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A 47-year-old man charged with kidnapping 9-year-old Charlotte Sena at an upstate New York park and allegedly holding her in the cabinet of a camper he lived in next to his mother's home has been identified by authorities. Craig N. Ross Jr. is being held without bail Tuesday morning at the Saratoga County Correctional Facility on a charge of first-degree kidnapping, according to jail officials. Charlotte was abducted from the Moreau Lake State Park in Saratoga County, New York, on Saturday evening, according to New York State Police. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said that she disappeared around dinnertime on Saturday while riding her bike in the campground alone. The girl's family and other campers went looking for her, and her mother found her bike around 6:45 p.m. Saturday and called 911, police said. An Amber Alert was issued for the missing child Saturday night. An intense search involving up to 400 local, state, and federal law enforcement officers was conducted at the sprawling park. NY Governor Kathy October 1, 2023 - Gansevoort, NY - Governor Hochul updated the search for Charlotte Sena in Saratoga County. Sources: https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/video-audio-photos-rush-transcript-governor-hochul-provides-update-rescue-charlotte-sena https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPJD6zCYet4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA-SDbKEw6o Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3 Okt 202330min

Jan Brogan has been a journalist for more than thirty years, working as a correspondent for the Boston Globe, a staff writer for the Worcester Telegram and the Providence Journal, where she won the Gerald Loeb award for distinguished business writing. She is the award-winning author of four mysteries, Final Copy, Confidential Source, Yesterday’s Fatal, and Teaser. Transactional Pictures, (Steven Soderbergh and Philip Fleishman) purchased the rights to A Confidential Source, which is currently under development for a television series. The Combat Zone is a true account of a brutal murder, two flawed trials and the not so delicate balance between justice and revenge. It tells the story of an annual Harvard ritual that sent forty football players into Boston’s crime-plagued red light district for a “last drink, together,” and the death of a heroic 21-year-old cornerback who tries to save a friend. The Combat Zone shows how a murder trial isn’t always about the victim or the accused but about a city in turmoil and a criminal justice system in need of reform. Shortlisted for a 2022 Anthony Award and a 2021 Agatha Award https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjOmeAGWgLI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXfgXhz5Dkc You can buy her book THE COMBAT ZONE: Murder, Race, and Boston’s Struggle for Justice at https://janbrogan.com/the-combat-zone/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

29 Sep 202333min

Jan Brogan has been a journalist for more than thirty years, working as a correspondent for the Boston Globe, a staff writer for the Worcester Telegram and the Providence Journal, where she won the Gerald Loeb award for distinguished business writing. She is the award-winning author of four mysteries, Final Copy, Confidential Source, Yesterday’s Fatal, and Teaser. Transactional Pictures, (Steven Soderbergh and Philip Fleishman) purchased the rights to A Confidential Source, which is currently under development for a television series. The Combat Zone is a true account of a brutal murder, two flawed trials and the not so delicate balance between justice and revenge. It tells the story of an annual Harvard ritual that sent forty football players into Boston’s crime-plagued red light district for a “last drink, together,” and the death of a heroic 21-year-old cornerback who tries to save a friend. The Combat Zone shows how a murder trial isn’t always about the victim or the accused but about a city in turmoil and a criminal justice system in need of reform. Shortlisted for a 2022 Anthony Award and a 2021 Agatha Award https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjOmeAGWgLI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXfgXhz5Dkc You can buy her book THE COMBAT ZONE: Murder, Race, and Boston’s Struggle for Justice at https://janbrogan.com/the-combat-zone/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

29 Sep 202345min

On October 27th, 1989, Fifth-grader Amy Mihaljevic went to Bay Village Middle School on Friday wearing green pants, a lavender, and a green sweatshirt, and carrying a denim and red backpack. Her body was discovered 106 days later in Ashland County and her death was ruled a homicide. Her case is the one I am the most passionate about because she was abducted about 3 miles from where I lived. 33+ years later the case is unsolved but there was a case this week that gives us hope. Cobb County police say DNA forensic testing has solved the 51-year-old cold case of the rape and murder of a Marietta third-grade girl. On Jan. 13, 1972, police say 9-year-old Debbie Lynn Randall was abducted while she was walking home from a nearby laundromat in Marietta, raped, and murdered. Officials say for more than 50 years the case has haunted investigators, and detectives have investigated hundreds of leads to no avail, leaving the case cold. Now detectives say genetic genealogy has provided some answers about who left the Randall family without their little girl. We are thrilled when we see cases like Debbie-Lynn get solved because it means there is a chance Amy Mihaljevic's case can still be solved. Sources: https://youtu.be/_KBp2AWyFRw?si=r97GA91pcMrM9Vl2 https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/marietta-debbie-lynn-randall-murder-cold-case-breakthrough https://www.fbi.gov/video-repository/newss-seeking-information-in-amy-mihaljevic-murder/view Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

