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U.S. cases, plus the Bernardo–Homolka case in Canada.
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.
2012–2013
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.
2008
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.
2002–2007
Shawn Hornbeck was abducted in Missouri in 2002. Four years later, the investigation into Ben Ownby’s abduction led police to Michael Devlin’s apartment, where both boys were found in January 2007. The rescue connected two missing-child cases that had initially seemed unrelated.
2001
Sports editor Kent Heitholt was killed outside the Columbia Daily Tribune in Missouri in 2001. Ryan Ferguson was convicted after his friend Charles Erickson implicated him, but witnesses later withdrew key testimony. An appeals court overturned Ferguson’s conviction in 2013 because prosecutors had withheld evidence, and the charges were dropped. Erickson, who had pleaded guilty and later challenged his confession, was released on parole in 2023. Their different legal outcomes are central to understanding the case.
1992
Unresolved disappearanceSherrill Levitt, her daughter Suzie Streeter, and Suzie’s friend Stacy McCall vanished from a Springfield, Missouri, home in 1992 after graduation celebrations. Their cars and personal belongings were left behind. With no clear explanation for all three women’s disappearance, the case became one of the region’s most closely followed mysteries.
1988–1989
Ellen Boehm killed her young sons David and Steven in St. Louis in 1988 and 1989 and also attacked her daughter, who survived. Insurance and financial evidence helped expose the pattern behind the children’s deaths. She pleaded guilty in 1992.
1953
Bobby Greenlease was abducted in 1953, and his family paid a large ransom. The money did not bring him home; investigators traced the kidnapping, his killing, and the missing ransom funds.
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