No Tears For Black Girls

In 2023, we told you about Ruthey Smith, a 19-year-old mother who disappeared from Los Angeles on March 2, 2022. Four years later, Ruthey is still missing—and her family is still fighting to bring her home. In this update and rewind, we revisit Ruthey’s original story, examine what has been publicly verified since our first report, and separate confirmed facts from the rumors that can derail a sea...

Juliana Umba Nzita was reported missing on April 28, 2026. Ten days later, the sixteen-year-old was found dead in Charlotte. Police classified her death as suicide, but her story leaves behind painful questions about urgency, visibility, and what happens when a missing Black girl is not treated like a crisis soon enough. In this episode of No Tears For Black Girls: The Cases They Ignored, Samantha...

Vontisha “Sway” Williams was a mother, grandmother, and business owner trying to rebuild her life after unimaginable loss. She had only been in her new home for two weeks when gunfire tore through it in the middle of the night. Her younger daughter survived. Sway did not. In this episode of No Tears For Black Girls: The Cases They Ignored, Samantha Paul tells the story behind the headline and brin...

In this episode of No Tears For Black Girls: The Cases They Ignored, we examine the death of twenty-eight-year-old Perdisha “Para” Champion and the questions her family says still remain about what happened inside Virtua Mount Holly Hospital in Mount Holly, New Jersey. Through a direct interview with Para’s mother, Sophia Shannon, this episode follows the final hours before her daughter’s death an...

Hannah “Khadija” Toby-Dean was 25 years old. A Navy veteran. A Muslim woman. A rapper known as Hannah Bandz. On June 13, 2025, she told a family member she was afraid for her safety. Less than ten hours later, her mother got the call that Hannah was dead. Then came the details that made the case even harder to ignore: a disabled GPS tracker, an empty suitcase, and credit cards hidden under a spare...

In 1996 a South Carolina court convicted a man of promoting the prostitution of a child and sent him home with a suspended sentence. Over the next twenty-three years he filed flyers, built a DJ reputation, and accessed hundreds of Black girls and women across Florence County while law enforcement closed case after case, marked reports unfounded, and watched evidence walk in and out of their office...

Today on No Tears For Black Girls we are doing something we have never done before on this show. We are reading to you. Death Apnea is a book written by J.C. Reedburg, part of the No Tears For Black Girls Case Files series, and it lives inside the same universe as this podcast. It is a story rooted in real documented patterns of Black women disappearing into hospital systems without proper family...

She was fifteen years old when her stepfather assaulted her. She reported it. She gave up his illegal guns. She documented his death threats in a police report. And the Clark County District Attorney's office let him walk out of custody three days later. Eleven days after that, Leonard Woods stabbed Josie Kate Jones sixteen times in a Walgreens parking lot while her daughter watched. In this episo...

On December 1st, 2025, seventeen-year-old T'Neya Tovar left and never came home. Her mother knew immediately something was wrong. Law enforcement had a different word for it. Runaway. And that one word changed everything about how fast the world moved for her daughter. In this episode of No Tears For Black Girls, we go deep into the disappearance and death of T'Neya "TT" Tovar, a teenager from Hem...

No one kicks your door in. No one holds a gun. But one filing—one line of paperwork—can freeze your home, your future, and everything you built. In this debut episode of JC's INBOX, J.C. Reedburg—award-winning author of the No Tears For Black Girls book series and creator of this podcast—breaks down a real Los Angeles case where the LAPD says fraudulent mechanics liens were recorded on multiple pr...

On October 14, 2024, Baltimore police responded to a home on Aiken Street in Baltimore, Maryland, where five-year-old Zona Byrd was found unresponsive and cold to the touch. What investigators described next is difficult to shake: cupboards reported as empty, food reportedly kept out of children’s reach, and surviving siblings so malnourished that medical staff noted how urgently they ate once the...

She did everything she was supposed to do. She ended the relationship. She set the boundary. She said the words. And on a quiet Wednesday afternoon in Washington, D.C., in front of her three children, that boundary became the trigger. This week on No Tears For Black Girls: The Cases They Ignored, host Samantha Paul covers the February 11th, 2026 shooting death of Rayven Amuan Edwards — a 34-year-o...

