CASE 396Florida
2010
Diane Kyne
Diane Kyne was found dead in her bedroom. Conflicting accounts from two men close to her complicated the investigation and became the focus of Dateline’s True Lies.
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2010
Heidi Firkus
Heidi Firkus died in her St. Paul home in April 2010 after an emergency call reporting an attempted break-in. Her husband Nicholas told police an intruder had shot them both. The investigation examined that account alongside the couple’s financial circumstances. A jury convicted Nicholas of premeditated murder in 2023, and he received life imprisonment without release. Minnesota’s Supreme Court upheld the conviction in February 2026, concluding that the circumstantial evidence supported the verdict.
CASE 418Las Vegas and Boulder City area, Nevada
2010
Prisma Contreras
Prisma Contreras, 21, was abducted after leaving work at the Hooters Casino Hotel in Las Vegas in January 2010. Her body was found in her vehicle near Boulder City. Gregory Hover was convicted and sentenced to death in 2013. Richard Freeman pleaded guilty to two murders, including hers. Contemporary sentencing coverage and the later documentary trace how investigators connected the offenses. The separate defendants’ legal outcomes should not be treated as interchangeable.
CASE 248Coral Springs, Florida
2010
Surya Toha
Surya Toha disappeared after taking her sons to school in Coral Springs. Investigators used surveillance recordings to trace what happened after that ordinary morning journey.
CASE 371New York, New York
2010
Sylvie Cachay
Fashion designer Sylvie Cachay was found dead in a bathtub at Soho House in New York. Investigators reconstructed her final hours and the circumstances involving her boyfriend, Nicholas Brooks.
CASE 366Nashville, Tennessee
2009
Ben & Nikki Goeser
Ben Goeser was shot and killed in a Nashville bar in 2009. His wife Nikki witnessed the attack by a man who had been stalking her. Her account appears in Obsession: Dark Desires and in her public testimony about stalking.
CASE 253Glendale, Arizona
2009
Cynthia Langrall
Cynthia Langrall was shot while jogging in Glendale's Hillcrest Ranch neighborhood. Residential security footage helped investigators identify a vehicle linked to the shooting.
CASE 276Buena Park, California
2009
Jasmine Fiore
Jasmine Fiore's remains were discovered in a suitcase in a Buena Park dumpster. Security footage helped investigators examine the model's disappearance and the circumstances of her death.
CASE 260Cedar Park, Texas
2009
Jessika Kalaher
Jessika Kalaher, 27, was found strangled in her car in September 2009. Her missing wallet and keys prompted investigators to examine security recordings for evidence of her final movements.
CASE 257Boston, Massachusetts
2009
Julissa Brisman
Julissa Brisman was found shot and bound in a Boston hotel room in 2009. Hotel security recordings helped investigators trace an attacker connected to a series of encounters arranged online.
CASE 155Virginia
2009–2014
Morgan Harrington & Hannah Graham
Morgan Harrington disappeared after a concert in 2009, and Hannah Graham disappeared after a night out in 2014. DNA and other evidence connected their Virginia murders to Jesse Matthew. He pleaded guilty in 2016, linking investigations that had initially unfolded years apart.
CASE 364Lenoir, North Carolina
2009
Roland Younce & the Moore family
A dispute between neighbors Roland Younce and Tony Moore escalated into gunfire. Moore, his daughter, and responding officers were injured; Younce was killed when officers returned fire. Fear Thy Neighbor examines the conflict and its consequences.
CASE 148Pinellas Park, Florida
2009
Sarah Ludemann & Rachel Wade
Rachel Wade stabbed Sarah Ludemann during a confrontation in Florida in 2009. Their conflict over a boyfriend had escalated through messages and threats. Wade was convicted of second-degree murder in a case widely described through its social-media rivalry.
CASE 097Columbia, Illinois
2009
Sheri Coleman & her sons
Sheri Coleman and her sons Garett and Gavin were strangled in their Illinois home in 2009. Her husband Chris, a ministry security employee, had reported threatening messages. Investigators concluded the threats were staged, and he was convicted of all three murders.
CASE 098West Valley City, Utah
2009
Susan Cox Powell
Susan Cox Powell disappeared from Utah in December 2009. Her husband Josh said he had taken their young sons camping that night, but he was never tried over her disappearance. In 2012 he killed the boys and himself, leaving major questions about Susan unanswered.
CASE 241New York, New York
2008–2009
Bernie Madoff
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U.S. Department of Justice / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain — U.S. federal government. Cropped/resized.Bernard Madoff’s investment operation concealed a Ponzi scheme that collapsed in 2008, causing devastating losses to investors and charities. The Wizard of Lies follows the fraud and its consequences; its HBO adaptation and a Netflix documentary series offer different screen treatments.
CASE 093Orlando, Florida
2008
Casey Anthony & Caylee Anthony
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Florida government / Orange County Jail · Public domain (U.S.). Cropped/resized.Two-year-old Caylee Anthony disappeared in Florida in 2008, and her remains were found months later. Her mother Casey’s false statements drew intense scrutiny. In 2011, a jury acquitted Casey of murder and the other major charges, while convicting her of lying to investigators.
CASE 259San Antonio, Texas
2008
Christopher Duncan
Christopher Duncan left his San Antonio apartment in February 2008 and did not return. Surveillance footage became a key lead as police investigated his disappearance and killing.
CASE 094Mesa, Arizona
2008
Jodi Arias & Travis Alexander
Travis Alexander was killed in his Arizona home in 2008. Photographs recovered from a camera and changing accounts became central to the investigation of his former girlfriend Jodi Arias. She was convicted of first-degree murder after a closely watched trial in 2013.
CASE 240Lynnwood, Washington; Colorado
2008–2011
Marie / The Unbelievable Investigation
A young woman identified in reporting as Marie reported a rape in Washington in 2008, but police doubted her account. A later investigation in Colorado uncovered evidence supporting her report. Investigative journalism, the book A False Report and Netflix’s Unbelievable explore the failures and breakthroughs.
CASE 263Festus, Missouri
2008
Tom & Jill Estes
Tom and Jill Estes were found dead behind a dumpster in June 2008. A receipt led investigators to surveillance recordings and evidence connecting the deaths to a wider series of killings.
CASE 358Las Vegas, Nevada
2007
Jill & Bill Rockcastle
Poker player Bill Rockcastle was stabbed in a Las Vegas condominium in April 2007. The investigation examined the actions of his wife Jill and the events preceding the fatal encounter.
CASE 272Edmond, Oklahoma
2007
Shirley Shell
Shirley Shell was found murdered at home in June 2007. Her death led investigators to examine surveillance recordings as they searched for the person responsible.
CASE 251Dumas, Arkansas
2006
Casey Crowder
Seventeen-year-old Casey Crowder vanished after her car ran out of gas near Dumas. Investigators searched for surveillance recordings that could help establish what happened to the missing teenager.
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