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True Crime Arizona

Jun 30, 2021

A key player in the missing Baby Gabriel Johnson case is Tammi Smith, who at one point tried to adopt the baby from his maternal mother, Elizabeth Johnson. Throughout the investigation, Tammi and her husband Jack Smith maintained they didn’t know the couple Elizabeth claimed to have given the baby away to, but...


Jun 23, 2021

On Christmas of 2009, father Logan McQueary thought he’d be spending the holiday with his baby boy Gabriel. Instead, his ex-girlfriend Elizabeth Johnson disappeared to San Antonio with their son, and soon he was nowhere to be found. First, she told authorities she killed the baby, then said she gave him away in...


Jun 16, 2021

In October 2011, Jhessye Shockley’s mom reported her 5-year-old daughter had gone missing from their Glendale, Arizona home and claimed she was abducted. But as police followed a trail of odd behavior, past arrests, and horrific claims of abuse from Jhessye’s siblings, it became clear her mom was a major problem in...


Jun 9, 2021

January 1999. She was gone in 90 seconds.

Eleven-year-old Mikelle Biggs disappeared while riding her sister's bike on their Mesa, Arizona street and waiting for the ice cream truck. Her sister Kimber went inside for less than two minutes, and when she came back out, Mikelle was gone. Authorities believe Mikelle was...


Jun 2, 2021

The next several episodes of the True Crime Arizona podcast will focus on three high-profile missing children cases in AZ: Mikelle Biggs, "Baby Gabriel," and Jhessye Shockley. Our investigations have brought to light new leads, new information, and new theories, that we hope will generate tips to help solve these cases.