Alabama is known for its southern hospitality family values, small towns and farms, from Montgomery to Millbrook from Pine Level to Prattville. For some of these families, something devastating connects them. Death, a murder, an unsolved mystery, it's these cases that caught our attention and led to the series. Interviewing investigators, meeting with family members, getting updates on cases, some that have turned cold. Join us every week as we do a deep dive. This is Case Files, a WSFA 12 News podcast.
Susan Osborne and her son Evan Chartrand were last seen at their home in Wetumpka on Memorial Day in 2017. Years have gone by, and their family members believe they know who is behind their disappearance.
17 Jul 2025
Case File: Erica June
Erica June was gunned down while sitting in her driveway in 2022. The 35-year-old Montgomery mother’s family continues to grieve as years have gone by with no answers.
10 Jul 2025
Case File: Estella Smith
Estella Smith was shot and killed in her own home in Selma in 2021. Years have passed and no one has been arrested in the murder of the 77-year-old great-grandmother.
3 Jul 2025
Case File: Arkita Stevenson
This episode of Case Files examines the tragic double homicide of 19-year-old Arkita Stevenson, who was murdered while 36 weeks pregnant in Montgomery in 2011.
26 Jun 2025
Case File: Latricia McDade
This episode explores the 2018 murder of Latricia McDade, a mother of four killed in a shooting, and highlights her family's memories of her outgoing personality.
26 Jun 2024
Case File: Jeremy Allen
The Allen family vividly remembers Father’s Day weekend 2017. They were preparing to celebrate when they got a phone call that would change their lives.
Joseph Allen’s son, Jeremy Allen, 28, was shot and killed in his home on June 19, 2017. The scene at Eagle Landing Apartments on Eagle Circle was the start of a years-long nightmare for the family.
19 Jun 2024
Case File: Leila Faulkner
Six years ago, Lelia Faulkner left her family’s home in Troy, never to be seen again. It was July 4, 2016, a day her mother, Susan Faulkner vividly remembers.
At the time, Lelia and her daughter Madison were living with her parents. She’d just moved back in after a bad breakup.
12 Jun 2024
Case File: Keshon Gardner
The 30-year-old was the city’s 30th homicide in 2020. He was gunned down in broad daylight in Regency Park on June 28, 2020.
5 Jun 2024
Case File: Rickem Samuel
Rickem Samuels’s mother, Ericka Davis, remembers her son as a good kid. Smart, respectful, and hardworking. All of that was taken away from her when he disappeared.
28 May 2024
Case File: Daniel Jackson
On New Year’s Day 2022, Shayquita Jackson woke up ready to spend the day with her family, specifically, her mother and brother, Daniel Jackson.
22 May 2024
Case File: Nollie "Bo" Hudgens
Bo worked as an independent contractor around the River Region and on March 8, 2010, he was on the job. Bo was working at an apartment unit, laying floor tiles, when he was shot and killed.
19 Jul 2023
Case File: Delange Harris
The community of Goshen has a little over 200 people. More farmland than folks and most families have been here for generations. It’s also a relatively safe place in Crenshaw County, which is why the Delange Harris case is so disturbing.
12 Jul 2023
Case File: Chanty Shiverdecker
It’s been 27 years since Chanty Shiverdecker’s body was found in an abandoned wood yard.
5 Jul 2023
Case File: Lakira "Pigg" Goldsmith
The holidays are especially difficult for Machelle Goldsmith. Her daughter Lakira “Pigg” Goldsmith went missing days after Thanksgiving in 2018.
28 Jun 2023
Case File: Mike Mills
November 23, 2013, is a day Donna Mills will remember for the rest of her life.
21 Jun 2023
Case File: George James
George James' mother vows to continue to look for answers. She’s praying that she will see him again, and if he is deceased, she hopes to give him the burial and dignity he deserves.
To view a transcript of this podcast, click this link: Otter: George James
14 Jun 2023
Case File: LaQuanta Riley
February marked LaQuanta Riley’s 38th birthday. For her mother, Pam Bolden, it was another day searching for answers.
“Where is LaQuanta? What has happened?
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