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Mar. 16, 2025

Detective Recounts Horror of Reading Texts From Mass. Teen Urging Her Boyfriend to Kill Himself

“It was one of those things where you keep reading and it just keeps getting worse. And that’s what kinda put everything in motion,” Fairhaven Police Detective Scott Gordon tells NBC News’ Andrea Canning in an upcoming episode ofDateline: Reckless, which airs Friday at 10 p.m. ET/9 p.m. CT on NBC. (A clip from the interview is shown above.) Roydied in his pickup truck from carbon monoxide poisoningon July 13, 2014 — an act Carter had supported and encouraged in text and phone conversations.

Mar. 16, 2025

Detective Says 'Everything Possible Right Now' in Disappearance of Texas Mom, Infant Daughter

Photo: Austin Police Department A detective from the Austin Police Department told reporters Tuesday the search formissing mom Heidi Broussard and her newborn daughter Margot Careycontinues — and that while a person of interest has not been identified, “everything is possible right now.” He asked that tips be phoned in to (512) 974-5250. Herries said the Federal Bureau of Investigation has joined the search for the pair, as have the Texas Rangers and the Texas Department of Public Safety.

Mar. 16, 2025

Detective Says Lori Vallow Daybell's Son J.J. Was Buried in Uniquely 'Precise' Manner

Content warning: This story contains disturbing details. Shortly beforeLori Vallow Daybell’ssonJoshua “J.J.” Vallow’s cause of deathwas revealed on Wednesday, FBI Special Agent Steve Daniels testified about finding the remains of J.J. and his sister Tylee Ryan buried on the property of Chad Daybell, who married Lori shortly after the children disappeared. “I’ve probably excavated approximately five to seven burials,” Daniels said, according toEast Idaho News. “Out of all of those burials, this is the most precise — somebody’s taken the most effort to bury these remains.

Mar. 16, 2025

Detective Testifies in Court He Found No Evidence McStay Family Was Killed Inside Their Home

Photo: McStay Family/ZUMAFor years, the case of themissing McStay familystumped detectives.In 2010, Det. Troy DuGal from the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department conducted a welfare check on the two-story home near San Diego where Joseph, 40, his wife, Summer, 43, and their two sons Gianni, 4, and Joseph, 3, lived.He found no sign of foul play in the empty house, only evidence of a family’s everyday life: paint cans in the kitchen that they were renovating, a carton of eggs on the counter and two small bowls of popcorn on the futon in the living room.

Mar. 16, 2025

Detective Who Put 'Dirty John' Meehan Behind Bars Says Seducer Con Man 'Put [a] Hit Out on Me'

“He put [a] hit out on me,” Orange County, California, Detective Julia Bowman tells PEOPLE. “Once he knew my name and recognized me as one of his targets, I never felt safe.” Bowman and other victims of Meehan — including women who became ensnared in his web of lies, manipulation and terror — open up in Oxygen’s upcoming documentary,Dirty John: The Dirty Truth,a two-hour special airing on Monday, Jan. 14 at 8 PM ET.