Who wanted Nicki Lenway dead? That was the question police were asking on the evening of April 20, 2022. Around 7:30 p.m., Lenway had pulled into the parking lot of FamilyWise parenting center to pick up her 5-year-old son, Callahan. She was halfway between her car and the door when she was ambushed from behind…
This story previously aired on Oct. 7, 2023. Nicole “Nicki” Lenway, a crime scene investigator for the Minneapolis Police Department, was gunned down in broad daylight — shot twice at point-blank range in a parking lot on the evening of April 20, 2022. “Someone wanted me dead,” Lenway tells “48 Hours” correspondent Erin Moriarty in…
The guys at the sheriff’s office call her a cool dude with long hair because, they say, she’s meaner than any of them — on the gun range and in the field. Her name is Lt. Dakota Black. She’s a trained tracker and detective with the Pottawatomie County Sheriff’s Office in Shawnee, Oklahoma. Lt. Dakota…
Mark and Marla Palumbo were concerned when their friend and business partner Dr. Henry Han failed to show up for a meeting on March 23, 2016. They would learn the horrific reason why the following day from a news report. Marla Palumbo: I was in the kitchen on my computer and I kept checking ……
It’s hard for most people to believe that a boxer known for knocking out 32 of 49 opponents could be the victim of domestic violence, but that is what Christy Salters-Martin lived to tell a jury and CBS News contributor David Begnaud. Her husband tried to kill her, she says, but she refused to die….
People often discuss which Hollywood star might play them in a movie about their life. For legendary boxer Christy Martin, the actor turned out to be Sydney Sweeney. Sweeney transformed into “Christy,” which hits theaters on Nov. 7. Before Martin’s story was told on the big screen, she sat down with “48 Hours” in 2020…
Cold case detectives Melissa Wallace and Jon Long of the Fairfax County Police Department began reviewing Robin Lawrence’s murder case in April 2021. They were struck by the sheer violence of the attack on the 37-year-old mother. Det. Jon Long: … that’s like your worst nightmare. Det. Melissa Wallace: It looked brutal. Det. Jon Long:…
Todd Kendhammer says his wife Barbara died in a freak car accident. But authorities questioned his story from the beginning, and he was tried and convicted of intentional homicide. Todd and Barbara Kendhammer Barbara Kendhammer/Facebook Kendhammer and his children have refused to accept the verdict and are seeking a new trial. Their fight for what…
[This story originally aired on January 29, 2022. It was updated on September 3.] Todd Kendhammer said his wife Barbara was killed in a freak accident when a pipe smashed into the windshield of their car in 2016. A Wisconsin jury didn’t believe him, and he was sentenced to life in prison. Their children believe…
When Stephan Smerk called Fairfax County Police Detective Melissa Wallace on Sept. 7, 2023, she was shocked to hear what he had to say. “He says, I’m at the police department to turn myself in,” Wallace told “48 Hours” correspondent Anne-Marie Green, in “Closing the Cold Case of Robin Lawrence,” airing Saturday, Oct. 25 at…