The family of Phylicia Barnes is hoping a $25,000 reward will prompt someone to come forward with information about her whereabouts.

Barnes, 16, has been missing for more than a month, and some of her family members fear she is being held against her will.

The teenager from Monroe, N.C., was visiting relatives in Baltimore and was last seen around 2:30 p.m. Dec. 28, when she left the apartment of her 27-year-old half sister, Deena Barnes. According to relatives, Phylicia Barnes said she was going shopping. Read the rest of this entry »

ROCKVILLE, Md. – After months with no answers, family members are making an emotional plea to solve the murder of a 19-year-old girl.
Police initially said Tannessa Taylor was last seen on December 31, 2009 after being arrested on theft charges. However, investigators say new information leads them to believe she was alive as late as the first week of January, 2010. Read the rest of this entry »

For over six years now the death of congenial and free-smiling Baltimore federal prosecutor Jonathan Luna has remained a mystery. Theories still range from suicide, to accident, to murder by an informant, and yes, even by a federal agent, as an author of a book on Luna suggests.

One constant has been the refusal of federal authorities to comment much beyond the pat response, insisting that Luna, who was found face down on Dec. 4, 2003, in a shallow creek in Lancaster County, Pa., with 36 shallow stabs and pricks, is still the subject of an “open investigation.” Read the rest of this entry »