Wanted, Missing, and Public Safety Alerts

When I followed the Scott Peterson case I was drawn to the fact that this man showed no emotion before and after his trial. His eyes were "dead" and hollow and he kept that blank look that was there from the beginning when Laci Peterson and her unborn child, Conor, first went missing. What was he thinking? What was behind that blank facade? How could he just go on living like nothing happened and start another relationship? After reading the book authored by Marilee Strong, "Erased", I came...Read Full Story

Brenda Joan Allen Szabo started having children at the age of 17. She left her first born, a 7 month old son, on the steps of a New York City Police station. Around the same time her then boyfriend died of a drug over dose and she left town when police tried to question her about it.Brenda continued to have three more children by different fathers who also died tragic deaths including heroin overdose, suicide and a car accident. Brenda used a number of aliases as she crisscrossed the country...Read Full Story

Amber Simmons and her mother Rachel CongerMarch 13 will be a date young Amber Simmons will sadly never forget.  She went to bed the night before and when she woke up, her mother, Rachel Conger and step-father Paul were gone.  What happened next in this small city of Paris, Tennessee, is a mystery.  Paul was found three days later in the woods, dead of what police say was a self-inflicted gunshot wound.  Rachel's wallet, cellphone, and ID were found in Paul's nearby truck.  But so far, there...Read Full Story

There is a letter on the family website of Melanie Metheny that her family discovered among her belongings that they didn't even know was there. At the end of the letter Melanie writes the following: Being a single mom is not easy at all but watching my kids grow up and watching them learn new things is the greatest feeling that I ever had. I would not change them for the world and I don't know where I'd be right now if I didn't have them but I know my life wouldn't have as much meaning.The...Read Full Story

Nevada authorities on Friday identified a man they want to question as they search for a young girl shown being sexually assaulted in a homemade videotape. Chester Arthur Stiles, 34, was being called a "person of interest" in the search for a girl with haunting eyes who authorities believe was 4 or 5 years old when she was raped and sexually assaulted in the video, Nye County Sheriff Tony DeMeo said. The lowest of the lowliest kind of criminal is one who sexually abuses children, period. The...Read Full Story