by Ashley Flowers | Jun 19, 2024 | Episode, Florida Cold Case, Southern U.S. Cold Cases
Bobby Ray Jones had just moved back to Walton County, Florida, in the late summer of 1971. It was a rebirth-of-sorts for this 33-year-old man. After getting caught up in a love affair and running off to Alabama, he had only recently returned to the sunshine state to...
by Ashley Flowers | May 29, 2024 | Episode, Florida Cold Case, Southern U.S. Cold Cases
Ocala Police Chief Mike Balken was just a toddler when 12-year-old Dee Scofield disappeared from a local department store. When he was a teenager, he remembers his parents bringing up the missing little girl from his hometown. Later, as a dad, it would cause him to...
by Ashley Flowers | May 22, 2024 | Episode, Florida Cold Case, Southern U.S. Cold Cases
Debra was a woman who deserved better than what she got in the last year of her life. Every day she woke up, she was a survivor of something or someone. Over 20 years after she was brutally murdered, no one has been held accountable. Courtesy of Crime Stoppers of...
by Ashley Flowers | May 8, 2024 | Episode, Florida Cold Case, Southern U.S. Cold Cases
At 93, Alexander Winspeare had been through a lot in his long life. He was a veteran of World War I, proudly serving his country. If anyone had earned the right to die with dignity and grace, it was him. But instead, he was murdered in 1987. And 37 years later, police...
by Ashley Flowers | Apr 17, 2024 | Episode, Florida Cold Case, Southern U.S. Cold Cases
In the spring of 2000, a 24-year-old woman was found floating in a Citrus County, Florida canal. Though answers have eluded authorities for more than two decades, a present-day sergeant is hoping that putting her story in the spotlight may help reveal the truth....
by Ashley Flowers | Apr 3, 2024 | Episode, Florida Cold Case, Southern U.S. Cold Cases
A college campus in broad daylight in a town literally called “Niceville” might be one of the last places you’d expect a young collegiate to disappear from, but in March 1973, that’s exactly what happened. Debra Espey’s case spans more than 50 years, includes a...