Nearly half a century after skeletal remains turned up in the woods outside a North Carolina tire plant, state investigators used advanced DNA testing to put a name to the dead, a 15-year-old girl who ran away from home in Maryland and never came back. North Carolina's State Bureau of Investigation announced this week that […] The post Skeletal remains found in North Carolina woods in 1977 identified as 15-year-old Maryland runaway appeared first on American Almanac .
Nearly half a century after skeletal remains turned up in the woods outside a North Carolina tire plant, state investigators used advanced DNA testing to put a name to the dead, a 15-year-old girl who ran away from home in Maryland and never came back. North Carolina's State Bureau of Investigation announced this week that remains discovered on December 29, 1977, belong to Cindy Marcell Blizzard, a teenager from Monkton, Maryland, who left home in the spring of that year. The SBI is treating her death as a homicide. No arrests have been made, and the cause of death remains unknown. The remains, skeletal by the time they were found, lay in woods near a Firestone tire manufacturing plant in Wilson County, a rural area roughly 60 miles east…Open
Three law enforcement agencies are now actively investigating the 1993 killing of Shelley Watkins after a forensic DNA advance cracked open a cold case that went dormant when a corruption scandal derailed the original prosecution. Shelley Watkins was 35 years old, a mother of two small girls, one four, one just 18 months, when she […] The post DNA breakthrough revives 33-year-old Texas murder case of mother who vanished on Labor Day weekend appeared first on American Almanac .
Three law enforcement agencies are now actively investigating the 1993 killing of Shelley Watkins after a forensic DNA advance cracked open a cold case that went dormant when a corruption scandal derailed the original prosecution. Shelley Watkins was 35 years old, a mother of two small girls, one four, one just 18 months, when she disappeared from her home in Corsicana, Texas, on the night of September 6, 1993. Seven days later, fishermen pulled her body from the Trinity River. She had been struck at least eight times in the back of the head, bore a ligature mark on her throat, and was wrapped in plastic, bound with duct tape, and weighed down with two concrete cinder blocks. For more than three decades, no one has been held accountable.…Open
Tonight, on a breaking news edition of Jesse Weber Live... A murder conviction three decades in the making. Nearly 30 years to the day Tupac Shakur was gunned down on the Las Vegas strip, Duane "Keffe D" Davis is found guilty in the iconic rapper's death. We've got an exclusive interview with Davis' former attorney Plus, Lindsay Clancy verdict watch. A third day of deliberations and her attorney's strong words about the media. Attorney Mark Geragos and former prosecutor Tommy Pope weigh in. And deadly flooding abroad and at home. The latest on the search for the hundreds still missing as the death toll climbs in Nepal. We'll also hear from a longtime Grand Canyon guide about the dangerous conditions there. All that and more on Jesse Weber…
When a man was found guilty of orchestrating the murder of Tupac Shakur, it brought catharsis to many who knew the rapper. But questions remain even after the trial.
A Las Vegas jury has convicted Duane "Keffe D" Davis of first-degree murder in the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur, nearly 30 years after the case went cold. NewsNation’s Jesse Weber breaks down the verdict with KLAS investigative reporter Vanessa Murphy, retired LAPD detective Greg Kading, who led the task force that reinvestigated the Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. murders, and Robert Draskovich, who served as Keffe D's attorney from August 2025 to March of this year. "Jesse Weber Live" brings a fresh, fast-paced, and often unexpected take on the day’s headlines, diving into the biggest stories through the lens of legal expertise.
Duane “Keffe D” Davis was found guilty of first-degree murder Monday in the death of Tupac Shakur, which had gone unsolved for nearly three decades. Davis is accused of plotting the 1996 killing near the Las Vegas Strip, and he is the only person ever charged in the murder. CNN’s Josh Campbell reports from outside the courthouse in Las Vegas. #CNN #News
A Las Vegas jury has found Duane “Keffe D” Davis guilty in the murder of rapper Tupac Shakur. The jury deliberated for about three hours. Duane “Keffe D” Davis, 63, was found guilty of one count of murder with a deadly weapon with the intent to promote, further, or assist a criminal gang in connection with the shooting. Prosecutors say he ordered the drive-by shooting on Sept. 7, 1996, that wounded Shakur, who died days later at age 25. NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans. Find us online: https://www.newsnationnow.com/
