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Nine young Black women were killed in Charlotte, North Carolina, between 1992 and 1994. Who they were, how the cases were finally connected, and what the court record shows. Companion to Season 2, Episode 12.

Between 1992 and 1994, nine young Black women were killed in Charlotte, North Carolina, before police publicly linked the cases. This week, we say their names.

Almost nothing about her life outside this case has ever been made public. We're naming that gap directly — and asking anyone who knew her to help us close it.

A close read of the court record: what the digital evidence actually shows, where source dates conflict, and the five-year investigative gap no public reporting has explained. Fully sourced.

She left home on an ordinary October evening in Newark and was never seen alive again. The full case history, timeline, key evidence, and the serial killer connection behind Season 2, Episode 11.

She left home on an October evening in Newark and never came back. It would take more than five years — and the unraveling of a serial killer's other crimes — before anyone knew what happened to her.

Beyond the case file: her sister Dorothy Washington remembers a woman who talked to her siblings every day, and the family's fight to make sure Brenda Lee Rawls isn't reduced to a footnote in someone else's story.

Brenda Lee Rawls died the same day as Lauren Smith-Fields in Bridgeport, CT. Her family says she was treated like a Jane Doe. The full case history, timeline, and evidence — companion to Season 2, Episode 10.

A sourced breakdown of the medical examiner's ruling, the internal affairs suspensions, and the federal court's dismissal in the Brenda Lee Rawls case — including what the record actually says versus what gets simplified in casual retellings.

Two Black women in Bridgeport died the same day. One case grabbed headlines. Brenda Lee Rawls' family says she was treated like a Jane Doe — here's what we know so far.

The full case breakdown of the Grim Sleeper: the timeline, the evidence, the ten confirmed victims — and the women from his photo collection who still don't have names.

A sourced breakdown of the DNA database failure, the familial-DNA search, and the LAPD's own numbers on the Grim Sleeper's unidentified victims — including the misconception that inflates the victim count.

Beyond the case file: who Princess Berthomieux was to the people who knew her — a foster child sheltered by an older sister, sent to private school, and remembered as 'a wonderful child' long before she became known only as the youngest Grim Sleeper victim.

Nearly 1,000 photos. Dozens of unidentified women. Decades after the Grim Sleeper's arrest, some of his suspected victims still don't have their names back.

Beyond the case file: who Kaylee Mae Nelson-Jerry was to the people who knew her — the singing, the dreams, the family, and the community that hasn't stopped looking.

A sourced breakdown of the timeline discrepancies, documented false leads, and risk factors in the disappearance of Kaylee Mae Nelson-Jerry — and the claim online we could not verify.

Missing since June 2019 from Auburn, Washington — a look at the unresolved disappearance of Kaylee Mae Nelson-Jerry, a young Muckleshoot Tribe member still unaccounted for seven years later.

A sourced breakdown of the autopsy findings, the federal civil rights lawsuit, and the motion-to-dismiss ruling in the Lauren Smith-Fields case — and what the court record shows about how hard discrimination is to prove, even when the pattern is visible.

Lauren Smith-Fields was 23, out on a first Bumble date in Bridgeport, Connecticut. By the next morning, she was gone — and her family says the fight for answers had only begun.

Before she was a headline, before she was a case number in a Lucas County courtroom, Kei'Mani Latigue was a 13-year-old girl from Toledo. This is who she was beyond the crime.

A sourced breakdown of the search warrant affidavits, evidence-suppression rulings, and the Lucas County Children Services failures in the Kei'Mani Latigue murder case — everything the court record shows.

Kei'Mani Latigue was thirteen years old when she disappeared from her grandmother's home in Toledo, Ohio, in March 2025. This is the full case history — the timeline, the evidence, the death penalty case against her father, and the newly expanded indictment that widened the case in August 2026.

A Toledo teenager vanished from her grandmother's house in March 2025. Days later, she was found dead — and the case against her father has only grown since. Full episode Tuesday.

The Murder Accountability Project's algorithm flagged 51 Chicago strangulation deaths as a pattern. Police have disputed it. Only one arrest has followed. We break down the DNA, the court record, and where the investigation stalled.

At least 51 Black women were found strangled or asphyxiated across Chicago's South and West Sides between 2001 and 2018. This is the full case history, timeline, key evidence, and victim backgrounds behind this week's episode of The Last Known Moment.

Dozens of Black women vanished from Chicago's South and West Sides over two decades. A statistical pattern connects their deaths — and police still won't confirm it. Full episode Tuesday.

Before they were a case file, they were daughters, sisters, and mothers. A respectful spotlight on the ten women connected to a pattern of disappearances in Rocky Mount, NC.

A source-by-source breakdown of the forensic evidence that convicted Antwan Pittman of one murder — and an analysis of the investigative gaps that left nine other deaths in Rocky Mount, NC officially unresolved.

Between 2005 and 2010, at least ten Black women disappeared from Rocky Mount, North Carolina. This is the full case history — the victims, the timeline, the DNA evidence that led to one conviction, and the nine deaths that remain officially unresolved.

