This story originally aired on March 2, 2024. Lyle and Erik Menendez have been behind bars in California for more than three decades for the 1989 killing of their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez. Convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison in a case that captured the nation’s attention, they had no…
CASE UPDATE: In May 2025, Lyle and Erik Menendez were resentenced to 50 years to life with the possibility of parole. Due to that resentencing, they are now eligible for parole hearings under youth offender parole laws. In August 2025, the brothers’ first bids for parole were denied. This article was originally posted on March…
Bryan Patrick Miller violently murdered two young women in Phoenix in the early 1990s and went decades without being caught. By the time police caught up to him, he had a new persona and was hiding in plain sight. Genetic genealogy and DNA would be the keys to identifying him as the killer. See how…
This story originally aired on Oct. 21, 2023. The murders of two young women, killed months apart while riding their bikes along a canal in Phoenix, Arizona, went unsolved for more than two decades and would become known as the Phoenix canal murders. Investigators got a break 21 years after the murders thanks to DNA…
Widow’s War – CBS News Watch CBS News A Marine colonel is found shot in his bunk. Authorities say it was a suicide, his wife says it was murder — and she is determined to prove it. “48 Hours” Peter Van Sant investigates. Source link
It was a week before Christmas in 2022, when Saint Paul, Minnesota, police officer Ching Vang and his partner Officer Justina Hser set off on their regular patrol of the city. Natalie Morales | “48 Hours” contributor: The overnight hours, it’s December 16th, 2022. What time do you get that call? Officer Ching Vang: On…
In the early morning hours of Dec. 16, 2022, St. Paul, Minnesota, homicide detectives Abby DeSanto and Jennifer O’Donnell were called to a downtown apartment building to investigate a reported suicide. A 32-year-old woman named Alexandra Pennig had been found dead in her bathroom with a single gunshot wound to the head. For the detectives,…
On Dec. 15, 2022, Matthew Ecker was headed to work when he said he got a frantic call from his former co-worker and friend Alex Pennig. He said Pennig told him she got in a fight with her boyfriend Shane Anderson and was scared of what he might do. So, Ecker took his gun, which…
Student of Murder – CBS News Watch CBS News Was a boy genius a stone cold killer too? “48 Hours” correspondent Peter Van Sant investigates. Source link
This story originally aired on April 8, 2023. It was updated on Jan. 6, 2024. For Marie Smith, the realization that her daughter Kassanndra Cantrell had been missing for more than two days was almost more than she could take. Marie Smith: I called everybody … anybody I could think of, and nobody had heard…