Alabama is known for its southern hospitality family values, small towns and farms, from Montgomery to Millbrook from Pine Level to Prattville. For some of these families, something devastating connects them. Death, a murder, an unsolved mystery, it's these cases that caught our attention and led to the series. Interviewing investigators, meeting with family members, getting updates on cases, some that have turned cold. Join us every week as we do a deep dive. This is Case Files a WSFA 12 News Defenders podcast.
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The Allen family vividly remembers Father’s Day weekend 2017. They were preparing to celebrate when they got a phone call that would change their lives.
Joseph Allen’s son, Jeremy Allen, 28, was shot and killed in his home on June 19, 2017. The scene at Eagle Landing Apartments on Eagle Circle was the start of a years-long nightmare for the family.
Six years ago, Lelia Faulkner left her family’s home in Troy, never to be seen again. It was July 4, 2016, a day her mother, Susan Faulkner vividly remembers.
At the time, Lelia and her daughter Madison were living with her parents. She’d just moved back in after a bad breakup.
The 30-year-old was the city’s 30th homicide in 2020. He was gunned down in broad daylight in Regency Park on June 28, 2020.
Rickem Samuels’s mother, Ericka Davis, remembers her son as a good kid. Smart, respectful, and hardworking. All of that was taken away from her when he disappeared.
On New Year’s Day 2022, Shayquita Jackson woke up ready to spend the day with her family, specifically, her mother and brother, Daniel Jackson.
Bo worked as an independent contractor around the River Region and on March 8, 2010, he was on the job. Bo was working at an apartment unit, laying floor tiles, when he was shot and killed.
The community of Goshen has a little over 200 people. More farmland than folks and most families have been here for generations. It’s also a relatively safe place in Crenshaw County, which is why the Delange Harris case is so disturbing.
It’s been 27 years since Chanty Shiverdecker’s body was found in an abandoned wood yard.
The holidays are especially difficult for Machelle Goldsmith. Her daughter Lakira “Pigg” Goldsmith went missing days after Thanksgiving in 2018.
November 23, 2013, is a day Donna Mills will remember for the rest of her life.