Between 2005 and 2010, ten Black women vanished from a small North Carolina town. Most were never searched for the way they deserved. Here's where their story begins — full episode drops this week.

Before the case number and the court file, Khadijah Rose Britton was a 4.0 student, a star point guard whose jersey her high school retired, and a big sister her little brother still plays basketball to remember. This is who she was.

A court-record breakdown of the Khadijah Rose Britton case: the domestic violence complaint withdrawn hours before her abduction, the six felony charges filed against Negie Fallis IV, and exactly why most of them were dropped for lack of evidence.

Khadijah Rose Britton was 23 when she was forced into a car at gunpoint outside a friend's home in Covelo, California — and never seen again. The full timeline, the dropped charges, the evidence, and the broader MMIP crisis her case represents.

A 23-year-old member of the Round Valley Indian Tribes, forced into a vehicle at gunpoint by her ex-boyfriend — and never seen again. This week on The Last Known Moment, we open the case file on Khadijah Rose Britton.

A home-schooled musician and junior fencing champion, gone without a trace in the space of an afternoon. Meet Phoenix Coldon, missing from Spanish Lake, Missouri since December 18, 2011.

A car found running with her glasses, purse, and ID still inside. A vehicle impounded across a state line and never cross-checked against her own missing-persons report. Fourteen years later, we break down the evidence, the jurisdictional failure that lost the case's first critical hours, and what the DNA actually showed.

She left home for a quick errand on December 18, 2011, and never came back. Her car was found across a state line minutes later — but a jurisdictional mix-up between Missouri and Illinois police may have cost investigators their best early lead. The full case breakdown.

She left home for a quick errand in December 2011 and was never seen again. A teaser look at the disappearance of Phoenix Coldon — ahead of this week's full episode.

Beyond the case files: the honor student, mentor, and dreamer that Baltimore and Monroe, NC lost. A Victim Spotlight from The Last Known Moment, Season 2.

A sourced breakdown of the court documents, forensic evidence, and appellate rulings in the Phylicia Barnes case — including the Brady violation that erased the only conviction ever reached.

The full story of Phylicia Barnes — the North Carolina honor student who vanished in Baltimore in 2010. Timeline, evidence, trials, and where the case stands today.

She was sixteen, an honor student, visiting family for the holidays in a city that wasn't home. This week, we open the case of Phylicia Barnes — what happened, and why it still isn't over.

Before she became a case study in urban isolation, Joyce Carol Vincent was a beloved sister, a magnetic presence, and a woman still trying to give love to people who never knew she'd gone. Here's who she was beyond the headlines.

She was found in her North London flat nearly three years after she died — the television still on, Christmas gifts never opened. This is the full timeline: who Joyce Carol Vincent was, how she was found, what investigators uncovered, and why nobody noticed she was gone.

There was no break-in, no struggle, no sign of a third party — the physical evidence in the Joyce Carol Vincent case rules out foul play almost entirely. So what does it actually tell us? A closer look at the scene, the forensic limits, and the systems that failed to catch her.

A television still humming. Unopened Christmas gifts gathering dust. When officers forced open a North London bedsit in January 2006, they found a woman who had been dead for over two years — and nobody had noticed. This week's case: Joyce Carol Vincent.

In January 1856, an enslaved mother's desperate act during an escape attempt sparked one of the longest fugitive slave trials in American history — and decades later inspired Toni Morrison's novel Beloved. Here is the documented true story behind the legend.

A sourced breakdown of the evidence, the 2024 confession, and the investigative gaps in the disappearance of Keeshae Jacobs — the Richmond, Virginia case that went unsolved for nearly a decade.

Keeshae Jacobs was 21 when she vanished from Richmond, Virginia in 2016 after texting her mom she'd made it home safe. Here's what you need to know before this week's episode.

Keeshae Jacobs was twenty-one years old when she vanished from Richmond, Virginia, in 2016. This is the full case breakdown — the investigation, the evidence, the confession that came eight years later, and the questions her family is still asking.

Before the headlines and the case file, Keeshae Jacobs was a daughter, a big sister, and her mother's 'little sidekick.' A closer look at who she was — and the decade-long fight to bring her home.

On December 7, 2003, 19-year-old LaQuanta Riley left her mother's home in Montgomery, Alabama — and vanished. A week later, her mother received a phone call she has never been able to forget.

Before she became a missing persons case that took years to receive national attention, Kierra Coles was a federal employee, an expectant mother, and her family's youngest daughter about to become a parent herself. This is who she was.

A car parked down the street. A driver's seat quietly adjusted. A man who returned the next morning and left with items in hand. Here's a fact-by-fact breakdown of what investigators have confirmed in the disappearance of Kierra Coles — and what remains her family's claim alone.

On October 2, 2018, Kierra Coles — a 26-year-old pregnant postal worker from Chicago's South Side — made a routine phone call, ran a routine errand, and vanished without a trace. Seven years later, her case is still open. This Tuesday, July 1st, on The Last Known Moment, we're telling her story.

