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What happened to missing teen Katelin Akens? Disappeared on ID investigates

April 1, 2018, 8:05 am
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Katelin Akens, who vanished after making a stop at a Virginia shopping mall.
This episode of Disappeared on Investigation Discovery tells the story of 19-year-old missing person Katelin Akens, who vanished after making an unplanned stop at a Virginia shopping mall on the way to an airport in December 2015. The episode, titled Flight Risk, documents how police, upon investigating her loved ones, began to suspect someone close to her wasn’t letting on to all they knew about the disappearance. Her stepfather was said by the sheriff’s office to have been driving Katelin, from Arizona, to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport when she apparently asked to be dropped off at the Springfield mall, intending to […]

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Disappeared: Elijah Bear Diaz and Skylar Tosic both went missing within a day of each other

April 1, 2018, 8:49 am
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Elijah Bear Diaz missing
This episode of Disappeared spotlights the case of 20-year-old Elijah Bear Diaz, who went missing from his home in 2015 and has not been seen since. 20-year-old Native American Elijah Bear Diaz was last seen on August 29, 2015, when his mom dropped him at his San Diego home around 10 P.M. The next day his mom reported him missing and when the police searched his house they found that his TV was missing as were the content of his safe and the sheets of the bed. His cell phone had also been switched off on August 30. At the […]

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Norman Starnes was found guilty of two murders after his girlfriend turned him into police

April 1, 2018, 4:50 pm
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Norman Starnes mugshot
This week Evil Lives Here spotlights the case of killer Norman Starnes, whose murder of Bill Welborn and Jared Champlain was only uncovered when his girlfriend, Gwen Ott, contacted police. January 8, 1996, in Pelion, South Carolina, and Bill Welborn and Jared Champlain went to visit their friend, Norman Starnes, at his restaurant. The three of them then left to hit a local bar, but Welborn and Champlain never make it home. Their girlfriends reported them missing to the police but the case remains cold for months. Then in May of the same year Starnes’s girlfriend, Gwen Ott, called the police […]

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Ashley Summers went missing just blocks away from kidnapper Ariel Castro’s home – Disappeared spotlights the case

April 1, 2018, 5:01 pm
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Ashley Summers missing at 14
Disappeared examines the case of Ashley Summers, who has been missing since 2007 when she was just 14-year-old. Cleveland, Ohio, and Ashley Summers was staying with relatives, but after an argument she packed her clothes and left. She was last seen near West 96th Street and Madison Avenue, though she did reportedly make a call to her mother about a month later, saying that she was safe. In 2013 local people were horrified but relieved when several young women were found alive after disappearing years before. They’d been held captive by school bus driver Ariel Castro, who’d imprisoned them and repeatedly raped […]

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Chris Paciello: Murderous playboy mobster and ‘Club King of Miami’ who turned snitch

April 2, 2018, 4:29 am
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Chris Paciello on Vanity Fair Confidential
Chris Paciello was known as “The King of South Beach” in the 1990s while running a lucrative nightclub empire in Miami. He was linked romantically with celebrities including J.Lo, Madonna, and Sofia Vargas, and became one of the city’s richest men. But behind him was a dark past fueled by violence – including murder. This week’s episode of true crime series Vanity Fair Confidential, titled The Disco Inferno, profiles his rise and fall — and rise again. As a young man in New York, Paciello, born Christian Ludwigsen, was an associate of the Cosa Nostra mafia crime syndicate and a member of […]

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Murder of Henrietta Myers by Reginald Brodnax investigated by Detective Garry McFadden on ID

April 2, 2018, 7:10 am
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Reginald Brodnax
On this episode of I Am Homicide, Detective Garry McFadden investigates a woman’s death in a fire that turns out to be rape and murder. August 30, 1995, in Charlotte, NC, and Detective Garry McFadden got an early morning call to a the scene of an apartment fire. Neighbors had spotted smoke coming from the building and called fire department, who discovered the a woman inside. The woman was in the bedroom and lying on the bed in her nightdress, she seemed to have made no attempt to flee the fire but was still alive and rushed to hospital. The fire […]

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Murder of soldier Layne Schmidtke by teens who stomped on his head investigated by Joe Kenda

