True Crime DEADLINE

NEW INTERVIEW with Jayann Sepich, mother of murdered college student Katie Sepich. Katie Sepich was a loving sister, friend and daughter when she was attacked, raped and murdered Labor Day weekend in 2003. On August 31, 2003, New Mexico State University College student Katie was walking home after going to a party near campus. She had gotten into a big fight with her long-distance boyfriend. While...

Well known Elvis tribute artist Dana Mackay and his beauty queen girlfriend Mary Huffman were murdered inside their Las Vegas mansion. Dana headlined at the Dunes casino before moving to the Imperial Palace where he was the first Elvis to star in 'Legends in Concert'. He was a father and looking to leave the spotlight and start a landscaping business, supplying high dollar palm trees to...

NEW INTERVIEW: Golden State Killer survivor Kris Pedretti Speaks Out: opens up about the crime, why she was unable to talk about it for years and what she plans to say in court during sentencing. From 1973 to 1986 fired police officer Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. terrorized California. DeAngelo committed at least 13 murders, 50 rapes and 120 burglaries. Most commonly referred to as the 'Golden S...

NEW Information, New family statement and New response from Carole Baskin in the disappearance of Don Lewis. This is the same missing persons case at the center of the NETFLIX true crime documentary 'Tiger King'. On August 18, 1997 Millionaire Jack 'Don' Lewis who went missing after leaving his house in Tampa Florida. The documentary has sparked new interest in the cold case an...

Case Crash Course:  ‘Cult Mom’ Lori Vallow & Chad Daybell, with Boots on the ground journalists. A bizarre case and a series of deaths surrounding Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell. The so-called 'Doomsday Couple' are currently in jail facing several felony charges. In August 2020, they are due to appear in court for separate preliminary hearings where we expect to hear more details about...

Kerri Rawson, the daughter of the BTK Serial Killer opens up about her father Dennis Rader. What family life was like before he was arrested, how she learned he was the BTK Serial Killer and her relationship with him now. Rawson is the author of the "tell all" book titled: "A Serial Killers Daughter, my story of faith, love and overcoming". Rawson describes herself as a crime v...

NEW INTERVIEW: Witness to Lawrence Colwell Jr's Execution. My friend and colleague John Huck from FOX 5 Las Vegas and I discuss witnessing the execution of a condemned death row inmate. Lawrence Colwell Jr. was convicted of robbing and killing 76-year-old Frank Rosenstock, a New York resident visiting Las Vegas. Rosenstock was lured to his hotel room at the Tropicana Hotel by Colwell's g...

True Crime DEADLINE returns for Season II with host Matt Johnson. Matt is an EMMY award winning journalist who dusts off his reporter notebooks to bring you his first hand account of covering notorious crimes and lesser known cases over his career. This season kicks off with several exclusive interviews connected to the Golden State Killer, the BTK Serial Killer and the so-called Tiger King. New c...

NEW INTERVIEW: Kristie Rangel, Daughter of the Murdered Newlyweds Speaks Out On Friday December 13, 1985 newlyweds Gary and Stephanie Gillette were celebrating Christmas as a new family. Gary had three daughters from a previous marriage and Stephanie loved them like her own. The new, blended family had gotten a Christmas tree and were decorating the house on the 4800 block of Corpus Christi Texas....

NEW LOOK into the Halloween Murders Case: Leslie Mazzara, Adriane Insogna and Lauren Meanza were roommates living in a small house near downtown Napa when a killer broke in and attacked two of the women. On October 31st 2004, the friends were celebrating Halloween, drinking wine, watching scary movies and passing out candy to neighborhood children... unaware that a man they knew, was stalking them...

NEW INTERVIEW: With Adrienne Miranda who is on a mission to solve her son's death. In July 2006, 19-year-old Joseph Miranda was working for a local landscape company outside Baltimore Maryland. He went to work early, kissed his mom goodbye and drove off in his jeep. His mom Adrienne never saw him alive again. Witnesses say Joseph was asking a co-worker to use a 7,000 pound Bobcat Tractor to m...

NEW INTERVIEW: Parents of Jessica Johnson,  Linda and David Johnson Speak Out. On June 2, 2017 a mail carrier discovered Jessica Johnson dead and tied to a mailbox in Horn Lake Mississippi. The DeSoto County Coroner determined her cause of death as Asphyxiation due to Hanging. In a NEW INTERVIEW with Jessica's parents, Linda and David Johnson, say she was not suicidal and believe Jessica was...

