Unraveling Birmingham's Deadliest Year

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.

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.

22 Hours: New Evidence

22 Hours.  That's the time separating a mass shooting in one of Birmingham's popular entertainment districts where more than 20 people were gunned down and the murder of a man five miles away.  In this episode your host, WBRC 6 On Your Side Investigative Reporter Jenn Horton dissects new court records that put the same stolen car, ammunition and possibly the same gun at both locations and reveal what kind of ammunition prosecutors allege was ordered weeks before the mass shooting.