For nearly five decades, a teenage homicide victim recovered from a California vineyard was known only as “Jane Doe.” In July 2026, the Kern County Sheriff’s Office announced that forensic genealogy had restored her name: Michelle Louise Collier, a 15-year-old from Fresno who disappeared in February 1978. The identification provides her relatives with a long-awaited […]

More than three decades after the fatal shooting of 15-year-old Robert Castillo in Manhattan, fresh questions from friends and family have prompted a reevaluation of the case. Castillo, an unarmed Black teenager, was shot twice in the chest on a December night in 1990 by Chris Meskouris, the owner of Jackson Hole Restaurant. Now, amid […]