Michigan

Dale John Warner was convicted of second-degree murder on March 10, 2026, in the death of his wife Dee Ann Warner, who vanished from their Michigan home on April 25, 2021. Her remains were found in an anhydrous tank on a property Warner owned, more than three years after she went missing.

Netflix's documentary 'Unknown Number: The High School Catfish' chronicles a cyberbullying case involving a high school girl, but the full story extends far beyond what the streaming platform revealed, with parents publicly accusing a child of felony-grade cyber crimes.

Samantha Stites, a Michigan woman, endured more than a decade of stalking before being kidnapped and held captive by her pursuer. Her harrowing true-crime story is now the focus of *Stalking Samantha: 13 Years of Terror*, a new documentary series streaming on Hulu from ABC News Studios, which premiered on August 19, 2025.

In August 2017, 35-year-old Nada Huranieh was found dead on the patio outside her Farmington Hills, Michigan mansion. What initially appeared to be a tragic accident—a fall from a second-story window—was actually a carefully staged murder committed by her own 16-year-old son, Muhammad Altantawi.

A 51-year-old Michigan inmate won a stunning $100 million default judgment against Sean 'Diddy' Combs in September 2024, only to have it vacated days later on procedural grounds. The case centers on allegations of sexual assault at a Detroit party in 1997.

In September 2024, a Michigan circuit court judge issued a stunning $100 million default judgment against hip-hop mogul Sean 'Diddy' Combs after he failed to appear at a hearing. The plaintiff was Derrick Lee Cardello-Smith, a 51-year-old inmate serving time for sexual assault and kidnapping, who claimed Combs had drugged and assaulted him at a 1997 Detroit-area afterparty. Days later, the judgment was vacated.

Between 2013 and 2015, a British political consulting firm called Cambridge Analytica systematically harvested personal data from 87 million Facebook users without consent. When exposed in March 2018, the scandal triggered a global reckoning over tech platform accountability that continues today.

James Riddle Hoffa, the powerful president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, disappeared on July 30, 1975, from a restaurant parking lot in Michigan. His case has become one of America's most enduring unsolved mysteries, with the FBI pointing to organized crime involvement but no body ever recovered.