On June 27, 2023, 20-year-old mother Layla Santanello disappeared from Kingsport, Tennessee, after being seen barefoot near the Americourt hotel. Investigators now believe Layla died after leaving the hotel and that a small group of people knows what happened. Her mother says the search is now focused on recovering her remains, while detectives continue urging those with answers to come forward.

In the early morning hours of February 16th, 2026, Ashley Flynn was shot and killed inside the home she shared with her husband, Caleb, and their two daughters. Caleb told police that someone had broken into the house, murdered his wife, and disappeared. Up until that night, Caleb’s life had been deeply intertwined with Ashley’s. They had been married for fifteen years. They were raising two daughters together. They attended church together. Caleb worked for Ashley’s father, was close with her family, and had spent years building a life that was connected to hers in almost every possible way. But investigators would soon discover that there was another version of Caleb Flynn’s life. One that Ashley did not fully see. A secret relationship. Thousands upon thousands of messages. Lies, hidden accounts, deleted conversations, and a second life running parallel to the first. And as police began pulling those two lives apart, they also began uncovering something else: the story of what Ashley had been seeing, questioning, and trying to make sense of in the months before she died.

On the morning of May 3rd, 1973, a man out walking his dog in Key Largo, Florida, stepped into a stretch of woods about a hundred yards off U.S. 1. Near mile marker 99.5, under a layer of sticks, leaves and dirt, he found two teenage girls. They were sisters. Maggie Jenkins was 18. Mary Jenkins was 16. They had come down from New Jersey for a spring trip to Key West, and less than 24 hours earlier, someone had seen them standing on the side of the road with their luggage, trying to hitch a ride home. For 53 years, nobody could say who stopped for them. This September, that finally changed.

In the early morning hours of February 16th, 2026, Ashley Flynn was shot and killed inside the home she shared with her husband, Caleb, and their two daughters. Caleb told police that someone had broken into the house, murdered his wife, and disappeared. Up until that night, Caleb’s life had been deeply intertwined with Ashley’s. They had been married for fifteen years. They were raising two daughters together. They attended church together. Caleb worked for Ashley’s father, was close with her family, and had spent years building a life that was connected to hers in almost every possible way. But investigators would soon discover that there was another version of Caleb Flynn’s life. One that Ashley did not fully see. A secret relationship. Thousands upon thousands of messages. Lies, hidden accounts, deleted conversations, and a second life running parallel to the first. And as police began pulling those two lives apart, they also began uncovering something else: the story of what Ashley had been seeing, questioning, and trying to make sense of in the months before she died.

Police in Pennsylvania were called to Great Wolf Lodge just after 3 p.m. on a Monday after 27-year-old Metallica Harrison reported that her husband, Charles, and their 3-year-old son, T.H., had been stabbed. Unfortunately they were both found deceased, and Metallica has since been charged with two counts of homicide. Investigators are still looking into a motive.

In the early morning hours of February 16th, 2026, Ashley Flynn was shot and killed inside the home she shared with her husband, Caleb, and their two daughters. Caleb told police that someone had broken into the house, murdered his wife, and disappeared. Up until that night, Caleb’s life had been deeply intertwined with Ashley’s. They had been married for fifteen years. They were raising two daughters together. They attended church together. Caleb worked for Ashley’s father, was close with her family, and had spent years building a life that was connected to hers in almost every possible way. But investigators would soon discover that there was another version of Caleb Flynn’s life. One that Ashley did not fully see. A secret relationship. Thousands upon thousands of messages. Lies, hidden accounts, deleted conversations, and a second life running parallel to the first. And as police began pulling those two lives apart, they also began uncovering something else: the story of what Ashley had been seeing, questioning, and trying to make sense of in the months before she died.

On October 9, a shooting at a home on Perry Street in Erie, Pennsylvania, left at least eight people dead, and the Erie County Coroner has identified the gunman as 45-year-old Matthew Stone Sr. A motive remains under investigation. In Rhode Island, 61-year-old William Morton has been charged with first-degree murder in the 1985 killing of 22-year-old Hillary Hellewell in Newport. The case is headed to a grand jury.

On the night of February 25th, 2023, 24-year-old Jade Benning called one of her oldest and closest friends. She wasn't calling to catch up. In fact, for much of the call, it seemed as if Jade wasn't even speaking to her friend, and instead, this friend listened as Jade confronted the man standing inside her apartment with her: Blaise Taylor, a man who jade had recently reconnected with. A man who's child she was carrying. A man who would later call himself her boyfriend. Jade sounded confused, her speech was becoming rapidly impaired; she said she couldn't feel her legs. And then she asked Blaise a question that would eventually become the center of a murder investigation: What did you put in my drink?

37-year-old Ashley Flynn was fatally shot in her Tipp City, Ohio, home in February 2026. Her husband, 40-year-old Caleb Flynn, has pleaded not guilty, but prosecutors allege he staged a break-in and killed Ashley to be with his mistress, 24-year-old Alleigha Botner... Closing arguments for the trial are scheduled for September 29.

On the night of February 25th, 2023, 24-year-old Jade Benning called one of her oldest and closest friends. She wasn't calling to catch up. In fact, for much of the call, it seemed as if Jade wasn't even speaking to her friend, and instead, this friend listened as Jade confronted the man standing inside her apartment with her: Blaise Taylor, a man who jade had recently reconnected with. A man who's child she was carrying. A man who would later call himself her boyfriend. Jade sounded confused, her speech was becoming rapidly impaired; she said she couldn't feel her legs. And then she asked Blaze a question that would eventually become the center of a murder investigation: What did you put in my drink?