April 2, 2018, 8:49 am
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Layne Schmidtke
This episode of Homicide Hunter: Lt. Joe Kenda recalls the murder of 24-year-old Army Spc. Layne Schmidtk, who was killed by a mob of teenagers whilst on his way back from a party. Sept. 21, 1991, on the corner of Pikes Peak and Nevada Avenue in Colorado Springs and a group of teenagers began arguing with some soldiers, there was a brief fracas and then the two groups split up. Shortly after father of two Schmidtke and a friend walked down the street on their way back from partying. The teenagers shouted for them to get off their block and […]

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Navy man Cory Voss was murdered when his wife Catherina Voss took out a hit on him

April 2, 2018, 1:22 pm
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Cory Allen Voss and Catherina Voss
This week Cold Hearted examines the murder of Cory Allen Voss, who was shot dead by a hitman hired by his wife Catherina Voss. April 29, 2007, in Newport News, Virginia, and 30-year-old Navy man Cory Allen Voss was shot dead as he went to use an ATM. His wife raised the alarm when he failed to return, calling hospitals and asking family members to help search for him. Voss, a father of two, was not long home from deployment aboard the frigate Elrod, where he was an officer specializing in communications. Police began a murder investigation and they kept an eye […]

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Kentucky lawyer Eric Conn known as ‘Mr. Social Security’ was perpetrator of massive fraud – American Greed

April 2, 2018, 5:59 pm
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Obama Girl's New Crush Eric Conn Video
Eric Conn, the disability practice layer who carried out the largest Social Security fraud in US history is the subject of this week’s American Greed. Conn built up his business from Eastern Kentucky, where he used billboards and other forms of advertising to reach a mass audience. He ended up with the third-largest disability practice in the country, representing people looking to get disability payments. He even had a group of young women that helped at promotions, they were known as ‘Conn’s Hotties.’ Bizarre Eric Con Promo Ad with Dr. Ralph Stanley, Obama Girl, and the Dancing Outlaw Jesco White However, his […]

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Knightfall Season 2: Has show been renewed? Potential release date in 2018

April 3, 2018, 4:31 am
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Will Knightfall Season 2 happen? And if so, when will it return to air in 2018? The History series followed on from the network’s hugely successful drama Vikings, and debuted as Season 5 of their non-scripted hit The Curse of Oak Island, which was heavy on the Knights Templar theme, was in full swing. However, ratings for the Season 1 of Knightfall perhaps weren’t as high as the network would have hoped — and fell over the course of the season, starting at 1.77million for the premiere and dropping to 1.02million by the finale, Episode 10. In contrast, the first ever […]

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Peril strikes as team suffer scuba diving accident on The Curse of Civil War Gold

April 3, 2018, 4:59 am
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Kevin Dykstra on stretcher and his accident on The Curse of Civil War Gold
The Curse of Civil War Gold’s lead treasure-hunter Kevin Dykstra suffers a serious accident on this week’s episode of the History show. Footage shows him jumping into Lake Michigan from a boat wearing full scuba-diving gear, but on his way into the water he hits an object of the side of the vessel with his oxygen tank. He appears unable to swim and is thrown a life ring before the boat rushes back to land, where he is carried off on a stretcher and attended to by awaiting paramedics. The accident happens just as Kevin and his team are beginning […]

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Rise’s nonbinary actor Ellie Desautels talks tonight’s episode and improving trans representation

April 3, 2018, 9:00 am
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If you’ve been watching NBC’s Rise, you’ve seen that the high school theater troupe rehearsing Spring Awakening includes a trans character, Michael. Michael is played by Ellie Desautels, a nonbinary actor in real life. Tonight’s Rise finds Michael at a post-game party for the football team. At one point, some of the jocks start bullying him by calling him Margaret. Desautels spoke with Monsters and Critics by phone about tonight’s episode and their work on the show. Rise airs Tuesdays at 9PM on NBC. M&C: How did you get this role on Rise? Ellie Desautels: I got the audition through […]

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Jay-Z’s emotional response to his mom coming out with David Letterman

April 3, 2018, 10:08 am
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Entrepreneur and rapper Jay-Z has it all, a beautiful and talented wife, healthy kids, and a beloved mother who finally has revealed to the world that she is a lesbian. On Friday’s My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman, Jay-Z tells host David Letterman how his mother found the strength to come out. He said: “I was so happy for her that she was free.” He added: “I really cried…Imagine having lived your life for someone else. And you think you’re protecting your kids. And for my mother to have to live as someone that she wasn’t and […]

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Audrie Pott’s sexual assault and public shaming led to her suicide – ID spotlights the tragedy

