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THE CASE LIBRARY
U.S. cases, plus the Bernardo–Homolka case in Canada.
2026
Ashley Flynn’s death prompted an investigation into an alleged home invasion. October 2026 reporting describes her husband Caleb Flynn’s murder conviction and sentence, and the evidence presented at trial.
2022–2026
Seventeen-year-old Mackenzie Shirilla drove into a brick building in Strongsville, Ohio, on July 31, 2022, killing her boyfriend Dominic Russo and their friend Davion Flanagan. She survived. After examining video and other evidence, a judge found that she had deliberately caused the crash and convicted her of murder in 2023.
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
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.
2002–2013
Ariel Castro abducted Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus in Cleveland and held them for years inside his house. Berry’s escape in 2013 led to the rescue of the other women and her daughter. Their accounts describe both captivity and life after rescue.
2001
Jeff Zack was killed at an Akron gas station in June 2001. John Zaffino was convicted of the murder, and his conviction survived appeal. Investigators also pursued Cynthia George, who had been romantically involved with both men. Her conviction for complicity was reversed in 2007 because the appellate court found insufficient evidence that she solicited or procured the killing. This case guide keeps those different outcomes explicit and pairs the Killer Couples episode with the reversal and subsequent reporting.
1998–2017
Attorney Robert Bilott began representing a West Virginia farmer in 1998 and uncovered records concerning PFOA contamination near DuPont’s Washington Works plant. The wider litigation and environmental enforcement brought scrutiny to drinking-water exposure and the reporting of chemical risks. His work is dramatized in Dark Waters.
1993
Eddie Lee Sexton’s family fled Ohio for Florida while authorities were investigating abuse. In 1993, an infant in the family died, and Sexton later directed his son to kill Joel Good, the baby’s father. Prosecutors said the killing was intended to keep Good from revealing the family’s crimes and whereabouts.
1989
Unsolved homicideTen-year-old Amy Mihaljevic was persuaded by a caller to meet him at an Ohio shopping center in 1989, supposedly to help buy a gift for her mother. She disappeared, and her body was found months later. The deceptive phone call became a central clue in the investigation into her abduction and murder.
1989
Dana Beatty survived an assault by a masked attacker in her Cincinnati home. Decades later, her daughter Andra helped renew efforts to identify the assailant and obtain justice.
1978–1991
Jeffrey Dahmer murdered 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991. When Tracy Edwards escaped his Milwaukee apartment, police discovered evidence of the killings. Reporting and documentaries have also examined missed opportunities to intervene and the experiences of victims’ families.
1954
Marilyn Sheppard was killed in her bedroom in 1954. Her husband Sam was convicted, but the proceedings later became a landmark example of prejudicial publicity; he was acquitted at a retrial.
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