Detective Perspective

On the night of October 11, 2001, federal prosecutor Thomas Wales was working in the basement of his Seattle home when someone walked up to his window and opened fire. Tom was struck multiple times, and later died at the hospital.  At first, it wasn’t clear if the motive was personal or something connected to his work. While Tom was well-liked, he had prosecuted dozens of white-collar criminals, w...

Please consider donating or sharing Megan's family's GoFundMe for private testing and legal costs here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-the-megan-memorial-fund Also please consider following the fight for answers on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/523984600725253 On the night of February 9, 2025, 18-year-old Megan Trussell was last seen leaving her dorm at the University of Colorado B...

On the morning of November 8, 2001, 53-year-old Donna O’Steen was found murdered inside her home in Seattle. She had been bound with duct tape and stabbed multiple times. There were signs of a robbery—but it wasn’t clear if that was the real motive. There were no signs of forced entry, only a few random items were missing, and the killer had brought their own knife and duct tape. That raised a tro...

On the night of December 15, 1996, 12-year-old Celina Mays went to bed in her family home in Willingboro, New Jersey.  By morning, she was gone. As police began investigating, they learned that when she disappeared, Celina was nine months pregnant and just days away from giving birth. They also learned that her family belonged to a controversial religious group led by her aunt—one that former memb...

On the night of Friday, October 23, 2015, 18-year-old Ebby Steppach attended a party in Little Rock, Arkansas. The following evening, she texted her stepfather and said she’d been sexually assaulted at the party and asked if he would go with her to the police. He said yes. But after that, she never contacted him again. Calls and texts from her family went unanswered until the next afternoon, when...

Consider signing Eric's family's petition: https://www.change.org/p/pleading-with-alabama-ag-s-cold-case-unit-to-lead-eric-nelams-homicide-investigation/u/33269079 Follow Justice for Eric on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/justice.for.eric.nelams/ Follow Justice for Eric on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@justice.for.eric.nelams On the morning of September 26, 2003, 32-year-old Army veteran E...

On May 3rd, 2013, 23-year-old Amber Berbiglia never showed up for work. She was always on time, so her coworkers immediately knew something was wrong. They texted and called but received no reply. Around the same time Amber’s coworkers were trying to reach her, two separate 911 calls came in. The first was from a caller who reported an abandoned vehicle. The second came from a group of kids who sa...

On the afternoon of May 1, 2002, 24-year-old Evelyn Hernandez picked up her five-year-old son, Alex, from school in San Francisco. She was nine months pregnant and just days away from giving birth to a baby boy she planned to name Fernando. That evening, she called her sister to talk about her upcoming baby shower. It was the last time anyone ever heard from her. A week later—on what would have be...

**If you have been a victim of a crime, there may be help available to you. Check out the Office for Victims of Crime to see if you're eligible for their services.** On July 26, 1992, 22-year-old Brenda Gail Lambert hosted a birthday party at her home in Bluewell, West Virginia. It was her youngest child’s first birthday, and the house was filled with family—including Brenda’s estranged husband, R...

I will be on America's Most Wanted: Missing Persons Monday night (April 28th) at 8pm ET on Fox and Tuesday on Hulu! I really hope you'll check out the show and support the cases we're covering. Make sure to use #AmericasMostWanted to talk about the show and let us know what other cases you would like to see covered. Let's bring them home!

On September 27, 2004, 18-year-old Brittany Phillips had what appeared to be a typical day in the life of a college student. She spent time with friends and called her mom later that night to catch up. But after that phone call, no one saw or heard from Brittany again. She didn’t show up for her classes, she didn’t check in with friends, and she didn’t return any of her mother’s calls. Days passed...

On the night of June 17, 1982, 20-year-old Kelly Bergh Dove agreed to cover an overnight shift at the Imperial gas station in Harrisonburg, Virginia. She wasn’t supposed to be working, but one of her sisters asked if she could switch—and Kelly said yes. In the early morning hours of June 18, Kelly called 911 three times, reporting that a man had been harassing her and making obscene calls from the...

On February 10, 2021, four-year-old Oakley Carlson was seen for the last time in Grays Harbor County, Washington. She wasn’t reported missing until ten months later, on December 6, when a school principal called in a welfare check. When police spoke to Oakley’s biological parents, Andrew Carlson and Jordan Bowers, they gave conflicting stories and couldn’t explain where she was. An investigation w...

