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A tobacco farmer murders his six children and wife then turns the gun on himself. What drove him to such madness? A 19-year-old murder mystery, someone executed Michael and Mary Short then kidnapped their 9-year-old daughter, only to later kill her too. So who killed Jennifer Short? A newborn baby left in the November cold under an apartment building stairwell. Who would do such a thing, and who rescued her? FOX8 digs deeper into these true crimes, some solved but others still leaving investigators in the dark.

Nancy Harvey was the kind of person who would do anything for anyone. A devoted mother and grandmother, she played hard but worked even harder. Nancy owned and operated Atlanta Car Company, a used-car lot in Davidson County, NC and by all accounts, she was very successful. But on January 25, 2013, an employee arrived to work and found Nancy brutally murdered. To this day, no one has been arrested for the crime investigators describe as “heinous", leaving everyone wondering who killed Grandma Nancy.

He was just 30 years old but had already risen to the level of Sergeant in his small town police department. It was a late October night in 1996, almost the end of his shift when he had one more stop to make, a suspicious vehicle on the interstate near his town. It would be the last stop he’d ever make.  Greg Martin was a good officer, why would he make such a crucial mistake that would make it nearly impossible to find his killers? Find out in, “Who Killed Officer Martin?”

On Christmas day, 1929 a rural North Carolina tobacco farmer brutally murdered six of his children, his wife and then killed himself. The horrific crime made the front page of the New York Times. It inspired a hit record and would conjure up rumor and speculation for generations to come. Some say Charlie Lawson just snapped while others believe it may have been centered around a troubled heart. But as brutal and bizarre as the murders were, what followed the funeral has become the stuff of legend. The crime scene became a tourist attraction with bloody photographs being sold as souvenirs. ...

November 12, 1999 – A baby is found underneath a stairwell at a Greensboro, NC apartment complex. The shocking crime stumped police as they had no leads on who abandoned the baby. More than a decade later, the hidden details would start to unravel. A separate crime would be the missing link investigators needed, but this isn’t your typical crime story. This is a story about hope and the divine connection between multiple people as their lives crossed at a specific moment in time. In this series, WGHP's Natalie Wilson brings us the final piece of a 20-year mystery as we finally learn what ...

Racing at 200 miles per hour, side by side with million dollar machines, inches away from a spectacular wreck. Welcome to the world of NASCAR. It's a high adrenaline, heart-stopping, nail-biting sport, made all the more fun because of the colorful personalities on and off the track. These are their stories of racin', wreckin', and tradin' paint.

Hauntings in the Piedmont is FOX8's podcast detailing tales of haunts in North Carolina's Piedmont Triad. From city employees experiencing what they describe as the "freakiest thing" they've ever seen, to spirits which seem to continue to make their presence known and a haunted bridge known nationwide, we talked with people who claim to have had firsthand supernatural experiences, as well as those who say they've solved decades-long mysteries. An idea which was originally intended to be a simple miniseries for television, this blossomed into a podcast simply based on the passionate ...

On August 26, 1980, 14-year-old Ronda Blaylock disappeared shortly after leaving her high school. In the days to follow, her family and friends searched for her in the area of her hometown in Rural Hall, North Carolina, hoping to bring her home alive. Shockingly, Ronda’s partially clothed body was found three days later in a town called Pilot Mountain, with deputies saying she’d been raped and brutally stabbed to death. As an appalled community wrapped their minds around the vicious crime, detectives released information on a suspect. The killer, however, remained at large. More than three...

For nearly twenty years, she was Helen Dalton, wife and mother.   Now, she is simply, “Case 22752.”    Where do you go to find someone no one has seen nor heard from in more than half a century? It's North Carolina’s oldest missing persons case. If you think we'll never find out what happened to Helen Dalton, think again. SBI cold case specialist Mike Wilson says "never say never".

Fifty-seven shots in ninety seconds, five people dead, seven others wounded and it all happened inside a courtroom on a cold March day in 1912. Lives and fortunes were lost over what most believe was a senseless tragedy. The echoes of the gunfire have long since disappeared but the wounds left behind in the quaint little town of Hillsville, Virginia have continued to fester. The political drama that led up to the shooting has divided families for generations. Some say the shootout was self-defense, others murder. Many of the questions surrounding that day have yet to be answered. Fifty-Seven ...

It sounds like a movie script: for nearly a year and a half since she got a serious knock on the head, Caitlin Little wakes up every morning thinking it’s October 13th, 2017. Except, in the movies, you can always write your own, happy ending. Caitlin and her family have to find answers in real life and medicine. So why is it so hard to find any answers? And her story can’t possibly be real … can it?

On August 15, 2002 in the quiet town of Oak Level, Virginia someone shot and killed Michael and Mary Short in what investigators called an execution style murder. Their daughter 9-year-old Jennifer Short was snatched from her bed, setting off a massive search. Heartbreak 6 weeks later as deputies found her remains 45 minutes away near a North Carolina creek. 17 years later, no suspects, no motive, and no clues as to who killed Jennifer Short. Follow along in this Murrow Award winning podcast as family members and investigators dig deeper to find the killer.

Seduced by Satan is the tale of a man who was raised in the Christian church, but in adulthood, turned to the netherworld. His God-given golden locks shaved off, teeth filed to points and face permanently marked with homemade tattoos, he dropped out of high school to pursue an education of a different type.  His birth name changed from the All-American "John," to that of an other-worldly demonic figure, he hid in a quaint village in central North Carolina, transforming his mother's home into a dungeon. Death would soon creep into the charming community he would come to terrorize. The bodies ...

Swing State is a look at North Carolina politics through discussions with both candidates and those who watch it closely. Your host, Bob Buckley, has been covering politics for 38 years and interviewed both presidents and small town mayors, one-on-one. In each episode, you’ll not only hear about the issues that matter, but also learn about who the guests are so you can better understand how they came to their positions on those issues.