CASE 274Columbus, Ohio
2013
Imran Ashgar
Shopkeeper Imran Ashgar was shot at his Columbus store in July 2013. The attack was recorded, providing investigators with evidence as they searched for the people involved.
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2013
Ivanice Harris
Ivanice Harris disappeared during a Hawaii trip in 2013. Investigators followed her movements to a Waikiki hotel and examined its cameras while searching for answers.
CASE 270Appleton, Wisconsin
2013
Josh Richards
Josh Richards was shot at the Luna Lounge nightclub in December 2013. Investigators looked to security footage inside and around the venue to identify the gunman.
CASE 177Marshall, Texas
2013
Kari Hunt
Kari Hunt was killed by her estranged husband in a Marshall motel room in 2013. Her daughter tried to call 911 but the telephone system required an outside-line prefix. Her family’s campaign helped change emergency dialing requirements for covered multiline phone systems.
CASE 369Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2013
Kelly Dwyer
Kelly Dwyer disappeared after a night out in Milwaukee. The investigation examined her last visit to her boyfriend’s apartment and security footage that challenged his account of her departure. Kris Zocco was convicted of her homicide in 2018.
CASE 280Bloomington, Minnesota
2013
Kira Steger
Kira Steger disappeared after an evening at the Mall of America with her husband in 2013. Investigators turned to mall surveillance as concerns about her disappearance grew.
CASE 277Tacoma, Washington
2013
Larry Howse
Larry Howse was shot in the parking garage of his apartment building in August 2013. Surveillance footage showed two people connected to the attack and became central to the investigation.
CASE 278Orange, California
2013
Maribel Ramos
Army veteran Maribel Ramos disappeared from her apartment in May 2013. Investigators used surveillance evidence and a targeted investigative strategy to establish what had happened to her.
CASE 428Texarkana, Arkansas
2013
Patricia “Patti” Wheelington
Patricia “Patti” Wheelington was killed at her Texarkana home in December 2013. The investigation focused on Virginia Hyatt, whose husband had been involved with Wheelington, and tested her account against surveillance and other circumstantial evidence. A Miller County jury convicted Hyatt of capital murder in 2016, bringing a life-without-parole sentence. Arkansas’s Supreme Court affirmed in 2018, with two justices dissenting. The opinion and local coverage allow readers to examine both the ruling and the disputed evidence.
CASE 247Gainesville, Florida
2012
Christian Aguilar
University of Florida freshman Christian Aguilar disappeared in 2012. Video evidence helped investigators examine his last movements and the accounts of people close to him.
CASE 101Springfield, Missouri
2012–2013
Diane Staudte
Diane Staudte and her daughter Rachel used antifreeze to poison members of their Missouri family. Mark and Shaun Staudte died, while Sarah survived a later poisoning. The investigation exposed a deliberate plan behind illnesses that had initially appeared unrelated.
CASE 255Pennsylvania
2012
Ervin Holton
DJ Ervin Holton was shot on a friend's porch in November 2012. Investigators located a nearby business camera facing the scene as they worked to identify his killer.
CASE 378Texas
2012
Michelle Warner
Michelle Warner vanished while living with her former boyfriend Mark Castellano. His televised interview with Dr. Phil and a later account to police became part of the reporting on her disappearance and death.
CASE 245Pensacola, Florida
2012
Sean Dugas
The disappearance of reporter Sean Dugas led Pensacola police into an investigation connected to gaming and valuable collectibles. Surveillance evidence forms part of the account presented in See No Evil.
CASE 141West Virginia & Pennsylvania
2012
Skylar Neese
Skylar Neese left her West Virginia home with friends Rachel Shoaf and Shelia Eddy in 2012 and did not return. Investigators eventually learned the two had killed her in Pennsylvania. Their guilty pleas exposed a planned murder behind months of misleading accounts about her disappearance.
CASE 258Atlanta, Georgia
2012
Terry Porter
Atlanta entrepreneur Terry Porter was found shot outside his home in November 2012. With little evidence at the scene, investigators searched for security footage that could identify the people involved.
CASE 433Darden, Tennessee
2011
Holly Bobo
Nursing student Holly Bobo disappeared from her Tennessee home in April 2011; her remains were found more than three years later. Zachary Adams was convicted in 2017, while two other defendants resolved their cases through pleas. Subsequent reporting examined a key witness’s recantation and Adams’s efforts to obtain another trial. A July 2026 ruling denied a renewed request. The case’s source record includes the original prosecution and later challenges, which should be read in their procedural context.
CASE 157Bloomington, Indiana
2011
Lauren Spierer
Indiana University student Lauren Spierer disappeared after a night out in Bloomington in June 2011. Investigators reconstructed her movements, but no account has established what happened to her. Books, podcasts, and reporting revisit the timeline and her family’s continuing search for answers.
CASE 368Durham, North Carolina
2011
Reginald Daye & Crystal Mangum
Reginald Daye died after being stabbed during an argument with Crystal Mangum in 2011. She claimed self-defense but was convicted of second-degree murder in 2013. The case was covered by Wives with Knives and Snapped.
CASE 143Summerfield, Florida
2011
Seath Jackson
Fifteen-year-old Seath Jackson was lured to a Florida house in 2011 and killed by a group that included people he knew. The effort to conceal his remains did not prevent arrests. The case produced multiple prosecutions involving teenagers and young adults.
CASE 267Skyway, Washington
2010
Alajawan Brown
Twelve-year-old Alajawan Brown was shot outside a convenience store in April 2010. Investigators examined nearby shootings and security recordings to establish how he became a victim.
CASE 417Orange County and Merritt Island, Florida
2010
Alissa Blanton
Alissa Blanton, 23, was killed outside her Orange County workplace in February 2010. Roger Troy, a man she had met while working at Hooters, shot her and then himself. Days earlier, Blanton had asked a court for an emergency protective order; it was declined on the information presented. Reporting examines the warning signs and her family’s subsequent calls for stalking awareness. Her case is a major thread in The Hooters Murders: Deadly Shift.
CASE 149Huntsville, Alabama
2010
Amy Bishop
Amy Bishop opened fire during a faculty meeting at the University of Alabama in Huntsville in 2010, killing three colleagues and injuring three others. The attack followed a tenure dispute. She pleaded guilty, and reporting also revisited an earlier shooting involving her brother.
CASE 435San Juan Capistrano, California
2010
Chris Smith & Edward Shin
California entrepreneur Chris Smith’s family received emails suggesting he had left his business behind to travel. Investigators later found that his business partner, Edward Shin, had killed him in their San Juan Capistrano office in June 2010 and impersonated him afterward. An Orange County jury convicted Shin of murder for financial gain in 2018. Dateline later interviewed Shin after his life sentence, examining the business relationship and the messages that had misled Smith’s loved ones.
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