On April 6th, 1997, a group of teenagers from Pikeville, Kentucky were on their way to New Orleans. The group stopped at a rest stop where they came across a young family of four. The chance meeting between a group of misfit teenagers and a family of devout Jehovah Witnesses would end in murder. Natasha Cornett was born Natasha Wallen on January 26th, 1979, in rural Kentucky to Madonna Wallen and Roger Burgess. Roger is a local police officer with whom Madonna was having an...

On a cold February morning in 1998, Carolyn Parsons welcomed a baby girl into the world that she named Erica. Erica was her fourth child. She had three with her estranged husband, but Erica’s biological father was a man named Billy Dean Goodman who was no longer in the picture by the time of her arrival. Carolyn was already struggling to raise her three children and wasn’t prepared for Erica. She made the heartbreaking choice to put her daughter’s needs first, placing Erica for adoption....

Someone They Knew: The Amy Weidner Story On November 13th, 1989, sixteen-year-old Amy Weidner wasn’t feeling well and decided to stay home from school. Amy’s mother offered to take Amy’s two-year-old to daycare so she could rest, but Amy insisted on keeping her toddler at home with her. Gloria, Amy’s mother, left the family’s Indianapolis home for work that morning, not realizing it was the last time she’d see her daughter alive. Amy Later that morning,...