complicated. In this episode, I walk through the video, the suspect description, th...

For years, people have asked what active searching for Alissa looks like in 2026. In this episode, I’m taking you behind the scenes of a recent search effort that left me with more questions than answers. After being directed toward a specific area, our search team brought in trained dogs. During the search, the dogs alerted in a location that raised serious concerns. Despite those alerts, law enf...

Part One of my series on Nancy Guthrie begins where the case began: with the first days of confusion, concern, and unanswered questions. In this episode, we walk through the earliest timeline of Nancy’s disappearance, what was known publicly at the time, and how her family began trying to piece together what happened. As the story unfolded, each new detail raised more questions than answers. 84 ye...

Like so many people in the US, 32-year-old Nicole Fitts was struggling with housing insecurity. She worked at Best Buy in San Francisco, California and would often travel up to 4 hours a day to commute to work from wherever she was staying at the time. Sometimes the commute was so bad, Nicole would just crash on a couch until her next shift. This meant she would have to leave her two-year-old daug...

On February 4, 2003, four-year-old Sofia Juarez left her home in Kennewick, Washington, with a dollar in her hand and plans to walk to a nearby store. She never made it there. What followed was Washington State’s first AMBER Alert, a massive search, and a case that has haunted Sofia’s family and community for more than two decades. Over the years, investigators have pursued witness statements, veh...

Twenty-five years ago, my sister Alissa Turney disappeared. For most of that time, I have lived in the space between grief and action, between not knowing and refusing to look away. This episode is different. It is shorter, more personal, and less about retelling every detail of Alissa’s case than it is about marking what this anniversary means. Twenty-five years is an impossible amount of time to...