Unsolved True Crime in WNY

25-year-old Michelle Vandinther was stabbed to death while closing a Wendy's she managed in June 1991. Leanne Stuck talks to the first Amherst, NY police officer that responded to the scene, who also spent a career trying to solve this gruesome murder. 

Meet Alex Baber. He's working to solve some of America's most mysterious cold cases.  While working with his wife, who's a victim of an unsolved crime herself, the two are putting new eyes on some of the most notorious cold cases in America.  

A hiking nightmare. Two sets of human remains were discovered ten yards apart on a hiking trail in Chautauqua County. Is it just a coincidence or something more sinister?    

Who are the Buffalo Peacemakers? Meet one of the key leaders working to deter crime and violence in the City of Buffalo. We talk about why homicide numbers are on the rise and efforts this group is making to turn them around.

After an alleged fight with her husband... 26-year-old Lori Bova went for a walk, and never returned to her Lakewood home. That was 1997. Now in 2021, the main person of interest is dead, and Lori has never been found.   

This week on Unsolved: True Crime in Western New York... Leanne & Amanda recap after a busy Western New York news week... and look ahead to a variety of cases they're working on.   

Tonya Harvey was on her way home when she was shot and killed in Buffalo in February, 2018.  Originally, investigators thought it was a hate crime because Tonya was a transgender woman, but it turns out... she may have known about someone else's murder herself. 

Everyone thought Holly died in a house fire… that is until the coroner's report said she was strangled to death. As investigators searched for answers, her house mysteriously caught fire a second time. Holly's son was arrested for the second fire, but nothing related to her death. Five years later, Holly's sister Mary is still begging for an update.

Two young women struggle to fight small-town rumors as they search for answers as to who killed their fathers. All they know: someone broke in, cut the phone lines, and killed the men as they slept. Nearly 15 years later, there's still no update.

Was it a robbery gone wrong or something more sinister?  It's been 41 years since Robert Bauer was stabbed several times in his South Buffalo house.  Now it's 2021, and Robert's now 95-year-old sister Jean just wants to know, who killed her brother?

A 25-year-old Jamestown mother vanished. Her remains were found by hunters years later. 17 years since her disappearance, new Chautauqua County leadership has given her family new hope.