As far as the law is concerned, it is back to square one for Michigan authorities in proving who killed beloved Detroit-area Jewish leader Samantha Woll, 40.
California authorities claim that a woman tried to kidnap an 8-year-old while professing to be "Russian police," and then she pulled out a switchblade on a man who saved the child.
As the lead defendant faces trial, two young women pleaded guilty and were sentenced on Thursday to helping him murder a teen over a romantic squabble.
The man who kidnapped a 9-year-old girl from a New York City supermarket and sexually assaulted her died the next day when he crashed into another vehicle while fleeing cops, according to police.
Julio Cesar Pimentel-Soriano has been accused of killing a family of four in New York state, and police say more people may be connected to the slayings.