A clogged drain, a freezer, and a case that tied Kandis Fitzpatrick and Rori Hache to the same address years apart. The hook This case became known for one grim detail: a judge found that human remains were disposed of through plumbing. But the full story is about how police were pulled into an Oshawa basement apartment after plumbers reported what they found in the pipes, and how that call opened a timeline that eventually included two young women, separated by nearly a deca

A two month old baby, a handwritten “rights over” note, and a 911 call in Rogers, Arkansas. Illustrated sketch based on a published booking photo of Darien Urban (left) and Shalene Ehlers (right) in the Benton County case. The setting On September 21, 2024 , deputies with the Benton County Sheriff’s Office were called to a campground in Rogers, Arkansas after staff reported an alarming situation involving a two month old baby. In official records, the location is described

In Omaha, Nebraska, four people were killed in August 2013 in three separate attacks. Prosecutors said the killings were carried out by Nikko Jenkins, a man who had just been discharged from prison. What made the case feel different, almost immediately, was that the violence did not look like it came out of nowhere. Years earlier, prison staff documented Jenkins talking about killing people after release. In 2013, as the discharge date got close, the language in those records

In Rock Island, Illinois, a 10 year old boy died in December 2022. His death was not reported. And for roughly seven months, no one outside that home truly knew what had happened. Illustrated sketch based on a real photo. A realistic drawing of an officer opening a metal trash can in a garage during the investigation. The Child People Stopped Seeing Zion Staples was no longer showing up where children are usually noticed. There were no school attendance records raising alarm

The KJ Starkes Jr. Case: Five Hours in a Hot Car and a System Under Scrutiny Illustrated color sketch of KJ Starkes Jr. standing beside a vehicle, created based on a real photograph. The Child at the Center of the Case Ke’Torrius “KJ” Starkes Jr. was 3 years old. On July 22, 2025, he was in the custody of Alabama’s child welfare system and was being transported by a contracted worker connected to the Alabama Department of Human Resources (DHR) through a third party provider.

The Dylan Redwine Case Opening On November 18, 2012, 13 year old Dylan Redwine flew into Durango, Colorado for a Thanksgiving visit with his father. On paper, it was routine. A holiday week. A custody schedule. A quick trip, then home. By the next evening, Dylan was missing. AI-generated illustration based on a publicly available school portrait of Dylan Redwine. This is not the original image. The Court Order Behind The Trip This was a court ordered visitation. Dylan arrived

Brenda Spencer Case Illustrated sketch of Brenda Ann Spencer being escorted in custody in 1979. This is a hand-drawn recreation based on publicly available historical arrest photography. Not the original image. A Morning in San Diego On the morning of January 29, 1979 , children were arriving for classes at Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, California. Parents were dropping students off. Staff were opening classrooms. It was an ordinary Monday. Across the street, ins

For more than a year, a teenage girl in Michigan was harassed with anonymous texts filled with insults, threats, and sexually explicit language. Investigators eventually traced the messages. The sender was living in her own home. Illustrated rendering of Lauryn Licari created from publicly available documentary footage and photographs related to the case. This image is an artist’s sketch and not the original photograph. A Relationship That Drew Attention In 2020, Lauryn Lica

On March 19, 2012, a young mother left for work in western New York, trusting her teenage boyfriend to watch her two small children. Hours later, one of them was unresponsive. What investigators later uncovered was not a sudden accident, but a timeline that unfolded over several hours, reconstructed through phone records, medical evidence, and courtroom testimony. Austin Smith, shown here in a sketch based on reference images . This is not the original photograph . Austin was

The Dalia Dippolito Case The Morning Everything Was Supposed to Happen On the morning of August 5, 2009, Dalia Dippolito left her townhouse in Boynton Beach, Florida, and went to the gym. According to investigators, she believed that while she was gone, a hired killer would be inside her home carrying out a plan to end her husband’s life. What she did not know was that her husband was already safe and that police were waiting for her return. Within hours, she would be under a

