When Aaron Friar, 50, and daughter, Ellie, 15, vanished from their Medford, Oregon, home on Oct. 2, 2017, investigators quickly deduced that there was foul play. “They saw blood spatter behind the couch, on the ceiling, all the way across the room,” said lead Detective Bill Ford. “There was … a potential that this was…
An Alaska Native man who maintained his innocence in the 1997 killing of a white teenager has agreed to an $11.5 million settlement with the city of Fairbanks after alleging police acted with a racial bias in a case in which he and three other Indigenous men spent nearly two decades in prison. Marvin Roberts…
When Massachusetts State Police detectives responded to a reported suicide in Westfield, Massachusetts, on May 8, 2018, they found Amy Fanion dead on her dining room floor with a gunshot wound to her head. Her husband, Brian Fanion, a Westfield Police detective, had called 911, reporting that Amy Fanion had shot herself. Brian and Amy…
A Georgia husband and wife were arrested almost a quarter-century after a man was found dead in his truck in a Wendy’s parking lot, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said on Monday. Travis Silvers was found dead in his vehicle in the fast-food parking lot in Adairsville, Georgia on the morning of March 10, 2001,…
It’s been decades since Reginald Reed Jr., known as Reggie, last saw his mother Selonia Reed. Reggie Reed: After my mother was murdered, things moved fast … I couldn’t really understand, like, why would somebody kill her? Like, what did she do? Reggie Reed: I feel like I missed out on a huge part of…
CASE UPDATE: On April 11, 2025, a jury found Monica Sementilli, the wife of famed hairdresser Fabio Sementilli, guilty of murder for his 2017 death in which he was beaten and stabbed in their Los Angeles home. When Monica Sementilli and Robert Baker were arrested and accused of a murder conspiracy to kill Monica’s husband,…
CASE UPDATE: On April 11, 2025, a jury found Monica Sementilli, the wife of famed hairdresser Fabio Sementilli, guilty of murder for his 2017 death in which he was beaten and stabbed in their Los Angeles home. In 2017, Monica Sementilli had an enviable life — a luxurious house with a pool and a…
Fabio Sementilli was a superstar in the beauty business. He began cutting hair in Toronto, Canada, and eventually moved to Los Angeles when he was promoted to an executive position at Wella. He settled in a home in Woodland Hills with his wife Monica and their two teenage daughters. On Jan. 23, 2017, Fabio was…
Reginald Reed Jr., known as Reggie, spent more than two decades wondering who killed his mother, Selonia Reed, when he was only 6 years old. Selonia, a bank teller, was 26 when her body was found in her car in Hammond, Louisiana. One of the last memories Reggie has of that day is his mother…
In November 2021, Detectives Jonathan Vander Lee and Calvin You had to figure out why a lifeless woman was left at a Los Angeles emergency room. Det. Jonathan Vander Lee: For a fresh case … it’s all on you. No one else is gonna solve this thing for you. It’s you and your partner, that’s…