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For decades, Claire Gravel's family didn’t know who killed her. A DNA hit cracked the case.
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The Denver Police Department plans to retest 13 cases that were worked on by former forensic analyst Yvonne “Missy” Woods, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison after authorities said her manipulation of DNA data raised questions about the validity of hundreds of criminal cases. Police have not found evidence that Woods handled any DNA data in the infamous JonBenét Ramsey case, but Ramsey's father is still calling for outside retesting. Forensic DNA expert Suzanna Ryan joins "NewsNation Live" to explain how Woods was able to tamper with evidence for so long. Get a fast-paced look at the latest from the border to Main Street to the White House on "NewsNation Live." Weekends starting at 10a/9C Saturdays and 11a/10C Sundays.…
This week’s Featured Missing case is the disappearance of Michael McClain. The 29-year-old went missing during a night out with a friend. Michael tried to stop a fight that broke out at a club in New Hampshire, but within hours of that goodwill gesture, he vanished. McClain’s mom talks to NewsNation about her unending search for answers. Host: Marni Hughes Executive Producer : Paige Lobdell Segment Producer : Karen Hendren #missing #michael mcclain #newhampshire #disappearance #newsnation NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.
Brandy Hall, a Florida mother and firefighter, vanished after leaving her fire station in 2006. Her bloody truck was discovered a day later.
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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.