April 3, 2018, 1:53 pm
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Audrie Pott
This episode Web of Lies examines the tragic case of teen Audrie Pott, who was then sexually assaulted whilst drunk at a party and then killed herself after humiliating photos were posted on social media. September 3, 2012, Saratoga, California, and 15-year-old high school student Pott decided to go to a party with a bunch of other teens. At the party Pott became very drunk and, whilst she was incapacitated, several 16-year-old boys sexually assaulted her, they also drew and wrote on her body with marker pens. They then took photos and then sent them over MMS and social media, resulting […]

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DJ Alan Lee Lama conspired with Cathleen Quinn to murder her husband James – Web of Lies is on the case

April 3, 2018, 4:39 pm
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DJ Alan Lee Lama helped murder James Quinn
DJ Alan Lee Lama got himself entangled in a complex love triangle that ended with him committing murder, Web of Lies investigates the case in this episode. Lama had developed a bit of a following as an Arizona disc jockey but at some point he met Cathleen Quinn online and moved to California. There he began an affair with the married 34-year-old and the pair decided they wanted to be rid of her husband permanently. On January 24, 2003, police answered a report of an injured man at a local fast food outlet, when they arrived at the scene they found […]

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Did Rodney Reed rape and murder of Stacy Stikes? Forbidden: Dying for Love spotlights this controversial case

April 3, 2018, 6:40 pm
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Stacy Stikes
This week on Forbidden: Dying for Love, when Stacy Stikes is found murdered the case goes cold for a whole year but a DNA match finds police with a new suspect, though the case continues to be controversial. Giddings, Texas, on April 23, 1996 and 19-year-old Stacy Stikes was found dead by the side of a road, just 12 hours after she failed to show up at work. She’d been raped and strangled with a belt, which was found nearby. Her fiancé’s truck, that she’d been using, was found abandoned in a parking lot about ten miles away from her body. […]

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Staten Island Hustle on CNBC: First look and meet the cast

April 4, 2018, 8:09 am
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Hustlers are born every day, but not many like the five go-getters and maestros-of-making-it-happen who make up the cast of CNBC’s new series Staten Island Hustle. The show, which debuts April 11 on CNBC, is about five friends — Adolfo, Mike, Dom Big Ron and Tony D. — all businessmen from the New York City borough. The guys are light in the CV department — none have an MBA and only one has a college degree. But grit, ingenuity, and imagination combined with tenacity make for great bedfellows. And these guys always ‘got a guy’ who can facilitate the deal […]

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John List who killed his wife, mother and kids features on Your Worst Nightmare

April 4, 2018, 8:50 am
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John List with his family, before he shot them all dead
John List’s many murders and his flight from justice are spotlighted in this episode of Your Worst Nightmare. John Emil List was born in 1925 and was raised in a devout Lutheran family, becoming a Sunday school teacher himself later in life. He served in the U.S. Army in both WWII and Korea, before going on to work as an accountant in civilian life. In 1951 he married a war widow Helen Morris Taylor and, together with her daughter Brenda, they moved to Detroit and then Kalamazoo. There the couple had three more children and his career started to take […]

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Exclusive: Terra Jole and Elena Gant try to fix friendship on Little Women: LA

April 4, 2018, 9:14 am
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Terra Jole and Elena Gant try to end the bad blood between them on this week’s Little Women: LA — but are they capable of ever being friends again? In Monsters and Critics’ exclusive clip, above, the pair sit down to have a heart-to-heart in an attempt to fix their relationship. It comes after months of tense times between the pair. In the footage, Elena says she feels like she’s tried on several occasions to mend things, but it always seems like Terra “couldn’t care less” about their friendship. At one point she asks Terra point blank: “I mean, do you […]

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Murder of Julie Curry Boyd and her father by ex-husband featured on Your Worst Nightmare

April 4, 2018, 9:30 am
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Kenneth Boyd murder mugshot
This episode of Your Worst Nightmare features the tragic case of Julie Curry Boyd and her father, both gunned down by her ex. Julie was married to Kenneth Boyd for 13 years, but it was a volatile relationship and by 1988 the pair were estranged. She had moved with her sons to live with her father, but it was no easy task getting away from Kenneth. He stalked Julie several times, even giving her son a bullet with a note saying it was for her. Eventually things came to a head and Kenneth drove round to where Julie was staying […]

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