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The Cold Storage Killer
On 2 June 1991, 23-year-old Denise Huber was driving back to her parents’ home in Newport Beach in Orange County, California late at night when the rear tire of her car blew out. She pulled over to...
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Charges Brought After 47 Years in Child Abduction Cold Case
A 63-year-old man has been charged with abduction and murder in a case which has haunted Australia for 47 years. In a chilling echo of the infamous missing Beaumont children case of 1966 in Adelaide,...
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“Chop Shop” Owner Charged With Dismembering Couple
April 21, 2008, was the last time 22-year-old Jarnell Sanders and his girlfriend, 24-year-old Candice Gillard, were known to be alive. Four days later they were reported missing. By then, New Orleans...
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Broken Dreams in Dallas
18-year-old Ledajrick Rajae “L.D.” Cox had his entire life ahead of him. He was formally crowned homecoming king, as well as prom king, and served as a wide receiver on his high school’s football...
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Showdown at the Greenville Nissan Dealership
Ramon Michael Hutchinson, AKA Raymond Hutchinson had been an outlaw on the run. Wanted for failure to appear in court after he had been charged with first-degree drug charges and assaulting a police...
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Gang Members Sacrifice Soul to the Devil
The United States has no shortage of gangs. Gangs like the Gambino Crime Family or the Bloods and Crips have been sewn into our collective culture. We idolize them in music but we fear the very sight...
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When Rough Gets Too Rough
Have you ever had rough sex? It’s fabulous. Hair gets pulled, backs scratched, necks bitten … you get the picture. For some couples, adding a little “spice” to the bedroom is what makes their...
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“‘Til Death Do We Part” No Longer
On May 30, 2017, an unusual ceremony was performed for a fallen French police officer. Xavier Jugelé was killed in an April terrorist attack by ISIS on Paris’s Champs-Élysées, leaving behind his...
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70 Years for Father Who Threw His Baby off a Bridge
On 5 July 2015, 23-year-old Tony Moreno walked the two miles from his home with his 7-month-old baby Aaden Moreno to Arrigoni Bridge in Connecticut before throwing his baby son over the edge. Aaden...
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Oklahoma Man Rescues Infants
Those of you familiar with the stories we cover here on Sword and Scale know all too well that there have been far too many cases of parents tragically murdering their own children. Whether it’s to...
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Widow Finds Husband’s Murderer on Facebook
Memphis, Tennessee contractor J.P. Shelley had been at a home giving a customer a routine estimate when both he and the homeowner became the victims of a robbery. Three teens held the men at gunpoint,...
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How Vigilante Justice Got an Innocent Man Killed
Thanks to superheroes like Batman and The Punisher, we as a society tend to romanticize the vigilante. They act as the hammer of the people: crushing injustice, righting wrongs, succeeding where the...
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The Witch Hunt of Queens
When we read history textbooks about witch hunts, we feel a certain detachment. The Salem Witch Trials were over 300 years ago, long enough for us to separate ourselves from the series in a meaningful...
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Faith Healing No Match for Modern Medicine
Modern medicine has come a long way. We’ve gone from leeches to pills, amputation to surgery, certain death to a minor inconvenience. We’ve made such great advances over the course of our history that...
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Unsolved: The Little Red Riding Hood Murder
On 27 June 1946, the body of 12-year-old Muriel Drinkwater was found in woods just one-quarter of a mile away from her home in Penllergaer in Swansea, Wales. The little girl had been raped, beaten and...
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A Ghost Called Betty
At Odessa High School in West Texas, stories of the ghost of Betty Williams circulate wildly, gathering momentum with each new year and high school intake. The school auditorium is her favoured place...
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Family Band Murder-Suicide Attempt
On June 15, 2017, Stark County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to a 911 hangup call from a residence. When police arrived on the scene they found the front door had been left ajar and inside a body had...
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The Spalding Murder Sweethearts
Love can make you do crazy things. When you’re young and in love you feel as though you can take on the world, that no one can stop you, that what you have will last forever and nothing else will...
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Bald Men Have Never Had It Worse
Bald, they say, is beautiful. Despite society’s side-eye towards those of us whose hair is receding, there are a lot of positives that come from being bald. For example, Patrick Stewart doesn’t look...
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A Father’s Death, A Daughter’s Secret
When 38-year-old Steven Robards began suffering stomach pains and stiffness in his limbs on 18 February 1993 in Fort Worth, Texas, his 16-year-old daughter called on a neighbour worried about what was...
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