On July 11th, 1996, the half-naked body of Blair Adams, a 31-year-old Canadian citizen, was found in the parking lot of a construction site in Knoxville, Tennessee. He had been beaten to death and surrounding him were thousands of dollars in cash, gold, jewelry and travel documents. Detectives soon learned that in the days leading up to his murder, Blair had been acting strange. He told his friend...

On the morning of January 24, 2006, 24-year-old Jennifer Kesse got ready for work after returning from a romantic getaway with her boyfriend. By 9 AM, she was supposed to be at the office—but she never arrived. It wasn’t like Jennifer to miss work without a call, so her boss contacted her parents, who immediately drove two hours to her Orlando condo. On the way, they asked the building manager to...

On November 20, 2006, 19-year-old Jesse Warren Ross called his mother and told her about the incredible time he was having in Chicago at the Model UN Conference. He and several classmates from the University of Missouri–Kansas City had made the trip just days earlier. But Jesse never made it home. At around 2:00 a.m. on November 21, a select group of students, including Jesse, were called in for a...

On the night of September 1, 2002, 35-year-old Michael Tardio and 31-year-old Christopher Monson drove to a restaurant on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, preparing to finalize a deal that could change their lives. They were meeting a man known only as Mr. Big to sell $1 million worth of jewelry, which had once belonged to Michael’s girlfriend, Playboy Bunny Sandy Bentley. Hours later, a Mercedes...

On the night of February 19, 2005, 34-year-old Danielle Imbo and 35-year-old Richard Petrone met up with friends at Abilene’s, a bar in Philadelphia. By all accounts, they were having a great time, reconnecting after a breakup weeks prior. At around 11:45 p.m., they said their goodbyes and left the bar, planning to head to Danielle’s home in Mount Laurel, New Jersey. But they never made it home. D...

Find Baby Ember on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FindBabyEmber/ On July 1, 2015, six-month-old Ember Graham was staying with her father, Matthew, in Shasta County, California. According to Matthew, he fell asleep around 10:30 PM, just feet away from his daughter. When he woke up just after 5:00 AM on July 2, Ember was gone. He called 911, and a large-scale search began. A few days later, Embe...

On the morning of August 28, 2008, Kanika Powell, a 28-year-old laboratory employee with top-secret security clearance, left her apartment in Laurel, Maryland, to run errands. She had spent the past five days on edge after three different men—one posing as an FBI agent and two claiming to be delivery drivers—knocked on her door, each asking for her by name. She refused to let any of them in. Just...

Ways YOU can help: Sign the petition to grant families of missing persons access to police files after a period of 20 years: Sign Here Share Her Missing Poster Join the Justice for Lonene Facebook Group Purchase A Daughter's Journey: ...and Story of Resilience by Alison Morea Duiker, Lonnie's daughter, to learn more about Lonnie. On the evening of January 6, 1981, Lonene “Lonnie” Rogers, a 29-year...

On the night of Saturday, October 15th, 2011, 17-year-old Blake Chappell attended the homecoming dance at East Coweta High School in Georgia with his girlfriend. After the dance, Blake planned to spend the night with a close friend, however, after a few hours he decided to see his girlfriend instead.  Blake went to his girlfriend’s house and they spent about 30 minutes together before a family mem...

On the evening of November 4th, 2015, 20-year-old Shelbey Thornburgh made arrangements to meet a man at her high-rise Houston apartment. The man was scheduled to arrive around 8:30 PM and by 10 PM Shelbey was discovered viciously murdered. Police began an immediate investigation, but despite viewing the suspect in the lobby entering and exiting around the time of the murder on surveillance, the ma...

On the morning of August 21, 1996, Trudy Appleby, an 11-year-old girl from Moline, Illinois, missed her scheduled 9:00 AM phone call with her best friend. Thirty minutes later, Trudy was seen getting into a car, believed to be a Chevy Celebrity, with a white man in his twenties. She was never seen again.  Trudy's father came home during his lunch break and made lunch for Trudy, assuming she was ou...

On the evening of March 31, 2006, Brian Shaffer, a 27-year-old med student, went out with friends to celebrate the start of spring break. The night began with bar-hopping and ended at the Ugly Tuna Saloona, a popular spot in Columbus, Ohio. At 1:55 am, Brian was captured on surveillance footage outside the bar, chatting with two women. Moments later, he said goodbye and walked back toward the entr...