Missing Woman

A 26-year-old New Jersey man on the run for a month was charged with first-degree murder Friday in the February killing of a beloved Jersey City teacher, who was found strangled in a shallow grave after being reported missing. The ex-boyfriend of that 33-year-old teacher previously was charged with first-degree murder in Luz Hernandez’s death. The father of her...

Days before the body of a New Jersey teacher was found in a shallow grave, authorities impounded a car linked to her former partner that had a pickax, a shovel and a bloodstained rope inside it, according to court documents released last week. The details were in an affidavit supporting a murder charge against Cesar Santana, 36, in the death of…

The ex-boyfriend of a 33-year-old New Jersey kindergarten teacher found beaten and strangled in a shallow grave after being reported missing earlier this month has now been extradited to the Garden State to face murder and other charges in her killing, Hudson County prosecutors announced Wednesday. Cesar Santana, 36, the father of Luz Hernandez’s three children, was apprehended in Florida,…

Detectives are looking for more evidence in who murdered teacher and mother of 3, Luz Hernandez. Rana Novini reports.

US Marshals arrested a man in Florida in connection with the death of a 33-year-old New Jersey kindergarten teacher found beaten and strangled in a shallow grave this week. News 4’s Tracie Strahan reports.

US Marshals arrested a man in Florida in connection with the death of a 33-year-old New Jersey kindergarten teacher found beaten and strangled in a shallow grave this week, and the two knew each other quite well, according to multiple senior law enforcement officials and sources with direct knowledge of the case. According to an official, Luz Hernandez’s ex-boyfriend...

An arrest has been made in the case of a 33-year-old New Jersey kindergarten teacher who had allegedly been beaten and strangled to death before her body was found in a shallow grave, law enforcement announced.

While they know how the beloved teacher apparently died, investigators are still searching for the who. NBC New York’s Erica Byfield reports.

A 33-year-old New Jersey kindergarten teacher whose body was found in a shallow grave a day after she was reported missing this week died by blunt force trauma and compressions to the neck, prosecutors said Thursday as they confirmed the case had become a homicide investigation. The Hudson County prosecutor’s office shared Thursday’s autopsy results in Luz Hernandez’s case...

Authorities are investigating the death of a missing Jersey City woman whose body was found in a shallow grave in Kearny, according to the local prosecutor’s office. NBC New York’s Ida Siegal reports.

Law enforcement is investigating a deadly mystery after the body of a missing woman was found in a shallow grave in a remote part of a New Jersey town. Jersey City police were called on Tuesday to a home on Van Horne Street to conduct a wellness check after 33-year-old Luz Hernandez, a kindergarten teacher at the BelovED Charter School,…

Prosecutors have dropped criminal charges against a Colorado man who was about to go on trial in the presumed death of his missing wife

The family of a young South Florida woman who went missing while on a road trip with her boyfriend is asking for the public’s help in finding her.

A convicted murderer, who was released early from a 40-year prison sentence last year, has been arrested and charged with the killing of a Florida mother.

Miya Marcano, the 19-year-old South Florida woman who disappeared and whose body was found in Orlando a week later, will be laid to rest this coming week.

A local sheriff’s office in North Carolina said Monday that it investigated “a number of calls” over the last few days regarding possible sightings of Brian Laundrie, the FBI’s prime person of interest in the disappearance of his fiancé Gabby Petito.

Marcano’s family says they’re finally able to have some closure after more than a week of searching.

As law enforcement continues to search for Brian Laundrie, a person of interest in the disappearance of Gabby Petito, an attorney for the Petito family welcomed help from TV stars Dog the Bounty Hunter and John Walsh, while imploring Brian Laundrie to cooperate with authorities.

A federal grand jury indicted Brian Laundrie for unauthorized use of a debit card, after Gabby Petito disappeared. Pei-Sze Cheng reports.

Authorities continue the search for Brian Laundrie, days after authorities confirmed they’d recovered the body of his partner Gabby Petito. Adam Kuperstein reports.