50 Dollars and a New Name: The Jeremy Bryan Jones Story In September 2004, 43-year-old Lisa Nichols was raped and murdered inside her Turnerville, Alabama home just days after Hurricane Ivan tore through the region, and the man responsible had been...
The Grandparents Who Killed for Cattle Money Picture the most harmless looking couple you can imagine. Now picture that couple with a farm, a livestock scam, and a body count. Ray and Faye Copeland spent fifty years married before they became, at 66...
The Fixer, the Photos, and the Death of Tom Merriman In December 2020, a Solana Beach, California woman named Jade Janks drugged and killed the man she'd called her father for over two decades, then spent New Year's Day disguising his body as a pile...
The Serial Killer Shrine: The Shaye Groves and Frankie Fitzgerald Case Her bedroom walls were covered in framed photos of serial killers. Her bookshelf was stacked with true crime and gangster biographies. And when the moment came, prosecutors say...
The Captain Who Hired a Hitman: The Harding Story On September 26, 2022, the body of 53-year-old Sacramento HVAC contractor Michael Harding was discovered inside a vacant home for sale on Glasgow Road in Burkesville, Kentucky, shot four times. The...
The House of Horrors: Billy Mansfield's Family of Predators In 1980, along the Florida coast from Spring Hill to Daytona Beach, a chilling pattern emerged that Detroit investigators would later connect to serial killer Billy Mansfield Jr. Six women...
Blood in the Rocket City: The 1998 Franklin Family Massacre On March 10, 1998, seventeen-year-old Jeffrey Brendan Franklin attacked his own family inside their home at 1305 Camelot Drive in Huntsville, Alabama, killing his parents Gerald and Cynthia...
Fifty Dollars and a Bus Ticket: The Robert Alton Harris Story On July 5, 1978, sixteen-year-old best friends John Mayeski and Michael Baker were abducted, murdered, and left in the brush near Miramar Lake in San Diego, California, by Robert Alton...
The Real-Life Boogeyman: Albert Fish in 1920s New York In 1928 New York City, ten-year-old Grace Budd walks out of her family’s Manhattan apartment with a soft-spoken “farmer” named Frank Howard and disappears, pulling her parents, detectives, and...
The Beauty School Killer: What Really Happened in Wenatchee In February 2010, 17-year-old Mackenzie Cowell disappeared from the Academy of Hair Design in Wenatchee, Washington, and four days later her body was found on the banks of the Columbia...
Two Dead Fathers and a Demon: The 2008 Texas Exorcism Murder The 2008 murder of 13-month-old Amora Bain Carson in Tatum, Texas remains one of the most disturbing capital cases in modern American history. Her mother, Jesseca Bain Carson, and the...
Killed by a Fake Cop: The Kaylee Sawyer Story The 2016 murder of Kaylee Sawyer in Bend, Oregon shocked a town that thought it was untouchable. Edwin Enoc Lara, a Central Oregon Community College campus safety officer who had failed his police...
The Digital Leash: Serial Murder Under Government Supervision In Orange County, California, between October 2013 and March 2014, registered sex offenders Steven Dean Gordon and Franc Cano abducted, raped, and murdered at least five women while...
The Bleach Killer: The Kimberly Saenz Murders In April 2008, licensed vocational nurse Kimberly Clark Saenz committed one of the most disturbing healthcare serial killings in American history at a DaVita dialysis clinic in Lufkin, Texas. The homicide...
Nobody Would Miss Them: The Craigslist Murders of Richard Beasley In 2011, Richard Beasley of Akron, Ohio was convicted in the homicide investigation surrounding the murders of Ralph Geiger, 56, David Pauley, 51, and Timothy Kern, 47 — three men...
FBI Most Wanted to Motivational Speaker to Murderer: Edward Wayne Edwards Edward Wayne Edwards, born Charles Wayne Murray, was an armed robber who landed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list in 1961 before reinventing himself as a celebrated...
The Alexandria Assassin: The Strange Descent of Charles Severance In December 2003, Nancy Dunning, wife of Alexandria, Virginia Sheriff James Dunning, was shot and killed after answering a knock at her front door, launching a cold case homicide...
Fuzzy Slipper on the Gas Pedal: The Mackenzie Shirilla Murder Case On July 31, 2022, in Strongsville, Ohio, 17-year-old Mackenzie Shirilla drove a 2018 Toyota Camry into a brick wall at nearly 100 miles per hour, killing her 20-year-old boyfriend...
The Grief Book: How Kouri Richins Hid a Murder Behind a Children's Story In March 2022, Eric Richins of Kamas, Utah died of acute fentanyl intoxication, with five times the lethal dose detected in his system. His wife, Kouri Richins, was convicted of...
Burlap and Blueprints: Rex Heuermann and the Gilgo Beach Murders In April 2026, Rex Andrew Heuermann pleaded guilty to the murders of at least eight women in one of the most devastating serial homicide cases in Long Island history, after a...
Always Laughing: How Demorris Hunter Hid a Serial Killer Behind a Friendly Face In 2002, California parolee Demorris Andy Hunter shot and killed forty-one-year-old Ivora Denise Huntley in Oakland after she intervened in a domestic assault, then fled...
The Peacemaker: Jesse Alvarez and the Murder of Mario Fierro On February 1, 2021, Mario Fierro, a 37-year-old social studies teacher and football coach at Cathedral Catholic High School in San Diego, California, was shot and killed outside his home...
Black Swan Murder: The Trial of Ashley Benefield In Lakewood Ranch, Florida, on September 27, 2020, retired U.S. Navy intelligence officer Douglas Benefield was fatally shot by his wife, Ashley Benefield, a former professional ballerina and Trump...
Carroll Edward Cole: The Man Who Asked to Be Stopped Carroll Edward Cole was convicted of murdering at least thirteen women across California, Nevada, Wyoming, and Texas between 1971 and 1980, making him one of the most prolific and underdocumented...
