What kind of evidence could the state have that is strong enough to keep from the public and defense? It could be 30 days before we find out. In a small victory for the state Judge Stan Strickland ruled to allow a 30 day delay on the release of information requested to be kept private by prosecutors.

In the beginning of February the prosecution requested a private hearing with Judge Stan Strickland stating "certain materials and information have come into possession of law enforcement". Although, the specifics of the information was not revealed it was explained in a sealed filing for Judge Strickland's eyes only.

Casey Anthony

The prosecution maintains they have "good cause to delay disclosure" of the information.

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A customer at a Newark, Delaware Shell gas station gets the shock of a lifetime when he hears the cries of a child coming from behind a bathroom door. The Pennsylvania man, who was passing through on a road trip and needing to use the restroom, was stunned to discover a 20-month-old little girl locked inside, abandoned, all alone.

20-month-old girl found abandoned at gas station

No mommy, no daddy, nobody in sight. When police are called in, they work around the clock to make a positive ID on the abandoned little girl, even putting out her photo and video hoping someone would come forward to identify her.

Hours later, 160 miles to north two newspaper delivery people in Ramapo, New York, find the body of a badly burned young woman, in a parking lot, still on fire. The flames were so intense, firefighters had to extinguish them. That leads investigators to believe the person who dumped the body there only set the fire about 15-20 minutes before the young woman’s body was discovered. Her death ruled a homicide, cause of death still pending.

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The former stepmom and babysitter of 5-year-old Haleigh Cummings remains in jail on over a million dollars bond. This hasn’t stopped 18-year-old Misty Croslin in a desperate attempt to get out from behind bars, doing anything she can to get free, including agreeing to speak to bounty hunter Leonard Padilla.

Misty Croslin

But not so fast, says Croslin’s lawyer Robert Fields. Fields has sent Leonard Padilla a letter instructing him to stay away from Misty Croslin, writing that Croslin does not want his help and does not want Padilla to contact her. This differs greatly from what we see and hear on jail house recordings, where Croslin is seen pleading with her mother to get in touch with Leonard Padilla to get her out of jail, even suggesting she’d be willing to replace Robert Fields as her attorney if it would make the process go faster. Fields later sent a second letter to Padilla stating that conversations with Croslin and her mother talking about bringing in Padilla were before Croslin decided not to work with the California bounty hunter.

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A Dutch man once considered a suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway has told a television station he dumped her body in a swamp on the north end of the island. But, according to Aruba's chief prosecutor Peter Blanken, Joran van der Sloot's claims to the Dutch station RTL-5 are "unbelievable”.

Natalee Holloway / Joran van der Sloot

This information was brought to the authorities’ attention last summer. Blanken said they investigated and tried to verify it and, in his opinion, it’s not true. Joran van der Sloot was even asked to come in and speak to the authorities about it, but he never responded.

This is not the first time Joran van der Sloot has made an alleged “confession” about what happened to Holloway the night she went missing. In 2008, prosecutors unsuccessfully attempted to arrest van der Sloot after a videotape surfaced on Dutch television. It shows him he telling a “friend” that he was planning to have sex with Holloway on the beach after leaving the nightclub and she lost consciousness. He claims he panicked and called a friend who had a boat. The two allegedly put Holloway's body in the boat and the friend told him the next day that he had carried the body out and dumped it in the ocean.

Natalee’s father, Dave Holloway, has a hard time believing van der Sloot’s claims. He thinks that whenever Joran van der Sloot is in financial trouble, he contacts a media outlet and concocts some story. He says something different every time and nothing ever pans out. Holloway believes that van der Sloot had something to do with his daughter’s disappearance, he just has yet to tell anyone something that can be substantiated.

Contrary to van der Sloot’s videotaped claims, he denies any involvement to prosecutors.

Teen called 'Squeak' vanished in 1985

New York (CNN) – It was Friday the 13th and Joanne Briscoe, who is not by nature a superstitious woman, felt a sense of foreboding as she left for work.

Every weekday, Briscoe would call home at 7:30 a.m. from her clerk's job at a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, insurance company to make sure her 16-year-old son, Allen, and his 17-year-old sister, Latanya, were awake and getting ready to go to school.

But on December 13, 1985, the teens didn't answer when their mother called. She called again at 3:30 p.m., about an hour after school let out. Still there was no answer.

Allen Briscoe / Age Progression Photo

Briscoe was working nights to make extra money for the holidays. She went to that job still worried about what her kids might be up to.

Her son had celebrated his birthday just eight days earlier. "I was wondering if he was trying to take this '16' to another level," she said. "I'm not one to go howling and screaming. I'm like, 'OK, we'll see what happens when I get home.' "

Briscoe arrived home about 11 p.m. Locked out because Allen had her keys that day, Latanya had gone to her grandmother's place for a while. But no one had seen Allen.

Friends, family and many of the neighbors began searching the streets for him.

Police were called the next day and began to investigate.

"We were all over this city with fliers," said Briscoe. She fondly remembers a co-worker who helped her search for Allen during their lunch breaks.

To this day, details on what Allen might have done that day remain somewhat murky. While his missing persons poster says school was dismissed early, Briscoe believes her son did not go to school that day.

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