Pastor Jose Figueroa Admits To 1998 Bathtub Execution of Alex Martinez

Jose Figueroa has admitted to a 1998 murder. Police think it's because he found God.

​It was 1998 when 17-year-old Alex Martinez got into the bathtub of his Buffalo, New York apartment. As he relaxed in the suds, his girlfriend and their 4-month old boy sat playing in the living room. Just another quiet Thursday evening, or so they thought.

Tammy Sue Rothganger, 15, Disappeared Without a Trace in 1984

Tammy Sue Rothganger was last seen at her high school.

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Tammy Sue Rothganger, 15, got up and dressed for school as usual on May 16, 1984. The Eldon, Missouri teenager did not have far to go -- Eldon High School was across the street from her home.  Nonetheless, she was last seen at 7:45 that morning getting inside a blue Plymouth in front of the school building.

Frantic with worry when she didn't come home, Tammy's family notified police that afternoon. An inquiry determined that she never attended classes that day, and she has never been seen or heard from again...

Ronald Ralph King Confesses To One Murder; 11 More May Be Under His Belt

Ronald Ralph King may be the notorious New Mexico Serial Killer

​On February 16, 2001, police in Anthony, New Mexico got a call. There was a body, the caller said, lying under a heap of trash just north of the Flying J truck stop along Interstate 10. Once at the scene, investigators identified the body as that of Heather Lynne Eiche -- a 25-year-old homeless girl who frequented the Flying J to use the phone. She'd been beaten to death. But police could never figure out who would have done such a thing or why. 

Was Missing Iowa Paperboy Johnny Gosch Forced Into a Pedophile Prostitution Ring?

12-year-old paperboy Johnny Gosch vanished in 1982 while delivering newspapers on his route.

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Johnny Gosch, 12, had been working as a paperboy for a little more than a year when he vanished from his West Des Moines route in 1982 while delivering the Des Moines Register.  He left his parents' home at 5:45 a.m. on September 5, 1982, with his pet dachshund in tow. 

Suspicions of foul play, however, did not arise until about two hours later, when one of Johnny's customers called to say that his newspaper had not been delivered. Johnny's dad, Leonard, instructed his wife to call the police and went out looking for his son. He had gone barely two blocks from his house when he found Johnny's red wagon  full of newspapers, so Leonard delivered them to Johnny's customers...

Deborah Boothby Was Beaten to Death While 100 Watched; Now 4 People Arrested

Deborah Boothby was brutally beaten and killed in front of over 100 witnesses

​In the shadow of the most recent case of a Richmond, California girl being brutally raped while dozens of people watched and did nothing, the story of Deborah Boothby is unfortunately all too familiar.

It was sometime after midnight on April 26, 1998 when Boothby entered the Blue Star Lounge in Covert, Michigan. She noticed her on-and-off-again boyfriend, Ivory Shaver, sitting in the corner with another woman -- Shevolier Gill. Boothby wasn't too pleased...

Teenager Kathy Gloddy Went Out For Candy in 1971 But Never Returned Home

Kathy Gloddy was kidnapped, likely raped, and repeatedly run over with a car almost 40 years ago

​It was about 5 p.m. on November 21, 1971 when cute Kathy Gloddy, 13, left her parents' home in the sleepy New Hampshire town of Franklin to walk to a nearby convenience store to buy junk food. She was accompanied by Tasha, her German shepherd dog, who went nearly everywhere that Kathy went. She ended up buying ice cream and potato sticks, then headed toward Franklin High School, where one of her older sisters was attending a banquet.

She never returned home.

"When Tasha came home without Kathy, we were worried," said Kathy's sister. "And then the dog was running around in circles, acting crazy and pawing at the door as if looking for Kathy."

Kathy and her sisters always came home when they were supposed to, and never stayed out late worrying their parents...

Anthony Sowell Case: How Lazy Police Let a Serial Killer Run Free

Police found 11 decaying bodies in Anthony Sowell's indoor graveyard

​UPDATE: Anthony Sowell was arrested last year for choking and attempting to rape a woman. But police didn't believe the victim and set him free. See update after the jump...

Fawcett Bess owns Bess Chicken and Pizza, across the street from the home of Anthony Sowell. This is where police found the bodies of 11 women -- left in the attic, stuffed in crawl spaces, and buried in his backyard. This is also where Cleveland police were called to at least five times in the weeks and months leading up to the discovery. But they did almost no investigation.

Bess recalls an incident two weeks before police discovered the bodies. He found a naked Sowell standing in the bushes next to his house. On the ground was a naked woman bloodied and beaten. Bess called 911 and an ambulance took the woman away. But police didn't arrive until two hours later -- and never bothered to interview him...

Barbara Larkin Missing Person Case is Reopened as a Homicide

Police say they know who killed Barbara Larkin. The problem is that they can't prove it.

​Barbara Larkin was ecstatic about becoming a mother. The 40-year-old was five months pregnant with a little girl, for whom she'd filled an entire closet in her San Bernardino condo with pink clothes. Her coworkers at Riverside Community Hospital claim that her dedication to her unborn child wasn't unusual. She was the same way about her three cats as well as her job as the emergency room's supervisor. 

Vampire Rapist Ricky Franklin May Be Serial Killer, But Cops Can't Convict Him

Ricky Franklin is suspected in the murder or disappeance of at least 10 women

​UPDATE: Woman says Franklin kidnapped her in the '90s, but police never investigated. See update after the jump...

Ricky Franklin picked up a 21-year-old woman in Jackson, Mississippi Saturday and took her to a club in nearby Bolton. They later repaired to his trailer home. That's where he beat her with a bottle, tried to bite off her ear, sucked her blood, choked her, and brutally raped her, say police.

Franklin was confronted by a relative, so he ran into the woods before turning himself in the next day. But if history's any indication, he may well skate on the crime. He's a suspect in 10 murders and cases of women disappearing. Though he's been tried three times, he's never been convicted...

Ex-Navy Petty Officer Robert Nydegger Charged in 22-Year-Old Cold Case

Navy corpsman Crispino Buzon was supposed to fly to the Philippines to get his wife. He never showed.

​Navy corpsman Crispino Buzon, 25, was supposed to get on a plane at Norton Air Force Base in San Bernardino on April 25, 1987 to fly to the Philippines to pick up his wife. When he failed to shop up in the Philippines, he was reported missing.

A few weeks after his disappearance, a bag containing Buzon's clothing, military identification and other belongings was found in a reservoir near Victorville. By then a full-blown missing person's investigation was underway, and it hadn't taken long for detectives to determine that the reservoir was near a home that Buzon's supervisor, Petty Officer First Class Robert Nydegger, 40, had rented for his wife...