Snapshot · Dateline NBC
Six-year-old Etan Patz disappeared on his way to the bus stop in New York City on May 25, 1979, becoming one of the first missing children to appear on milk cartons.
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Alex Laray provides a brief but consequential update on the Tyler Robinson case out of Utah. Robinson is charged with felony aggravated murder for allegedly shooting Charlie Kirk during a campus debate at Utah Valley University in September 2025. Prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty if he's convicted. At a recent hearing, Robinson's defense argued that a prosecutor's public comments about an inconclusive ballistics report — whether bullet fragments from Kirk's body matched Robinson's rifle — violated the judge's pre-trial publicity order and could have prejudiced potential jurors. The prosecutor said he was simply responding to media misinformation, but the judge delayed ruling on the contempt question and left the death penalty question unresolved, creating significant uncertainty heading into future hearings.
The Supreme Court reversed the federal appeals court that had overturned Pedro Hernandez's conviction for killing six-year-old Etan Patz. Hernandez, now 64, will serve out his 25-years-to-life sentence without a new trial.
Before Uber, Kalanick built a peer-to-peer file-sharing system and was sued for a quarter of a trillion dollars by 33 major media companies.
CIA operative Edwin Wilson, part of the illegal arms network used by Oliver North, was sentenced to 52 years for supplying Libya with 10,000 machine guns and 20 tons of C4.
US prosecutors sought a 186-year prison sentence for Kim Dotcom, largely because of his financial support for WikiLeaks.
Mario Tabraue, a central figure in Monsters of God linked to drug trafficking and murder, was sentenced to over 100 years in prison but served only 12 years.
Zelig Williams disappeared on October 3rd, 2024 after leaving his mother's home in Columbia, South Carolina and has not been seen since.
Dateline: Missing in America Season 5 features six new unsolved missing-persons mysteries, hoping a listener may hold a crucial clue.
At a high school party, Strickland broke one victim's nose, jaw, and knocked out teeth requiring multiple reconstructive surgeries, resulting in two felony GBI charges.
Joyce LePage's murder has remained unsolved for 55 years despite active investigation from the start.
Joyce's own letter revealed that Mark Wadley had once stayed at a mental institution for trying to strangle people — a detail investigators apparently never followed up on.
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