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U.S. cases, plus the Bernardo–Homolka case in Canada.
2016
Michelle Hadley was arrested after accusations involving threatening emails and an alleged assault plot. Investigators later uncovered that she had been framed, transforming the case into an investigation of cyber-revenge.
2016
Sarah Stern disappeared from New Jersey in 2016, and her car was left near a bridge. Investigators learned that Liam McAtasney had killed her for money and that Preston Taylor helped conceal the crime. A secretly recorded conversation became important evidence at trial.
2016
Sherri Papini claimed she had been kidnapped in California in 2016 and blamed two Latina women. Investigators later determined she had stayed with a former boyfriend. She pleaded guilty in 2022 to mail fraud and making false statements, after years of public concern over the supposed abduction.
2015
Veteran and grandfather Billy Connole was shot while walking in Loveland in 2015. Investigators examined footage of an older pickup truck as they searched for his killer.
2015
Carl Starke was shot near his St. Augustine home. Witnesses heard gunfire but did not see the attack; investigators used the estimated time of the shooting to search surveillance recordings.
2015
Celina Petersen's body was found in an alley in Seattle's South Park neighborhood in February 2015. Investigators pieced together recordings from the surrounding neighborhood to examine her killing.
2015
Dee Dee Blanchard presented her daughter Gypsy Rose as seriously ill and dependent, concealing a history of medical abuse. In 2015, Nicholas Godejohn killed Dee Dee in a plan involving Gypsy. Both were convicted, and later media explored the abuse as well as the murder.
2015
Edward Lowry was found beaten and stabbed in a parking lot on September 17, 2015. Investigators used nearby cameras to reconstruct the movements surrounding his death.
2015
Texas boxing trainer Ramon Sosa worked with investigators after learning of a plot to kill him. A staged death scene became part of the operation documented in 48 Hours.
2015
Sasha Samsudean was murdered in her apartment after returning from a night out in Orlando. Investigators examined building surveillance to determine who had access to her and what happened after she arrived.
2015
Care worker Torrance Cheeves was found stabbed in his San Antonio home in August 2015. Investigators searched neighborhood security cameras while working through conflicting clues.
2014
Carlesha Freeland-Gaither was abducted from a Philadelphia street in November 2014. Surveillance recorded the attack, and investigators found her alive in Maryland three days later. See No Evil examines the search and the camera evidence.
2014
Cassy Farrington, a young mother and nurse, was found dead in a bathtub. Her family pressed for answers as investigators reconsidered the circumstances of her death.
2014
Christina Morris, 23, disappeared during a night out with friends in Plano. Surveillance recordings helped investigators reconstruct her movements and investigate what happened after she left the group.
2014
Florida State University law professor Dan Markel was killed at his Tallahassee home in July 2014. The investigation uncovered a murder-for-hire plot and led to several prosecutions. His former brother-in-law Charlie Adelson was convicted in 2023; former mother-in-law Donna Adelson was convicted in 2025 and sentenced to life imprisonment that October. Reporting, court coverage and his mother Ruth Markel’s memoir document the criminal proceedings alongside the family’s grief and efforts to maintain relationships with his children.
2014
Ina Clare Richardson, 69, was found murdered in a Clarkston park in November 2014. Video from the surrounding area helped investigators reconstruct her movements before her death.
2014
Michelle Carter encouraged Conrad Roy to take his own life through messages and conversations before his death in 2014. Her involuntary-manslaughter trial raised questions about responsibility for conduct carried out through a phone. Documentaries and dramatizations revisit the messages and the court’s reasoning.
2014
Pamela Zimmerman, a financial planner and mother of three, was killed in her Bloomington, Illinois, office in 2014. Prosecutors charged her former husband Kirk Zimmerman, arguing that financial conflict provided a motive. His defense challenged the investigation and argued that other leads had been neglected. A jury found him not guilty in May 2019. Dateline’s later report and local trial coverage offer different entry points into a case where an accusation must not be presented as a conviction.
2014
Graduate student Tequila Suter was stabbed to death at her home near Buffalo in 2014. Investigators reconstructed movements across the area using surveillance recordings.
2014
Student Tong Shao was found murdered after disappearing in 2014. Surveillance recordings helped investigators examine her final movements as the search for a suspect extended beyond the United States.
2013
Alexis Murphy disappeared in Virginia in 2013 after being recorded at a gas station. Surveillance and physical evidence led to Randy Taylor’s conviction for her murder in 2014. Her remains were recovered years later, bringing an answer about her whereabouts to her family.
2013–2026
Aliza Sherman was fatally stabbed in 2013. Her divorce attorney Gregory Moore was later charged with her murder. The linked reporting examines the prosecution’s allegations and defense motions, not an established verdict.
2013
Amy Lord, 24, was found stabbed to death. Investigators reconstructed her movements through recordings from five Boston ATMs, using the images to investigate her abduction and killing.
2013–2019
Using the name Anna Delvey, Anna Sorokin presented herself as a wealthy heiress while pursuing a private arts club in New York. A Manhattan jury convicted her in 2019 of eight offenses, including grand larceny and theft of services, and acquitted her on two counts. Reporting, a former friend’s memoir, and the scripted series Inventing Anna offer different perspectives on the case.
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