Voices Behind JonBenét Ramsey, Gabby Petito, American Nightmare, Trial 4, and Unknown Number Unite for Live CRIME UNFILTERED Tour

For decades, the names have dominated headlines, documentaries and national debate: JonBenét Ramsey. Gabby Petito. The real-life Gone Girl case. The shocking cyberstalking case revealed in Unknown Number: The High School Catfish, and the wrongful conviction battle chronicled in the acclaimed series Trial 4.

Now the people whose lives became those stories will appear together on stage to share their experiences in a live setting designed to take audiences far beyond the headlines.

Get tickets for CRIME UNFILTERED, a live event series from investigative journalist and Executive Producer of the #1 Netflix hit Unknown Number: The High School Catfish, Alysia Sofios, alongside co-creator and host Dr. Nicky Ali Jackson — a leading voice in the national conversation on wrongful convictions and victim justice.

At the center of the tour is John Ramsey, father of JonBenét Ramsey, whose daughter’s 1996 murder remains one of the most famous unsolved cases in American history.

“My daughter was the most important thing in my life,” Ramsey said. “And the only way this chapter closes for my family is if we find who did this to her.”

Another powerful voice on the tour is Nichole Schmidt, mother of Gabby Petito, whose daughter’s disappearance and murder in 2021 became one of the most closely followed criminal investigations of the social media era.

“Gabby was just a normal girl with dreams like every other young person,” Schmidt said. “If sharing her story helps even one family recognize warning signs or avoid what we went through, then her voice is still making a difference.”

The evening will also feature Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn, whose 2015 kidnapping case stunned the nation after police initially dismissed it as a hoax and compared it publicly to the novel Gone Girl. The case later proved to be real and became the subject of the Netflix documentary American Nightmare.

“When I was finally released, I hadn’t even had a chance to catch my breath before my life was taken from me again by accusations repeated across the media,” Huskins said. “People believed a story that simply wasn’t true.”

Her now husband, Aaron Quinn says the tour offers something audiences rarely experience.

“Millions of people watched our story unfold,” Quinn said. “But there’s always a filtration between what actually happened and what people hear. This is a chance to talk about the reality of living through it.”

One of the most startling stories explored during the evening comes from the Netflix documentary phenomenon Unknown Number: The High School Catfish. The film became the most viewed documentary of 2025.

Appearing together will be Shawn Licari, whose family became the target of a years-long cyberstalking campaign that stunned investigators when they discovered the person responsible was his own wife, Kendra Licari, and Melissa Perry, Kendra Licari’s cousin.

“What happened changed our lives in ways I never could have imagined,” Shawn Licari said.

“It’s one thing to watch a story like this in a documentary. It’s another to live through it.”

Perry says the revelations surrounding her cousin were almost impossible to process.

“You never expect something like this to come from inside your own family,” Perry said. “When the truth came out, it shook everyone who knew her.”

The lineup also includes Sean Ellis, whose case became one of the most widely known wrongful conviction battles in the country after he spent more than two decades in prison for the murder of a Boston police officer — a conviction he fought for years to overturn.

“When you spend twenty years in prison for something you didn’t do, it changes how you see everything,” Ellis said. “If my story helps people understand how easily the system can fail, and why fighting for justice matters, then telling it is worth it.”

Guiding the evening’s discussions will be criminologist and Purdue University Northwest Professor Dr. Nicky Ali Jackson, who will explore both the investigations themselves and the human toll of living inside a case that becomes international news.

“These are the people behind some of the biggest headlines in crime,” Dr. Jackson said. “This tour gives audiences a rare opportunity to hear the humanity behind those headlines. It’s something you can only truly understand when you hear their voices directly.”

In an era when millions follow criminal cases through podcasts, documentaries and online communities, CRIME UNFILTERED offers something rarely possible through a screen — direct access and a personal experience with the people whose lives have shaped modern true crime.

“What stands out about this group is the understanding they share,” Sofios said. “Each of them lived through something we all watched unfold in real time, and there’s a powerful sense of strength in the way they stand together.”