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WHAT HAPPENED TO HANNAH?

Los Angeles, November 27, 2024 – With the death of her father three days ago, Hannah Kobayashi’s disappearance has gone from baffling to tragic. As Thanksgiving approaches, people following the case fear the worst. Here’s a timeline of what’s publicly known as of today about the missing traveler from Hawaii.

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Catching a Kidnapper’s Car on Camera

Here’s a preview of what you’ll be able to read about in Driven by Darkness, my upcoming true-crime book that’s now with my editor. On March 12, 2022, teenager Naomi Irion and her 1992 Mercury Sable disappeared from the parking lot of a Walmart in Fernley, Nevada. After Naomi’s brother

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Retracing a murderer’s deadly journey

When Troy Driver bid farewell to his girlfriend, saying he’d be home soon, he had murder on his mind. Driver told his girlfriend Zulema that he was going camping for the weekend. Instead, he embarked on a path that would lead him and his random teenage victim to a remote

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MURDER AND MAYHEM AT THE MIRAGE HOTEL & CASINO

The Mirage Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas hosted A-list celebrities and high-stakes gambling. But the elegant hotel was also linked to a brutal gambling murder, the mauling of magician Roy Horn by a white Bengal tiger, rage-induced vandalism by Michael Jackson, and the poolside robbery of actress Sarah Hyland’s

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Six personality traits of true crime fans

After meeting with hundreds of true crime fans at CrimeCon 2024 in Nashville, I came away with a list of six traits that most seem to share.   1. They like solving puzzles Solving a criminal case requires piecing together bits of information into a solution. True crime fans like this

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How stuff gets stolen and sold in sunny SoCal

SoCal is famous for sunny skies, sandy beaches – and stolen stuff? It’s true: The L.A. metropolitan area is known for its burgeoning trade in pilfered products. Recently I delved into the underworld of stolen stuff, after the tech company I work for as chief legal officer suffered a heist

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Was missing camper Bob Wildoner swallowed by the desert?

When Bob Wildoner, then 76, disappeared in remote Saline Valley in 2021, he didn’t just vanish into thin air. My theory is that the desert swallowed him – literally. As seen in my blog entitled “In the desert, a simple mistake can turn deadly,” it appears Bob got disoriented on

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