On October 23, 1969, a child came into the world and straight into a life raging with difficulty. Christina Boyer’s mother was a drug addict and when she found herself suddenly responsible for another, fragile human life, she decided that she …
In January 1964, Ronald Dominique was born. His parents lived in a trailer park along with baby Ronald and his five older siblings, and the family struggled financially throughout Ronald’s childhood and teenage years. There wasn’t…
Alicia Goes Missing On August 16th, 2005, Sean Hine pulled up outside his girlfriend’s house with a pit in his stomach. He’d only seen her the night before and had even dropped her off at her front door around midnight, but since then, …
It was easy to get lost in the 1980’s and 1990’s in Los Angeles. The city was rife with turmoil and entire neighborhoods sunk deep into decrepit disrepair from the ongoing crack epidemic. Crime rates and homelessness were high, h…
Bianca Devins and Brandon Clark: A Tragic Story of Manipulation and Violence 17-year-old Bianca Devins and 21-year-old Brandon Clark viewed their relationship very differently. In early 2019, the two of them first connected on Instagram whe…
Christopher Dorner came into the world with one word that would shape his life for better and for worse: integrity. Born in the summer of 1979, he grew up in California and later graduated from Southern Utah University. Those who knew him described …
Kenneth McDuff grew up in Rosebud, Texas, the fifth of six children in a seemingly idyllic family. His father, John Allen, ran a successful concrete business during the Texas construction boom of the 1960s. However, beneath the surface, the McDuff&r…
Susan Wright, the Blue-eyed Butcher Whether you think of her as the ‘Blue-eyed Butcher’ as the media named her, or a victim of domestic abuse as defense witnesses testified, the story of Susan Wright is shocking. Every …
Michael Ross’s childhood growing up on a Connecticut chicken farm might have looked idyllic from the outside, but in reality, he was raised in a household full of turmoil. Born in 1959, Michael was the eldest of Patricia Laine and Dan Ross&rsq…
On May 8th, 1998, a family in San Francisco, California, welcomed their third child into the world and became complete. This was the Tibbetts family and Rob and Laura Tibbetts now had two sons and a little baby girl, a girl who’d grow up to be…
1930, Perth, Western Australia, a young, unmarried couple sat with a decision to make. Vivian Cooke, a local shop assistant, and his girlfriend Christine Edgar, a young woman originally from Scotland, had just found out that Christine was pregnant…
In 1970, Robert John Bardo was born to an American father and a Korean mother, and as the youngest sibling of seven, his childhood was chaotic. Robert’s dad was in the US Air Force, causing the large family to move states several times, before…
“He has the serpent tongue, the cloven tongue,” a victim’s brother addressed the South Caroloian courts in 2015 before turning to his brother’s killer. “You a devil, man!” Irate, heartbroken and shaken with anger…
Two bloody gloves. One was found at the scene of a murder and the other at the number one suspect’s home. It seemed like an easy case to close. The problem, the gloves didn’t fit the man they thought was the killer. One of America’…
2008, the early 2000’s, were a time of great change. The Dark Knight was in cinemas, the Blackberry Storm became the new popular mobile phone to have and yet in Boardman, Florida, a tale as old as time was playing out yet again. In November o…
December 1957 two seven year old girls were outside in the neighborhood streets of Sycamore, Illinois, playing in the newly fallen snow. They were best friends Kathy Sigman and Maria Ridulph, but witnesses also placed a third, rather unusual playmat…
More than 7 decades before the term “serial killer” was first used by investigators, the people of Austin, Texas were terrorized by a string of murders. It was the mid-1880s when the first victim was found. She was 25-year-old Mol…
A Frightening Morning Discovery Early in the morning of the 2nd of October 2017, 50-year-old Aaron Friar’s youngest daughters woke up and discovered that their father had gone missing. There were pools of blood on the family’s couch, an…
On January sixth, 2017, a man exited the bathroom near the baggage claim at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Broward County, Florida, and opened fire. He had a semi-automatic 9mm handgun and two clips with him and he emptied both o…
If you prefer to listen, you can hear this episode here:https://www.10minutemurder.com/chesters-murder/On March 13th, 2000, four young men met up at a house in Spearfish, South Dakota, to play video games together. The home belonged to Chester Allan…
On the morning of May 26th, 1990, 21-year-old Joe Ahrens was eating breakfast with a few of his friends and his mother, Marlene Warren, when somebody approached the front door. Through a window, Joe could see that it was somebody wearing a clown cos…
On the 6th of November 1955, Alton Coleman was born in Illinois. Because his mother was working three different jobs to support herself, Alton grew up in the care of his grandmother. From an early age, he was antisocial and didn’t get along wi…
On the fourteenth of December 1865, a Polish carpenter and his wife welcomed their new son into the world. Seweryn Klosowski entered into a life of opportunity. Instead of apprenticing with his father and becoming a carpenter, as was commonly done i…
Johnny Lewis: A Rising Star’s Tragic Fall On the 26th of September 2012, Los Angeles police responded to a 911 call in Los Feliz from a concerned member of the public who had heard a woman screaming from inside a house. In the driveway of the…
