Detective Perspective
Derrick Levasseur & Square Mile Studios
162 episodes
Join former police detective and private investigator, Derrick Levasseur as he covers a new unsolved case every week. He'll discuss the facts of the case, give you his perspective on the investigation, and leave you with contact information for the individuals or organizations connected to the case so that if you have any tips, you contact them directly and maybe help solve a case...
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160: He Walked Into His Own Home, and Straight Into a Killer's Trap | The Murder of Bryan Mace
On the afternoon of April 9, 2003, a man named Carlo returned to his remote home in Midland, Virginia to find it filled with smoke. He rushed inside to save his stepson, 20-year-old Bryan Mace, and discovered him lying…
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159: Two Men, One Truck, and a ‘Jason' Mask | The Disappearance of Brandy Hanna
On May 20, 2005, 32-year-old Brandy Hanna spoke to her family just before 6:00 pm. Later that evening, a neighbor reported seeing Brandy get into a red truck outside her apartment in North Charleston, South Carolina.…
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158: Several Suspects and 25 Years of Silence | The Murder of Jill-Lyn Euto
On Super Bowl Sunday, January 28, 2001, 18-year-old Jill-Lyn Euto was supposed to watch the game with her family in Syracuse, New York. But Jill never showed up. And when her mom and sister went to her apartment the…
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157: A Beverly Hills Heir, a Mysterious Stranger, and a 37-Year Mystery | The Disappearance of Adam Hecht
Beverly Hills isn’t the type of place where you expect someone to disappear without a trace. In fact, there are only two people on the city’s missing persons list. One of those people is Adam Hecht, the 23-year-old son…
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156: The Be-Lo Murders | Lying in Wait After Closing
On June 6, 1993, an armed man robbed the Be-Lo Supermarket in Windsor, North Carolina, before forcing six employees to the back of the store. There, the employees were directed to bind each other before the gunman…
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155: The Blood Told a Story | The Disappearance of Cindy Guido
In April 2017, 60-year-old Cindy Guido disappeared from the apartment where she was staying in Gilbert, Arizona. According to her roommate, Cindy left with an unknown man and never came home. Months later,…
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154: The Secret Affair at the Center | The Disappearance of Patti Adkins
Just after 12:00 am on June 30, 2001, 29-year-old Patti Adkins clocked out from her job at the Honda factory in Marysville, Ohio. According to Patti, she was supposed to leave that night for a week-long vacation. It…
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153: The Stranger in the White Truck | The Disappearance of Lenny Dirickson
On March 14, 1998, 39-year-old Lenny Dirickson was at his farm in the Cheyenne/Strong City, Oklahoma area, when an unidentified man arrived in a truck. The man said he wanted to look at one of Lenny’s stud horses, so…
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152: A Missing Mother and Her Husband's Changing Story | The Disappearance of Margaret Haddican-McEnroe
On October 10, 2006, 29-year-old Margaret Haddican-McEnroe disappeared from her home in Warren Township, New Jersey. According to her husband, he returned home that afternoon to find Margaret gone and their…
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151: Murder Before Midnight | The Broadway Lanes Triple Homicide
At approximately 11:45 pm on January 27, 2002, a woman arrived at AMF Broadway Lanes in Littleton, Colorado, to pick up her roommate, Erin Golla. She walked inside the bowling alley and instead found Erin and two men,…
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150: The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist
In the early hours of March 18, 1990, two men dressed as police officers arrived at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts. After convincing the security guards to let them inside, the men…
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149: Barbara Bolick | The Woman Who Disappeared in Just 45 Seconds
On July 18, 2007, 55-year-old Barbara Bolick set out on a hike to her favorite overlook in Montana's Bitterroot National Forest with a family friend. It was a trail she knew by heart and had hiked countless times…
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148: Elisa Roberson | She Walked Out the Door... Then Vanished
