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There are some cold cases where the first few hours are filled with hope. A young woman doesn’t come home. Her family starts calling. Friends start searching. Everyone tells themselves there has to be a reasonable explanation. Maybe her car broke down. Maybe she stopped somewhere. Maybe she lost track of time. Maybe she is going to walk through the door any minute. But then the hours turn into days. And hope starts fighting against fear. That is what happened to Amanda Renee Tusing. Amanda was only 20 years old.…
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There are some cases where the word missing is only the beginning. A family hears that their loved one has disappeared. They wait for the phone to ring. They hope she will walk through the door. They hope there is an explanation. Maybe her phone died. Maybe she needed some time alone. Maybe she is somewhere safe. But sometimes the truth is much darker. For 28 year old Alyssa M. Jimenez of Big Lake, Alaska, investigators initially believed they were searching for a missing woman whose safety was in danger.…
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Some cases stay with you because of the mystery. Others stay with you because of the people. Allen Vance was 39 years old. His daughter, Chastity Dollison, was only 20. On a June night in 2012, father and daughter were together in San Francisco when something happened that would leave a family without two people they loved and investigators searching for answers more than a decade later. This was not a case where two people simply disappeared. There was a crime scene. There was a surviving witness. There were gunshots.…
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Sometimes a cold case begins with a complicated mystery. Sometimes it begins with something much simpler. A person was home. Someone came to that home. A gun was fired. And a life was changed forever. For Alonzo Rodgers, November 24, 2021 was supposed to be another day. Instead, it became the beginning of a story that his family and friends have been forced to live with for years. Alonzo was 30 years old when he was shot inside a home on Nichols Avenue in Knoxville, Tennessee. He survived the initial…
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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…
