Mar. 15, 2025
Photo from left is Jason, Laura’s partner, and Laura Nativo with her dogs Penelope and Delilah. Photo on right is her burned out apartment building.Photo:Laura Nativo
Laura Nativo
“I naively thought if anyone’s going to be protected, the fire station is literally right there,” Nativo tells PEOPLE, noting that the facility was just across the Pacific Coast Highway. “All the fire trucks were swirling past my house and the super scooper planes were going into the ocean.
Mar. 15, 2025
Brittney Dwyer and Robert Whitwell.Photo:7 News Spotlight/YouTube (2)
7 News Spotlight/YouTube (2)
It was a mother’s worst nightmare.
When Brittney Jade Dwyer was arrested and later convicted of murdering her own grandfather Robert Whitwell in a plot to steal his life savings, the callous crime shocked the entire country of Australia. Since then, her mother Tanya Dwyer has continued to look for answers.
“What are the signs that I missed? What did I miss?
Mar. 15, 2025
From left: Diane and Daniel Schuler on their wedding day in 2001.Photo:Courtesy Schuler Family
Courtesy Schuler Family
It’s been almost 16 years since that terrible summer afternoon in July 2009 whenDiane Schuler, a 36-year-old doting mother of two young children, took a wrong turn on the Taconic State Parkway in Westchester County, N.Y., and killed eight people, including herself, her daughter and three nieces.
What happened that day shattered many families and still haunts those who were caught up in the tragedy.
Mar. 15, 2025
A college student has gone viral on TikTok after sharing footage of her family driving 600 miles to surprise her, after she sent her mom a text to say she was “feeling anxious.“It was shortly before 3 p.m. that Breanna Lambert sent her a mom a text asking if she was available.“Can you call me when you’re free please?” she wrote, to which her mom responded, “Yes. Everything okay?““Ya I’m just feeling anxious and wanted to chat,” Lambert responded.
Mar. 15, 2025
Peggy Lynn Johnson-Schroeder (left) and Linda LaRoche.Photo:Racine County Sheriffs Office
Racine County Sheriffs Office
However, authorities were unable to identify the woman, and she was buried in a grave under the moniker “Jane Doe” for the next 20 years as the investigation went cold.
A breakthrough came in 2019 when advanced DNA tests identified her as 23-year-old Peggy Lynn Johnson-Schroeder. The sheriff’s office said Johnson-Schroeder was living with a woman named Linda LaRoche and her family in McHenry, Ill.