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A federal investigation is now underway into the deaths and disappearances of at least 10 Americans tied to sensitive nuclear and aerospace research. Today, we go deep on two of them. In New Mexico, retired Air Force Major General William McCasland, who once commanded the country's most classified aerospace research laboratory, walked out of his home one morning and has not been seen since. And in...

Congress has given the FBI, NASA, and the Pentagon a deadline to explain why at least a dozen scientists and researchers connected to nuclear weapons, classified aerospace programs, and UFO investigations have turned up dead or missing in recent years. But while Washington asks questions about who may be targeting America's scientists, investigators in Tampa say a man charged with murdering his tw...

In Massachusetts, an award-winning UMass chef pleaded not guilty to beating his wife to death inside a campus hotel room, then attacking the officers who responded. In Maryland, a man has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder nearly 24 years after his wife vanished the day before their son's third birthday. In Florida, a suspect has been arrested 33 years after a couple was bound and...

In Los Angeles, prosecutors revealed disturbing new evidence from singer D4vd's phone and iCloud account as the autopsy report for 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez was released, showing she died from multiple penetrating wounds consistent with stabbing. In Wichita, a Marine veteran and PBS broadcast engineer was shot outside her home by her estranged husband and died three days later. In Utah,...

The punishment phase is underway in Texas for Tanner Horner, the FedEx driver who pleaded guilty to kidnapping and killing 7-year-old Athena Strand, and this week his own mother took the stand to testify about a childhood defined by addiction and abuse in a bid to spare him from the death penalty. In Oregon, a 73-year-old man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the 1983 murder of his girl...

In Los Angeles, singer D4vd pleaded not guilty and was denied bail at his arraignment on Monday. In Alabama, a mother, her 17-year-old pregnant daughter, and her 12-year-old son were found bound with zip ties and killed in three separate rooms of their home overnight. In Houston, a man who pleaded guilty to assaulting his pregnant girlfriend months before she was found dead has been arrested and c...

BREAKING: Singer D4vd now faces first-degree murder charges with special circumstances, sexual acts with a minor, and mutilation of human remains in the death of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez; and California prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. In New Jersey, 59-year-old Paul Caneiro, the man convicted of killing his brother, sister-in-law, and their two young children, is fighting for...

In California, The singer D4vd has been arrested on suspicion of murdering 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, whose dismembered remains were found inside the front trunk of his Tesla seven months ago. In Georgia, a man who showed up to a court-ordered custody visit wearing a bulletproof vest shot dead the father who arrived with snacks and a stuffed animal to meet his son for the very first time...

In Virginia, former Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax shot and killed his wife Cerina inside their Annandale home in the middle of the night, then turned the gun on himself, while their two teenage children were home. In Virginia, a Navy reservist charged with stuffing his wife's body in a kitchen freezer and fleeing the country has been arrested after a two-month international manhunt spanning m...

In New York, a serial killer connected to four murders spanning nearly five decades, including the killing of his own grandmother when he was just 13 years old, has finally been sentenced. In Arizona, a man who shot his 19-year-old girlfriend eleven times because she received texts from a male friend has been sentenced to life in prison. In New York City, a teenager who beat a woman to death in th...

In Florida, a 16-year-old has been indicted as an adult for the murder and sexual abuse of his 18-year-old stepsister Anna Kepner, whose body was found hidden under a bed in their shared cabin aboard a Carnival cruise ship. In Texas, a man was arrested after a welfare check led police to his father's body stuffed inside a trash bag in their shared home, with surveillance footage showing the son ha...

In Utah, the murder trial of Tracey Grist is finally underway, and she's accused of orchestrating the 2024 killing of her son-in-law Matthew Restelli, who was lured nine hours from home under the pretense of reconciling with his wife and shot seven times the moment he walked through the door. In North Carolina, a man who was once the prime suspect in his wife's 2012 disappearance has been arrested...

In Florida, a judge has sentenced Shelby Nealy to death for the murders of his wife's father, mother, and brother, three people he killed to protect a lie he had been living for months while sending texts from his dead wife's phone to keep her family from asking questions. In New York City, a man is arraigned on murder and arson charges after allegedly setting a fire in a Queens apartment building...

