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Was she murdered?

We journey to find out the truth…

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He was a young pilot, and working in the family business, National Flight Service.

Since he was the heir-apparent to take over his father’s company, Robert was learning the business from the ground up.

But because the 26-year-old didn’t have any business experience, tensions and friction with the other employees quickly escalated.

Then one day Robert’s dad receives a ransom note via email, demanding that he cough up $750,000 or else he would never see his son again. The ransom note claimed that Robert had been kidnapped.

And sure enough, Robert never showed up to a prearranged meeting.

He, in fact, had disappeared.

So the FBI gets involved, placing luggage ostensibly loaded with money in Robert’s office, which were the drop-off instructions outlined in the ransom.

One of Mr. Wiles’s most trusted employees, Toby Holt, is also assisting the FBI with their sting, changing the hidden camera tapes each day at the office.

No luck.

But then… pay dirt: Robert’s phone is turned on and being tracked by authorities. The phone is in a car on a toll road with a camera above the pay booth two days after the disappearance.

The car is identified, and it’s someone who works with Robert, a person who was never initially suspected by the family or FBI.

In fact, the person allegeldy with Robert’s phone was not only a revered employee, but was the same guy who was helping the FBI organize the sting to catch the kidnapper:

Toby Holt.

Turns out Holt also was the last person in the building with Robert the night he went missing, and he and Robert, the investigators learned, had an acrimonious relationship.

The FBI was confident they had the right man because wherever Holt’s phone was traveling, there was Robert’s phone too: Same roads and toll booths.

Holt was arrested and charged with kidnapping, extortion, and murder.

But there’s a problem: Robert’s body is never recovered.

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And by “great times,” what Graham meant was life with her baby, Ember Skye Graham. By “really bad,” she alluded to her rocky relationship with the baby’s father, Matthew.

Yet even though their relationship was replete with tension, the young couple was trying to make it work.

Then… tragedy.

According to Matthew, somebody snatched baby Ember — six months old — from his trailer while he was asleep in bed.

Surprisingly, the police would soon zero in on Matthew — Ember’s own dad — as the prime suspect, which caused Matthew to bolt down, and eventually get in an armed stand-off with law enforcement.

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He was well liked and highly respected in his industry.

He was also very successful.

So who wanted Ash dead? And who would plan his murder to take place in front of the guy’s kids?

The answer to the question, according Ash’s own family, is shocking.

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And so does her best friend, after no one has heard from either Susan or her son Evan since Memorial Day weekend, 2017.

Could their disappearance be tied to sordid email revelations that allege Susan discovered her husband was once a male prostitute, and, perhaps, cheating on her currently… with other men?

Had Susan uncovered far too many of her husband’s secrets?

The family thinks so. Detectives, too.

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Was Kristy abducted or did she run off on her own?

And, if Kristy’s death really was an accident, as the Sheriff alleges, then why won’t his office release her case file to Kristy’s family?

The family wants to know — what, if anything, are they hiding?

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So he linked up with a ‘nurse’ named ‘Desiree’ off of a dating app.

But, as Shawn’s family would later find out, her real name wasn’t Desiree.

And she wasn’t a nurse.

Her real name was Dominique Berry, a known prostitute to local cops, and a woman who, by her own admission, was involved in a cross country crime spree where she and her “pimp” would allegedly drug patrons they met online and rob them of their stuff while they were passed out.

It was a successful scheme, Dominique says, one that racked up 100 possible victims.

Shawn Arthur was one of them.

But Shawn never woke up after being drugged.

His wallet, cell phone, and truck… all gone.

Was his death a homicide?

Obviously, says Shawn’s family.

But detectives in Jefferson Parish come to a head-scratching conclusion…

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The police even believe her body was moved after she was shot.

Homicide investigation, right?

Not so fast. The official ruling is… suicide.

Natasha’s mom says the ruling is ludicrous. She says her daughter was clearly murdered, the scene staged (poorly) to look like a suicide, and that the boyfriend who found her isn’t being truthful.

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It was, and still is, a city in desperate need of a makeover.

Enter Tim Egkan.

Tim was a young and successful real estate developer whose passion was to help breathe new life into Stockton.

So he set a course to inject the area with investment capital, while also fostering an environment of creativity and entrepreneurship.

“He had this pretty grand vision of what could be, and he was willing to work every day, hour after hour to make it happen,” said Jasmine Leek, a colleague of Tim’s.

But Tim would never see that vision manifest.

It was September 13, 2015.

Tim and his coworkers spent the day celebrating a new potential deal with investors from San Francisco.

But things got rowdy.

Tim reportedly got in a fist fight at a local bar with his business partner. He eventually headed home after the scuffle was broken up.

But he never made it back to his place alive.

Tim was stabbed to death and left in a street gutter somewhere along the day.

Was it a random attack or was it more personal?

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