NEW INTERVIEW: American Hero, Alek Skarlatos details stopping a terror attack on a train from Amsterdam to Paris. In 2015, Alek was on leave after being deployed to Afghanistan with the Oregon Army National Guard. He was on the train with lifelong friends Spencer Stone and Anthony Sadler. About three hours into the trip, a shirtless man armed with a AK Assault style riffle, nine magazines, 270 rou...

NEW INTERVIEW: Serial Killer Ted Bundy Survivor Kathy Kleiner Speaks Out On January 15, 1978, Kathy Kleiner was asleep in her room at Chi Omega sorority house at Florida State University in Tallahassee FL., when serial killer Ted Bundy broke in and attacked. Bundy killed Margaret Bowman and Lisa Levy and then charged into Kathy's room and started attacking Kathy and her roommate Karen Chandle...

New details in the Brockton Serial Killer case after a possible arrest linking a man accused of abducting and killing a mom to two horrific murders. Between 2013 and 2014 a man has been attacking, raping and killing women in the small New England town of Brockton Massachusetts. On December 28, 2014 the remains of 20-year-old Ashley Mylett and 50-year-old Linda Schufeldt were discovered in a wooded...

NEW INTERVIEW: Steve Ridge, a citizen detective investigating the cold case: On June 27, 1995 Jodi Huisentruit was abducted from the parking lot at her apartment complex in Mason City Iowa. The 27-year-old local news anchor was running late for her shift at KIMT-TV. That morning, assistant producer Amy Kuns called Jodi who had overslept and spoke with her on the phone. Jodi lived only a mile away...

EXCLUSIVE: With Forensic Anthropologist assigned to the Candy Man Serial Killer Case. In the 1970's Houston's coastal communities were victim to the 'Houston Mass Murders', the deadliest case of serial mass killings in the United States at the time. The killer was local business man Dean Corll, nicknamed 'the candy man' because his family owned and operated several ca...

NEW INTERVIEW with step-grandson of murder victim Betty Jones. Two women in Starkville Mississippi are killed after a man knocks on their door on Labor Day. On September 3, 1990 friends Betty Jones and Kathryn Crigler were wrapping up Labor Day weekend at Kathryn's home, they had just finished dinner and getting ready to watch a baseball game on TV when a stranger started knocking on the door...

Fugitive Kelly Vern Mark Swoboda stalked and kidnapped a 23-year-old woman working at a tanning salon. He hit her over the head with a gun, dragged her into her van and duct tapped her wrists and ankles. The victim was able to get free after jumping from the moving van. The kidnapping suspect is also the suspect in several area bank robberies. Swoboda has a long criminal past including arrests for...

NEW INTERVIEW: With Jody LeCornu's twin sister Jenny Carrieri who is on a mission to solve the cold case murder. Jody was a student at Towson University in Baltimore Maryland when she was murdered in cold blood on March 2, 1996. Today her identical twin sister Jenny Carrieri is ramping up the investigation to find her sisters killer. On that Saturday morning, the 23-year-old had gotten into a...

The Cruise Ship Murders:   A husband kills his wife on a cruise ship after drinking heavily and blames it on the scorpion inside the tequila bottle. 55 year old Robert McGill was celebrating his birthday with his wife of five years Shirley, and some friends on the Carnival Elation cruise to Mexico from San Diego. Friends said that Robert McGill loved Shirley with "All his heart". He and...

EXCLUSIVE interview with Carrie McGonigle, the Mother of Amber DuBois. Amber was one of two teens killed by a violent sex predator. Two San Diego teens Amber Dubois and Chelsea King are killed by a convicted sex offender who slipped through the cracks. Now 10 years later, I sit down for an EXCLUSIVE interview with Amber's mother Carrie McGonigle. This is a case I covered from the missing pers...

NEW INTERVIEW: Forensic Genealogist Colleen Fitzpatrick. She explains how familial DNA is traced back. Colleen is a former NASA contractor with a PhD in Physics. She is a rocket scientist, a one-time JEOPARDY contestant and the founder of two non-profits who work to identify individuals through DNA. The "DNA Doe Project" the works to identify John and Jane Does while "IdentiFinders...

Murder of a Nevada Political star Kathy Augustine was a mom and a rising star in Nevada State politics. She was elected to State Assembly, State Senate and became the first woman to be elected as State Controller. In 2002, her 17 year marriage to her third husband Charles Augustine was rocky. Kathy's political career was taking a toll on their marriage and the couple was separated. Kathy was...

Mystery Murder in the Biggest Little City: Reno Jeanette Maria Corpuz was 28 when she went missing from Reno Nevada in the winter of 2003. After large amounts of blood and evidence was recovered at her home, police called her disappearance a homicide. Jeanette Corpuz is described as 5'6", 160 pounds, Hispanic/White with Brown hair and Blue eyes. She was a newlywed with three children fro...