This story originally aired on Feb. 16, 2024. It was updated on March 8, 2025. Las Vegas Review-Journal investigative reporter Jeff German was a man who lived for his job. And as it turns out, may have died for it. In September 2022, he was stabbed to death by an assailant outside his home. German…
Hannah Thompson, 17, was on the run, heading out of Simpsonville, South Carolina with her boyfriend, U.S. Army soldier John Blauvelt. On Oct. 26, 2016, Cati Blauvelt, his wife of just a few months, had been found stabbed to death, her body left in a concrete box in an abandoned farmhouse. The knife blade broken…
It was just after 1 a.m. on May 7, 2023, when authorities responded to a reported road accident on a secluded dead-end street in Greenwood, South Carolina. At the edge of the nearby woods, they would find 46-year-old Davis McClendon‘s body. But what they saw at first was on the road itself: a shirt, a…
This story originally aired on Feb. 24, 2024. It was updated on March 1, 2025. On March 4, 2022, Kouri Richins says she found her husband, Eric Richins, unresponsive in their bed. First responders tried to save him, but it was too late for the father of three. Weeks later, police said Richins’ death was…
When authorities in Greenwood, South Carolina, arrived at the deserted intersection after 1 a.m. on May 7, 2023, they found a mangled BMW sedan in the road with debris scattered around it. On the shoulder near the woods, lay the car’s fatally injured owner, 46-year-old Davis McClendon. But something about the scene seemed strange. McClendon…
It was Sept. 18, 2003 when Justine Vanderschoot’s remains were discovered in a remote location more than two weeks after she disappeared. But it’s in the garden outside her bedroom window where her parents Don and Lynnette still come to find her. Lynnette Vanderschoot: It’s … 21 years since we’ve lost Justine … but it’s…
This story previously aired on Feb. 10, 2024. It was updated on Feb. 15, 2025. It’s been five years since Hollywood therapist Amie Harwick was murdered on Feb. 15, 2020. Harwick’s roommate, Michael Herman — the man who tried to save her — can never erase the memories of what happened to his friend in…
It was Labor Day weekend 2003 when Matt Scribner, a local horse farrier and trainer who also competes in long-distance horse races, was on his usual ride in a remote part of the Sierra Nevada foothills — just a few miles northeast of Auburn, California —when he noticed a freshly dug hole along the trail…
It was the end of September 1996, a Saturday night in a fishing area just outside of Bozeman, Montana — a place of tranquility until this night. A few miles up a rural highway, near the small town of Belgrade, searchers discovered the body of 15-year-old Danielle “Danni” Houchins. Peter Van Sant: What brought your…
This story originally aired on April 27, 2024. Sergeant Brandon Hauptman of the Hays Police Department vividly remembers the dark, cold Halloween morning as he arrived at Kristen Trickle‘s home. And he remembers the moment he found the 26-year-old near death in bed. Sgt. Brandon Hauptman: I could see the firearm. … From what I…