It's becoming an all too familiar nightmare - another young woman is missing. This time college student Michaela "Mickey" Shunick disappeared while bicycling home at about 1:45 am Saturday morning. 

It's as though the 22-year-old, University of Louisiana senior vanished into thin air after leaving a friends home just four miles away from her own apartment.

New details are emerging in the case of Tonya Thomas, the Florida mother who inexplicably killed her four teenage children last week. The kids, ranging in age from 12 to 17, were shot at point blank range with most of their wounds on the fronts of their bodies, meaning they were facing their mama, maybe even looking at her, when she opened fire on them two, three, four, up to seven times each.

Experts say the gun Thomas used, a Taurus .38 caliber, can only hold a round of six shots, which means she would’ve had to stop and reload three times during the assault on her children. I can’t even begin to imagine the agony of watching your mother not only kill your siblings one by one, but the terror of waiting as she reloaded, knowing your turn to die was inevitably coming up. My heart actually aches thinking about it.

It's hard to call it good news. Police say they know who kidnapped California teenager Sierra LaMar as she walked to her school bus in March. They've even gone so far as arresting Antolin Garcia-Torres this week.

But the charges they've levied against the 21-year-old Garcia-Torres are hard to swallow. One count of kidnapping. One count of murder. Good for the justice system? Maybe. Maybe not.

Some stories are so tragic and bizarre we just don't know what to think. Last night a Cleveland woman was stabbed in the neck and then went on to hit a 2-year-old with her car. Both died. My first question was why would you drive a car after getting stabbed in the neck?!? It sounds like an accident. But then I learned more about this horrific incident.

It's hard to tell as details on this story come out, but it sounds like these deaths were the result of a fight between two women. According to witnesses, around 9:00 p.m., Kimberly Black and Sharice Swain were arguing inside a parked car in Kimberly's driveway. What happened next is confusing, but here goes.

There's no question the death of Mary Richardson Kennedy is tragic. The estranged wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was just 52 years old, and she left behind young children with her apparent suicide. But all this talk of the Kennedy curse tends to make me a little uncomfortable.

Are we talking about a loss of life because we're saddened by tragedy? Or are people so hellbent on proving some sort of superstitious hocus pocus that they'll grasp at any straw? Is there really a Kennedy curse?

I wasn't convinced. So I went poking through the history of the Kennedy clan.

He’s probably the best musician you never really knew. Here in D.C., he’s hometown royalty, second only in importance to Barack and Michelle themselves. Now he’s gone on to jam with the other legendary musicians in the great above. Chuck Brown, the Godfather of Go-Go, passed away today at Johns Hopkins University Hospital after complications from a month-long bout with pneumonia. The 75-year-old made his mark on the international world of music as a pioneer in—and some folks say the founder of­­­­­—D.C.’s signature go-go music.

If you’ve never heard go-go, you’re missing out on the instrumental medley of timbales, congos, drums and, with Chuck Brown at center stage, his signature blonde guitar. It’s a fusion of Latin, African, and jazz influences with a touch of hip-hop flavor, and incites call-and-response interaction between the person doing the singin’ and the people doing the dancin’. 

Yet another Kennedy has died tragically and too soon: Mary Richardson Kennedy, the 52-year-old estranged wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was found dead of an apparent suicide today in her Mt. Kisco NY home. According to law enforcement officials, she hanged herself in an "out building" (most likely some type of barn) on the Kennedy property. Richardson Kennedy, a former architectural designer, leaves behind 4 children, Connor, Kyra, William and Aiden.

The Kennedy family is no stranger to loss, particularly loss of a violent and sudden nature. But with the passing of each individual life comes the same wave of raw, heart-wrenching pain, which is reflected in the words of Mary Richardson Kennedy's nearest and dearest. Through a lawyer, her family released this statement:

From the beginning of the Trayvon Martin tragedy, I haven't been as certain of what happened that night as a lot of other people seem to be. There are really only two people who know what happened that night, and one of them is dead. The other one thinks he knows, but he only knows his version of events. Now a medical report has been leaked to the press that says that George Zimmerman, who was arrested for the second-degree murder, suffered a "closed fracture" broken nose and two black eyes.

The Martin family has their suspicions about the medical report, which was made a day after the incident by Zimmerman's family doctor. They note that Zimmerman never went to the hospital or received medical treatment on the scene.