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On February 17, 1977, after spending eight days at the facility, Helen left the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and planned to head home to Glenview. She had gone to the clinic for her routine physical examination, which was always intensive and thorough. The physician who examined her, Dr. Carl Anderson, recorded her height and weight, logging five-foot-five and 138 pounds on her chart. He told her that she was in good health for someone her...
2102) The Killer Escort
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Dennis Dawley was stuck in an unhappy marriage with Joan, his former childhood sweetheart. They were married for over thirty years but Dennis longed for the good life, a life where he could spend as much money as he wanted on the toys and women of his choice. Frequenting prostitutes around the Sepulveda Boulevard area of Los Angeles, he would have a chance meeting with Brandita Taliano. Brandi would be the answer to his every sexual fantasy as she...
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Maggie Young's case is relatively unknown today. In fact, even at the time, it did not seem to receive the attention that it perhaps deserved. This was undoubtedly, at least in part, due to the fact that Maggie and her young family lived in Hawaii. News travelled fast around the island, of course, but the mainland didn't pay all that much attention. The story was covered in newspapers across the country, but after the story was first told on page...
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Holly Ann Grigsby will go down in the annals of history not just for her murderous crimes but for her radical beliefs that she claims are "misunderstood." Grigsby and her ex-boyfriend David "Joey" Pederson went on a ten-day killing spree that spanned three states in 2011. Because of this, they're going to serve a sentence that will span the of their natural lives. According to the judicial record, there were four murder victims because of the couple's...
2105) Killer Prostitutes
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True stories of prostitutes who killed after servicing their clients. Jamila M'Barek was rumored to be the prostitute lover of such Hollywood luminaries such as Bruce Willis and George Clooney. But when she married a rich man, she took the bull by the horn and tried to kill him for his money. Brittany Holberg was rumored to be the prostitute girlfriend of an older man until she went on a rampage and stabbed him to death.
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Robert Pickton was a former pig farmer and serial killer convicted of the second-degree murders of six women. He was also charged in the deaths of an additional twenty women, many of them prostitutes and drug users. The pig farmer mainly preyed upon drug addicts and prostitutes, picking them up on the streets before driving them to his farm, where he had sex with them before torturing then murdering them.
He handcuffed and stabbed other victims,...
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On January 23, 1990, a college student driving around in the outskirts of Portland, Oregon, noticed a body lying in an embankment off the highway. The young woman was half-naked, and investigators discovered that she had been strangled, the rope still looped tightly around her neck. The student was immediately considered a suspect, and an interview was done at the police station. He stated that he had just done his finals, and decided to take a drive...
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Kent Lippink's dead body was left on a hiking trail near Hope, Alaska, an hour from Anchorage. He was discovered by utility workers making their way to a job. But perhaps because of the conditions on that remote hillside, or because of the carefulness of the murderers, no physical evidence was found that could have tied anybody to the crime. What little evidence there was, and common sense, pointed towards roommates Mechele Hughes and John Carlin,...
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Sheila Davalloo is truly one of the most demented individuals of the past twenty years. Several serious crimes are still being added to her gruesome resume. She portrayed the persona of a pleasant, happy person. She hid dark secrets, however, as to who she really was. The main victim was simply caught in a position that she could never escape from.
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Rodney Alcala is a serial murderer that is most often referred to as the "Dating Game Killer" after he was a contestant on the popular game show "The Dating Game" in 1978. He was sentenced to death in California in 2010 for committing five murders in the state between 1977 and 1979. It is believed, however, that he may have over 130 victims. Alcala's charisma and murderous output have a striking similarity to that of Ted Bundy. More than one police...
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MURDERS WITH RELIGION AT THE COREA true crime anthology with murders that seemed to have been inspired by religion...Lauren Stuart lived an idyllic life in the quiet town of Keego Harbor, Michigan with her husband and two children. But underneath the placid surface brewed a demonic depression inside Lauren. She and her family had been shunned from the Jehovah's Witness church years earlier for daring to send their children to college. The shunning...
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If ever a case illustrates the problems facing a parole board, then it must be the one of William Pierce. On the one hand, the opportunity for rehabilitation is a given in any civilized society. On the other, people are in prison for a reason. Most are dangerous, some extremely so.
William Pierce-he liked the sobriquet Junior, although there was nothing innocent about him-was released on parole from the Reidsville state prison in Georgia in May 1970....
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A true story of an impressionable divorced mother of two young boys who takes a holiday in Malta where she is befriended by a charismatic French couple.
Invited to visit their home in Paris, they introduce her to the shy, impeccably mannered, Claude. Romance flourishes and they have a son. The chance of her family living in the South of France seems to be a dream come true. But deeply hidden secrets arise, casting ever-darkening shadows beneath the...
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On January 14th 2009, Marissa DeVault entered the master bedroom that she and Dale Harrell shared, and beat him to near-death whilst he slept. She carried out several strikes on Harrell's head with a hammer, which in turn caused multiple skull fractures and he was taken to hospital... DeVault told law enforcement officials that Harrell was assaulted by an unknown assailant who had attempted to break into the home. Judging by her calm and relaxed demeanor,...
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In June of 1992, two teenage girls who have just graduated from high school, Suzie Streeter and Stacy McCall went to Suzie's house to spend the night after a really long day of celebration and parties. They were looking forward to moving to the next stage of their life. Suzie's mother, Sherrill Levitt was at the house as well. All three of them mysteriously vanished in the middle of the night and they have never been seen again.
2116) The Spoiled Brat Killer
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Taylor Marks appeared to be young lady with everything going for her. Financial security, a loving mother prepared, it seemed, to do anything for a much-loved daughter. Why then, would she pay a friend $5000 to kill that caring parent?
Like so much in life, Taylor Marks' story is much more complicated than appears on the surface. Today, as she sits in an Ohio prison, knowing that she will die without ever again being free, we can wonder about her...
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Dena Thompson is a woman who held power over every man that had the misfortune of falling for her charms...Dubbed a psychopath, Dena succeeded in fooling everyone around her, including investigators, with her lies and charm for over twenty years...Dena would post to Lonely Hearts columns and lure a steady stream of lovers and husbands into her world, eventually leaving each one emotionally and financially bankrupt.
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An anthology of true crime headed by the story of John Reginald Christie, a prolific serial killer active in England during the 1940s and 1950s. He murdered at least six women including his wife-and some believe this number is higher, as well as a baby-before being arrested, convicted, and hanged. He lured women to his flat under the guise of assisting them with some medical procedure such as abortion and strangled and raped them; oftentimes while...
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Twenty-four years prior to Emmit Till, the Hawaiian Islands was home to one of the most controversial racial trials in American history. Thalia Massie was found one late summer night in Honolulu wandering the streets. She was disheveled, beaten and battered. Claiming she was raped by a "gang of Hawaiians", the local police gathered a group of men whom they thought were most likely to be capable of such a crime. During the ensuing trial, the men were...
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Money is a great motivator for many things in life and it is an exceptional motivator when it comes to taking another person's life. It is not often that an individual succeeds in murdering someone and getting away with it, yet over the decades the number of cold cases have still stacked up. Some people seem to simply vanish and this is one of those cases. A family at a loss for answers, this case had a lasting impact on many as a strong willed and...
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