A premature infant dies after weeks in a Fort Worth NICU, and her family says her body was returned without organs and without clear consent—now they’re demanding answers, accountability, and justice for Baby Samaria Sauls.

She was twenty-three, drowning in student debt, and desperate for a way out. Then the DM arrived—a luxury modeling contract in Dubai. All expenses paid. Designer clothes. Infinity pools. Everything she'd ever dreamed of. Destiny Clarke boarded that plane believing she was flying toward opportunity. But what happens when the dream becomes a nightmare you can't wake up from? In honor of National Hum...

Imagine watching a murder unfold through a phone screen—and doing nothing. In this episode of No Tears For Black Girls, host Samantha Paul unpacks the connected stories of three women whose lives were stolen by men who believed their rage mattered more than women’s right to live: dancer and actress Stephanie Moseley, shot in her Los Angeles apartment while her husband FaceTimed Floyd Mayweather; W...

Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs and Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes are the state’s top leaders for public safety and accountability, and on January 9, 2026, the Stone family marks a milestone no family should ever have to count: 728 days since three boys went missing in Arizona—Winston Stone, Timothy Paul Stone Jr., and Marcel Orion Stone. You’re listening to No Tears For Black Girls. I’m Samant...

This is not a typical No Tears For Black Girls episode. You're hearing the first episode of Datzhott—a new celebrity gossip investigation show hosted by Samantha Paul. This is your exclusive preview before the official launch in February 2026.Today's investigation: Did Suge Knight use Tupac Shakur as a human shield? We examine 29 years of evidence, witness testimony, and the math that doesn't lie....

When Timothy Paul Stone collapsed alone in a Phoenix motel bathroom, his three sons — Winston, Timothy Jr. and Marcel — had already been taken by police and handed to a woman their grandparents say was a stranger. Today, Timothy is dead and the boys are still missing. In this update to our original Timothy Stone episode, we break down the Stones’ newly filed federal wrongful‑death and civil‑rights...

On January 9, 2024, someone kidnapped Timothy Stone's three children—two autistic. He called 911. Police refused to help. 54 days later, Timothy was dead. 692 days later, his sons are still missing. This is the story Arizona doesn't want you to hear.

When intimate images of R&B singer Teairra Marí were leaked online, 30 million people watched her trauma become entertainment. She fought back in court—but the system had other plans. This is the story of revenge porn, power, and what happens when Black women seek justice.

Twenty-year-old Jade 'Sage' McKissic was a University of Houston junior with everything to live for—orientation team leader, strategic communications student, beloved daughter and friend. On September 11, 2025, she walked a familiar route from Third Ward bars toward campus, stopping at a gas station for a slushie before disappearing into the darkness near Brays Bayou. Four days later, the water ga...

In September 2025, Reading, Pennsylvania became the scene of one of the most horrific family annihilation in recent memory. Three bodies. Three locations. One devil's work. Geraldina Peguero Mancebo was a 31-year-old Dominican immigrant trying to keep her family afloat in one of America's poorest cities. Working a warehouse job while supporting four children, she made a choice that millions of des...

Thanks for tuning back in to "No Tears For Black Girls." Samantha Paul here, and do I have a treat for y'all today! We're diving deep into J.C. Reedburg's latest masterpiece, "No Tears For Black Girls: Prison Pimp'd," available now for free on Amazon Kindle. But act fast, 'cause after today, it's Kindle exclusive. As always, we've switched up some deets to keep things on the DL, but trust, this st...

Tonya Walker, a 51-year-old Black mother, vanished in Sacramento on November 2, 2023. Her family searched for seven months to learn her body lay unclaimed at Mercy Hospital, where she’d died of cardiac arrest. The hospital delayed her death certificate by five months and stored her at an off-site morgue that allegedly harvested her organs without consent. Similar cases of missing Black bodies have...

On September 10th, 2025, the conservative movement was rocked when Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, was murdered at Utah Valley University. Tyler Robinson, his killer, claimed he acted because Kirk "spreads too much hate." But Kirk's death may have triggered something far more sinister. Just five days later, on September 15th, 21-year-old Demartravion "Trey" Reed was found hanging from...