True Crime Brief
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2026-06-29
IRS agent and au pair conspired in a deadly frame-up: they catfished a stranger online and pinned the wife's murder on him. Agent sentenced to life without parole.
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It's Monday, June twenty-ninth, twenty twenty-six. [] On Crime Junkie, the Banfield case: an Internal Revenue Service agent and his au pair catfished a stranger online, luring him to the house to frame him for the murder of the agent's wife. [a] The agent just got life without parole. [a]
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2026-06-22
A mother calls 911 in a Michigan blizzard, walks away barefoot, and vanishes. Her mysterious companion that night remains unidentified.
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Today is Monday, June twenty-second, twenty twenty-six. [] Crime Junkie's latest covers Brittany Wallace-Shank, a twenty-three-year-old mother of four who vanished in Sturgis, Michigan, after calling nine one one to say she was stranded in the snow. [a] She walked off barefoot before deputies arrived and was never seen again, and the one man who was with her that night has never been identified. [a]
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2026-06-15
Sixty years after a prosecutor's murder, a fingerprint match surfaces—but brings no arrest. Louisville's first Black female prosecutor remains unsolved.
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It's Monday, June fifteenth, twenty twenty-six. [] The latest Crime Junkie digs into the nineteen sixty-five murder of Alberta Jones, Louisville's first Black female prosecutor, lured from home, beaten, and drowned in the Ohio River. [a] Sixty years later, a two thousand eight fingerprint match still hasn't brought an arrest. [a]
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2026-06-08
Fifteen-year-old Tripp Brazil's death ruled suicide after a deputy chase. But a 49-minute gap in body camera footage—and a deputy in latex gloves—raise urgent questions.
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It's Monday, June eighth, twenty twenty-six. [] Crime Junkie covers fifteen-year-old Tripp Brazil, found hanging after a deputy chase and ruled a suicide. [a] Here's what makes it strange: there's a forty-nine-minute gap in the deputy's body camera footage, and when the camera comes back on, the deputy is wearing latex gloves. [a]
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2026-06-03
Jennifer DiStefano received a ransom call featuring her daughter's cloned voice. Three seconds of audio was enough to create it.
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Today is Wednesday, June third, twenty twenty-six. [] The latest Crime Junkie covers Jennifer DiStefano, who got a call with her daughter's cloned voice screaming for ransom. [a] The chilling detail: just three seconds of audio makes a convincing clone. [a]
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