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
Today on Greta Wire: - Eric Schubert explains how he contacts Pennsylvania State Police at age 18 and offers to investigate the unsolved 1964 abduction, sexual assault and murder of a young girl walking to school in Hazleton. - Schubert analyzes preserved crime-scene DNA, builds roughly 50 to 60 family trees and connects several distant genetic matches to the Forte family. - The investigation narrows to bartender James Paul Forte after Schubert discovers Forte later brutally assaults another woman near the same stripping pits. - DNA from relatives and a preserved hairbrush eliminates Forte’s brother, leading a judge to approve the exhumation that conclusively identifies Forte as the killer. - Schubert’s breakthrough gives the…
A man was shot dead surrounded by witnesses in Skidmore, Mo., but no one was ever prosecuted. Now that act of vigilante justice has inspired the play “Kenrex.”
Eric Bland, the attorney for Stephen Smith’s family, joins “Jesse Weber Live” to discuss Smith’s murder case. Smith, who was the high school classmate of Alex Murdaugh’s surviving son, Buster, died in 2015 after his body was found in the middle of a road 15 miles from the Murdaugh family estate. Dr. Kenny Kinsey, a forensic expert hired by Smith's family, is pouring cold water on the idea that Smith was intentionally killed.
On "Jesse Weber Live," shocking video of the alleged White House correspondents' dinner gunman as he stormed a security checkpoint and allegedly shot a Secret Service guard. Plus, 25 years after the unsolved murder of D.C. intern Chandra Levy, her parents say Chandra may have found out something about UFOs that she shouldn't have, and maybe, that had something to do with her death. Jesse has the exclusive interview with Susan and Robert Levy. And a shocking update in the D4VD case: Celeste Rivas' death certificate has now changed and is raising a new question: Was she pregnant? Joseph Scott Morgan joins Jesse with what forensics can and can't reveal. The episode of "Jesse Weber Live" was originally recorded on Thursday, April 30, 2026…
This week’s installment of Investigation Nation takes a closer look at the unsolved case of the “Tinley Park 5.” In 2008, a man pretending to be a delivery driver walked into a Lane Bryant store outside Chicago and shot six women, five of whom died. 18 years later, police are still searching for the man behind the shooting. NewsNation’s Laura Ingle breaks down the case on “NewsNation Live.” 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. #NewsNationLive NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.
