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 …
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 t…
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…
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…
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 Lor…
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 …
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…
