The Story of Hex Hollow
It was a murder made for headlines. Faith healing, witchcraft, and curses were all thought to have been a thing of the past, even by 1928 standards, but in the rural farmlands of Pennsylvania, the...
View ArticleThe Oakland Sniper
It was the morning of February 17, 2017, when shots rang out on Las Vegas Avenue. The wave of terror caused police to order a temporary shutdown of a nearby section of I-580, a school to be evacuated...
View ArticleMan Charged in Grinstead Disappearance
It’s been 12 years since authorities walked into the home of Ocilla, Georgia teacher Tara Grinstead after co-workers asked police to conduct a welfare check. Her purse and keys were gone, but her phone...
View ArticleThe Murder of Jayniah Watkins
De’asia Watkins didn’t have it easy growing up. Born to a mother suffering from mental illness and addiction issues and a father who was in and out of prison throughout most of her childhood, an...
View ArticleTo Murder Your Child in the Name of ‘Honour’
Shafilea Ahmed was just 17 years old when she was murdered by her parents. Witnessed by her younger siblings, this was a case of familial murder in the name of honour that shocked the UK. For seven...
View ArticleMaryland Custody Battle Turns Deadly
Divorce can be difficult, especially when there is a child involved. Even when a couple is willing to work with one another, when a child is placed in the center of the dispute things can get ugly...
View ArticleLicking County Roadway Slaying Solved
Bonita Parker was just 21-years-old when she was found dead of a single stab wound along the roadway of Mill Street in Pataskala, Ohio. Parker had no criminal record, but police later learned that she...
View ArticleThe Northampton Necrophiliac
Daycare worker Jessica Padgett took her lunch break at 1 PM on November 21, 2014. She had to go fax a few things from the home business owned by her mother and stepfather, as well as help her...
View ArticleThe Mysterious Murder of the Beautiful Cigar Girl
Dubbed “The Beautiful Cigar Girl” by New York newspapers, the discovery of Mary Roger’s body floating in the Hudson River is one of America’s oldest cold cases. As one of the biggest stories for its...
View ArticleGuided by Voices
Laurel Schlemmer had just returned from taking her eldest child to the bus stop when she drew a bath for her two younger children. Luke, age 3, and Daniel, age 6, were then taken into the bathroom,...
View ArticleThe Murder of Amy Allwine
The deep web is known for its questionable marketplaces. It’s common knowledge that anyone with an internet connection and a TOR browser can easily find anything they’d like to purchase with only a...
View ArticleBaby Mama Drama Turns Deadly
What began as an oh-so-familiar scandalous affair between a high school teacher and her student turned deadly in late 2016, when Felicia Barahona, 36, and her 4-year-old son, Miguel, were found dead...
View ArticleThe World’s Oldest Cold Case
The naturally mummified remains of the Gebelein Man – nicknamed Ginger on account of the strawberry blond locks that were still attached to his skull – were uncovered in 1896 by E. A. Wallis Budge on...
View ArticleA Dear Diary Moment
If you were to ask an 8-year-old girl where she felt safest, she might say it was her diary. It’s difficult to imagine a setting more innocent than a little girl’s diary. Gizzell Ford, 8, of Chicago...
View ArticleHazel Drew: The Real Life Laura Palmer
When the murder mystery series Twin Peaks made its debut in 1990 it was instantly a cult favorite. Focusing on the mysterious murder of Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) and the quirky detective tasked with...
View ArticleThe Murder of Schlock Movie Director Al Adamson
“Cheap-‘n’-cheesy” Hollywood film director Al Adamson spent the better part of his life producing low or no budget features for the drive-in movie market. Getting his start filming westerns, his...
View ArticleThe Chicago Sausage Factory Murder
If you grew up reading Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, then chances are you are familiar with a story titled “Wonderful Sausage.” In the story, a butcher becomes tired of his wife and rather than...
View ArticleInstagram Murderess Amanda Taylor
Amanda Taylor had been grief-stricken when her husband Rex spiraled into drug addiction, leading to his subsequent suicide. But that grief would quickly turn deadly, when in April of 2015, Taylor and...
View ArticleFatally Stabbed by a Power Ranger
Actor Ricardo Medina, Jr. starred in several small roles on television programs such as ER and CSI: Miami, but the role that Medina would become most famous for was that of the red ranger in Power...
View ArticleThe Smirking Wife Killer Who Almost Got Away With Murder
The seaside town of Southport is located in Merseyside, North West England and in 1999 it became the location of an extraordinary story of murder, manipulation and deceit. 24-year-old Mitchell Quy...
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