The Boys on the Tracks
By all accounts, Kevin Ives and Don Henry were pretty average teenagers. They weren’t trouble makers, by any regard, but they also weren’t above getting into a little mischief from time to time....
View ArticleS&S+ Episode 10 Preview w/ True Crime Garage
Somehow many of our listeners still don’t know that Sword and Scale PLUS is a show that we put out, between regular episodes, that we put out exclusively for our Patreon Supporters. To join just visit...
View ArticleWhat Happened To Suzy Lamplugh?
The disappearance of Suzy Lamplugh has been an unsolved crime for almost 31 years. Suzy was an estate agent in London who went to meet a client, Mr Kipper, for a house viewing and was never seen...
View ArticleMurdered by a Female Stalker
Stalking is generally thought of as a male crime, a behaviour carried out by rejected obsessed men who focus in on an individual woman and pursue them relentlessly. Stalking behaviour can appear after...
View ArticleThe Unusual Death of Rebecca Cornell
We’re all familiar with the story of Lizzie Borden and how she was alleged to have taken an axe and killed both her father and stepmother in cold blood within their own home. The murders, which were...
View ArticleBlack Metal Murderer Matthias Schoormann
32-year-old Matthias Schoormann, AKA Troll, had played guitar in a black metal band from Leer, Germany known as Carpe Noctem (Seize the Night) from 1997 until the band parted ways in 2004. While his...
View ArticleThe Christmas Day Go-Go Massacre
If you’ve ever gone out for the night, chances are you’ve been denied entry to a club at one point or another. Most people either walk away disappointed, try to convince the bouncer to allow them...
View ArticleAaron Hernandez Found Hanged in His Cell
“It is to be it is up to me,” reads one of Aaron Hernandez’s tattoos, a somewhat-inspirational quote from his father. Hernandez describes its meaning in an interview, “It basically says my life is in...
View ArticleThe Mysterious Death of Chuck Morgan
Throughout the 1970s, Arizona had become the go-to place to funnel drugs and to launder ill-gotten funds. This was largely due to lax state laws which allowed individuals to purchase land through...
View ArticleDeadly Standoff in a Sleepy English Village
In July 2010, the small sleepy village of Rothbury in Northumberland, England found itself under siege. The chosen location for the final showdown of a man hunted by police for the last seven days...
View ArticleThe Grade A Student Who Murdered His Teacher
On 28 April 2014, Will Cornick, a 15-year-old student at Corpus Christi Catholic College in Leeds, England, walked calmly up to his teacher in the middle of class with an 8-inch kitchen knife in his...
View ArticleThe Double Life and Tragic Death of Stacy Duke
When Stacy Duke was found strangled on a garage floor, allegedly by her boyfriend, no one knew that their friend and coworker had died such a sudden and tragic death. It wouldn’t be until identifying...
View ArticleForever Enduring, Always Ready
On December 6, 2011, the bodies of Michael Roark, 19, an army soldier stationed at Georgia’s Fort Stewart, and his girlfriend, Tiffany York, 17, were discovered by two fishermen near the military...
View ArticleThe Curious Fortune Teller Murders
When a welfare check on a fortune teller and her daughter leads to the discovery of a gruesome double-murder, police are baffled to find the victim’s heads and hands covered in a gallon of white...
View ArticleThe Fitbit Murder Trial
When police arrived at the Ellington, Connecticut home of Connie and Richard Dabate just before Christmas in 2015 they were met with a bizarre scene. Connie had been found in the basement, shot twice...
View ArticleJudge Shannon Holmes Is Not Having It
It isn’t always inappropriate to take pleasure in witnessing a good verbal smackdown. We delight in a brutal – but clever – delivery that takes a deserving someone down a peg. Where it becomes...
View ArticleThe Exorcism of Terrance Cottrell, Jr.
Being a single mother can be a struggle, particularly when that mother has little to no resources to turn to. Being a single mother with little to no resources to turn to when your child has autism...
View ArticleA Deadly Case of Mistaken Identity
It was just after midnight on April 23, 2017, when seven bounty hunters and bondsmen cornered their suspect’s vehicle in the dimly lit parking lot of a Clarksville, Tennessee Walmart. As the men...
View ArticleThe 14-Year-Old Teen Who Shot His Parents
On 8 March 2013, 14-year-old Nathon Brooks shot both his parents while they were in bed sleeping at their home in Grant County, Washington. In a recent BBC documentary aired in the UK entitled ‘I Shot...
View Article“The Mummy Returns” Stabbing
Dr. Anthony Nicassio was an internal medicine specialist and primary care physician for the greater-Pittsburgh area. As a medical practitioner for the past 41 years, Dr. Nicassio has been rated as one...
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