Criminally Obsessed

When Savannah Guthrie announced her family’s $1 million for information for the recovery of her missing mother, Nancy, she also acknowledged the many cases that don’t get a spotlight. In a generous act to help other families, Savannah donated $500,000 to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.     Senior Investigative Reporter Anne Emerson speaks with Gavin Portnoy, NCMEC’s VP of Com...

What can a reward really do for an investigation? For all of us following the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie from her Tucson, Arizona home, it’s the million dollar question we’re all wondering about after Savannah Guthrie made the announcement. The Guthrie siblings are now offering up to $1 million for information leading to the recovery of their mother, that’s in addition to the FBI’s $100,000 re...

Kouri Richins murder trial began this week in Utah. Her husband’s sudden death led her to write a children’s book about grief and healing for her three young sons at least. Now, Kouri is on trial, accused of poisoning her husband in 2022.  Eric Richins had five times the lethal limit of fentanyl in his system. Prosecutors say she laced his drink because she wanted money and a new life with her lov...

We're now into the fourth week of the search for Nancy Guthrie. The question on everyone’s mind is: what happens next? ‘Today’ show anchor Savannah Guthrie’s 84-year-old mother was last seen on the night of January 31st, before being taken against her will from her home in Tucson, Arizona. Where does the investigation turn now, and what will finally spark the breakthrough that brings her home?   ...

When a barefoot and bloody woman rushed into a Butler, PA convenience store - the clerk, Tori, didn’t hesitate to help. Viral surveillance footage shows Tori springing into action to protect the woman, and it’s nothing short of incredible. Police say the victim was assaulted and kidnapped by her ex-boyfriend after she said she didn’t want to spend Valentine’s Day with him. When police caught her a...

Three weeks in and everyone is tired of waiting for the next big break in the Guthrie case. But just imagine what the family is feeling, with no sleep and nonstop stress and worry. Dawn Conley says finding a missing person is like finding a needle in a haystack and she would know. Her 17-year-old daughter, Brittanee Drexel disappeared during Spring Break 2009 and wasn't found until 2022. Meaning,...

Now that we know the black glove did not come back with a DNA hit, what's next in the Guthrie Investigation? Investigators are working on leads from the Nest doorbell cam, finding out who purchased the intruder's clothes and backpack from Walmart, and any information from Nancy Guthrie's pacemaker. When Investigative Reporter Anne Emerson spoke to a forensic expert about the possibility a blue lig...

In 2007, British student Meredith Kercher was brutally murdered in Perugia, Italy—a crime that sparked an international media circus, a sensationalized trial, and the wrongful conviction of her American roommate, Amanda Knox. So why did Amanda choose to return to Italy to confront the place, and specifically the person, who convinced the world she was a monster? What happened when she sat down fac...

Wayne’s world has been turned upside down. He just learned that his 10 year marriage to Sharon Brookover was a scam. She wasn’t who she said she was — a single mom just trying to raise her daughter and lead a private life. She was wanted for taking her daughter from their Kentucky home in 1983 and vanishing. Her name was actually Debra Newton. Wayne Brookover says he always suspected she was hidin...

What if you found out that you aren’t who you think you are... and you’ve been missing for 42 years?! That’s what happened to Michelle Newton. She’d always felt like there was something not quite right about her life and in fact, at one point, a relative joked that “you’re probably on a milk carton somewhere.” Michelle and her mom moved away from home when she was three, leaving everyone behind an...

“It’s okay to grieve the life you feel like was lost to you.” Elizabeth Smart speaks from experience, and she believes telling stories helps people understand. You probably remember her name and face. She’s been an advocate for people who’ve been victims of sexual violence for 20 years. Elizabeth was kidnapped from the bedroom of her Salt Lake City home in 2002 when she was 14 years old and held c...

“YOU NEVER KNOW WHO YOUR NEIGHBOR IS.” Wise words from 24-year-old Justin Anderson of Anson, Texas. He came home the Saturday night before Thanksgiving and heard screaming and banging from his neighbor’s yard. When he went to investigate, he could not believe what he found. The fence was so high, he had to hold his phone up to see what was going on, but when he looked, he found a woman locked insi...

What kind of person was Maggie Murdaugh? We’ve seen the pictures, maybe watched the Hulu series and made assumptions. But we don’t KNOW Maggie. Not like Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson did. She spent a lot of time inside the Murdaugh home, helping Maggie run the household. But more than that - they sure did have a lot of fun. They were more like sisters or girlfriends—cooking together, trying the latest...

"God Bless Bubba" That 3 word quote from Murdaugh Prosecutor John Meadors may have been one of the most repeated lines from the Alex Murdaugh murder trial. That's because of a video Paul Murdaugh recorded minutes before he and his mother, Maggie, were murdered. He was trying to get video of a friend's dog because it had something wrong with his tail, but on the video which became a key piece of ev...

WHO WERE THE CLEANERS? In this three-part interview with the woman who knew everything about the Murdaughs, Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson details all the clues she picked up on after the murders of Paul and Maggie Murdaugh. We counted more than 10! To an outsider, they may have seemed insignificant or mundane, but not to this Murdaugh insider. Blanca, the family helper and Maggie's confidante, gives t...