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THE CASE LIBRARY
U.S. cases, plus the Bernardo–Homolka case in Canada.
2020–2026
Suzanne Morphew disappeared from the Salida area on Mother’s Day in 2020. Her remains were found in Colorado in 2023. Her husband, Barry Morphew, was charged again in 2025 after an earlier prosecution was dismissed. He has pleaded not guilty; September 2026 reporting covers a bond increase while the renewed case proceeds.
2018
Flight instructor and mother Kelsey Berreth disappeared from Woodland Park, Colorado, on Thanksgiving in 2018. Investigators examined her fiancé Patrick Frazee’s account and evidence supplied by Krystal Lee, who testified about the killing and its concealment. A jury convicted Frazee in 2019 of murder and related offenses. He received life without parole plus additional years. Colorado’s appeals court upheld the conviction in December 2022, a ruling reported by local newsrooms the following month.
2018
Chris Watts killed his pregnant wife Shanann and their daughters Bella and Celeste in Colorado in 2018. He initially appeared in public appeals for their return. His guilty pleas and the discovery of the victims revealed that the disappearance story had concealed a family murder.
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.
2008–2011
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.
1999
Twelve students and teacher Dave Sanders were killed at Columbine High School in April 1999. The attack left survivors and families facing lasting trauma and generated a large public investigative record. Dave Cullen’s Columbine revisits the evidence and challenges several narratives that spread during the first days of coverage.
1996
Unsolved homicideSix-year-old JonBenét Ramsey was found dead in her family’s Boulder home in December 1996 after a ransom note was discovered. The investigation and public speculation placed her family under intense scrutiny. The killing remains unresolved; media allegations are not findings of guilt.
1996
Manuela Garcia killed her husband with an axe in July 1996. The case examined the breakdown of their marriage after she had moved from Germany to Colorado.
1985
Narcotics detective Dennis Yaklich was shot in December 1985. The investigation examined the circumstances of the attack and the role of his wife Donna amid accounts of violence within the marriage.
1980
Twenty-one-year-old Helene Pruszynski was murdered in Colorado. The investigation remained unresolved for decades before a later investigative approach led detectives to her killer.
1971–1993
Ruth Bader Ginsburg challenged laws that treated people differently because of sex, developing a litigation strategy before her Supreme Court appointment. On the Basis of Sex dramatizes an early tax case involving a male caregiver; her collected writings offer a wider view of her legal career.
1960–1995
Temple Grandin developed a career in animal science and livestock-handling design while explaining her experience as an autistic person. Her writing and public work challenged assumptions about how people think and learn. The HBO film draws on her accounts of education, family support and early professional life.
1955
United Airlines Flight 629 exploded after leaving Denver in 1955, killing everyone aboard. Investigators established that a bomb, rather than an aircraft malfunction, had destroyed the flight.
1930
Ten-year-old Leona O’Loughlin disappeared while her father became seriously ill in 1930. Investigators examined evidence that both had been poisoned and that the danger came from within their home.
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