The Murder Blog
I Think My Neighbor Did It
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…
Mary Bell: Britian's Youngest Female Killer
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.
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 and Laci Peterson
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…
Blame the Swingers
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…
Murder In Talladega
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 …
The ABC Killer: Moses Sithole
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…
Murder of Mo
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…
Murder of Skylar Neese
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…
The Weepy-Voiced Killer
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. …
Murdered For Money
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…
Murder of an NFL Star
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…
Look What You Made Me Do
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…
Chameleon Killer
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…
Hi-Fi Murders
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 …
Be Afraid Of Never Living
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…
Kip Kinkel Hears Voices
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…
I-5 Killer: Randall Woodfield
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…
Murder at the Lululemon
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…
The Speed Freak Killers
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…
The Moody Nazi
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…
Dead People Are All On The Same Level
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…
The Halloween Killer
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…
The Jinx: Robert Durst
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…