Unsolved with Steve Gregory

Unsolved with Steve Gregory

There are more than 10,000 unsolved crimes in Southern California, most of which are homicides. Unsolved with Steve Gregory highlights some of the cases that have gone cold, hit a brick wall or just needs that one piece of evidence or witness to surface. The program also features challenging cases, the most wanted, and the investigators who work behind the scenes. Unsolved with Steve Gregory is a production of the KFI News Department for iHeartMedia Los Angeles. The series is produced by Steve Gregory and Jacob Gonzalez.

Episodes

February 11, 2024 71 mins
In this episode we look back at cases featured during season 6. This season had us at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, the Upland Police Department, the Los Angeles County Fire Department, the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office, and the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. Each segment includes the introduction to each case followed by the episode number for easy reference to hear the complete case/episode...
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Case #1: On July 24th, 2022, Malik McGee had just finished performing at a hookah lounge in Upland, CA. As he drove away someone opened fire hitting Malik twice through the side of his car. Just an hour before that, surveillance video shows a guy scoping out the best positions to shoot from, including methodically practicing how he was going to aim and shoot. Malik had graduated with a degree in biology and was headed to medical sc...
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Case #1 – August 30th, 1992, a woman was found hidden under some brush along highway 95 just north of Blythe, CA. Her body was mummified and severely decomposed. In 1994, a long-haul trucker admitted to killing the woman and a number of other women. He was nicknamed the ‘Happy Face Killer’. We speak with an investigator from the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office who is asking for help to identify the murdered woman from 1...
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January 21, 2024 61 mins
In 1979 a 19-year-old woman was found brutally beaten and stabbed to death near what was then the old “El Rancho Hotel” near the Las Vegas Strip. For decades she remained a ‘Jane Doe’ or as detectives nicknamed her, ‘Sahara Sue Doe’. In December of 2023 new DNA technology allowed a cold case detective with the Las Vegas Metro Police Department to contact a probable relative in California. The call paid off and Sahara Sue Doe became...
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On January 15th, 1947, the mutilated body of Elizabeth Short was found in Leimert Park, a public space located in South Los Angeles. Someone had performed an hemicorporectomy, the act of cutting a body in half at a specific point of the body. The woman who first spotted the body out in the open thought it was a mannequin, mostly because the skin color was so pale, a result of Short’s fluids and blood being completely drained from h...
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January 7, 2024 65 mins
On October 28th, 2006, in an unincorporated area of Los Angeles County, a man was shot and killed at a birthday party over an older, long-standing personal grudge. Investigators with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Homicide Bureau quickly identified a suspect. A few days later, November 2nd, more than two dozen deputies, along with detectives, were serving a search warrant at a house in the Willowbrook area. A number of men were i...
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Case #1: Anthony Velasquez and his father, Manuel, are arrested by the LA County Sheriff's Department’s Cold Case Unit in connection with the deaths of 3 people over a 4-year period in the East LA area. Manuel is accused of driving his son to some of the murder scenes. Case #2: A tragic case from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Cold Case unit – the discovery of a newborn at a trash sorting facility. Detectives are trying to fin...
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December 24, 2023 65 mins
In this special edition of Unsolved with Steve Gregory we look back at homicides that happened between the traditional holidays of Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s – cases from Southern California and around the country. Many experts say the holiday season is a major stressor for people and some of the motivations behind holiday homicides include money, loneliness, and domestic issues. We look at murders as far back as 1881 ...
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Dogs are being trained to detect chemicals used on the memories and hard drives of all digital devices. These dogs can sniff out thumb drives, smartphones, external drives, and other devices used to store illicit content, including child pornography and financial crime data. We go to the inner sanctum of the Los Angeles County Sheriff Department’s Fraud & Cybercrimes Bureau located at a secret location in south Los Angeles Coun...
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December 10, 2023 65 mins
