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Sept. 30, 2024

William Pierce Jr.: The Serial Killer Who Killed for a Dollar

“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…

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Sept. 27, 2024

The Keddie Murders: Secrets, Suspects, and Missing Pieces

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…

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Sept. 25, 2024

The Dark Secrets of Lovers’ Lane: Colonial Parkway Killings

Lovers' Lane Murders Along the Colonial Parkway A lovers’ lane is the perfect place for a young couple to enjoy a moment of privacy…but it is also the perfect place for a serial killer to find his next pair of victims. During the late…

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Sept. 23, 2024

The Mystery of JonBenet: Inside the Coldest Case of the ’90s

The Chilling 1996 Christmas Morning in Boulder, Colorado On Christmas morning, 1996, the police in Boulder, Colorado received an unusual phone call. The caller was Patsy Ramsey, and she told them that her daughter, 6-year-old JonBenet, had been kid…

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Sept. 18, 2024

Philando Castile: The Man, The Legacy, The Injustice

The Tragic Events of July 6, 2016, in Robbinsdale, Minnesota On July sixth, 2016, something tragic and incredibly heartbreaking happened in Robbinsdale, Minnesota. News of this terrible ordeal traveled like wildfire and eventually brought the whole…

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Sept. 16, 2024

Sex, Fame, and Murder: The Bob Crane Story

The 1960s. Every channel on the TV had some sort of cheesy comedy ripe with ill-timed laugh tracks and poorly executed jokes. But there was one comedy series out there that dared to stand out from the rest. Hogan’s Heroes was a CBS series loos…

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Sept. 14, 2024

The Dark History of 10 Rillington Place: John Christie's Reign of Terror

Derelict, desolate and still ravaged from the constant raids and bombings of the World Wars, 10 Rillington Place was a desperate home for desperate people. Jutting out of the war-torn street of Notting Hill in London, rubble, refuse and even human r…

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Sept. 11, 2024

Classroom to Crime Scene: Pamela Smart’s Deadly Plot

Pamela Smart’s Early Life: The Perfect Cheerleader Strikingly beautiful and outrageously popular, Pamela Smart just seemed to have it all and that’s just the way that things had always been for her. She was born on August 16th, 1967, in…

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Sept. 9, 2024

How Robert Ressler Changed the Way We Catch Serial Killers

The Emergence of the Serial Killer Concept Today the concept of a serial killer, and even the very term itself, is so ingrained in our cultures and in our minds that it’s almost impossible to imagine a point in time when we weren’t cons…

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Sept. 4, 2024

The Making of a Monster: How Jim Jones Built Jonestown

Early Struggles and Neglect In the 1930s, a little boy named James Jones was being raised by a pair of struggling parents. His father, also named James, had been injured in a chemical warfare attack in the first World War, making it difficult for h…

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