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Out of the frying pan and into the fire, the case of serial killer Timothy Krajcir goes from bad to worse when investigators uncover a long web of sexual assaults and murders spanning decades. Follow the chain of overlooked clues and evidence as Tim…
The Maund family ran an automobile empire, beginning in 1957 with Charles Maund opening his own auto group, Charles Maund Oldsmobile-Cadillac. The success was passed on through the generations, and by the time Charles’ grandson Erik Maund was …
On April the 23rd, 2012, Lynnettee Keller and her teenage daughter, 18-year-old Kaylene Keller, were found dead in their family home. Both victims had been fatally shot. Their killer had also shot the Keller family pets to death, and then, gasoline …
During 2013, 17-year-old Tara Willenborg was excited for the rest of her life. She had moved out of her family home and started living at an apartment, which she shared with her 21-year-old partner, Josh Lewis. Despite their age gap, family an…
1960’s Newcastle upon Tyne, the withering, dying neighborhood of Scotswood became the scene of extremes. A new age of renovation and industry had the council knocking down and rebuilding streets of old Victorian terrace houses, leaving rows of…
George Stinney, Jr was born on October 21st, 1929. He grew up in Alcolu, South Carolina. His father, George Stinney, Sr worked at the local lumberyard and sawmill. The sawmill brought a lot of life to the small town employing many of its residents. …
Scott Peterson entered the world in 1972 to an industrious and prosperous family. Both of his parents owned and ran their own businesses and provided a stable, affluent life for their son. Lee and Jackie Peterson had six children between them from p…
On the 1st of February 2002, 7-year-old Danielle van Dam was at home with her two brothers. Her dad, Damon van Dam, looked after the kids while his wife, Brenda, spent the Friday evening out drinking with some of her friends.
At about half past ten…
August 14th, the summer of 2022, a couple just at the start of their journey into adulthood headed out for a day of hiking in the Talladega National Forest down in Alabama. It was a Sunday, the sun was shining and school started on Monday. The only …
A Difficult Beginning in Apartheid South Africa
In 1964, Moses Sithole was born in Vosloorus: a town near Boksburg Transvaal Province in apartheid South Africa. His mother and father, Sophie and Simon Sithole, had very little and with five children…
Anna Moriah Wilson, known as Mo, grew up surrounded by people with a deep love for sports. Her entire family was athletic in some way, and as a young child, Mo quickly fell in love with competitive cycling. She was also a talented skier, but cycling…
In the summer of 2012 Morgantown, West Virginia, was the home to three teenage girls, each one of them on their own separate journeys through life.
First in the group was the sixteen-year-old Skylar Neese, a girl who only a few years before that su…
On New Years’ Day, 1981, Minnesota police received a strange call at 3am. A male caller with an unsettling high-pitched voice simply gave them directions to a location, telling them that if they went there, they would find a girl who had been …
On the 28th of January 1971, Dana Ewell was born to two highly successful parents. His father, Dale Ewell, had become a multi-millionaire through aircraft sales after leaving the US Air Force, and the two Ewell children grew up surrounded by privile…
36-year-old professional football player Steve McNair enjoyed a successful and lucrative career in the NFL. The Houston Oilers drafted him third overall in 1995, and two years later, he was named their regular starting quarterback when the team move…
A mistress isn’t just a term used for a woman having an extramarital affair, it is also a term that describes a woman in a position of control. David Harris had two women in his life, a mistress and a wife. The question was, which one had mor…
In 1978, Marlyse Honeychurch and her two young daughters vanished into thin air. The last person to see Marlyse was her boyfriend, Terry Rasmussen, who spent time with her and her family on Thanksgiving. During the holiday, Marlyse got into …
On the 22nd of April, 1974, six men drove to a home audio shop in Utah. They planned on robbing the store, taking hostages, and killing anybody who they encountered inside.
At the time the men arrived, the store was just about to close, and t…
Adrienne Shelly was an actress, film director, and screenwriter. She became known from acting in independent films such as Hal Hartley's The Unbelievable Truth (1989) and Trust (1990). She wrote, directed, and co-starred in the 2007 Waitress, a post…
On the 20th of May 1998, 15-year-old Kipland Kinkel, who was known as “Kip”, was caught with a gun in his locker at school. One of his friends had recently stolen the .32 caliber pistol, and had sold it to Kip for $110 in cash. After the…
Outside the obvious example of O.J. Simpson, there aren’t many cases of a football player who was drafted to an NFL team and then took a dark path in life which led them to commit murder. (Aaron Hernandez and Sergio Brown being a couple others…
Early in the morning of March 12th, 2011, the Lululemon store in Bethesda, Maryland, was about to open. The manager arrived at the front door, ready to open the shop for the day, when she noticed that the door had been left unlocked. Looking through…
Wesley Howard Shermantine Jr. and Loren Joseph Herzog lived in a small-town neighborhood where there weren’t many other kids to play with. The two boys lived on the same road in Linden, California, and quickly became inseparable. Even when Lor…
On Sunday July 21st, 2013, a couple pulled their car off the road while driving through a suburban neighborhood in South Carolina. They got out of the vehicle and popped the hood open, then stood and waited for help. It wasn’t long before two …