NEWSNATIONNOW (Marni Hughes) - Michael McClain disappeared after breaking up a fight at a club
Michael McClain told his boss he was being chased before he disappeared.
ABCNEWS (ABC News: Top Stories) - Why firefighter Brandy Hall's disappearance puzzles investigators 20 years later
Brandy Hall, a Florida mother and firefighter, vanished after leaving her fire station in 2006. Her bloody truck was discovered a day later.
AMERICANALMANAC (Lynn Jenkins) - Skeletal remains found in North Carolina woods in 1977 identified as 15-year-old Maryland runaway
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
AMERICANALMANAC (Alex Tanzer) - DNA breakthrough revives 33-year-old Texas murder case of mother who vanished on Labor Day weekend
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
YOUTUBE (NewsNation) - Physicist asked wife's uncle one question about Malmstrom Air Force Base, then did the physics
The wife of physicist Kevin Knuth reportedly had an uncle who served at Malmstrom Air Force Base in the early 1970s, and the answer he gave at a Mardi Gras cookout led Knuth to a hypothesis for how a craft could unintentionally shut down a flight of ICBMs. Watch this full episode of "Reality Check": https://youtu.be/UxiZrYBFjXk #ICBM #MalmstromAFB #UAP
YOUTUBE (NewsNation) - Malik Polk disappearance: Car abandoned with flat tire, dashcam turned off | Missing
They can't harm you if they can't find you! Use code MARNI at the link below and get 60% off an annual plan: https://incogni.com/marni This week our "Missing" series looks at the case of Malik Polk. The 25-year-old aspiring DJ from Georgia has been missing since May 17, 2026. His car was found abandoned on a remote dirt road about 40 minutes from his home with a flat tire and his dashcam disabled. His roommate began searching door to door, around the area trying to piece together how a flat tire could have turned into tragedy. That's where he learned shocking details about one of the last times Malik was spotted. Despite extensive searches with drones and dogs in the woods near his car, Malik still remains missing. NewsNation's Marni…
NEWSNATIONNOW (Carrie Perricone) - Malik Polk's disappearance: An abandoned car, dashcam turned off
Malik Polk's mother says the circuit pane in her son's apartment had been turned off.
YOUTUBE (NewsNation) - Podcaster sheds light on case of JoAnn Benner, missing since 1976 | Missing
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…
YOUTUBE (NewsNation) - 'They will attempt to create a 'SNP' profile: CeCe Moore on DNA found under Maggie Murdaugh's nails
Genetic genealogist CeCe Moore talks about unknown male DNA found under murder victim Maggie Murdaugh’s fingernails and how a “SNP” DNA profile of that evidence could help investigators. A “SNP” profile looks at small DNA differences between people to help identify ancestry, disease risks or physical traits. Watch this full episode of "The Truth of the Matter": https://youtu.be/qdLgNZexpwo #AlexMurdaugh #truecrime #MaggieMurdaugh
YOUTUBE (NewsNation) - They could find DNA not previously detected: CeCe Moore on how officials could crack Guthrie case
Genetic genealogist CeCe Moore talks about how additional DNA testing on evidence found in Nancy Guthrie’s Tucson home could turn up a profile of a suspect that wasn’t previously detected. Watch this full episode of "The Truth of the Matter": https://youtu.be/qdLgNZexpwo #NancyGuthrie #DNAtesting #truecrime