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When Lauren Suhr heard about a missing pregnant woman, 21-year-old Kelsie Scheilling, she couldn't stop thinking about her and her family. She wanted to help them get answers.

She heard that the prime suspect in Kelsie's case was 20-year-old Donthe Lucas. So she did something radical - she reached out to him on social media and offered to be his friend. But that friendship soon developed into a romantic relationship.... and then he proposed.

Lauren was left in a unprecedented situation, would she marry the man she suspected of murder? And could she get the information she so desperately wanted to give the Scheilling family - what happened to Kelsie?

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In the spring of 2026, a young girl was abducted by man in Greater Manchester. As the police traced the suspects car they realised that the man inside was a convicted murderer who had been let out of prison 13 years earlier.

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In 2023, 17-year-old Lily Whitehouse met a man 21 years her senior, 38-year-old Mohammed Azim.
Despite Lily being so young, Mohammed made his feelings clear, he wanted to be in a relationship with her.
But what happened next would leave a young girl dead and a newborn baby without her mother.

This is REAL.

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It is estimated that approximately 80 children are left motherless after domestic homicide each year in England and Wales. These children not only have to endure grief and trauma, but they are also then uprooted, sometimes they are taken in by family members and sometimes they are placed into the care system.

Today, we’re going to look at the case of Samantha Henderson and a brutal murder that left four children without their mother, because an act of evil took her away from them forever.

This is REAL:

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https://www.victimsupportni.com/help-for-victims/domestic-violence/ - Northern Ireland
https://mapni.co.uk/ - Northern Ireland for men
https://sdvs.ie/ - Ireland
https://www.mensaid.ie/ - Ireland for men
https://www.lifewire.org/ - USA
https://www.thehotline.org/resources/men-can-be-victims-of-abuse-too/ - USA for men
https://www.rizeup.com.au/ - Australia
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On the 2nd of Match 2019, 17-year-old Yousef Makki was out with two of his friends, all were privately educated and one moment would end the life of this budding heart surgeon.

But what happens when a criminal court and an inquest come to a different conclusion, where one says he was killed in self-defence, but the other says he was unlawfully killed?

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