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Detective Perspective

118: 2025 Case Updates

Detective Perspective

Derrick Levasseur & Square Mile Studios

True Crime

4.92K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Recent developments and renewed attention are being examined in several ongoing and unresolved cases, including Kristina Branum and Christopher Mittendorf, Brandy Hutchins, Nikki Cheng Saelee-McCain, Trudy Appleby, Blake Chappell, Lonene “Lonnie” Rogers, Oakley Carlson, and Danielle Bell. This week, we're revisiting those cases, and discussing the latest.

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Please gamble responsibly. Hey everyone. Welcome back to Detective Perspective.

0:58.6

For those of you who do not know yet, maybe you're a first time watcher or listener.

1:03.2

My name is Derek Lavasar.

1:04.6

I'm a licensed private investigator and former police detective.

1:08.1

And each week, I'll cover an unsolved case and story format. I'll then give

1:11.8

my perspective on the investigation and provide you with contact information for the individuals

1:17.1

or organizations connected to the case so that if you have any tips, you can contact them directly.

1:22.4

Maybe you can help solve a case. Had to do that one last time before we wrap up this year.

1:26.2

As you can probably tell,

1:27.6

there's no teaser for today. And that's because this week's episode is my favorite episode

1:33.6

of the year, which is the updates episode where I give a few updates on some of the cases that I

1:39.4

covered throughout the year. And we covered a lot of cases, 115 different cases to be exact. And we're not going to

1:46.3

give an update on all of them because in most cases, unfortunately, there's no updates. And in some

1:52.5

of them, it's very minor, nothing really worth reporting on yet. But we do have some cases that have

1:57.4

major updates, including arrests, which is why I wanted to hop on here today

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