The Murder Blog
The Babysitter Who Knew Too Much: Kimberly Cargill Capital Murder
June 18th, 2010. A woman drives down a dark Texas road with a body in her car. Five days later, that same woman will sit in court fighting to keep her kids. But the one witness who could have testified against her? She's already dead. This is the st…
The Fake Pregnancy That Led to Murder: Taylor Parker's Deadly Deception
You know that feeling when you realize someone's been lying to you? Now take that lie and stretch it out for ten months. Fake ultrasounds. A gender reveal party. A baby shower. And imagine what happens when that person decides the only way to kee…
Bloody Bill Anderson: The Civil War Guerrilla Who Created Jesse James
In September 1864, a Confederate guerrilla named Bloody Bill Anderson stopped a train in Centralia, Missouri, lined up 22 unarmed Union soldiers, and had them executed one by one. Then he scalped them. An hour later, he ambushed a Union company a…
Burned and Flushed: The Dennis Nilsen Serial Killer Case
Between 1978 and 1983, Dennis Nilsen murdered at least twelve young men in North London. He kept their bodies as companions, burned them in his garden, and when that became impossible, tried flushing them down the toilet. Police ignored survivors…
Bible Belt Strangler: The 40-Year Hunt for a Killer Who Targeted Redheads
There's a stretch of Interstate 75 in Tennessee where, in January 1985, they found a young woman's body down an embankment. Bound. Strangled. Pregnant. Red hair. She'd stay nameless for 33 years. They called her Campbell County Jane Doe. Her name…
Thanksgiving Day 2012: How Byron Smith Executed Two Teen Burglars
Sixty-four years old. Retired security engineer. Been burglarized so many times he's sleeping with a gun. Then on Thanksgiving 2012, two teenagers break into his basement. Byron Smith was ready. He'd moved his truck to make the house look empty. …
The Barron Wisconsin Murders and Jayme Closs’s Escape
October 15th, 2018. A 911 call comes in from a rural Wisconsin home. When deputies arrive four minutes later, they find two parents shot dead and their 13-year-old daughter gone. The killer was twenty seconds down the road when police flew past h…
Keith and Elaine Dardeen: A Family Trying to Escape Death
November 1987. A young family in rural Illinois was weeks away from escaping a wave of unsolved murders. Keith didn't show up for work. Police found his pregnant wife, his toddler son, and a newborn baby girl dead in their waterbed. Keith was in a f…
Self-Defense or Murder? The Stillwater Bail Bonds Office Shooting
August 9th, 2017. Stillwater, Oklahoma. A man walks into a bail bonds office thinking he's there to talk about selling his car. Minutes later, he's climbing out a window, trying to escape. Then a gunshot. He falls to the pavement outside, dying from…
Richard Ramirez: Inside the Mind of the Night Stalker
In the summer of 1985, Southern California became a place where people slept with guns under their pillows and left every light in the house on. Because Richard Ramirez didn't care who you were. Didn't matter if you were 79 years old or six. Man,…
Is Lucy Letby A Baby Killer: The Medical Evidence Is Under A Microscope
Picture a neonatal nurse convicted of murdering seven babies. The evidence seemed solid. The case seemed closed. Then 14 international medical experts reviewed every single death and said wait, no crime was committed here. What actually killed these…
The 50-Year Grudge: Carl Ericsson's Fatal Revenge on His High School Rival
January 31st, 2012. A doorbell rings in Madison, South Dakota. Norman Johnson, age 72, walks to his front door. The man standing there asks Norman to confirm his identity. Norman says yes. And then everything Norman built over seven decades ends …
Missing: What Really Happened to Timmothy Pitzen?
May 13th, 2011. A six-year-old boy checks out of a Wisconsin water park resort with his mother. Four hours later, she's spotted alone at a grocery store. By morning, she's dead. The note she left behind has kept the FBI searching for over a decade. …
Betrayed By Blood: The Daughter Who Orchestrated Her Family's Slaughter
What would you do if the person you loved most in the world was the one who planned your murder? Terry Caffey survived five gunshots, a burning house, and the loss of his entire family. But nothing prepared him for what came next: learning his own d…
The Shoe Fetish Slayer: Inside Jerry Brudos' House of Horrors
In 1968, a young woman selling encyclopedias door-to-door knocked on the wrong house in Portland, Oregon. The man who answered seemed interested in buying her books. He invited her inside his garage. She was never seen alive again. What happened in …
Mark Branch: The Grocery Clerk Who Thought He Was Jason Voorhees
October 24th, 1988. Greenfield, Massachusetts. A 19-year-old grocery clerk puts on a hockey mask, grabs a knife, and walks to his victim's house. He's about to make his favorite horror movie a reality. The victim? An 18-year-old college student who …
The Halifax Slasher and the Deadly Power of Collective Fear
November 1938. Halifax, England. For two weeks, an entire town believed they were being hunted by a razor-wielding maniac. Businesses shut down. Mobs formed. An innocent man died. But here's what nobody saw coming: the attacker they were hunting …
Bodies in the Bayou: Is a Serial Killer Stalking Houston?
Twenty-four bodies pulled from Houston's bayous in under a year. Social media exploded with serial killer theories. A promising college student vanishes after a night out, only to be found days later in the water with no signs of trauma. But here's …
From Unsolved Mysteries to Hollywood: The Jeepers Creepers Murder Case
Easter Sunday, 1990. A couple playing license plate games on a back road in Michigan. An aggressive driver in a beat-up van. And a bloody sheet at an abandoned schoolhouse. What Ray and Marie Thornton saw that day would help solve a murder, launc…
Redrum Murder Case: Chicago Teen Charged in Six 2020 Deaths
A teenager with a backwards name for murder. Six lives taken in nine months. Three kids watching their father shot down while waiting for a puppy. This is the story of the allegations against Antonio Reyes, and the four-year investigation that prose…
The Monster of Florence: Italy's Unsolved Serial Killer Case That Stumped Police for 50 Years
Between 1968 and 1985, someone hunted young couples in the hills outside Florence, Italy. Same gun. Same ritual. Sixteen victims. The police arrested the wrong people again and again while bodies kept piling up. In 2024, DNA evidence proved what eve…
Inside the Murder Castle: The True Story of H.H. Holmes and His Killing Factory
In 1893, a pharmacist in Chicago built a hotel specifically designed to kill his guests. He installed gas lines in the bedrooms, secret passages in the walls, and a crematorium in the basement. His victims disappeared during the World's Fair, and th…
The Perfect Neighbor Murder Case: How Two Years of Racist Threats Ended in Death
On a June evening in Florida, a mother knocked on a neighbor's door to talk about kids playing in a field. Behind that locked door, a woman grabbed a gun. What happened next would expose how two years of harassment, racist threats, and 911 calls cou…
The Killer Clown: John Wayne Gacy's Serial Killing Double Life
A successful businessman. A beloved community volunteer. A children's entertainer who dressed as a clown for charity events. And beneath his house, the bodies of 33 young men and boys. This is the story of how John Wayne Gacy fooled an entire commun…