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Stuttgart teen has been missing since leaving home to run an errand in 2014
Fifteen-year-old Cassie Kay Compton returned home from an overnight stay at a friend's house on September 14, 2014 after attending a...

Pine Bluff woman filed for order of protection but never made it to court on the day of her hearing
Katesia Marshae Weathers was last seen in Pine Bluff, Arkansas on May 22, 2007. At the time of her disappearance, she was seeking an...

Murder on the Arkansas-Missouri Border: Dana Stidham - July, 1989
On July 25, 1989, 18-year-old, Dana Stidham was last seen alive leaving the Phillips Food Center (now Harps in Town Center) in Bella...

Murder in West Memphis Part 6: The only logical conclusion leads to Terry Hobbs
After extensively researching the murders of Stevie Branch, Chris Byers, and Michael Moore, I have become more and more convinced that...

Is a boy who was taken at four months still out somewhere there at age thirty-seven?
The Arkansas River Valley holds a dark secret: Two children were abducted twelve years apart on the exact same day: June 9. The most...

Where the Truth Leads You: Murder in West Memphis - Part 5
In this series, I’ve covered many of the reasons that have led me to this conclusion; however, in my mind, none is more compelling than...

Murder in West Memphis: The Man in the White Tank Top - Part 4
At 1:45pm on May 6, 1993 while searching for Stevie Branch, Chris Byers and Michael Moore's parole officer Steve Jones made a grim...

Murder in West Memphis: The Man in the White Tank Top - Part 3
(This is Part Three of a Six part installment on the unsolved murder of three young boys in West Memphis.) In a statement made by David...

Murder in West Memphis: The Man in the White Tank Top Part 2
(Editors note: This is the second installment of a six part series, Murder in West Memphis: The Man in the White Tank Top. You can read...

South Arkansas murder mystery has gone unsolved for over sixty-eight years
(From the Encyclopedia of Arkansas...) John Thurman McCool, a prominent businessman from Pine Bluff was rebuilding his life after...

The Man in the White Tank Top: Murder in West Memphis - Part 1
On the night of May 5, 1993, Stevie Branch, Michael Moore and Chris Byers disappeared into thin air and were later found brutally...

Stabbed and dumped in broad daylight: Who killed Tammy Lynn Jarvis?
On May 26, 2001 27-year-old Tammy Lynne Jarvis was found murdered in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Jarvis was stabbed and then thrown from a...

Arkansas Cold Case: The 32-year enigma in the death of Brandy Dean Hutchins
In November of 1988, a 14-year-old Clarksville girl, Brandy Hutchins, was found brutally murdered in an old abandoned house on...

Death in Transit: The Mysterious Missing Case of Charles Christopher Dart
Charles Christopher Dart of Fayetteville, Arkansas, , who went missing on April 9, 2012, has been featured on a regular basis in many...

Cold Case Revisited: Who killed United States military veteran Buddy Williams?
On February 9, 2006, Army Veteran George “Buddy” Williams was brutally beaten and stabbed in his own home in the 1800 block of North 9th...

Cold Case Revisited: The Murder of Leslie Dawn Haag
Last year, the 33rd anniversary came and went of the murder of a then 14-year-old Darby Junior High student without fanfare. Many of the...
















