First Watch: Breakup Texts to MACHETE Bloodshed & Kentucky Mother-Daughter Murder

In Iowa, 20-year-old Melody Hoffman, who lived with an intellectual disability, vanished after late-night messages. She was later found strangled and stabbed…a crime prosecutors say was planned by her ex-boyfriend McKinley Louisma and two accomplices. Investigators found a machete and bloodstained clothing in McKinley’s car. With two already convicted and serving life sentences, the final trial of Logan Kimpton is set for November 18, 2025. Then Katie unravels a case in Kentucky, where 37-year-old nurse Kayla Blake and her 13-year-old daughter Kennedi were found stabbed to death in their home. Kayla’s boyfriend, Joshua Cottrell, a man with a violent past, now faces two murder charges ahead of his November 21 arraignment.

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