In this special edition of Unsolved with Steve Gregory we look back at homicides that happened between the traditional holidays of Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s – cases from Southern California and around the country. Many experts say the holiday season is a major stressor for people and some of the motivations behind holiday homicides include money, loneliness, and domestic issues. We look at murders as far back as 1881 ...
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Case #1: December 30th, 2018, 46-year-old Demetrius Brackens and a relative had just walked out of the front door of a home in Compton. As they went down the sidewalk a man came up on them and without warning or provocation opened fire fatally hitting Brackens and injuring the relative. Neither of the men were tied to a gang and a doorbell video caught a glimpse of an SUV driving from the scene. UPDATE: The Los Angeles County Board...
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November 26, 2023 65 mins
In this special edition of Unsolved with Steve Gregory we look back at homicides that happened between the traditional holidays of Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s – cases from Southern California and around the country. Many experts say the holiday season is a major stressor for people and some of the motivations behind holiday homicides include money, loneliness, and domestic issues. We look at murders as far back as 1881 ...
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November 19, 2023 66 mins
We meet Los Angeles County Firefighter/Paramedics Nick Bartel and Eddie Ruiz who have the additional gruesome task of handling Human Remains Detection K-9’s (aka Cadaver Dogs). The dogs are used both in murder investigations and recovery efforts. Bartel and Ruiz were sent to the island of Maui to help find human remains from that deadly wildfire in August of 2023. The firefighters walk us through how the dogs are trained to focus i...
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November 12, 2023 63 mins
In December of 1983 17-year-old Kristina Rosenberger was found stabbed to death under her bed inside her family’s home in Artesia, California. Kristina’s mother inadvertently discovered the body of her daughter while on the phone with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Kristina’s mother thought she might have been hurt in an accident or was missing. Investigators zeroed in on a couple suspects, including the mother’s live...
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August 6, 2023 65 mins
In this episode we review the cases from Season 5. We also welcomed two new agencies to the program, the Redondo Beach Police Department, and the Los Angeles County Fire Department. The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department returns as well as the FBI. We feature an accelerant-sniffing dog in our Crime Fighter Series, and cases about a con-man who preyed on single mothers, a security guard ambushed in a grocery store, a militar...
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On April 8th, 2016, fire crews were sent to a home on Mesarica Road in Covina, California. Smoke was seen coming from the roof and it seemed isolated to one area. When firefighters entered, they found the body of 89-year-old Helen Lambert. Her heavily charred body was on a bed and her wrists tied up. Investigators determined that Lambert didn’t die from the fire but most likely died from a very unusual circumstance. The woman lived...
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The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department recently added an accelerant-sniffing K-9 to its arson unit. The specially trained dog can detect gasoline, diesel, lighter fluid, and many other accelerants. This segment is part of our ongoing Crime Fighter Series that features a behind the scenes look at the work to help solve cases. Also in this episode, 13-year-old Miguel Perez and 19-year-old Jose Merlos were janitors at a laundroma...
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In this season opener we speak with Mike Fratantoni of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Information Bureau. Fratantoni is also the curator of the department’s museum housed in the ground floor of the historic Hall of Justice. Fratantoni tells us about the beginning of the department in 1850 and walks us through the history of the department including the creation of the Homicide Detail in 1921, which became the Bureau ...
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Case #1 begins in the city of Redondo Beach where a bag of dry bones was discovered in 2001 by plumbers working at a residential construction site. Workers initially thought the bones were not human, but someone decided to call 911, which sparked a multi-year journey that led investigators from a Jane Doe to recently identifying Catherine Parker-Johnson. Now, if investigators could only find who killed Catherine and why. Case #2 in...
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July 2, 2023 65 mins
On February 9th Maria Del Carmen Lopez was taken from the front yard of her home in Pueblo Nuevo, Colima, Mexico. Lopez is a US Citizen and retired to Pueblo Nuevo ten years ago. Lopez’ daughter, Zonia ‘Zoe’ Lopez, tells us about the day her family got a ransom call, and the subsequent calls for money, only to be ignored and ghosted. She also speaks about her family's frustration with the FBI and Mexican authorities. We also speak ...
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