48 Hours

Kidnapping of Schanda Handley, plotted by estranged husband Michael Handley, foiled by gut instinct of off

This story originally aired on Oct. 22, 2022. Schanda Handley was at her home in the suburban neighborhood of Lafayette, Louisiana, with her daughter, Isabella, when the doorbell rang around 2:30 p.m. on Aug. 6, 2017. Two men, posing as deliverymen, forced themselves in with guns. “They started to scream …

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Mengqi Ji murder: How tree DNA helped police close in on a young Missouri mother’s killer

On March 25, 2021, the body of 28-year-old Mengqi Ji was found buried in a shallow grave in Rock Bridge Memorial State Park near Columbia, Missouri. Above Mengqi’s burial site was a juniper tree that would eventually tell investigators who left her lifeless body buried there. “48 Hours'” correspondent Peter …

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