Category: True Crime

HOMICIDE HUNTER Darlene Krashoc’s killer found 32 years later, Joe Kenda testified at the trial

“The most important part of homicide investigations is to never, ever give up,” former police detective Joe Kenda says as part of the lead-in to the Investigation Discovery special, Homicide Hunter: Never Give Up. There may be no better example among Kenda’s 387 cases than the rape and murder of 20-year-old G.I. Darlene Krashoc — a case that saw a conviction and life sentence 32 years later.

DATELINE ‘Shannon’s Story’ Her murderer gave his wife one of her rings

On March 26, 1994, the 19-year-old Emory University student Shannon Melendi went missing. She was last seen a softball game in DeKalb County, GA, where she was scorekeeping. Butch Hinton, the umpire at that game, was convicted of her kidnapping and death a decade later despite the fact that her body was never found. Tonight’s Dateline delves further into the crimes of Butch Hinton.

DATELINE How did Anton Black die? Excessive police force may have led to asphyxiation according to cardiologist

On September 15, 2018, 19-year-old black man Anton Black died in his front yard in Maryland after police held him down for six minutes. His mother was watching from the door, and now she’s determined to let the world know how her son died at the hands of police officers. His father has said that his son was “George Floyd before George Floyd.”

DATELINE ‘Secrets on the Emerald Coast’ Polgyamist preacher killed his sister wife

In 2011, Florida polygamist preacher of Calvary Emerald Coast Church, James Flanders’ secret sister wife Marie Carlson sent out a group text announcing that she was leaving the area. Unfortunately, Marie never left Florida, but James and his first wife left Tanya Florida for Arizona three months after she disappeared. They took with him her young daughter Grace.