January 22, 2018, 1:04 pm
People Magazine Investigates the conviction of Mechele Linehan for murder and the later overturning of the verdict against her. Hope, Alaska, on May2 1996 and 36-year-old fisherman Kent Leppink was found dead, he’d been shot three times with a /44 caliber. Despite some initial suspicions and suspects the case soon went cold and remained so for over 10 years. At that point police arrested Leppink’s former fiancée Mechele Linehan and her former lover John Carlin. The three had shared a house together for a time and Linehan was romantically involved with both men at the same time. During the trial the
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January 23, 2018, 5:30 am
This week True Conviction examines the murder of Stephanie Dzikowski, who was shot dead in front of her young child. July 2015 in Philadelphia and 22-year-old mother Stephanie was found dead in her house by her fiancé, she’d been shot. What shocked investigators was that Stephanie was shot execution style in front of her two-year-old daughter, who remained unharmed. Her fiancé had just stepped out to the shops and was first on the scene when the shot was heard and Neigbors told police that they heard a single shot and even tried to pursue the suspected killer, though he managed to evade
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January 23, 2018, 6:55 am
This week Who Killed Jane Doe? examines the case of ‘Tent Girl’ who remained unidentified for decades. On May 18, 1968, the body of a young woman was found by a man walking in the woods near Georgetown, Kentucky. She was nude and her body had been wrapped in a tent canvas, the woman had been killed by blunt force trauma to the head. The local police investigated the murder but the case soon went cold and the woman was buried unidentified, with her headstone simple reading ‘Tent Girl.’ Decades later Todd Matthews began investigation the case and his search
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January 25, 2018, 4:56 pm
This week Betrayed spotlights the murder of Joan Bent, who was strangled and left in the trunk of her own car. Feb 16, 1986, in Upstate New York and Joan Bent went missing from her home that she shared with husband Donald. The pair had not been married that long but had been friends since childhood and Donald seemed distraught when he reported his 47-year-old wife missing. Sadly just six days later Joan’s frozen body was found in the trunk of her car, she’d been strangled to death. He told investigators that the pair had eaten dinner together and then
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January 25, 2018, 5:00 pm
This week on The Perfect Suspect, the murder and mutilation of a popular young couple finds the wrong man jailed for their deaths. October 1982 in Logan, Ohio, and 19-year-old Todd L. Schultz and his 18-year-old fiancé Annette Cooper were reported missing. It was unusual for the pair to go off without telling anyone and with Schultz being a volunteer firefighter and Cooper a college student, their families were concerned at this out of character disappearance. 10 days later a gruesome discovery was made in the shape of their torsos were found in the Hocking River, with their heads and
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January 26, 2018, 12:02 pm
This episode of Your Worst Nightmare spotlights the murderous attack on Jenae Aragosa by her ex-boyfriend who gravely injured her and killed her new boyfriend. Nov. 7, 2003, in New York and Trevor Frederick bursts into his ex-girlfriend’s apartment and stabbing her, before attacking her new boyfriend and forcing him out the fifth floor window. Frederick had dated 24-year-old Aragosa for around a year but by all accounts it was an abusive relationship with Frederick have punched and choked his girlfriend before stalking her. When Argosa met 23-year-old Christopher Mariconi at a club she told him that she had quite
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January 26, 2018, 12:34 pm
This episode of Your Worst Nightmare highlights a case where online dating was anything but the perfect match, when 56-year-old Deborah Houchin had been through the online dating mill and was glad she had finally met the man of her dreams in the shape of psychologist Lester Winningham. The pair really hit it off and it was not long before they were engaged to be married. Winningham even moved to Arlington in order that they could live and work together. However, things took a darker turn when Houchin mentioned that it might be wise for them to get a prenuptial
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January 26, 2018, 1:01 pm
This week Betrayed examine the murder of hard working mother Paige Birgfeld, who led a double life as an escort. Paige went missing on June 28, 2007, leaving behind her three children, and the life she loved. Detectives were immediately suspicious and ruled out the explanation that she’d simply abandoned her jobs and kids. As her father put it at the time: “”My daughter, if she had two broken legs, she’d crawl over–she’d crawl on her elbows to get to her children.” The investigation focussed on the men in her life, including her two ex-husbands. She’d recently began seeing her first
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January 26, 2018, 1:27 pm
This week Married with Secrets features the story of Arkansas couple Lisa and Dennis Bradford, who have a seemingly perfect marriage until cops turn up at their door one day. The law enforcement officers were there to arrest Dennis for a terrible crime that was committed 19 years earlier, the kidnap and rape of eight-year-old Jennifer Schuett. In 1990 Schuett was abducted through her bedroom window around 2 a.m. in the morning and driven to an empty field, her attacker choking her on the way. She was then assaulted and her throat was cut, with her kidnapper then dumping her body
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January 27, 2018, 10:45 am
This week Your Worst Nightmare examines the tragic case of Gail Spencer, a grandmother who was raped and murdered as part of a scheme to rob the place where she worked. 2012 in Macon, Georgia, and 58-year-old grandmother Gail Spencer failed to turn up at lawyers office where she worked as a legal assistant. Some of her co-workers became concerned and called the police, who soon found her body in her home, where she’d been sodomozed and then suffocated to death. The crime shocked the locals and police began an urgent investigation that soon turned up a family of suspects
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January 27, 2018, 12:23 pm
This week See No Evil examines the disappearance and murder of Susan Casey, whose ex became murderously obsessed with getting back together with her. April 12, 2008, in Glendive, Montana, and Susan Casey went missing from her house, never to be seen alive again. Her body was found weeks later in the Yellowstone River, she’d been strangled to death. Detectives soon discovered her ex-husband had been back in contact and had been leaving some abusive messages. Casey had been married to Walter Martin “Marty” Larson Jr. back in 1993 and the pair had two children together before they divorced in 1998.
