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In 1979, six-year-old Etan Patz vanished walking to his school bus stop alone for the first time, a case that put his face on the side of milk cartons and sparked the modern missing-children movement. Forty-seven years later, the U.S. Supreme Court has reinstated the murder conviction of Pedro Hernandez in a 6-to-3 ruling. Vanessa walks you through the case from that spring morning in SoHo to the Court's decision, and what it really decides for confessions, federal authority, and a family still waiting for an answer.
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In Utah, David Vander Meer was charged with the 2006 murder of his wife Bernadette, who fell 1,200 feet from Angel's Landing at Zion National Park in what was ruled an accident at the time; a reinvestigation revealed he had allegedly told a teenage girl from his church youth group that his wife would need to die for them to be together, and had quadrupled her life insurance policy before the trip. He was arrested in Las Vegas last week and died from self-inflicted injuries in custody four days later, before extradition, leaving Bernadette's family without the trial they spent twenty years fighting for.
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In Los Angeles, a federal jury deadlocked ten to two in favor of acquittal in the arson trial of Jonathan Rinderknecht, the former Uber driver accused of setting the brush fire that prosecutors say became the catastrophic Palisades Fire, which killed twelve people and destroyed more than 6,800 structures; a mistrial was declared Friday after jurors said they were unwilling to change their positions. The government announced it will retry the case in October, while the neighborhood of Pacific Palisades, where only seventeen homes have been certified for occupancy, still waits for accountability.
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In Maine, Stephen Bouchard, 63, has been charged with the 1987 murder of his then-girlfriend Alice Hawkes, who was found with her throat slit in their Westbrook apartment; a judge denied bail this week after prosecutors presented evidence including an alleged statement by Bouchard that he had committed the perfect crime. The case was cracked open by a 2025 reinvestigation by the Maine State Police Major Crimes Unit-Unsolved, nearly four decades after Alice's family first began pushing for answers.
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In Delaware County, Pennsylvania, Michelle Zajko has been indicted for the 2022 murders of her parents, shot to death in their Chester Heights home on New Year's Eve; charges came after shell casings from her Vermont property matched the murder weapon and investigators found a note on her phone titled "There are so many things we f---ed up." The case is the last unsolved chapter in a string of six deaths linked to the Zizians, a cultlike group of highly educated tech workers connected to violence across three states.
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