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The 1960s. Every channel on the TV had some sort of cheesy comedy ripe with ill-timed laugh tracks and poorly executed jokes. But there was one comedy series out there that dared to stand out from the rest. Hogan’s Heroes was a CBS series loosely ba…
Derelict, desolate and still ravaged from the constant raids and bombings of the World Wars, 10 Rillington Place was a desperate home for desperate people. Jutting out of the war-torn street of Notting Hill in London, rubble, refuse and even human r…
Pamela Smart’s Early Life: The Perfect Cheerleader
Strikingly beautiful and outrageously popular, Pamela Smart just seemed to have it all and that’s just the way that things had always been for her. She was born on August 16th, 1967, in Coral Gable…
The Emergence of the Serial Killer Concept
Today the concept of a serial killer, and even the very term itself, is so ingrained in our cultures and in our minds that it’s almost impossible to imagine a point in time when we weren’t constantly talki…
Early Struggles and Neglect
In the 1930s, a little boy named James Jones was being raised by a pair of struggling parents. His father, also named James, had been injured in a chemical warfare attack in the first World War, making it difficult for h…
Charles Albright was born in Amarillo, Texas, on August 10, 1933. His biological mother dropped him off at an orphanage where he was later adopted by Fred and Delle Albright. It’s said that Delle Albright was a fiercely protective and somewhat overb…
Beneath the guise of a friendly neighbor who delighted children with his clownish antics at local parties, John Wayne Gacy hid a darkness that would forever haunt the American psyche. Dubbed the "Killer Clown," Gacy's name became synonymous with pur…
The Murder of Ben Renick: Snake Breeder, Millionaire, and a Deadly Betrayal
June 17th, 2017, in Montgomery County, Missouri, law enforcement responded to a 911 call that you just don’t see every day. As they pulled into a farm sprawling over sevent…
Today when most of us hear about the state of Florida, it is almost always quickly followed by some quirky story about someone acting incredibly and hilariously stupid (Florida Man), but amidst that light and lively sensation, it can sometimes be di…
In America, Indigenous women and girls are ten times more likely to go missing than any other race or nationality living within the borders. But within that cold and startling statistic hides one even more alarming for the communities it impacts.
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27-year-old Kevin James Loibl was infatuated with pop star Christina Grimmie. It had started as a casual enjoyment of Christina’s music, but had quickly snowballed into complete obsession. She was the first thing he thought about when he woke up in …
It’s 1981. A rural and sleepy American town gathered together, a community united under one banner. The car park rings with the unmistakably deep clink of a shotgun loading before all Hell breaks loose. This was the town of Skidmore; a town deadset …
Thomas Warren Whisenhant came into the world on January 29th, 1947, in Prichard, Alabama. He was the last and final child born to Willie and Emma Whisenhant, but Thomas’ childhood wasn’t anything like the one his three older siblings had shared.
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Waukesha, Milwaukee, the third most populated county in the state of Wisconsin, and known as “Guitar Town” because they are the home of Les Paul, pioneer of the electric guitar. And they have a fantastic annual tradition. Every year the city hosts a…
“I’m wondering if somebody can do a wellness check on my brother and his family.” Came the call from one concerned sister to dispatchers around the end of 2019. “They’ve been really sick for probably like the past week and a half, and I can’t seem t…
“He would explain to me that some people were born whores, and that I was one, and I was a slut and nobody’d want me but him,” a girl told the courts. These are words that are so difficult to hear in any testimony, let alone when we know that the gi…
“You just don’t get it” a Washington County judge spoke to the defendant in a courtroom earlier this year. “It’s obvious to me that you feel justified. You don’t take any responsibility for the outcome of your actions… I think you really could poss…
So the story goes, in 1983 in Brooklyn, New York, young John Gotti, not quite the infamous leader of America’s biggest crime syndicate just yet, was approached by the leaders of his crime syndicate and ordered to commit a hit on one of their own. Jo…
“I’m going to have to kill that security guard…” These chilling words, whether heard or read, are horrifying enough on their own. But they become even more sickening when we realize that the sinister intentions behind them were brought to life just …
Every once in a while, a person comes along that has us asking whether psychopaths are made or if they are simply born that way.
To add to that debate is Joanna Dennehy.
Joanna was born in 1983 in St Albans, England, to loving and kind parents. He…
It was the late 1970s, and the city of Columbus, Georgia was being terrorized by serial murderers who were targeting female victims. Several black prostitutes had been found dead in the area, and a killer who the media had nicknamed as the “Stocking…
For most of us, the phrase "look at what you made me do" sounds melodramatic, something straight out of a soap opera that we’d never take seriously. But for others, it's a bone-chilling reminder that their fate lies completely in someone else's cont…
An Aspiring Officer and Her Roommate
In 2013, former Army veteran and aspiring police officer Maribel Ramos disappeared after a chilling 911 call. Her seemingly perfect roommate, KC Joy, harbored a dangerous obsession that turned deadly. Join us as…
For many of us, watching horror movies and listening to true crime podcasts is the closest we will ever knowingly come to the killers living among us, but that wasn’t the case for many young men in America during the 1960’s and 70’s.
And the killer…