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On July 20, 1984, fifty-eight-year-old Father John Kerrigan of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Ronan, Montana, disappeared. He had been assigned to the church for only four days... On the evening he went missing, he visited a bakery across the street from the church and chatted with some of the parishioners. He left to go back to the church and that was the last time anyone ever seen him... The next day, several bloody clothes were found along...
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Single mom gives birth to a daughter, has her own problems and cannot cope with her baby. For some reason—post natal depression, desperation, wickedness; we know not what—she kills her. Simple. Black and white. Except, of course, that is not how it was. As of today, nobody has been convicted of Caylee's murder. It is not even clear that she was a victim of homicide. Casey has served time, but for relatively minor crimes associated with her daughter's...
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Is Wayne Williams one of the most evil men to have ever walked the earth, or are the Atlanta child murders the cause of one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in the judicial history of the United States? It is a tough question, and one to which we are even further from answering today than we were back in the early 1980s. That was the time when Williams was convicted on two counts of first-degree murder. It also marked the closure of the files...
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Young love is infectious. The future is an open book, each page to be filled as the couple go along. Hope blossoms; everything is rosy. Amy Wroe Bechtel and her husband Steve were an active, outdoor adventure type couple making the small town of Lander, Wyoming a perfect location for their second home together. They had only recently moved into their compact ex miner's cottage on Climbers Row when their paradise was punctured. Because, on July 24th,...
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The charges pursued against Adele Craven turned into, at the time, one of the longest running and most expensive criminal cases in Cincinnati history. It is still a crime surrounded by uncertainty, despite confessions from three people. Adele's involvement is held in doubt in many quarters.
Imagine she was not involved—the horror, the insanity of going through firstly the death of a spouse, followed by years of stress and tension. Ultimately facing...
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Juanita Jean Nelson was blonde, beautiful and popular. But unlike Natalee Holloway, her disappearance went widely unnoticed even in her own hometown of Boulder Creek, California. Boulder Creek is not the kind of place where girls go missing as a result of criminal activity, even ones who, like Juanita, had a history of running away from home.
Indeed, when her mother reported Juanita missing, shortly after she was last seen, the police were slow to...
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A collection of True Crime in the porn industry
Such scripts as existed for sleazy flicks such as Debbie Does Dallas were threadbare. Often, they consisted of little more than a hint of dialogue to be improvised in whatever location had been hi-jacked for filming-this was still a time when obscenity laws could see an entire cast and crew apprehended, arrested and tried for acts committed in the face of public decency. It was best not to advertise...
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Truth stranger than fiction? We've all heard the phrase. Actually, it's a bit of a falsehood. Invention acting as truth. Reality always wins out in the end. Doesn't it? But, in the case of Valerie McDaniel, truth runs even the most bizarre fiction close.
Had Valerie survived her darkest days of 2017, she may well now be serving time behind bars. Certainly, prosecutors in Houston, Texas, have little doubt about that. Then again, it is the prosecutors'...
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Robert Lee Yates is the most prolific serial killer in Washington State history, with at least eighteen victims to his name. Mostly, these are prostitutes murdered during a two-year period in the mid to late 1990s in Spokane, Washington State. It is more than possible that we can trace the beginnings of Yates' murderous personality to before he was even born. His father, Robert Lee Yates senior, was one of ten siblings who grew up on a Tennessee farm....
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"We're no nearer to a solution now than we were when the body was found. For all I know, we're farther away from one."Can any words be harder for a loved one to receive? No parent can conceive of finding that their sixteen year old daughter has been murdered. For two days Beverly Jarosz's parents, Thaddeus and Eleanor, along with her sister Carol, held out hope that there would be a quick solution to the crime. Those forty-eight hours must have flashed...
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Vanessa's family had become increasingly concerned on the 22nd April when they failed to get replies to texts sent to her. Her sister, Marya, visited the nearby base, to check on Vanessa's wellbeing Without explanation, she was turned away. Only after a panic-stricken night were the Guillen's told that Vanessa was not on the base and appeared to be missing. The authority's opacity continued for some time, the family's lawyer even accusing officers...
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They were some of the coldest, most savage crimes in the entire history of the United States; murder, rape, assault and burglary. Victims were tracked and stalked; the violations committed against them vicious and merciless. Men, women, children; none were safe from his deadly attacks.
But the Golden State Killer, as he came to be known, had another wicked, callous side. Not only would he destroy his victims' lives, but he would then taunt them,...
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To commit murder is an act beyond the comprehension of most people. But to do so, and then obliterate the memory of the victim seems a step further down in the basement of human activity. This is what happened to Holly Maddux, a pretty, popular thirty year old from Tyler,Texas. Although it soon became apparent who her killer was, it would be twenty four years before he was finally brought to justice, and made to pay penance for his crime.In that time...
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The murder of Jeanne Clery shocked anyone who read the story. A young and beautiful college student away from home for the first time falling prey to a random and violent stranger. The stuff of every parent's nightmare. But Clery's parents were determined to do something about her death, to not have her daughter simply be another forgotten statistic. Their daughter's death would usher in the Clery Act which would be implemented around college campuses...
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Jimmy Snuka had a history of abuse toward him and his current girlfriend, Nancy Argentino was no exception. Her family had warned her to get out of the relationship and the young woman started to see their point of view. But the next time the family was due to get together was on the weekend of May 14th, 1983..Nancy was dead. Jimmy Snuka was one of the bigger names to emerge from the heyday of professional wrestling — the 1980s. The Fijian, born...
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Martha Marek was a black widow before her time, seeing murder as a means of collecting insurance money. She murdered her husband, daughter, and elderly relative all of whom had benefits that would be bequeathed to her after their deaths. After she killed one of her roommates, the state sentenced her to death by way of guillotine... But what inspired her murders? Her own husband had initially coached Martha on how to defraud insurers... by chopping...
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The Jamisons disappeared on a warm October day. It would be four years before their bodies were discovered. They were not missed for several days; neither worked and Madyson was home schooled. They were known for setting off at short notice and without informing friends and family. Nobody really noticed their absence, at first.
When their disappearance finally reached the ears of the police, they set out to find what had happened to the family. The...
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Some problems become more troublesome the longer they are left. The aching molar which remains untended; the lawn which is left uncut. The same might be said of the case of Ray Gricar. Although, of course, the disappearance and possible death of a man, one with a high local profile, is much more serious than sore teeth or an unkempt yard.
Gricar was last seen on Friday April 15th 2005. It was a glorious day—one of the first of the year in which...
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His reign of terror lasted from the summer of 1984 to August of 1985 when he was finally captured. During this time, Richard Ramirez terrorized the people of Los Angeles before making his way to the San Francisco Bay Area, getting the nickname of the "Night Stalker" because of his propensity to invade homes well past midnight. Claiming to be a Satanist, Ramirez brutalized his victims beyond human comprehension. Now featured in such programs as True...
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Gary Hilton will not walk free again. One way or another, he is going to die in prison. If the gurney does not get him, then old age will. Currently, he sits in his cell paying penance for the deaths of four people including that of Cheryl Dunlap, whom he murdered in the Apalachicola National Forest, which lies in the north of Florida. He received the death penalty for that homicide.
'He will most likely die in prison and most certainly never see...