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 You Yes You! is a terrific Indiana organization that strives to foster relationships between incarcerated fathers and their children. The goals are simple: Happy and healed kids, stronger communities, and rehabilitated fathers. 

We recently interviewed You Yes You! founder and executive director Ericka Sanders, as well as LaToya Highsaw, a family law attorney who volunteers her time with You Yes You!

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Let's talk some True Crime Truths! Do amateurs solve decades old crimes by figuring out ciphers? Do books and documentaries that promise final solutions to cold cases pan out?

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In 2022, 31-year-old attorney and mother Ciera Breland vanished. Her husband Xavier Breland Jr. reported her missing Indiana, but all signs point to the possibility that she never left Georgia. Today, we will talk to Blaire Duncan, an advocate who is seeking justice for Ciera.

Check out the Facebook group on Ciera's case: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/19LGE7S7KY/?mibextid=wwXIfr

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The Cheat Sheet is The Murder Sheet's segment breaking down weekly news and updates in some of the murder cases we cover. In this episode, we'll talk about cases from North Dakota, Nevada, Virginia, and Texas.

Valley News Live’s report on the case against Joshua Alexander Hite in the disappearance and suspected murder of Isadora Wengel: https://www.valleynewslive.com/2026/02/17/murder-suspect-requests-new-judge-isadora-weng...

We are in possession of a trove of dozens of hours of phone recordings of convicted murderer Temujin Kensu made by his late wife Denise Deringer. The recordings we feature today shine a light on the real Temujin Kensu, the person he truly is when not trying to make an impression in media interviews. They depict him as a man with delusions of grandeur who appears to try to intimidate a witness in his case in supporting his ...

We are in possession of a trove of dozens of hours of phone recordings of convicted murderer Temujin Kensu made by his late wife Denise Deringer. The recordings we feature today shine a light on the real Temujin Kensu, the person he truly is when not trying to make an impression in media interviews. They show him as an emotionally abusive and threatening man. In our next episode, we will share more- including what we ...

Tyler Nike Thomas is charged with two federal counts related to the death of 17-year-old Hailey Buzbee.

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On February 13, 2017, Richard Allen murdered 14-year-old Libby German and 13-year-old Abby Williams. Today, we remember Abby and Libby.

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The Cheat Sheet is The Murder Sheet's segment breaking down weekly news and updates in some of the murder cases we cover. In this episode, we'll talk about cases from Indiana, Louisiana, California, and the United Kingdom.

MyWabashValley’s report on the murder of Sarah “Jeanette” Benson: https://www.mywabashvalley.com/news/police-seek-help-in-1981-farmersburg-cold-case/

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Luigi Mangione is accused of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on December 4, 2024. He faces two upcoming trials: a New York trial and a federal trial. Recently, United States District Judge Margaret M. Garnett issued some important orders in the federal case around the police search of Mangione's backpack and the death penalty. We will discuss those in-depth.

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We talk about a criminal trial as if it was a single event but of course that’s not entirely true. A trial is made up of multiple parts starting with jury selection and going all the way to the delivery of a verdict. Not all of these stages of a trial always get attention but each of them can be tremendously important. In fact, some attorneys claim that a trial can be won or lost in the jury selection process– and that, of...

On October 21, 2021, a woman named Kayla died in Whitehorse, Yukon, in Canada. She was 33. She died in a crackhouse with fentanyl and cocaine in her system. 

But what happened to Kayla? What happened in her life that led her to that point? What happened as she died? 

Kayla was loved. She had a family that loved her — that still loves her. That continues to fight for answers about what happened to her. We will ...

Correction: We mistakenly referred to North Dakota as North Carolina at one point in this episode. The Murder Sheet sincerely regrets the error.

The Cheat Sheet is The Murder Sheet's segment breaking down weekly news and updates in some of the murder cases we cover. In this episode, we'll talk about cases from Indiana, New York, California, North Dakota and Delaware.

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Police have found the body of 17-year-old Hailey Buzbee in Ohio's Perry County. Investigators believe she was murdered in a short-term rental in neighboring Hocking County.

Today, we talk about updates in the case and get some insights from a source familiar with that part of Ohio.

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Update: This episode has been updated to include a statement from the police in Columbus, Ohio. That comes in around 15:40 and ends around 17:30.

On February 1, 2026, authorities in Fishers, Indiana announced that they believed missing 17-year-old Hailey Buzbee to be dead. The following day, news broke that police had found her body.

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The Cheat Sheet is The Murder Sheet's segment breaking down weekly news and updates in some of the murder cases we cover. In this episode, we'll talk about cases from Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois and England and Wales as a whole.

Information from Stop Abuse for Everyone on strangulation: https://www.safeaustin.org/the-violent-reality-of-strangulation/

NBC Chicago’s article on the murder of Eliza Morales and the arr...

On January 24, 2026, Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis, Minnesota shot and killed Alex Pretti.

Video showing an interaction prior to the shooting of Alex Pretti from Newsweek: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gYEetmWjGbc

Videos showing the view from both sides of the street of the Alex Pretti shooting from the Daily Mail: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15494997/alex-jeffrey-pretti-minneapolis-shooting-videos.html

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William J. Mann has written Black Dahlia: Murder, Monsters and Madness in Midcentury Hollywood, a terrific new book on the Black Dahlia case and he joins us to discuss the murder- and his victim centric approach.

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On February 28, 1983, two men discovered the bound, decapitated body of a little girl in an abandoned building in St. Louis, Missouri.

We still don't know her name. We call her Precious Hope.

Today, we'll have on Bob Cyphers, an author and longtime journalist who dug into her case.

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