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January 29, 2018, 8:11 am
This week People Magazine Investigates examines the brutal killing of wealthy couple Andra and Brad Sach and the attempted murder of two of their children. San Juan Capistrano, California on February 9, 2014, in the early hours of the morning and Andra and Brad Sachs are shot dead in their own bed, with their young son gravely injured in the attack and their 17-year-old daughter managing to escape. Andra had a real estate business worth tens of millions and Brad was a former surf champ, though he’d recently been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. They had plenty of enemies from business but
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January 29, 2018, 9:33 am
This week Murder Is Forever examines the murder of Dee Dee Blancharde, a woman who what not what she seemed. June 14, 2015, in Greene County, Missouri, and deputies find the body of 58-year-old Dee Dee Blancharde. She was lying in the bedroom of her house and was surrounded by her own blood, having been stabbed multiple times. POlice were not just concerned at finding her killer but also the location of her daugther Gypsy Rose, who had special needs…or at least that is what her mother had told everyone. Detectives discovered that Gypsy Rose had not suffered brain damage as
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January 29, 2018, 2:34 pm
This week American Pickers’ Mike and Frank heads to Indiana where they go weak at the knees for some very special Fords, specifically a Model-A tow truck. The Ford Model A was the follow-up to the Model T and was a huge seller for the motor company, with production taking place from 1927 through to 1931 and with nearly 5 million vehicles in various shapes being produced. It was the first time Ford used a standard control layout with a clutch, brake and throttle similar to other manufacturers. It featured water-cooled 4-cylinder engine that put out 40 horsepower, which would take the
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January 31, 2018, 7:09 am
This week See No Evil examines the murder of Cynthia Langrall, who was shot dead during her early morning jog. Glendale, Ariz. and 57-year-old Cynthia was out exercising and had almost finished, being just a block from her home when she was shot in the head. Neighbors told police that they heard two gunshots and a few had spotted a car in the area that was also caught on some CCTV footage. Sadly Cynthia died later the same day in hospital and police immediately began checking the area for any video or witnesses. Luckily the CCTV footage gave them a car and
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January 31, 2018, 7:38 am
This week on Expedition Unknown, Josh Gates and the team are headed to Ecuador where they explore Tayos Cave looking for relics from an ancient civilisation. Cueva de los Tayos de Coangos, meaning Cave of the Oilbirds in Spanish, lies in high rainforest around 539m above sea level and includes over 4 km of passageways and shafts, including a chamber that is 90 meters by 240 meters. The local Shaur Indians have used the caves as a source of fledgling tayos for many years, but it’s not these little birds that have drawn other adventurers. Rumors of gold and other treasures
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January 31, 2018, 11:54 am
This week on Little Women: Atlanta, Monie tries her best to get Abira and Minnie to see sense over a previous argument, but it goes about as well as you’d expect. The women seem to spend most of this clip talking over each other rather than having a conversation, but Monie does try to get Abira and Minnie to see that neither of them is perfect. Eventually things get out of control when Andrea starts shouting at Monie and then Monie’s deceased mother comes up when she tries to explain why she and her brother were close. Things then get
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January 31, 2018, 3:39 pm
This week Locked Up Abroad features the story of Steve Peterson and how he escaped a Mexican prison after being caught trying to smuggle marijuana into the USA from Mexico. Peterson and his friend Roger hatched a plan to make some cash by smuggling marijuana into the USA across the Mexican border. They knew the checkpoints would not be an option as they were too well policed, but nearby they found a fence that might let them walk in. Up and hill near the border the pair found a broken fence that led to a ravine and then down the highway on the
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February 1, 2018, 7:46 am
This week it’s The Perfect Suspect season finale and the show spotlights the murder of Kyle “Deenie” Breeden, whose case went cold until a new detective saw things in a different light November, 1998, in Gratz, Kentucky, and the body of 40-year-old Kyle Breeden was found in the Kentucky River, he’d been shot. Breeden had gone missing late October and examination of his body showed that he’d had his legs bound with a guitar amplifier cord and been shot twice in the head with a .22 magnum. The initial police investigation went cold after detectives failed to find enough evidence to
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February 1, 2018, 11:55 am
This week Betrayed highlights the tragic death of pregnant teen Rebecca Stowe, who was murdered just days after telling her boyfriend she was pregnant. July 13, 1993, in Niles, Mich., and 15-year-old Rebecca Stowe disappeared without a trace. Police questioned various suspects, family, friends and her 16-year-old boyfriend Robbie Leamon, but the case went cold. Then two years later Leamon confessed to a new girlfriend that he’d killed Stowe. Her body was eventually discovered buried on the farm belonging to Leamon’s uncle. His cousin also testified that at the time around the killing Leamon had told him a ditch they saw
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