Barbara Gagne

ALAMEDA COUNTY, California — Eight reports. Seven in a single year. And a little girl who never got the help she desperately needed. Sophia Mason was 8 years old when her body was found decomposing in a bathtub in Merced on March 11, 2022. In the months before her death, she had been forced to … Read more

DELRAY BEACH, Florida — It started as something teenagers do without thinking twice. A group of friends, a revolver sitting on the counter, and the assumption that it wasn’t loaded. That assumption cost a 16-year-old boy his life — and sent his friend to prison for more than a decade. A Night That Went Horribly … Read more

TRIMBELLE, Wisconsin — A 3-week-old boy is dead, and the details that investigators uncovered in the days that followed are as heartbreaking as they are disturbing. On March 14, deputies from the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office responded to a residence in the town of Trimbelle — a small community about 45 miles from Minneapolis — … Read more

SPRING, Texas — A little girl, just two years old, had no way to call for help. She couldn’t explain what happened. She couldn’t tell anyone who hurt her. She could only survive — and hope someone would notice. On Thursday, deputies with the Harris County Precinct 4 Constable’s Office responded to an Exxon gas … Read more

ST. LOUIS, Missouri — A mother called her son just to check in. She never imagined that call would become the last time she heard his voice. On March 2, 2022, 19-year-old Jadun Byrd had taken a Lyft to meet his mother at work. He was on FaceTime with her when a white Dodge Journey … Read more

MANDAN, North Dakota — A mother allegedly told her children’s father to “say goodbye to your kids” — and then made good on the threat in the most devastating way imaginable. Kailey Erhart, 22, is accused of killing two of her own children and attempting to kill a third inside a home on South Frontier … Read more

ALBANY, Georgia — The courtroom went quiet when Melassia Thornton stood up and looked directly at the man who killed her daughter. She did not scream. She did not curse. She begged. “You have an opportunity to give me that closure by telling me where my baby’s body is,” Thornton said, her voice breaking. “Please … Read more

ORLANDO, Florida — A little boy walked into a bedroom holding his stomach and collapsed. He was 4 years old. He had just been shot in the chest. What happened next — and what the teenager in that room chose to do — is what has left this community shaken. A Normal Afternoon That Turned … Read more