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There are some places that should only be remembered for their beauty. The Elliott Highway in Alaska is one of them. Stretching through the wilderness north of Fairbanks, it is a road surrounded by towering trees, mountains, and endless miles of quiet. Travelers drive it hoping to experience Alaska’s rugged landscape. But on Memorial Day in 1972, that peaceful highway became the setting for one of Fairbanks’ most disturbing unsolved murders. A group of sightseers made a discovery no one should ever have to make. Lying below an embankment near…
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For most families, the days leading up to Christmas are filled with excitement. Homes are decorated. Children count down the days until Christmas morning. Families make plans to gather around dinner tables and exchange gifts. But in December 2017, one Knoxville family experienced something no family should ever have to endure. Instead of celebrating Christmas together, they were preparing to bury someone they loved. On December 23, 2017, just two days before Christmas, 36 year old Alfred Lamar Griffin, known to family and friends as “LG,” was found suffering from…
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Some disappearances happen in the middle of the night. Others happen in broad daylight. For Ali Gilmore, February 2, 2006, began like any other Thursday in Tallahassee, Florida. She was a twenty nine year old single mother raising her young son while working hard to build a life for her family. Friends and loved ones knew her as kind, dependable, and devoted to her child. Nothing about that day suggested it would be her last. When Ali failed to pick up her son after work, the people who loved her…
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Some crimes leave behind more than a crime scene. They leave behind a child who grows up without parents. They leave behind birthdays celebrated with empty chairs. They leave behind families who wake up every morning hoping today will finally be the day someone tells the truth. For the families of Alexis Crawford and Herman Hill, that day has not yet come. On May 6, 2012, deputies with the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office responded to a home on Reed Road near North Little Rock, Arkansas. Inside, they found twenty two…
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There are nights when a neighborhood is filled with ordinary sounds. Cars pass by. Families settle in for the evening. People finish work and look forward to another day. Then, in a single moment, everything changes. For the family of Alejandro Contreras, that moment came on December 18, 2010, in Bakersfield, California. What began as another December evening ended with a homicide that remains unsolved more than a decade later. Somewhere in Bakersfield, someone knows exactly what happened that night. Yet despite years of investigation, Alejandro’s family is still waiting…
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There are moments in every investigation when a single phone call changes everything. For one family in Colorado, that call came on a cool October morning in 2022. On October 15, 2022, deputies with the Adams County Sheriff’s Office responded to a report of a body along East 38th Avenue near Strasburg, a quiet rural area east of Denver. When they arrived, they discovered 26 year old Alaina Martinez. She had been shot and left along the roadside. The scene was heartbreaking. Someone had taken the life of a young…
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