22 Sep 202322min

Was this revenge? Was this the occult? Who killed the Evangelist family? "On the quiet summer evening of July 3, 1929, Benny Evangelist and his family were brutally murdered in their residential Detroit home on St. Aubin Street, mutilated by an axe-wielding killer. His wife and four children were butchered while sleeping in their beds, while Benny himself was killed—and nearly decapitated—in his study. Evangelist was known as a carpenter, faith healer and, most intriguingly, a cult leader and author of a self-published religious text, The Oldest History of the World: Discovered by Occult Science." - Via: https://the-line-up.com/benny-evangelist-murders The St. Aubin Massacre Sources: 1. https://www.clickondetroit.com/features/2016/10/05/st-aubin-street-massacre-1929-detroit-family-murders-still-unsolved/#:~:text=DETROIT%20%E2%80%93%20It's%20one%20of%20the,carried%20out%20with%20an%20axe 2. https://the-line-up.com/benny-evangelist-murders 3. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/76528115/ 4. https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/2019/03/20/looking-back-at-some-of-michigans-biggest-unsolved-cases/ 5. https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2017/04/23/the-black-hand-the-epic-war-between-a-brilliant-detective-and-the-deadliest-secret-society-in-american-history-book-review/100373672/ 6. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Black-Hand-American-criminal-organization 7. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/76529230/ 8. https://www.fbi.gov/history/field-office-histories/detroit 9. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Black-Hand-American-criminal-organization 10.https://www.newspapers.com/search/#query=Evangelist+Detroit+Free+Press+Detroit%2C+Michigan+05+Jul+1929%2C+Fri 11. https://www.newspapers.com/search/#query=family+of+6+hacked+to+death+page+10&dr_year=1929-1929 12. https://www.americanhauntingsink.com/evangelista Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

22 Sep 202335min

In the early morning hours of July 4, 1954, Marilyn Sheppard was bludgeoned to death in her bed. Her husband Sam, a prominent Bay Village doctor, maintained that Marilyn was murdered by a bushy-haired intruder. He stood trial and was convicted for his wife’s murder amidst a media storm. Harrison Ford's character in The Fugitive is roughly based on Sam Sheppard. The media frenzy so tainted the case that the United States Supreme Court released him and ordered a retrial in the decision Sheppard v. Maxwell. At the 1966 retrial, Sheppard was acquitted. He died just a few years later. SOURCES: https://famous-trials.com/sam-sheppard/2-sheppard https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/newspaper_coverage/ law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/sheppard/sheppardchonology.html https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/sheppard/#browse Cleveland Plain Dealer Cleveland Press Associated Press NY Times https://case.edu/ech/articles/s/sheppard-murder-case https://www.thoughtco.com/the-sam-sheppard-murder-case-972179 http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/sheppard/sheppardreports.html https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/sam-sheppard-dies Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

15 Sep 202343min

Part 2: Thank you to Nic of the True Crime Garage Podcast for joining me to discuss one of Northeast Ohio's most infamous "unsolved" murder. In the early morning hours of July 4, 1954, Marilyn Sheppard was bludgeoned to death in her bed. Her husband Sam, a prominent Bay Village doctor, maintained that Marilyn was murdered by a bushy-haired intruder. He stood trial and was convicted for his wife’s murder amidst a media storm. The Academy Award-winning movie The Fugitive, starring Harrison Ford, was loosely based on Sam Sheppard. The media frenzy so tainted the case that the United States Supreme Court released him and ordered a retrial in the decision Sheppard v. Maxwell. At the 1966 retrial, Sheppard was acquitted. He died just a few years later. Follow me on X @billhuffman3. Support the show via Venmo. SOURCES: https://famous-trials.com/sam-sheppard/2-sheppard law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/sheppard/sheppardchonology.html https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/sheppard/#browse https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/newspaper_coverage/ https://case.edu/ech/articles/s/sheppard-murder-case https://www.thoughtco.com/the-sam-sheppard-murder-case-972179 http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/sheppard/sheppardreports.html https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/sam-sheppard-dies https://www.truecrimegarage.com If you'd like to help support the show you can contribute via Venmo with my username @bill-huffman-3. Every contribution big or small helps keep these shows rolling. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

15 Sep 20231h 1min

In the early morning hours of July 4, 1954, Marilyn Sheppard was bludgeoned to death in her bed. Her husband Sam, a prominent Bay Village doctor, maintained that Marilyn was murdered by a bushy-haired intruder. He stood trial and was convicted for his wife’s murder amidst a media storm. Harrison Ford's character in The Fugitive is roughly based on Sam Sheppard. The media frenzy so tainted the case that the United States Supreme Court released him and ordered a retrial in the decision Sheppard v. Maxwell. At the 1966 retrial, Sheppard was acquitted. He died just a few years later. SOURCES: https://famous-trials.com/sam-sheppard/2-sheppard law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/sheppard/sheppardchonology.html https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/sheppard/#browse Cleveland Plain Dealer Cleveland Press Associated Press NY Times https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/sheppard_timeline/ https://case.edu/ech/articles/s/sheppard-murder-case https://www.thoughtco.com/the-sam-sheppard-murder-case-972179 http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/sheppard/sheppardreports.html https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/sam-sheppard-dies Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

15 Sep 202342min