Crime in the Ozarks

Late into the night on October 12th, 1990, Daisy Manufacturing CEO Richard Daniel returned home to Rogers after a business trip to Chicago. The house was quiet. He called out for his wife, Jane. No answer. As he searched room by room, he found no sign of her. Then he made his way to the basement, where he discovered something that would shock Northwest Arkansas and set off a murder investigation t...

On the evening of December 7th, 2019, Fayetteville police officer Stephen Carr was sitting in his patrol vehicle behind the police station in downtown Fayetteville. It was around 9:40 p.m. on that chilly Saturday evening, when a man with no apparent knowledge of or ties to Stephen would walk up to the patrol vehicle and unleash a hail of gunfire at the 27-year-old officer. Police Chief Mike Reynol...

On October 31st, 2022, Ashley Bush stepped into an older, tan pickup with a woman she knew as Lucy. It was someone Ashley had met online while looking for a job where she could work from home. It was the second time she had met with Lucy in her hunt for a job. But there was no job. And there was no Lucy. The woman behind the wheel was Amber Waterman. And what followed was what Benton County Sherif...

On June 9th, 1995, a little girl attending a Little League game in Alma, AR hugged and kissed her mother before climbing down from the bleachers to catch fireflies with friends. She was last seen kicking sand out of her shoes before she disappeared. That girl’s name is Morgan Nick and the story of her abduction has rattled the region, the state and the nation for more than three decades. But despi...

A few days before Christmas in 1989, Terry Fremody left his home in California after an argument with his fiancé and hitchhiked east out of the state. Seven weeks later, his body was discovered off an undeveloped road in Bella Vista, Arkansas. He had been shot through the chest with a shotgun. More than three decades later, Terry Fremody’s murder remains unsolved. In this episode of Crime in the O...

On January 14, 1991, a woman was seen walking along a Fayetteville street. Hours later, she was discovered partially clothed in a rural Washington County ditch—alive, but barely. Within 90 minutes, she was gone. More than three decades later, the death of Debra Ann Landreth Adams remains one of Northwest Arkansas’ most haunting cold cases. In this episode of Crime in the Ozarks , we break down wha...

Halloween is usually a night where fear meets fun—a holiday for finding joy in the things that scare us. But Halloween night in 1995, the horrors became all too real in Rogers when 50-year-old Ernestine Andregg was stabbed to death in her own home. Thirty years later, police have yet to make an arrest. And while several suspects were developed in the aftermath of the killing, each was eventually d...

On the morning of April 7, 2023, 32-year-old Deunrae Livingston was shot inside a Springdale apartment. Despite witnesses, leads, and even a person of interest, no arrests have been made—and his family is still searching for justice more than two years later. In this episode of Crime in the Ozarks, we look at who Deunrae was, the events surrounding his killing, and what investigators and loved one...

In the summer of 1989, 18-year-old Dana Stidham vanished after a quick trip to the store in Bella Vista, Arkansas. Two months later, her remains were discovered near the state line, but her killer has never been found. More than three decades later, questions remain: What really happened to Dana? Why has no one ever been charged? And could a new lawsuit bring long-awaited answers? In this episode...