On August 6, 1989, 13-year-old Elisa Roberson left her home in Aransas Pass, Texas, to meet a friend at a nearby elementary school. It was a walk she had made before and should have taken only a few minutes. But Elisa…
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147: Jaye Potter Mintz | "Mean Man Hurt Mommy"
On the afternoon of February 23, 1987, Lorene Potter stopped by her daughter Jaye Potter Mintz's home in Leland, North Carolina. Inside, she found Jaye's 2-year-old son crying and 23-year-old Jaye brutally murdered in…
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146: Captain Michael O’Mara | The Mysterious Death of a Decorated Officer
On the evening of May 30, 1988, 48-year-old Police Captain Michael O'Mara left home to run a few errands. He never made it home. That night, another officer found Mike dead in a grassy area outside the county…
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145: MURDER: Patrice Endres
On the morning of April 15, 2004, 38-year-old Patrice Endres was working at her salon in Cumming, Georgia. Then, just before noon, she vanished. Investigators would eventually conclude she had been abducted during a…
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144: MISSING: Zachary Bernhardt
On September 11, 2000, at approximately 4:47 am, 8-year-old Zachary Bernhardt was reported missing from his apartment in Clearwater, Florida. Within hours, hundreds of investigators and volunteers were searching for…
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143: MISSING: Amy Wroe Bechtel
On July 24, 1997, 24-year-old Amy Wroe Bechtel spent the day running errands in Lander, Wyoming, before heading out to scout a route for an upcoming 10k race she was organizing in the Wind River Mountains. But, she…
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142: MISSING: Suzanne “Suzy” Lyall
On March 2, 1998, 19-year-old Suzanne “Suzy” Lyall finished her shift at a software store in Albany, New York, and boarded a bus back to her dorm at SUNY Albany. A friend later reported seeing her get off at her usual…
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141: MURDER: Wil Hendrick
On the night of January 9, 1999, 25-year-old Wil Hendrick left his home in Moscow, Idaho, to attend a party with friends. He had recently celebrated his birthday, was preparing to start his final semester of college,…
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140: MISSING: John and Shelly Markley
On the morning of December 15, 1995, 36-year-old John Markley and his 32-year-old wife, Shelly, went to the bank to cash a check. But by later that afternoon, the couple had seemingly disappeared without a trace.…
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139: MURDER: Tina McQuaig
On March 15, 2000, 27-year-old Tina McQuaig went to work at a Jacksonville hospital like it was any other Wednesday. Before getting off work, she called home to say she was running a little late and planned to stop at…
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138: MURDER: Alexandra Anaya
In the early morning hours of August 13, 2005, 13-year-old Alex Anaya vanished from her home in Hammond, Indiana, just outside of Chicago. For weeks, her family was left wondering where she was and whether she was…
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137: MURDER: Tom Roche
On September 13, 1991, 36-year-old Tom Roche dropped his longtime girlfriend off at work in Burbank, California. He told her he was heading home to work on his motorcycle, and the two made plans to meet for lunch later…
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136: MISSING: Paula and Brandon Wade
On October 12, 2002, 25-year-old Paula Wade and her 3-year-old son, Brandon, were last seen in Valdosta, Georgia, just days before they were supposed to move to Florida for a fresh start. Paula had been packing up…
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135: MURDER: Dr. Geetha Angara
On February 8, 2005, 43-year-old Dr. Geetha Angara went to work at a water treatment facility in Totowa, New Jersey, where she worked as a senior chemist. She was last seen heading to the plant’s basement to complete a…
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134: MISSING: April Pitzer
On June 27, 2004, 30 year old April Pitzer was last seen in Newberry Springs, California, after telling loved ones she was preparing to come back home to Arkansas. She had been terrified for her life and was desperate…
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133: MURDER: The Fisher Family
On April 10, 2001, an explosion tore through a Scottsdale, Arizona home, sending flames into the air and shaking the surrounding neighborhood. Inside, investigators discovered a devastating scene. 38-year-old Mary…
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132: MURDER: Oakey "Al" Kite Jr.
