This story previously aired on Oct. 20, 2018. It’s a murder case that shook a community and one that hinges on a personal activity tracker and another technology: Google Dashboard, a tool that many people don’t even know they have. But could it convict a killer? Nicole Vander Heyden went out with friends for a…
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Oct. 17, 2019, began as a normal day for Matthew Trussler and Melissa Turner. The couple went shopping at Home Depot and Publix, and then had lunch at the home they shared near Tampa, Florida. Hours later, Trussler was found dead by their pool. Turner said she frantically called 911 when she discovered Trussler’s lifeless…
From reality television, to the plot of “Bridgerton,” 2024 might very well be the year of the “throuple.” The polyamorous relationship involving three romantic partners, instead of the more conventional two, seems to be popping up everywhere. And a throuple is at the center of a murder investigated by “48 Hours” and correspondent Peter Van…
In April 2018, in the sleepy Florida Gulf Coast town of Eastpoint, it appeared a killer had struck. “I received a call that a body was located .. off of Highway 98,” Lt. Ronnie Jones, from the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office, told “48 Hours” correspondent Peter Van Sant. Badly beaten and with no identification, the…
This story originally aired on Jan. 14. Melissa Turner called 911 saying she had discovered her fiancé Matthew Trussler lying unresponsive near their swimming pool in Riverview, Florida. He was pronounced dead at the scene and an autopsy later revealed he had died from stab wounds. It was Oct. 18, 2019, and Melissa initially told…
Barry Morphew, a longtime suspect in his wife’s disappearance and murder, was arrested in Arizona on June 20, 2025, two days after he was indicted on a first-degree murder charge in the case of his wife Suzanne Morphew’s death. This was the second time Barry Morphew has been arrested and charged in her death. The…
It’s an awkward moment sitting down with a murderer especially when you arrive unannounced. Robert Baker, 61, who pleaded no contest last summer to the 2017 Los Angeles murder of famed hairstylist and beauty industry executive Fabio Sementilli, 49, approached the glass that separated us with a “who are you?” look on his face….
A look at the 2018 disappearance of Blaze Bernstein and the evidence that led to Sam Woodward‘s arrest and conviction in the hate crime murder. Jan. 2, 2018 Blaze Bernstein Bernstein family Blaze, a 19-year-old Ivy League student, was spending the holidays visiting family in Orange County, California, when he went missing the night of…
Six years after the murder of Blaze Bernstein, his family came face to face with his killer, Sam Woodward, a former high school classmate. KEN MORRISON (in court): The why is the single most important issue you will need to decide. Not who is responsible for the death of a young man, but exactly why…