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Nearly six weeks after Lynette Dawson disappeared, on February 18th, 1982, her husband Chris finally reported her missing. He stuck to his story. There was nothing to be worried about. She had left to join a religious group after they had argued about her spending addiction. It was sad, but these things happen. He would get over it. Don't worry.
Yet the notion that Lynette would abandon her two children seems impossible to swallow. She was a loving...
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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 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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"We're no nearer to a solution now than we were when the body was found. For all I know, we're farther away from one."Can any words be harder for a loved one to receive? No parent can conceive of finding that their sixteen year old daughter has been murdered. For two days Beverly Jarosz's parents, Thaddeus and Eleanor, along with her sister Carol, held out hope that there would be a quick solution to the crime. Those forty-eight hours must have flashed...
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They were some of the coldest, most savage crimes in the entire history of the United States; murder, rape, assault and burglary. Victims were tracked and stalked; the violations committed against them vicious and merciless. Men, women, children; none were safe from his deadly attacks.
But the Golden State Killer, as he came to be known, had another wicked, callous side. Not only would he destroy his victims' lives, but he would then taunt them,...
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Vanessa's family had become increasingly concerned on the 22nd April when they failed to get replies to texts sent to her. Her sister, Marya, visited the nearby base, to check on Vanessa's wellbeing Without explanation, she was turned away. Only after a panic-stricken night were the Guillen's told that Vanessa was not on the base and appeared to be missing. The authority's opacity continued for some time, the family's lawyer even accusing officers...
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The murder of Jeanne Clery shocked anyone who read the story. A young and beautiful college student away from home for the first time falling prey to a random and violent stranger. The stuff of every parent's nightmare. But Clery's parents were determined to do something about her death, to not have her daughter simply be another forgotten statistic. Their daughter's death would usher in the Clery Act which would be implemented around college campuses...
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Jimmy Snuka had a history of abuse toward him and his current girlfriend, Nancy Argentino was no exception. Her family had warned her to get out of the relationship and the young woman started to see their point of view. But the next time the family was due to get together was on the weekend of May 14th, 1983..Nancy was dead. Jimmy Snuka was one of the bigger names to emerge from the heyday of professional wrestling — the 1980s. The Fijian, born...
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To commit murder is an act beyond the comprehension of most people. But to do so, and then obliterate the memory of the victim seems a step further down in the basement of human activity. This is what happened to Holly Maddux, a pretty, popular thirty year old from Tyler,Texas. Although it soon became apparent who her killer was, it would be twenty four years before he was finally brought to justice, and made to pay penance for his crime.In that time...