This week our "Missing" series looks at the case of JoAnn Benner. It's been nearly 50 years since the mother of two vanished from Bayou George, Florida. Her sisters and youngest daughter sit down for an interview with NewsNation affiliate WMBB. Her family has always been suspicious of Gary Benner, who told investigators his wife walked out on him and their two children. Despite a slew of evidence found on the couple's property, no one has been charged in her disappearance. A retired sheriff for Bay County tells the local newspaper he has no doubt that Benner killed his wife. Now with the help of a podcaster and new technology, her family is holding out hope they will soon get answers on what happened to JoAnn.This week, Marni Hughes is…
An illegal immigrant from Venezuela faces a third-degree felony charge after allegedly backing an SUV over an 82-year-old grandmother in a Panama City Beach grocery store parking lot, and his defense attorney calls it "simply an unfortunate incident." Deborah Murphy was walking through a crosswalk outside a Publix on May 17 when Carlos Suarez-Contreras, 26, […] The post Venezuelan national charged with killing 82-year-old Florida grandmother in Publix parking lot appeared first on American Almanac .
An illegal immigrant from Venezuela faces a third-degree felony charge after allegedly backing an SUV over an 82-year-old grandmother in a Panama City Beach grocery store parking lot, and his defense attorney calls it "simply an unfortunate incident." Deborah Murphy was walking through a crosswalk outside a Publix on May 17 when Carlos Suarez-Contreras, 26, reversed a Toyota 4Runner into her, according to a Florida Highway Patrol arrest affidavit. The vehicle pushed Murphy to the ground and kept rolling backward, running over her. She was taken to a hospital, where she died from her injuries. Suarez-Contreras, who told deputies he was born in Venezuela, was driving on a canceled Georgia license. Under Florida law, an illegal immigrant…Open
