The Murder Blog

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 …

In the 1950s, 19-year-old Charles Starkweather went on a killing spree, bringing his 14-year-old girlfriend with him.According to the FBI, there is one key difference between a serial killer and a spree killer: while serial killers have a cooling-of…

In 1973, many American families believed it was safe for their young children to wander the streets alone. Neighborhoods were considered to be a safe place, full of trustworthy people who looked out for one another. It was a year before Ted Bundy an…

When Robert Durst was a young child, his mother climbed to the roof of their family home, and jumped to her death. Years later, Robert would claim that he had seen the entire thing, which his younger brother, Douglas, denied was true.  It wasn…

​The promise of fame. The opportunity to have your picture seen by thousands of people. Reinaldo Rivera looked for young women that he thought would be excited at the chance to become a model. He would approach them and see if they were interested i…

On the 6th of March, 1995, 32-year-old Scott Bernard Amedure was selected to appear on The Jenny Jones Show. He was a fan of the show - in fact, one of his neighbors described him as being “a talk-show junkie.” The episode was titled &ld…