In Mississippi, testimony is underway in the murder trial of a Jackson State University student accused of shooting his roommate over a box of doughnuts, pouring bleach on the scene, and dragging the body down seven flights of stairs to hide it in the victim's own car. In North Carolina, the murder case against the man accused of stabbing Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on a light rail train has...

In New York, after years of not guilty pleas and delays, Rex Heuermann stood before a judge and admitted to everything; and the details that came out in that courtroom are chilling. In England, police have made an arrest in the 2004 cold case murder of millionaire businessman John Luper, who was ambushed and choked to death outside his own home. In Tampa, jury selection is underway in the death pe...

In a stunning development out of Long Island this morning, Rex Heuermann, the 62-year-old former Manhattan architect accused of being the Gilgo Beach serial killer, stood before a Suffolk County judge and pleaded guilty to murdering seven women, then admitted to an eighth killing as part of his plea agreement. Heuermann confessed to strangling all eight victims over a 17-year period and dumping th...

In Texas, the capital murder trial of FedEx driver Tanner Horner who abducted and killed a 7-year-old in 2022 took a dramatic turn on its very first day when he pleaded guilty, sending the case directly into the punishment phase where jurors will now decide whether he lives or dies. In North Carolina, a paramedic charged with poisoning his wife with eyedrops has pleaded not guilty at his arraignme...

In Florida, opening statements are underway in the murder trial of DeMorris Hunter, a man already serving multiple life sentences for killings in California, who now faces the death penalty for a 2002 cold case murder. In Australia, a man was arrested at Melbourne Airport moments before boarding an international flight, and is now charged with murder in connection with the death of his estranged f...

In Florida, the husband of Coral Springs Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer Bowen has been charged with first-degree murder after she was found dead inside their home on a morning she was supposed to be at a city commission meeting. In Massachusetts, a woman who poisoned her longtime boyfriend with antifreeze and filmed him suffering has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Al...

In Texas, a grand jury has indicted a 61-year-old man in connection with two of the most notorious cold cases tied to the Texas Killing Fields, more than four decades after the victims vanished. In Washington D.C., two men are now in custody charged with the brutal robbery and murder of a resident who opened his apartment door, only to be beaten, strangled, bound, and left in a fire set after his...

In this special extended discussion, Vanessa Richardson is joined by attorney and legal analyst Kelly Hyman to take a deeper look at the attempted murder trial of Dr. Gerhardt Konig, a Maui anesthesiologist accused of trying to kill his wife during a birthday hike in Hawaii. Prosecutors allege that Konig lured his wife, Arielle Konig, to the edge of a cliff, attempted to push her over, and then at...

In a breaking development, more than five decades after 17-year-old Laura Ann Aime vanished on Halloween night, investigators in Utah confirm through DNA evidence that infamous serial killer Ted Bundy was responsible for her murder. In Florida, the long-delayed murder trial of Courtney Clenney is pushed back again as legal battles about alleged misconduct continue in the death of her boyfriend. Al...

In the Bay Area, a man already charged with killing his wife and mother-in-law is now accused of a third, separate murder, allegedly hiring a hitman to kill his mistress's boyfriend. In Connecticut, a trial nearly four decades in the making is now underway for a Maine man accused of kidnapping, sexually assaulting, and strangling 11-year-old Kathleen Flynn in 1986; a case cracked open by DNA evide...

In Colombia, a body has been found during the search for missing American Airlines flight attendant Eric Gutierrez Molina, a Texas-based crew member who vanished during a layover in Medellín and never made it to his return flight. In Phoenix, a 21-year-old neighbor is charged with second-degree murder after allegedly shooting and killing a mother of seven, including a newborn still in the NICU, ov...

In Hawaii, a woman takes the stand in the explosive trial against her husband, a Maui anesthesiologist accused of trying to kill her during a birthday hike by pushing her toward a cliff and attacking her with a rock. In Texas, a suspect is arrested in the 1990 “Lovers’ Lane” murders after decades of investigation, as DNA evidence and a late-breaking tip lead authorities to a man now charged with c...