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1930, Perth, Western Australia, a young, unmarried couple sat with a decision to make.
Vivian Cooke, a local shop assistant, and his girlfriend Christine Edgar, a young woman
originally from Scotland, had just found out that Christine was pregnant…
In 1970, Robert John Bardo was born to an American father and a Korean mother, and as the youngest sibling of seven, his childhood was chaotic. Robert’s dad was in the US Air Force, causing the large family to move states several times, before final…
“He has the serpent tongue, the cloven tongue,” a victim’s brother addressed the South Caroloian courts in 2015 before turning to his brother’s killer. “You a devil, man!”
Irate, heartbroken and shaken with anger, Antwan James had then stormed out …
Two bloody gloves. One was found at the scene of a murder and the other at the number one suspect’s home. It seemed like an easy case to close. The problem, the gloves didn’t fit the man they thought was the killer. One of America’s greatest athlete…
2008, the early 2000’s, were a time of great change. The Dark Knight was in cinemas, the Blackberry Storm became the new popular mobile phone to have and yet in Boardman, Florida, a tale as old as time was playing out yet again.
In November of that…
December 1957 two seven year old girls were outside in the neighborhood streets of Sycamore, Illinois, playing in the newly fallen snow. They were best friends Kathy Sigman and Maria Ridulph, but witnesses also placed a third, rather unusual playmat…
More than 7 decades before the term “serial killer” was first used by investigators, the people of Austin, Texas were terrorized by a string of murders.
It was the mid-1880s when the first victim was found. She was 25-year-old Mollie Smith, who wo…
A Frightening Morning Discovery
Early in the morning of the 2nd of October 2017, 50-year-old Aaron Friar’s youngest daughters woke up and discovered that their father had gone missing. There were pools of blood on the family’s couch, and there was …
On January sixth, 2017, a man exited the bathroom near the baggage claim at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Broward County, Florida, and opened fire. He had a semi-automatic 9mm handgun and two clips with him and he emptied both o…
If you prefer to listen, you can hear this episode here:https://www.10minutemurder.com/chesters-murder/On March 13th, 2000, four young men met up at a house in Spearfish, South Dakota, to play video games together. The home belonged to Chester Allan…
On the morning of May 26th, 1990, 21-year-old Joe Ahrens was eating breakfast with a few of his friends and his mother, Marlene Warren, when somebody approached the front door. Through a window, Joe could see that it was somebody wearing a clown cos…
On the 6th of November 1955, Alton Coleman was born in Illinois. Because his mother was working three different jobs to support herself, Alton grew up in the care of his grandmother. From an early age, he was antisocial and didn’t get along with oth…
On the fourteenth of December 1865, a Polish carpenter and his wife welcomed their new son into the world. Seweryn Klosowski entered into a life of opportunity. Instead of apprenticing with his father and becoming a carpenter, as was commonly done i…
Johnny Lewis: A Rising Star’s Tragic Fall
On the 26th of September 2012, Los Angeles police responded to a 911 call in Los Feliz from a concerned member of the public who had heard a woman screaming from inside a house. In the driveway of the prope…
Out of the frying pan and into the fire, the case of serial killer Timothy Krajcir goes from bad to worse when investigators uncover a long web of sexual assaults and murders spanning decades. Follow the chain of overlooked clues and evidence as Tim…
The Maund family ran an automobile empire, beginning in 1957 with Charles Maund opening his own auto group, Charles Maund Oldsmobile-Cadillac. The success was passed on through the generations, and by the time Charles’ grandson Erik Maund was born, …
On April the 23rd, 2012, Lynnettee Keller and her teenage daughter, 18-year-old Kaylene Keller, were found dead in their family home. Both victims had been fatally shot. Their killer had also shot the Keller family pets to death, and then, gasoline …
During 2013, 17-year-old Tara Willenborg was excited for the rest of her life. She had moved out of her family home and started living at an apartment, which she shared with her 21-year-old partner, Josh Lewis. Despite their age gap, family and fri…
1960’s Newcastle upon Tyne, the withering, dying neighborhood of Scotswood became the scene of extremes. A new age of renovation and industry had the council knocking down and rebuilding streets of old Victorian terrace houses, leaving rows of derel…
George Stinney, Jr was born on October 21st, 1929. He grew up in Alcolu, South Carolina. His father, George Stinney, Sr worked at the local lumberyard and sawmill. The sawmill brought a lot of life to the small town employing many of its residents. …
Scott Peterson entered the world in 1972 to an industrious and prosperous family. Both of his parents owned and ran their own businesses and provided a stable, affluent life for their son. Lee and Jackie Peterson had six children between them from p…
On the 1st of February 2002, 7-year-old Danielle van Dam was at home with her two brothers. Her dad, Damon van Dam, looked after the kids while his wife, Brenda, spent the Friday evening out drinking with some of her friends.
At about half past ten…
August 14th, the summer of 2022, a couple just at the start of their journey into adulthood headed out for a day of hiking in the Talladega National Forest down in Alabama. It was a Sunday, the sun was shining and school started on Monday. The only …
A Difficult Beginning in Apartheid South Africa
In 1964, Moses Sithole was born in Vosloorus: a town near Boksburg Transvaal Province in apartheid South Africa. His mother and father, Sophie and Simon Sithole, had very little and with five children…