A childhood memory that never left In 1996, in a rural village in Nanzheng District near Hanzhong, Shaanxi Province, a violent argument between neighbors ended in a death that would echo for decades. Zhang Koukou was thirteen years old when his mother became involved in a dispute with members of the neighboring Wang family. The confrontation escalated into a physical fight. Court records later confirmed that during the altercation, a seventeen year old member of the Wang fami

A 12-year-old boy knocked on a stranger’s door asking for food and water. Within hours, police would uncover what had been happening behind the scenes of one of YouTube’s most recognizable family channels. Illustration based on publicly available images of Ruby Franke and Jodi Hildebrandt, a counselor involved in the 2023 Utah child abuse case. The Morning That Changed Everything On August 30, 2023, a severely malnourished 12-year-old boy escaped from a home in Ivins, Utah a

A young couple set up two cameras in a quiet Minnesota yard. Minutes later, one of them would be dead. Sketch illustration of Pedro Ruiz III and Monalisa Perez outside their home on the day they prepared to film the stunt that later led to Ruiz’s death. A Young Family Trying to Build Something In the summer of 2017, Pedro Ruiz III and Monalisa Perez were living in Halstad, Minnesota, a small rural town near the North Dakota border. They were raising a three-year-old daughter

A child vanished in broad daylight. Witnesses saw it happen. For nearly two decades, no one knew she was still alive. Sketch illustration based on publicly available photographs. Used for storytelling and educational purposes. Jaycee Lee Dugard The Morning She Disappeared On the morning of June 10, 1991 , eleven-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard left her home in Meyers, California , walking toward her school bus stop along a quiet road. A gray sedan pulled up beside her. According t

The Christy Sheats Case The Night Everything Broke On June 24, 2016, neighbors in a quiet Katy, Texas subdivision heard something that didn’t belong in their neighborhood. Gunshots. Then more gunshots. Some people stepped outside. Others called 911. What they were hearing was not coming from the street at first. It was coming from inside a house where a family had just sat down together to talk. Inside that home were Christy Sheats, her husband Jason, and their daughters, Tay

A man hid inside a quiet Portland home, waiting for the woman who lived there to walk through the door. He had been paid to kill her. Minutes later, he was dead, and the person who hired him would soon be exposed. Illustration based on documented photographs showing injuries Susan Kuhnhausen sustained during the 2006 attack in her Portland home. A Night That Began Like Any Other On the evening of September 6, 2006, Susan Kuhnhausen, a 51-year-old emergency room nurse, returne

Illustrated recreation of Derrick Robie based on archival photographs. A Summer Morning in Savona Savona, New York, is a small village in Steuben County where routines are familiar and distances are short. On the morning of August 2, 1993 , four-year-old Derrick Robie left his home to walk to a nearby summer day camp. It was a short walk. One he had made before. But that morning, Derrick never arrived. At first, it seemed possible he had simply wandered off or stopped somewh

The Za’Zell Preston Case: Domestic Violence, a Staged Scene, and a Mother’s Death A Quiet Life in Anaheim Za’Zell Preston was 26 years old and living in Anaheim, California. She was a mother of three young children and was taking college classes at the time of her death. According to prosecutors, she had talked about wanting to eventually work as a domestic violence counselor. Friends and family later described her as someone who was trying to build a better life for herself

The Suitcase Death: The Case of Sarah Boone Opening It started as an ordinary night inside a small apartment in Winter Park, Florida. Two people drinking wine. A quiet evening at home. Nothing that suggested one of them would not be alive by morning. By the next day, Jorge Torres Jr. was found dead, zipped inside a suitcase. And the person who put him there was the only one in the apartment. Illustrated reconstructions based on publicly available case photos. These are artis

Collin Griffith: Two Parents, Two States, and a Self-Defense Claim Two parents died in separate incidents, in two different states, just a year apart. In both cases, the same teenager said it was self-defense. One case never went to trial. In the other, the jury was never told about the first death. Illustrated sketch based on publicly available images from the case. Collin Griffith Family Background Public records show that Collin Griffith’s parents were separated and lived