10 investigations
Dakota James, a 23-year-old Duquesne University MBA student, disappeared from Pittsburgh's South Side in January 2017. His body was found 40 days later in the Ohio River, remarkably preserved. Forensic pathologist Cyril Wecht identified ligature marks inconsistent with drowning.
Paul Kochu, a 22-year-old ICU nurse and Duquesne University graduate, disappeared from Pittsburgh's South Side in December 2014. His nude body was found four months later in the Ohio River near Wheeling, West Virginia, with fractured ribs and a scalp wound. His death remains officially undetermined.
Tommy Booth, 24, vanished from a bar in Woodland, PA in January 2008. Found 14 days later with zero decomposition and forensic evidence pointing to homicide, his death was ruled undetermined.
Chris Watts murdered his pregnant wife Shanann and their two daughters Bella and Celeste in August 2018. A complete investigation into the family annihilation that shocked Colorado.
Chris Watts murdered his pregnant wife and two daughters in 2018, fitting a pattern criminologists call the family annihilator. From John List to Bradford Bishop to Robert Fisher, the same profile repeats across decades.
A behavioral analysis of the Chris Watts interrogation, from the first police contact to the CBI/FBI strategy that extracted a confession for the murders of Shanann, Bella, and Celeste Watts.
Pittsburgh's river drownings expose a systemic failure in death investigation. When bodies spend weeks in water, medical examiners cannot distinguish murder from accident. The 2025 Maryland ME audit proves the problem is real, and fixable.
The unsolved murder of Bonnie Huffman, a 20-year-old Missouri teacher killed in 1954. Explore the evidence, suspects, and mystery.
Lacey Gaines, a 20-year-old mother, was murdered in her Justice, IL apartment in 2009. Her killer has never been found.
The Delphi murders of Abigail Williams and Liberty German shocked Indiana in 2017. Richard Allen was convicted in November 2024.