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Will mankind ever understand its own mind? Only if it one day learns to do so will the crimes of Edmund Emil Kemper III begin to make any sort of sense. Perhaps the splendour of his name gives a clue to the ambitions his mother had for the new born baby, who emerged into the world just a week before Christmas in 1948. Perhaps the hint in that name of a sort of Hollywood-esque cum Hammer House of Horror quality, just the wrong side of the furthest...
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Young love is infectious. The future is an open book, each page to be filled as the couple go along. Hope blossoms; everything is rosy. Amy Wroe Bechtel and her husband Steve were an active, outdoor adventure type couple making the small town of Lander, Wyoming a perfect location for their second home together. They had only recently moved into their compact ex miner's cottage on Climbers Row when their paradise was punctured. Because, on July 24th,...
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Robert Lee Yates is the most prolific serial killer in Washington State history, with at least eighteen victims to his name. Mostly, these are prostitutes murdered during a two-year period in the mid to late 1990s in Spokane, Washington State. It is more than possible that we can trace the beginnings of Yates' murderous personality to before he was even born. His father, Robert Lee Yates senior, was one of ten siblings who grew up on a Tennessee farm....
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Juanita Jean Nelson was blonde, beautiful and popular. But unlike Natalee Holloway, her disappearance went widely unnoticed even in her own hometown of Boulder Creek, California. Boulder Creek is not the kind of place where girls go missing as a result of criminal activity, even ones who, like Juanita, had a history of running away from home.
Indeed, when her mother reported Juanita missing, shortly after she was last seen, the police were slow to...
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The charges pursued against Adele Craven turned into, at the time, one of the longest running and most expensive criminal cases in Cincinnati history. It is still a crime surrounded by uncertainty, despite confessions from three people. Adele's involvement is held in doubt in many quarters.
Imagine she was not involved—the horror, the insanity of going through firstly the death of a spouse, followed by years of stress and tension. Ultimately facing...
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On July 20, 1984, fifty-eight-year-old Father John Kerrigan of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Ronan, Montana, disappeared. He had been assigned to the church for only four days... On the evening he went missing, he visited a bakery across the street from the church and chatted with some of the parishioners. He left to go back to the church and that was the last time anyone ever seen him... The next day, several bloody clothes were found along...
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Single mom gives birth to a daughter, has her own problems and cannot cope with her baby. For some reason—post natal depression, desperation, wickedness; we know not what—she kills her. Simple. Black and white. Except, of course, that is not how it was. As of today, nobody has been convicted of Caylee's murder. It is not even clear that she was a victim of homicide. Casey has served time, but for relatively minor crimes associated with her daughter's...
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The Jamisons disappeared on a warm October day. It would be four years before their bodies were discovered. They were not missed for several days; neither worked and Madyson was home schooled. They were known for setting off at short notice and without informing friends and family. Nobody really noticed their absence, at first.
When their disappearance finally reached the ears of the police, they set out to find what had happened to the family. The...
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Martha Marek was a black widow before her time, seeing murder as a means of collecting insurance money. She murdered her husband, daughter, and elderly relative all of whom had benefits that would be bequeathed to her after their deaths. After she killed one of her roommates, the state sentenced her to death by way of guillotine... But what inspired her murders? Her own husband had initially coached Martha on how to defraud insurers... by chopping...
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Some problems become more troublesome the longer they are left. The aching molar which remains untended; the lawn which is left uncut. The same might be said of the case of Ray Gricar. Although, of course, the disappearance and possible death of a man, one with a high local profile, is much more serious than sore teeth or an unkempt yard.
Gricar was last seen on Friday April 15th 2005. It was a glorious day—one of the first of the year in which...
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Gary Hilton will not walk free again. One way or another, he is going to die in prison. If the gurney does not get him, then old age will. Currently, he sits in his cell paying penance for the deaths of four people including that of Cheryl Dunlap, whom he murdered in the Apalachicola National Forest, which lies in the north of Florida. He received the death penalty for that homicide.
'He will most likely die in prison and most certainly never see...
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The Strangest DisappearanceWhen a person goes missing, the tragic consequences spread far. Family, friends, even investigators, become affected by the loss. Guilt, hope, fear, panic and other emotions equally as painful inhabit every waking moment of those who are most closely impacted by the incident. For all that, there is no denying that when it is a child who disappears, or a young woman, or mother of small children, the attention given by the...
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On February 19th of 2005, Danielle Imbo and Richard Petrone disappeared after leaving a restaurant in Philadelphia. Danielle has been separated from her husband while Richard was her "on-again, off-again" boyfriend. Danielle had a young son while Richard had a teenage daughter. Richard had exchanged threats with Danielle's ex-husband before while Danielle herself wanted "space" from both of them. The FBI entered the investigation in 2008 and the case...
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Best friends forever. The bond between teenage girls can be strong. And often is. That was certainly the situation between eighteen-year-old Susan Smalley and her great mate, Stacie Madison, who was just a year younger.
The two were classic late eighties girls. Lots of carefully styled hair, innocent smiles and a love of life. Their bubbly personalities and bright intellects lit up wherever they went. A friend was holding a party in Arlington, which...
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On October 5th, 2009 workmen were carrying out maintenance along the northwards side of the M5, clearing the undergrowth, when they came across some thin, cheap black plastic bin bags, tied across the top with building twine. Inside were bones and a skull. After thirteen years of fear over what had happened to Melanie Hall, the worst news was confirmed. These were the remains of her body. Although she had officially been declared dead, five years...
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On December 28th, 2010, Billie Dunn had an early shift at her place of work. The job was not great, but it provided an income—something people do not sniff away in towns like Colorado City. She had a twelve hour shift ahead, so her daughter Hailey would be alone for most of the day. However, with father Clint living just opposite and slightly down the road, Billie was confident that Hailey would be fine, and would probably visit her father for some...
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David Berkowitz, aka the Son of Sam, plead guilty to eight separate attacks that terrorized New York City in the hot summer of 1976. His weapon of choice was a.44 caliber revolver which he used to kill the six and wound seven others. The attacks put the entire city on alert and Berkowitz managed to elude New York's finest for over a month as he taunted them with letters. After his arrest, he confessed to the crimes but maintained he was under orders...
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Lisa and Rob Whedbee seemed to have it all. He ran a successful insurance business; she was the former high school cheerleader whose pretty looks, blonde hair and bouncy personality made her the centre of social gatherings.
Indeed, their romance was like something out of one of those middle-class Disney movies the company poured out in the seventies. Rob was the football team captain; the jock with brains as well as brawn; the guy who got the girl...
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His reign of terror lasted from the summer of 1984 to August of 1985 when he was finally captured. During this time, Richard Ramirez terrorized the people of Los Angeles before making his way to the San Francisco Bay Area, getting the nickname of the "Night Stalker" because of his propensity to invade homes well past midnight. Claiming to be a Satanist, Ramirez brutalized his victims beyond human comprehension. Now featured in such programs as True...
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From the side angle of his most recent mugshot, Harvey the Hammer still looks like the murderer he is. Flat of nose, shaven headed, protruding chin on his jowly, hanging face, this now old man still retains the features of a childhood nightmare.
But from front on, we see his eyes. They are overhung by flabby eyebrows, and sitting deep inside their sockets, seem dark and broody. There is a half-smile on his face. Not a smirk, not a smile of smugness,...
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