Jane Velez-Mitchell

A Michigan mother vanished on April 26^th.  Jessica Heeringa was working the nightshift alone at an Exxon Gas Station. The 25-year-old disappeared leaving behind her purse and keys. No money was stolen from the gas station and no sign of Heeringa has been seen since.

Jane Velez-Mitchell spoke to Jessica’s fiancé, Dakotah Quail-Dyer.

The U.S Fish and Wildlife Service announced a new proposal that would protect thousands of chimps currently held in captivity.

Right now, there is a distinction in the government between chimpanzees in the wild and chimps held in captivity. Under the Endangered Species Act, wild chimps are protected and considered endangered but the same cannot be said for captive chimps. Because of this, captive chimps are often unprotected and some are exploited in commercials and movies or kept as pets. Not to mention the hundreds chimpanzees who are languishing away in labs around the country.

Patti was a childhood friend of Jodi Arias and was going to testify on her behalf during the sentencing phase of the trial. But Patti changed her mind and did not testify. She says she was in fear for her life. Her name, address and picture were posted online and her social media accounts were hacked. 

Patti says she was friends with Jodi Arias when they were kids. She says it is hard to think back to the girl she knew and all of the great times she had with Arias when they were young. She can’t imagine anyone, let alone her childhood friend, becoming a killer.

Baby Levon was reported missing on June 11.  According to his father, the 9-month-old vanished May 29 from their Utica, New York home.  Teh father says the baby was crying so he took him for a walk around 11 or 12 at night. He told police he realized he had locked himself out of the house and left baby Levon on the front porch while he went around the back of the house to climb in through a window.  According to the father, when he opened the front door, Levon was gone.

Utica police tell HLN that Levon’s grandmother kept asking where Levon was and the father eventually told her the baby was missing.  It was not until then, June 11, that baby Levon was officially reported missing.  

Released by the Sanford, Florida Police Department, here is the entire video of George Zimmerman reenacting the night he shot Trayvon Martin.  Zimmerman says he shot Trayvon in self-defense. Zimmerman has been charged with second-degree murder. There will be complete coverage of the Zimmerman trial on HLN. 

For more on this story, watch Jane Velez-Mitchell weeknights at 7 p.m. ET on HLN. 

A Michigan mother vanished on April 26^th.  Jessica Heeringa was working the nightshift alone at an Exxon Gas Station. The 25-year-old disappeared leaving behind her purse and keys. No money was stolen from the gas station and no sign of Heeringa has been seen since.

Police have released a sketch of a man they are looking for. A witness says this man was seen pulling into the gas station in a silver minivan. Surveillance tapes show a minivan driving off from the gas station but police can’t tell who is in the car.  Police believe Jessica may have known her abductor and that person knew she would be there alone.

The jury in the Jodi Arias trial were able to ask questions of witnesses including Jodi Arias.  While hundreds of questions were asked, there were some that the judge didn’t allow.  We got our hands on those questions and Jane asks her panel to try and get inside Jodi’s head and to answer those questions.

For more on this story, watch Jane Velez-Mitchell weeknights at 7 p.m. ET on HLN. 

Ana Trujillo is accused of killing her boyfriend with a high heel.  

The 44-year-old reportedly called police to say she was being attacked, but when the cops arrived, her boyfriend Alf Andersson, a professor, was lying dead in his condo. Trujillo was covered in blood and a stiletto was found next to Andersson’s body.

Kathleen Mason-Morton says she prescribed the diet drug HCG to Vashti Seacat.  But she claims that the items shown in court were not what she prescribed. Mason-Morton says the drugs shown in court were found in Brett’s tackle box and that they could have been used by Brett to come off of testosterone.  The prosecution also believes that Brett Seacat could have been using this to come off of steroids.

For more on this story watch Jane Velez-Mitchell weeknights at 7 p.m. ET on HLN.