The Skeleton Key Chronicles

18 hours ago

Something to SMIZE about! A new three-part documentary premieres on Netflix today, revisiting the rise and fall of America’s Next Top Model and taking a closer look at what was happening behind the scenes. When the show debuted in 2003, it promised to launch modeling careers and open doors. But the show itself became the spectacle leaving many people wondering if the girls went on to work in the industry at all.

Creator and host Tyra Banks sat alongside a panel of judges who framed their critiques as industry standard and a necessary part of the job. The cameras stayed on when judging became personal and contestants broke down, which was often. But the formula was successful and back then, no one really questioned it.

Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model is a deep dive into what really went on behind-the-scenes and the complicated legacy the series left behind. It features interviews with all the original cast with Tyra Banks, Jay Manuel, Miss J Alexander, and Nigel Barker reflecting on their experiences on the show.

Interestingly enough, director Daniel Sivan has said Banks had no creative control over the project and will be seeing the finished series for the first time the same way viewers do, on Netflix.

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The Skeleton Key Chronicles

23 hours ago

Authorities have deployed what one federal source described as “sophisticated FBI technology” in the search for Nancy Guthrie including a signal-detecting device mounted to a helicopter designed to try to locate her pacemaker.

But there is one type of FBI assistance investigators are not using: DNA testing through the Bureau’s lab in Virginia.
Sheriff Chris Nanos confirmed his office is continuing to send evidence to a Florida forensic lab his agency has worked with for years. He said splitting samples between two facilities would add an unnecessary step and slow the process.

According to Nanos, the Florida lab already has comparison samples from Guthrie family members and from individuals who have worked inside Nancy Guthrie’s home. Keeping all evidence in one place, he said, allows reports to be generated and shared without duplicating work.

Some DNA results have already come back and when Nanos asked whether those results identified a suspect, he was direct. “Boy, I wish it did. Not yet. We’ve got DNA, and it’s still working.”

The search continues in the air, on the ground, and now inside a private lab hundreds of miles away.

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The Skeleton Key Chronicles

2 days ago

Charges have been filed in a case that began nearly four decades ago at a monastery in southern Indiana. In 1987, an infant was found at the Monastery Immaculate Conception in Ferdinand. For years, the child was known only as “Baby Doe.”

This week, Dubois County Prosecutor Beth Schroeder confirmed investigators have identified the infant through advances in DNA technology. The child’s biological mother now faces charges, though her name has not been released.

Authorities say she was a minor at the time and that the pregnancy was unintended. Schroeder noted that the charges acknowledge the severity of the situation and the challenges confronting a minor at the time.

For nearly forty years, the child had no confirmed identity. Now investigators know who the baby was even if the name has not yet been shared publicly.

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