I went back to New Hampshire to update my investigation on The Allenstown 4. We have answered the biggest question–Who is the killer? But with that answer came hundreds of more questions…and possibly more bodies. Part 1 Part 2
Kimberly Long Murder Conviction Reversed: Credits Crime Watch Daily With Helping
As a journalist that focuses on unsolved cases, I get many of requests to attempt and prove someone’s innocence, but I have never taken one on. But when I found Kimberly Long’s case, there was just too much there to keep it in the dark. In July 2015, I started my first television producing/investigating and on-camera gig by digging into the story of Kimberly Long, who […]
A Clearer Photo of the River North Puncher–Please Help ID
A Twitter user sent me this photo, which was apparently taken around the time of the incident. If you have any information on this man–his name or current whereabouts–please contact me.
DB Cooper History Channel Special: FBI Interview Bonus Footage
Last August I got a call from the History Channel asking me to investigate the DB Cooper mystery and vet a suspect that a team of citizen sleuths had uncovered. I was paired with a former FBI man, assistant director Tom Fuentes, and together we traveled up to the Pacific Northwest to interview witnesses, former and current FBI agents, scientists, and a host of other people involved with […]
Waking Up At The Disney World Hotel I Have Tattooed On My Leg To Go Interview Survivors At The Pulse Nightclub Shooting
When you have tattoos, people ask you what they mean. I have a Tonka truck bulldozer on my back, with my son’s name on it. It is driving up from my side and recreating the scar my son got from the heart surgery he had as a baby. On my right tricep is a quill pen, because no matter what job I am doing, I […]
The Bear Brook Murders
The Allenstown Four. The Bear Brook Murders. The Family in Barrels. The crime goes by many names, but one thing that is certain–it is one of the most horrendous and baffling crimes in American history. Four bodies–one woman, and three little girls–found in two barrels years apart. It is later learned that three of the four victims are related. How does a […]
Twitter sleuths—and one real detective—join forces after an assault in Philadelphia to help police arrest three suspects
It was by all accounts a brutal beating. On September 11, 2014, 28-year old Zachary Hesse and his 27-year old boyfriend Andrew Haught were going out for pizza on a Thursday night in Philadelphia’s trendy Center City neighborhood. They walked past a group of about a dozen well-dressed males and females. Clean cut, preppy types. The women in dresses. The men in oxfords and […]
Michelle McNamara, True Crime Writer
Michelle McNamara was dogged. Fiercely dogged. Don’t-take-no-for-an-answer, don’t-leave-any-stone-unturned dogged. She was a mother and a wife, but after she took her daughter to school or put her to bed, she spent seemingly every waking moment working on her book about a series of unsolved rapes and murders that took place across California in the ’70s and ’80s. Her ultimate goal? To identify the villain, […]
The “Hardy Boys of Utah” Who Spent Christmas Vacation Searching For A Fugitive
My Crime Watch Daily story on the park ranger who was shot nine times and left for dead in the hills of Utah, the fugitive who escaped authorities for five years, and the Eagle Scout and his teenage brother who used their skills to track him down.
The Crime Watch Daily Investigation Of The Murder of Faith Hedgepeth
In a special one-hour segment of Crime Watch Daily, we investigate the still-unsolved murder of Faith Hedgepeth, and reveal a pocket-dial voicemail that could break the case wide open.