6 On Your Side Investigates

She met him online and reportedly married him in Vegas.  Now, prosecutors say she stabbed him to death in his home and vanished for 9 months.  While police searched for her across multiple states, someone mailed his sons letters signed in lipstick.  One of them said, "I'll be back."   The woman police say is responsible is now back in Alabama.  Host Jenn Horton and WB...

He lived next door to the house Nathan Gemeinhart was getting ready to sell. On an August morning in 2022, the 42-year-old husband and father of four left for work and never made it to his daughter's kindergarten meet-the-teacher day. His car turned up a block away. His body, found inside a burning house.   The head and hands removed.   It took four years, a rejected plea agreement and t...

She was already out on bond, charged with kidnapping a four-day old baby in Birmingham, Alabama. Police say she did it again, this time with two sisters in Atlanta. A mother leaves her two young daughters with a woman she met in an online group for new moms. By Monday, FBI agents are tracking a cellphone to a locked tow trailer in Atlanta with no air conditioning and no way out. The woman investig...

A cell phone ping leads a search party to a stretch of I-20 in Greene County and to the discovery that turns a missing persons case into a murder charge. Twenty-three-year-old Karen Deann Hollis vanished from Northport on May 8, 2026. Eight days later, a cell signal ping sends searchers driving up and down Interstate 20 for five hours until they spot a black garbage bag in the tall grass near...

A woman boards a flight out of the country. Before she leaves, she asks a coworker to house sit and keep her dog.  A day later, she can't reach him. From thousands of miles away, she pulls up her doorbell camera and sees a man standing on her back porch in the middle of the night. What police find inside that Brookwood, Alabama home sets off a ten-hour manhunt that ends with a 24-year-old man...

"If I get out, I'm not coming back." That's what prosecutors say a Cullman, Alabama spa owner told someone on a recorded jail call. Whitney Cheatham ran a wellness spa in Cullman until police say they traced a string of forged prescriptions back to her business. She's now facing twenty charges, including drug trafficking counts.  This summer, her attorneys asked a judge to let her leave...

A Cullman County attorney is accused of trying to poison her husband with fentanyl, twice. The second time, she was already out on bond for attempted murder for reportedly putting fentanyl in her husband's food three times.  When it came time for a judge to decide if her bond should be revoked, her husband took the stand and asked to let her go. This week, host Jenn Horton, a WBRC Investigati...

A dog comes home with something in her mouth. Not a stick. Not a ball. A human skull. For more than a year, Chicarin, a German Shepherd mix in Center Point, Alabama kept bringing bones home. A skull. A tibia. Long bones left as gifts in the front yard. Investigators put GPS trackers on the neighborhood dogs. The Jefferson County Coroner ran DNA. Slowly, piece by piece, a picture emerged. The bones...

A man was dropped off at DCH Regional Medical Center in Tuscaloosa. He asked to be taken there. He wanted and needed help.   But Matthew Taylor never walked through the door. Hours later a 27-year-old nurse, wife and young mother named Ada Doss was walking through the parking lot at shift change when she crossed paths with Taylor, who police say gunned her down outside her car.   Taylor...

A deadly crash on a rural Alabama road kills a father and a two-year-old girl. The mother is airlifted in critical condition.  Then a family member from out of town asks a question no one can answer: where is the baby?  The couple had a one-year-old son that no one had seen for three months.   What followed was one of the most disturbing cases Fayette County Sheriff Byron Yerby...

They drove around shopping for children the day 3-year-old Kamille "Cupcake" McKinney vanished.  That's part of the evidence jurors heard before convicting two people for Cupcake's kidnapping. WBRC Investigative Reporter Jenn Horton covered both federal trials and shares the testimony, verdicts, sentences and what's stopping the state's capital murder cases from moving forward.  

A man is sitting in a car in a Walmart parking lot in Homewood, Alabama. He's not picking up groceries. He's negotiating a price to have his wife and children killed, seven people total. The man he's talking to? An undercover FBI agent. The hit was never coming. But the intent and the money, according to the government, were very real. Mohammad Mohammad pleaded guilty to all seven federal murder-f...

22 Hours.  That's the time separating a mass shooting in one of Birmingham's popular entertainment districts where more than 20 people were gunned down and the murder of a man five miles away.  In this episode your host, WBRC 6 On Your Side Investigative Reporter Jenn Horton dissects new court records that put the same stolen car, ammunition and possibly the same gun at both locations an...

People were dying across Birmingham and no one knew why.  By the end of 2024, Birmingham shattered a homicide record that stood since 1933. Then investigators started connecting the dots. 6 On Your Side Investigates takes you inside one of the most significant criminal cases in Birmingham, Alabama's modern history: 18 murders, nearly 130 state charges, a 59-count federal indictment and an all...

Nearly seven years after 19-year-old Aniah Blanchard vanished from an Auburn gas station, a Macon County jury finally delivered a verdict - but not the one her family wanted. Your host, Investigative Reporter Jenn Horton takes you through the case alongside WBRC Reporter Shane Trail, who was in the courtroom as the verdict was read.   This is 6 On Your Side Investigates.