Kanika Powell did everything right. That’s the detail that makes this case so difficult to sit with. So often, when we cover a story on this show, there’s a moment where you can point to something — a warning sign ignored, a risk taken, a door left unlocked. With Kanika, there isn’t one. She checked
Waiting in the Hallway – The Murder of Kanika Powell Read More »
For decades, the domestic violence movement has run on a familiar script: the abuser is bad, the survivor should leave, and the system’s job is to punish after the fact. It’s a script that’s shaped everything from police response to funding priorities to the questions we, as a culture, instinctively ask when we hear about
Does She Feel Safer? A Conversation with SafeNest’s Liz Ortenburger Read More »
In the early hours of June 15, 2021, Ella Mae Begay’s daughter woke to the sound of someone breaking into her home in Sweetwater, Arizona — a small, remote community on the Navajo Nation near the Four Corners. She watched the intruder rummage through her belongings, take a few drinks, and leave on foot, walking
Nobody Came – The Disappearance of Ella Mae Begay Read More »
On December 17, 2021, Paola Marie Miranda-Rosa had lunch with her mother, grandmother, and uncle at her grandmother’s home near South Semoran Boulevard in Orlando. As she left, she told them she’d see them tomorrow — she was planning to visit her sister Andrea the next day, and her mother was planning to meet her
On the night of December 4th, 2014, 19-year-old Jasmine Moody walked out of a house on Detroit’s east side. The windchill that night was near zero, with snow already on the ground. She was wearing a hoodie — nothing else. She left her cellphone inside. Her ID. Her purse. Her coat. She has never been
No Coat, No Phone: What Happened to Jasmine Moody? Read More »
Every morning, Shantieya Smith walked her daughter to school. In May 2018, she left home for what should have been a five-minute errand — and became one of at least four women to vanish from the same few blocks of Chicago’s West Side that spring. Shantieya Smith’s family called her “Nay Nay.” She was 26
Unidentified: The Murder of Shantieya Smith Read More »
On the morning of February 19th, 2007, Ricarda Tillman-Lockett did what she always did. She dropped her eleven-month-old son Donnell at the babysitter’s, showed up for her shift at Jillian’s Restaurant in Peabody Place in downtown Memphis, Tennessee, and was — by every account from everyone who worked alongside her — exactly where she was
The Disappearance of Ricarda Tillman-Lockett in Memphis Read More »
On the evening of April 15, 2004, a fifteen-year-old girl named Silene Yasmin Eaddy slipped out of her home on Fountain Lake Road in Columbia, South Carolina. Her neighbor saw her go and called out. Erica — as her family and friends knew her — didn’t stop. She said she was heading to visit someone
The 3 of Diamonds from SC: The Unsolved Murder of Silene “Erica” Eaddy Read More »
