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Our small town carries quite the legacy. But it also carries some dark secrets. Most recently, the locals have been gossiping about the string of disappearances and missing persons reports hitting the headlines.
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Are the Kids Alright? (opens the original)
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Scott Wright Jr. was only nineteen years old when he was shot and killed on July 4, 2015. Nineteen. It's an age that almost exists in its own category of life. You're old enough that people begin asking what you're going to do with your future, but young enough that the future still feels almost limitless. Graduation has just happened. College is on the horizon. Careers exist mostly as ideas rather than realities. You begin imagining where you'll live, who you'll become, and what your life might
The Unexplained Death of Tyler Beschorner (opens the original)
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There are some cases where investigators know exactly how a person died—but have no idea who was responsible. This is one of those cases. On February 17, 2024, 29-year-old Tyler Beschorner was struck and killed on Route 363 in Binghamton, New York. Someone driving that night knows exactly what happened. They drove away. And more than two years later, Tyler's family is still waiting for the person responsible to come forward. But this case carries another unimaginable tragedy. Today, we're tellin
The Most Famous Murder Story You’ve Never Heard (opens the original)
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If you've spent any time in Central New York, there's a good chance you've passed through Cortland. Maybe you were headed north toward the Adirondacks for a weekend on the lake. Maybe you were driving Route 81 on your way to Syracuse. Maybe you stopped for coffee, filled the gas tank, and continued on without giving the city much thought. Like many other small communities across the Southern Tier and Central New York, it's easy to appreciate Cortland for what it is today without realizing just h
How the oldest case ever solved with DNA almost didn’t happen (opens the original)
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It was a Sunday evening in March of 1964 when 12-year-old Mary Theresa Simpson disappeared from the streets of Elmira, New York. Mary had spent the evening visiting family. Nothing about the night seemed unusual. She was a quiet young girl described as friendly and responsible, and at some point that evening, she left to walk home alone — something that, in a small city like Elmira in the 1960s, probably didn’t seem especially dangerous.
The Disappearance of Brandon Williams (opens the original)
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32 year old Brandon Williams was last seen on March 5th 2019. It’s always been said that his last sighting was at the Speedway gas station on Route 26N in the town of Maine, NY. He was dropped off in the town of Maine by his parents where he was picked up at that Speedway by a female acquaintance. And while that story has always been widely reported, anyone local who speaks about this case hears that the last place people saw Brandon Williams alive was a party that evening. A party he attended w
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