On May 24, 2004, co-workers of 53 year old Oakey Albert Kite Jr., who went by Al, drove to his house to check on him after he failed to show up to work - something he had never done before. Inside his Aurora, Colorado…
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131: MISSING: Lori Bova
On the evening of June 7, 1997, 26-year-old Lori Bova had dinner with her husband and sister at the Red Lobster in Lakewood, New York. Around 12 hours later, her husband reported her missing, claiming she left their…
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130: MURDER: Heidi Childs and David Metzler
On the morning of August 27, 2009, a man walking his dog made a devastating discovery at Caldwell Fields, a campground in the Jefferson National Forest near Blacksburg, Virginia. In a parking area, two Virginia Tech…
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129: MISSING: HaLeigh Cummings
In the early morning hours of February 10, 2009, Ron Cummings returned to his home in Satsuma, Florida after work and learned that his five-year-old daughter, HaLeigh, was missing. The side door was propped open with…
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128: MURDER: The Blue Ridge Savings Bank
On May 16, 2003, a silent alarm was triggered inside Blue Ridge Savings Bank in Greer, South Carolina. When officers arrived just minutes later, they found the bank empty and the cash drawer cleared out. In a small…
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127: POSSIBLE MURDER: Erica Alonso
On Valentine’s Day 2015, 27-year-old Erica Alonso went out with her ex-boyfriend in Orange County, California. She told her sister she would be home later that night. But Erica never came home. Weeks later, she was…
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126: MISSING: Deanna Merryfield
On July 22, 1990, 13-year-old Deanna Merryfield was last seen in Killeen, Texas. In the early morning hours, she left her grandmother’s house to visit her twin sister and was later seen getting into a dark sedan with…
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125: MURDER: Jason Marous
In the early morning hours of January 6, 2023, 36-year-old Jason Marous was found unresponsive inside his vehicle parked in the lot of his Fort Lauderdale, Florida condo. The driver’s door was slightly open. Jason was…
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124: MISSING: Amber Arnett
On June 25, 2023, 39-year-old Amber Arnett was last seen in Lansing, Michigan. Surveillance footage captured her shopping with a friend, before she was dropped off at the gated property where she had been staying.…
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123: DISAPPEARANCE and DEATH: Chuck Rutherford and Lana Stempien
On the morning of August 12, 2005, a boater on Lake Huron came across a cabin cruiser drifting alone in the water, struggling against the wind and waves. When the Coast Guard arrived, they found the boat in neutral,…
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122: MURDER: Amy Mihaljevic
On October 27, 1989, 10-year-old Amy Mihaljevic vanished after school from a shopping center in Bay Village, Ohio. Detectives would later learn she had been lured there by a man pretending to know her family. For…
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121: MURDER: Stacey Colbert
On March 24, 1998, 23-year-old Stacey Colbert was reported missing from her apartment in Columbus, Ohio. Inside, detectives found signs that she had been abducted. For more than six years, Stacey’s family searched for…
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120: MURDER & MISSING: Bill and Kay Wood
At around 11:35 p.m. on July 30, 2011, neighbors near a home in Norwalk, Iowa, stepped outside after smelling smoke and saw flames rising high above the trees. Within minutes, firefighters arrived to find the house…
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119: MISSING: Angela Hammond
On April 4, 1991, 20-year-old Angela Hammond, who was four months pregnant, stopped at a payphone outside a grocery store in Clinton, Missouri to call her fiancé. During the call, she told him a strange pickup truck…
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118: 2025 Case Updates
Recent developments and renewed attention are being examined in several ongoing and unresolved cases, including Kristina Branum and Christopher Mittendorf, Brandy Hutchins, Nikki Cheng Saelee-McCain, Trudy Appleby,…
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117: MISSING: The Springfield Three
At around 2:15 am on June 7, 1992, 18-year-old Stacy McCall and 19-year-old Suzie Streeter returned to Suzie’s home in Springfield, Missouri after a night of graduation celebrations. Suzie’s mother, Sherill Levitt, was…
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116: MURDER: Suzanne Jovin
On the night of December 4, 1998, 21-year-old Yale senior Suzanne Jovin left her apartment to return a carpool key to the campus police office. She told a classmate she planned to go home afterward and get some rest.…
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115: MISSING: Tracy Ocasio
On May 26, 2009, 27-year-old Tracy Ocasio spent the night watching the Orlando Magic game at one of her favorite bars in Orlando, Florida. She told her mother she’d be home afterward, but she never returned. The next…
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114: MURDER: Toby Beaugh
In the early morning hours of February 25, 2006, 29-year-old Toby Beaugh and his wife of ten months, Melissa, were walking home after celebrating Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Louisiana. Just blocks from their house, a…
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113: MISSING: Christi Jo Nichols
**If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic violence, help is available. You can call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-SAFE (7233). You can also chat at TheHotline.org or text START to…
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112: Ellen Greenberg (Part 3)
On January 26, 2011, 27-year-old Ellen Greenberg left work early when a snowstorm hit Philadelphia. She stopped for gas on her way home, then spent the afternoon grading papers in the apartment she shared with her…
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111: Ellen Greenberg (Part 2)
On January 26, 2011, 27-year-old Ellen Greenberg left work early when a snowstorm hit Philadelphia. She stopped for gas on her way home, then spent the afternoon grading papers in the apartment she shared with her…
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