Unraveling Birmingham's Deadliest Year

Dog With A Bone

A dog comes home with something in her mouth. Not a stick. Not a ball. A human skull. For more than a year, Chicarin, a German Shepherd mix in Center Point, Alabama kept bringing bones home. A skull. A tibia. Long bones left as gifts in the front yard. Investigators put GPS trackers on the neighborhood dogs. The Jefferson County Coroner ran DNA. Slowly, piece by piece, a picture emerged. The bones belonged to Curtis Taylor Jr., a 25-year-old legally blind man who vanished from his family's home in February 2024. His family filed a missing persons report. Searches turned up nothing. Then a dog found what investigators couldn't. He'd been shot. His death: ruled a homicide. His killer: still unknown. This week on Six on Your Side Investigates, host Jenn Horton takes you inside the 18-month investigation and the latest on the family dog who did what no one else could: bring Curtis Taylor Jr. home. Recorded: June 11, 2026 Copyright 2026 WBRC. All rights reserved.

Deadly Hospital Shift Change

A man was dropped off at DCH Regional Medical Center in Tuscaloosa. He asked to be taken there. He wanted and needed help.  But Matthew Taylor never walked through the door. Hours later a 27-year-old nurse, wife and young mother named Ada Doss was walking through the parking lot at shift change when she crossed paths with Taylor, who police say gunned her down outside her car. Taylor was quickly arrested.  Inside the jail, his behavior became so alarming a judge ordered Taylor medicated against his will.  WBRC Investigative reporter Jenn Horton walks you through the case and what's ahead for Taylor's criminal prosecution.  Recorded: June 11, 2026 Copyright 2026 WBRC. All rights reserved.

Where's the Baby?

A deadly crash on a rural Alabama road kills a father and a two-year-old girl. The mother is airlifted in critical condition.  Then a family member from out of town asks a question no one can answer: where is the baby?  The couple had a one-year-old son that no one had seen for three months.   What followed was one of the most disturbing cases Fayette County Sheriff Byron Yerby says he's encountered in 32 years of law enforcement. Court records detail a months-long pattern of child abuse documented in disturbing pictures and text messages between the parents.   WBRC Investigative reporter Jenn Horton takes you inside the case of the missing child, Kahleb Rowan Collins alongside reporter Taylor Pollock who's covered the case since December 2024.  Copyright 2026 WBRC. All rights reserved.

Her Name Was Cupcake

They drove around shopping for children the day 3-year-old Kamille "Cupcake" McKinney vanished.  That's part of the evidence jurors heard before convicting two people for Cupcake's kidnapping. WBRC Investigative Reporter Jenn Horton covered both federal trials and shares the testimony, verdicts, sentences and what's stopping the state's capital murder cases from moving forward.

Hire a Hitman?

A man is sitting in a car in a Walmart parking lot in Homewood, Alabama. He's not picking up groceries. He's negotiating a price to have his wife and children killed, seven people total. The man he's talking to? An undercover FBI agent. The hit was never coming. But the intent and the money, according to the government, were very real. Mohammad Mohammad pleaded guilty to all seven federal murder-for-hire counts. Now, weeks before sentencing, he wants to take it back. Investigative reporter Jenn Horton breaks down the FBI investigation, court records and what happens next in this case.