Every morning, she dropped her children off at daycare. That routine — that ordinary, unremarkable act of motherhood — is one of the last images the world has of Kayla Atwood alive. She deserves to be known for more than the way she was lost.

Before Kayla Atwood's family filed a missing persons report, her ex-boyfriend was already at a neighbor's door asking to see security camera footage and telling people she had been kidnapped. Here is a complete breakdown of the evidence that convicted him — and the charge prosecutors chose to drop before trial.

Kayla Atwood was thirty-two years old when she dropped her children off at daycare on January 3, 2024, and never came home. This is the full case breakdown — the investigation, the evidence tampering, the trial, and the questions her family continues to carry.

On January 3, 2024, Kayla Atwood — a 32-year-old mother of four from Pensacola, Florida — dropped her children at daycare and vanished. Eight days later, the unthinkable. This week on The Last Known Moment, we examine a case her family says still has unanswered questions.

Before she became the subject of a years-long fight for justice, Tamla Horsford was a wife, a mother of five, and a woman her community adored. This is who she was.

The Forsyth County Sheriff's Office closed Tamla Horsford's case the same day she was found. A private forensic pathologist later documented injuries consistent with a physical altercation — not a fall. Here is a full breakdown of the evidence, the investigative failures, and what the GBI found when they finally looked.

On November 4, 2018, Tamla Horsford was found dead in a Georgia backyard after a neighborhood sleepover. Authorities called it an accident within hours — no crime scene processing, no forensic work, no formal interviews. Her family never accepted that. Neither did the nation.

On the morning of November 4, 2018, a 40-year-old mother of five was found dead in the backyard of a Cumming, Georgia home — the morning after a neighborhood sleepover she attended with friends. Authorities called it an accident. Her family never accepted that.

Before she was a headline, before she was a case number -- Asha Jaquilla Degree was a fourth-grade girl who loved her family, packed their photographs when she left, and was afraid of the dark. This is who she was beyond the crime.

More than two decades after nine-year-old Asha Degree vanished into the dark on Valentine's Day 2000, investigators have a DNA suspect, a family of interest, a reclassified homicide, and a $100,000 reward -- but no arrest and no answers.

On Valentine's Day 2000, nine-year-old Asha Degree packed a bag and walked out into a midnight rainstorm in Shelby, North Carolina. She was never seen again. Twenty-five years later, DNA evidence has tied a local family to her case -- and changed everything.

Ashley Loring HeavyRunner vanished from the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in June 2017. Nearly nine years later, her case remains open — a window into the evidence that was mishandled, the system that failed her, and the sister who refused to stop searching.

In June 2017, 20-year-old Ashley Loring HeavyRunner vanished from the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Browning, Montana. Eight years later, her family is still searching. Her case is a window into one of the most devastating, under-reported crises in America — the epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.

On June 13, 2001, 19-year-old Jason Dale Jolkowski walked out of his Omaha, Nebraska home and vanished within a half-mile of his destination. Over two decades later, investigators have recovered zero physical evidence. We examine what the public record reveals — and what it doesn't.

NaturalQueen77 TV launches its debut true crime podcast series exploring missing persons cases — starting with Jason Jolkowski, who vanished in Omaha on June 13, 2001.

On January 24, 2006, 24-year-old Jennifer Kesse left her Orlando condo and was never seen again. Her car was found a mile away. A suspect was caught on camera. Their face was never seen. Nearly 20 years later, the case is no longer cold — but Jennifer has still not been found.

On June 13, 2001, 19-year-old Jason Jolkowski walked out of his Omaha, Nebraska home to meet a coworker — and was never seen again. Twenty-three years later, no body has been found, no suspect has been named, and his mother has spent a lifetime demanding answers.

In 1982, seven people died. The killer was never caught. Forty years later, the FBI file is still technically open. We break down every suspect, every theory, and what the evidence actually shows.

He killed at least five people in California, sent coded letters to police daring them to catch him, and was never identified. Half a century later, the Zodiac remains one of the most disturbing unsolved cases in American criminal history.

DNA technology and digital forensics are cracking cases that stumped investigators for generations. We break down how modern science is finally bringing closure to families.

New criminology research is challenging everything we thought we knew about criminal profiling. The science is more nuanced — and more disturbing — than any TV show suggests.

The disparity in media coverage for missing persons cases remains stark. Who gets covered, who gets ignored, and what we can do to change the conversation.

From the Golden State Killer to dozens of cold cases, genealogy databases are becoming one of law enforcement's most powerful tools. But at what privacy cost?

A deep dive into 10 cases that have haunted the country for decades — the evidence, the suspects, and why they remain open files in law enforcement databases.

Wrongful convictions are more common than most people realize. The Innocence Project has exonerated hundreds. We examine the systemic failures that put innocent people behind bars.

As a true crime creator, I wrestle with this question constantly. An honest look at the ethics of our genre and how we can do better.

Cell phone data, social media trails, and surveillance footage are transforming how detectives build cases. We break down how digital evidence is used — and misused — in trials.