Crime Fix with Angenette Levy

It's been one year since Caitlin Tracey was found at the bottom of a stairwell in the luxury condo building where her husband, Adam Beckerink, lived in Chicago's South Loop. Caitlin's foot was severed and her body was "pulverized" from the fall. Caitlin had been the victim of domestic violence at the hands of Adam. Chicago Police now say Adam will be charged with murdering Caitlin. Law&Crime's...

Elizabeth Love and her boyfriend, Jarid "Jack" Krause, are accused of trying to sex traffic a student. Love is a transition coordinator and teacher of the deaf at Education Service Unit 11 in southern Nebraska. Holdredge Police said the victim is a 16-year-old girl that Love had worked with for several years. Police said Love tried to buy the student's silence when she declined an invitation for s...

Blake Bates has learned his sentence for his pit bull mix, Kilo, attacking and killing his six-month-old son, Royal, in April 2024. Bates had been warned by family members that the dog was aggressive and not fit to be around children. He'd also been cited after the dog tried to attack a child a year before Royal died. Bates was also sentenced on an escape charge and a strangulation charge involvin...

Detectives and FBI agents have been searching for Melodee Buzzard, 9, for nearly two weeks. The girl's school district called the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office on October 14 to report Melodee's "extended absence." The sheriff has described Melodee's mother as being "uncooperative" in the investigation. The FBI has released new images of Melodee that appear to show her wearing a wig in surv...

Melissa Said, 23, was taken into custody last week in the Brazilian state of Bahia after being on the run, police said. Said's instagram feed is full of videos and photos of her wearing bikinis and talking about her love of "weed." Police in Brazil say Said runs a massive drug ring that raids on five properties resulted in the seizure of evidence including scales, plastic bags and marijuana. Said...

Sarah Peterson and Samantha Peterson had an unbreakable bond as twin sisters. But when one was high on drugs and crashed into a buggy carrying Amish children to school in 2023, they traded places so Samantha's drug use wouldn't be discovered. Detectives quickly caught onto the sisters' plan. Siblings Irma Miller, 11, and Wilma Miller, 7, were killed. Law&Crime's Angenette Levy lays out the ent...

A new show streaming on Hulu, "Murdaugh: Death in the Family" is a dramatization of Alex Murdaugh's financial crimes and the murders of his wife, Maggie, and his son, Paul. The show includes a star-studded cast and has received mixed reviews. One of Murdaugh's lawyers, Dick Harpootlian, takes issues with some of the storytelling and casting. Law&Crime's Angenette Levy talks with Harpootlian ab...

Former Letcher County Sheriff Mickey Stines faces a murder charge for shooting and killing his onetime friend, Judge Kevin Mullins, in his chambers in September 2024. After Mullins was killed, claims of corruption began to surface and unfounded rumors about Stines' daughter and Mullins began to circulate. Now Mickey Stines' daughter, Lila Stines, has spoken publicly for the first time about the ca...

Before he allegedly shot UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, Luigi Mangione backpacked across Asia — and a shocking incident in Thailand is now emerging. According to WhatsApp messages, Mangione was allegedly beaten by a group of transgender women while partying in Bangkok. Diary entries also reveal what police say was his mindset in the months leading up to the shooting, including reflections on...

Christopher Scholtes planned to go to trial to fight a first-degree murder charge in the July 2024 death of his daughter, Parker. Parker Scholtes, 2, died after Christopher left her in a hot car to nap for three hours in their driveway. Detectives discovered Scholtes was playing video games and searching for porn as Parker died. Now, on the eve of his trial, Christopher has agreed to plead guilty...

Rodney Hinton Jr. is faces the possibility of the death penalty if he's convicted of the aggravated murder of a sheriff's deputy. Prosecutors in Hamilton County, Ohio said Hinton intentionally drove into a Deputy Larry Henderson in May after watching body-worn camera footage of a police officer from another agency shooting and killing his son. Hinton's lawyer has said he was mentally ill at the ti...

Adam Beckerink was sentenced to 93 days in jail for a 2024 domestic violence incident in Berrien County, Michigan in which he grabbed his wife's cell phone as she tried to call 911. Caitlin Tracey was found dead at the bottom of the stairwell of Beckerink's luxury condo building in Chicago a little more than two months later in October 2024. He has now pleaded no contest to the Michigan charges as...

