Alicia Kozakiewicz, 13, enjoyed chatting online, but on January 1, 2002, her life was changed forever. The teen boy she thought she was talking to turned out to be a 38-year-old child molester. He lured Alicia out of her home and into hell. She was held captive in his basement dungeon, chained by the neck, …
Teen Kelsey Smith was taken from the parking lot of a Target store and never seen alive again. The surveillance video showed Smith in the store; a man appeared in every aisle she did. Smith called her mother from the store, but hours later, her car was found abandoned outside of a Macy’s store across the …
A Wisconsin woman is charged with fatally poisoning a disabled friend after stealing tens of thousands of dollars from the victim. Jessy Kurczewski, 37, had reportedly called police to the victim’s Pewaukee home, claiming the woman was not breathing. A Waukesha County deputy who responded to the home found the deceased woman lying in a recliner …
A teen girl and her teen boyfriend make plans to run away together, but when her dad finds out, he puts a stop to it, or so he thought. Two Nevada teens are now behind bars after police say they murdered Daniel Halseth and set his body on fire. According to an arrest warrant, Daniel …
A North Carolina mother accused of killing her then 4-year-old daughter, forced the toddler’s teen sister to help her bury the girl after she died, according to police reports. Charlotte-Mecklenburg County police found the body of Majelic Young in May, but the little girl died months earlier. Majelic’s mother, 31-year-0ld Malikah Dianne Bennett, has …
A former Mississippi representative is found fatally shot at the same location where her sister-in-law was found deceased in December 2019. Forty-year-old Ashley Henley was found dead while working in the yard of a trailer. Kristina Jones was found dead in the bedroom of the burned-out home on Christmas 2019. No arrests have been made …
Cecily Aguilar, the girlfriend of murder suspect Aaron Robinson, asked in March to throw out the confession, saying she was not read her Miranda rights at the start of an interrogation about the whereabouts of Robinson, who was also a Fort Hood soldier. The judge ruled against the motion, saying Aguilar, 22, volunteered the information. …
Robyn Gardner, a 35-year-old native of Bethesda, Maryland, was reported missing during a luxury snorkeling vacation in Aruba. Gary Giordano, a “friend” who took her on a vacation trip to the island, made the report. Ms. Gardner was seen leaving a local restaurant, early in the day. Giordano tells police that he and Gardner went …
Desiree Gibbon, 26, works as a model but has plans to attend film school in Europe to be a director. Not wanting to rely on her family to pay for it, Gibbon looks for work in Montego Bay, Jamaica, while staying at her grandmother’s hotel. After a Thanksgiving dinner with her relatives, she walks outside at 11:27 p.m., telling the security guard she will be right back. She walks …
Red-haired poet and investment banker Merrian Carver, 40, plans a cruise. She doesn’t tell her family or her daughter. The teen is visiting with Dad in England for the Summer. Carver boards a Royal Caribbean’s Celebrity cruise ship for a 7-day excursion from Seattle, Washington, to Alaska. After confirming plans to dine in her room for …
Marie Kuhnla, a beloved New York public defender, goes on the vacation of a lifetime with friends and co-workers. After a day at the pool, Kuhnla goes back to her room to rest. She misses dinner, but her friends are not worried, thinking she probably just fell asleep. When she misses breakfast the next morning, …
Abbey Conner, 20, and her brother Austin, 22, were both found floating in the pool-side bar at an Iberostar hotel in Playa del Carmen. Abbey Conner died days later, but her brother recovered. Local police did not question the bartender or other witnesses before declaring it an accident, according to the father. Reports say the …
