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Close sisters Joanna and Jaqueline were killed by an out of control car on May 5th, 1957.  About a year later on October 4th 1958, the Pollock family was blessed with a set of identical twin girls that they named Gillian and Jennifer. However, as time passed, they realized their new twins were suspiciously similar to their deceased children, Jaqueline and Joanna. Are Gillian and Jennifer reincarnations of their older siblings?

Today we talked about how Todd Kendhammer killed his wife, Barbara, and made it look like a complete accident. 

Today we talked about Ben Geen, a rogue nurse from Oxfordshire, England. Was he really behind these harming and killings  or did investigators rush the investigation?

Today we talked about the avoidable disappearance of 8 year old Relisha Rudd. We talked about how child protective services failed her, the shelter she was staying in failed her and most importantly, how her own family failed her by letting a predator groom and "take care" of her. 

Dean, Tina and baby Holly Clouse moved from Florida to Texas to start their new life as a family in August of 1980. That same year their family stopped hearing from  them and the bodies of Tina and Dean were found months later after receiving a suspicious phone call from "Sister Susan".   But where was baby Holly and how was she found over 40 years later?

In today's rerun, we talked about the case of the Golden State Killer and how he was caught years after the murders. 

Angelika and her fiancé were kayaking down the Hudson River one day when disaster struck. Her fiancé's kayak flipped causing him to drown with Angelika as the only witness of his death. Was this really an accident or did Angelika kill her fiancé for money?

Noura Jackson returned in the early morning hours of June 5th, 2005 after a night of partying to find her mother dead on her bedroom floor with over 50 stab wounds. Many believe Noura was behind her mother's murder because of her suspicious timeline, unexplained cut on her hand and their rocky relationship. But DNA evidence found on the scene says otherwise... Is Noura behind her mother's murder?

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Johnny Gosch was abducted on his morning paper route almost 42 years ago. Is there a chance he's still out there?

James Ruppert was never the favourite child and grew up constantly being compared to his older, much more successful brother Leonard. This led him to build up so much resentment against his family that on Easter Sunday 1975 he shot his mother, Leonard, his sister in law and his 8 nieces and nephews without a second thought...

 Amy Bradley and her family felt extremely lucky after winning a cruise through her father, Ron’s, job. However, they started feeling that luck run out when Amy disappeared one morning never to be heard from again. Will we ever know what happened to Amy Bradley? 

Today we talked about the messed up psychological experiment run by Philip Zimbardo and the effects it had on its test subjects.