True Crime Brief
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2026-07-13
Woman vanishes days before testifying against serial abuser employed by the sheriff's office investigating her disappearance.
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Today is Monday, July thirteenth. [] Crime Junkie's latest covers Cheryl Rucci, a New York woman who vanished in two thousand five, just days before she was set to testify against a serial abuser who worked for the very sheriff's office that was investigating him. [a]
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2026-07-06
Stabbed 60 times in 1993, Carmen Van Huss's cold case finally solved with genealogy DNA after 31 years.
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It's Monday, July sixth, twenty twenty-six. [] On Crime Junkie: Carmen Van Huss, nineteen, stabbed sixty times in her Indianapolis apartment back in nineteen ninety-three. [a] Cold for thirty-one years, until genealogy D N A finally cracked it. [a] Listen for the one detective who never gave up. [a]
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2026-06-29
IRS agent and au pair conspired in a deadly frame-up: they catfished a stranger online and pinned the wife's murder on him. Agent sentenced to life without parole.
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It's Monday, June twenty-ninth, twenty twenty-six. [] On Crime Junkie, the Banfield case: an Internal Revenue Service agent and his au pair catfished a stranger online, luring him to the house to frame him for the murder of the agent's wife. [a] The agent just got life without parole. [a]
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2026-06-22
A mother calls 911 in a Michigan blizzard, walks away barefoot, and vanishes. Her mysterious companion that night remains unidentified.
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Today is Monday, June twenty-second, twenty twenty-six. [] Crime Junkie's latest covers Brittany Wallace-Shank, a twenty-three-year-old mother of four who vanished in Sturgis, Michigan, after calling nine one one to say she was stranded in the snow. [a] She walked off barefoot before deputies arrived and was never seen again, and the one man who was with her that night has never been identified. [a]
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