 Bryan Kohberger, 30, has been in prison for nearly three months as he begins serving four consecutive life sentences for the murders of Maddie Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin. Judge Steven Hippler has begun unsealing court documents related to the case. A new batch of unsealed documents reveals more details about the evidence prosecutors planned to present at trial, t...

A 911 call from a tipster who wanted to remain anonymous led police to the discovery of the mummified remains of Alivia Hobbs-Jordan, 7, on June 25, 2023. Alivia's body was strapped into a stroller and hidden inside a closet at an apartment in Dekalb County. Alivia's mother, Alondra Hobbs, pleaded guilty earlier this year to several felony charges including malice murder and felony murder in Alivi...

Alyssa Smith believed she would receive a 90-day sentence in jail and probation for the death of her 6-month-old son, Royal Bates. Royal was attacked and killed by a pit bull mix in April 2024. Nearly a year later, Smith and Royal's father, Blake Bates, were charged in connection with his death. Now both have pleaded guilty and the judge slapped Smith which a much longer sentence after her sister...

Crystal Tadlock, 35, was pulled over for speeding in Magnolia, Texas last Saturday morning. What followed was a conversation with a police officer about how much she'd been drinking, a series of field sobriety tests and her revelation that she was nurse and a new mom. After Tadlock's arrest, she told the officer she'd let him die if he came to her hospital for treatment. Tadlock also began to curs...

Christina Formella appeared in DuPage County Court this week for a status hearing. Formella, a former special education teacher and soccer coach in Illinois, faces more than 50 charges related to allegations she groomed and sexually assaulted a male student. Prosecutors told the judge they're still combing through terabytes of digital evidence in the case. Law&Crime's Angenette Levy looks at t...

Dr. Robert Zewe, 50, spent the weekend in jail in northern Ohio after he was arrested and accused of arranging a meeting for sex with a mother and her 16-year-old daughter, according to Ohio's Attorney General. Dr. Zewe was met instead by members of the Mahoning Valley Human Trafficking Task Force who placed the ad on a website. Law&Crime's Angenette Levy goes through the allegations and the b...

Jamie Triplett, 31, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2012 for the rape and kidnapping of a woman in Stark County, Ohio. A judge granted Triplett early release in February 2025 and he was released in August and placed in probation for five years. Last month, police in Stark County say Triplett abducted a woman he'd once been involved with, stole her car and tossed her cell phone out of the ca...

Makhaela Hodgins, 32, has been indicted by a grand jury in Randolph County, Alabama on one count of having sex with a student under the age of 19. Hodgins worked as the cheerleading coach at the high school when the alleged incident took place. She has not been in the classroom since November 2024. Law&Crime's Angenette Levy talks with investigative reporter Erica Thomas who broke the story in...

Nicholas Carrasquillo shot and killed a man during an incident of road rage in Orlando, Florida in January 2024. Carrasquillo fired at David Sligh as he drove to work. Sligh was a father to a young son and stepsons. Carrasquillo went to trial early this year and claimed self-defense but was convicted of murder and firing into an occupied vehicle. Law&Crime's Angenette Levy goes through body-wo...

Grace Jennings was murdered on October 29, 2022 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Police found her stabbed and slashed with a sword in a garage where a former girlfriend of hers, Kiara McCulley, lived with her boyfriend, Isaac Apodaca. McCulley and Apodaca were both charged with murdering Jennings. Law&Crime’s Angenette Levy goes through the body camera video and police interviews in this episode of Cr...

More than nine months after the Pacific Palisades fire killed 12 people and destroyed 6,800 homes, federal authorities have charged a man with setting the initial fire that caused it. Jonathan Rinderknecht, 29, faces one count of Destruction of Property By Means of Fire. A federal complaint claims Rinderknecht, an Uber driver, set the fire in an area called the Hidden Buddha clearing just after mi...

Rainor Joiner, 23, faces a number of charges including first-degree murder, conspiracy and tampering with evidence in the death of Matthew McLaughlin in Taos County, New Mexico. Detectives say Joiner confessed to shooting McLaughlin in the chest and head on July 25 because he was "running his mouth." Joiner and co-defendant, David DeGroat, had served in the U.S. Army with McLaughlin and the t...

Kathryn Dennis has been sentenced to 30 days in jail for a May 2024 crash in Goose Creek, South Carolina in which she was convicted of driving under the influence. Dennis rose to fame for her role in the Bravo hit reality show "Southern Charm" but left the show in 2023. Since that time, she has joined OnlyFans and seen her star fade. Law&Crime's Angenette Levy goes through the video of her arr...