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Anna Moriah Wilson, known as Mo, grew up surrounded by people with a deep love for sports. Her entire family was athletic in some way, and as a young child, Mo quickly fell in love with competitive cycling. She was also a talented skier, but cycling…
In the summer of 2012 Morgantown, West Virginia, was the home to three teenage girls, each one of them on their own separate journeys through life.
First in the group was the sixteen-year-old Skylar Neese, a girl who only a few years before that su…
On New Years’ Day, 1981, Minnesota police received a strange call at 3am. A male caller with an unsettling high-pitched voice simply gave them directions to a location, telling them that if they went there, they would find a girl who had been hurt. …
On the 28th of January 1971, Dana Ewell was born to two highly successful parents. His father, Dale Ewell, had become a multi-millionaire through aircraft sales after leaving the US Air Force, and the two Ewell children grew up surrounded by privile…
36-year-old professional football player Steve McNair enjoyed a successful and lucrative career in the NFL. The Houston Oilers drafted him third overall in 1995, and two years later, he was named their regular starting quarterback when the team move…
A mistress isn’t just a term used for a woman having an extramarital affair, it is also a term that describes a woman in a position of control. David Harris had two women in his life, a mistress and a wife. The question was, which one had more cont…
In 1978, Marlyse Honeychurch and her two young daughters vanished into thin air. The last person to see Marlyse was her boyfriend, Terry Rasmussen, who spent time with her and her family on Thanksgiving. During the holiday, Marlyse got into a dis…
On the 22nd of April, 1974, six men drove to a home audio shop in Utah. They planned on robbing the store, taking hostages, and killing anybody who they encountered inside.
At the time the men arrived, the store was just about to close, and there …
Adrienne Shelly was an actress, film director, and screenwriter. She became known from acting in independent films such as Hal Hartley's The Unbelievable Truth (1989) and Trust (1990). She wrote, directed, and co-starred in the 2007 Waitress, a post…
On the 20th of May 1998, 15-year-old Kipland Kinkel, who was known as “Kip”, was caught with a gun in his locker at school. One of his friends had recently stolen the .32 caliber pistol, and had sold it to Kip for $110 in cash. After the pistol’s or…
Outside the obvious example of O.J. Simpson, there aren’t many cases of a football player who was drafted to an NFL team and then took a dark path in life which led them to commit murder. (Aaron Hernandez and Sergio Brown being a couple others) Unfo…
Early in the morning of March 12th, 2011, the Lululemon store in Bethesda, Maryland, was about to open. The manager arrived at the front door, ready to open the shop for the day, when she noticed that the door had been left unlocked. Looking through…
Wesley Howard Shermantine Jr. and Loren Joseph Herzog lived in a small-town neighborhood where there weren’t many other kids to play with. The two boys lived on the same road in Linden, California, and quickly became inseparable. Even when Loren and…
On Sunday July 21st, 2013, a couple pulled their car off the road while driving through a suburban neighborhood in South Carolina. They got out of the vehicle and popped the hood open, then stood and waited for help. It wasn’t long before two people…
In the 1950s, 19-year-old Charles Starkweather went on a killing spree, bringing his 14-year-old girlfriend with him.According to the FBI, there is one key difference between a serial killer and a spree killer: while serial killers have a cooling-of…
In 1973, many American families believed it was safe for their young children to wander the streets alone. Neighborhoods were considered to be a safe place, full of trustworthy people who looked out for one another. It was a year before Ted Bundy an…
When Robert Durst was a young child, his mother climbed to the roof of their family home, and jumped to her death. Years later, Robert would claim that he had seen the entire thing, which his younger brother, Douglas, denied was true.
It wasn’t ou…
The promise of fame. The opportunity to have your picture seen by thousands of people. Reinaldo Rivera looked for young women that he thought would be excited at the chance to become a model. He would approach them and see if they were interested i…
On the 6th of March, 1995, 32-year-old Scott Bernard Amedure was selected to appear on The Jenny Jones Show. He was a fan of the show - in fact, one of his neighbors described him as being “a talk-show junkie.” The episode was titled “Revealing Same…
Have you ever had that feeling that you were being watched? A chill runs down your spine. The hair on the back of your neck stands up. Perhaps you chalk it up to being paranoid and shake it off. But maybe, just maybe, your feeling was right.
Laur…
When Jarmecca Yvonne Whitehead, who went by Nikki, was only 18 years old, she gave birth to twin girls. She named them Jasmiyah Kaneesha and Tasmiyah Janeesha, Jas and Tas for short. When Nikki was 25, she met Robert Head, a 55 year old truck drive…