“I verily believe in my heart that Giles Corey is a dreadful wizard, for since he had been in prison, he or his appearance has come and most grievously tormented me.” Giles Corey: The Unlikely Defendant Before Giles Corey found himself…
How It All Started: The Strange Case of Betty and Abigail“Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live,” reads the Bible and there was one infamous village in particular that was dead-set on living by that doctrine.It was in Salem, 1692, that n…
“I know you know what’s going on and why we’re here,” an officer spoke to the person who’d just opened the door he’d knocked on. “We’re investigating a murder.”The woman he was talking to…
The Liske Family Murders: A Halloween Tragedy in Martin, Ohio “This was the most disturbing murder scene I’d seen over the course of my career,” a state prosecutor would later describe the case he had just been a part of. “I…
A Childhood of Trauma: The Making of Danny Rolling Daniel Rolling had a childhood unlike most. His father, James Harold Rolling, was a Korean War veteran turned Shreveport police officer. In 1953, he married Daniel’s mother, Claudia, when she…
The Chilling Discovery in Carly's Room Let me take you back to a cold day in March 2024. Picture a mother—Ashley Smylie, a high school math teacher—getting news no parent wants to hear: something disturbing is happening in her o…
Early Life and Troubled Upbringing If looks can kill, then what can a cold and very public dismissal do? That was the question a husband facing his wife in the British courts would find out in the mid-1990s.The man himself was Frederick Walter Step…
A Darker Side of the Roaring 20s When it comes to the Roaring 20’s America, we usually think of big parties, champagne glasses, and new cars. Rarely do we think about healthcare or even that someone could be struggling with something like obe…
“I told him to stop back when he got out if he needed anything… He stopped back.” That heart-wrenching line came from a husband who never imagined that a small act of kindness to a stranger would end in de…
A Fresh Start Turns to Horror in Cabin 28 In the early '80s, Sue Sharp was ready to embrace a fresh start, leaving behind a turbulent marriage and relocating to the serene woods of California with her five kids. But little did she know, the…
