On the tragic evening of November 13, 1974, a young man shoots and kills his entire family with a 35-caliber Marlin rifle as his parents, two brothers and two sisters apparently sleep. The gruesome murder of the DeFeo family shakes up the sleepy Long Island town of Amityville—and leads to decades of horror storytelling. Ronald “Butch” DeFeo Jr. told people that night at an Amityville bar that his parents had been shot inside his home, an upscale dwelling with a...

The Chilling Details of the Murder of Ashley Ellerin and the "Hollywood Ripper" Trial In February 2001, Ashton Kutcher arrived to pick Ellerin up for a date—but she didn't answer the door because she had already been stabbed to death by accused serial killer Michael Gargiulo  On Oct. 18, 2019, a jury recommended that Michael Gargiulo be sentenced to death for the murders of Ashley Ellerin and Maria Bruno. Sentencing is scheduled for Feb. 28,...

Matthew Shepard: The murder that changed America. The death of a gay student, tortured and tied to a prairie fence in Wyoming two decades ago, shocked America. As Matthew Shepard's ashes are interred in the nation's spiritual home, those who knew him reflect on his remarkable legacy. It was the dental brace. That's how Judy and Dennis Shepard knew it was their son in the hospital bed. "Bandages and stitches all over his face," Judy says, "and bandages around...

The Unsolved Murder of Teenager Kaitlyn Arquette.In "Who Killed My Daughter?", a mother searches for the truth behind her daughter's tragic death.Eighteen-year-old Kaitlyn Arquette was the daughter of acclaimed mystery writer Lois Duncan. She graduated from high school on June 14, 1989, and had been accepted to the University of New Mexico. She planned to attend medical school one day. Shortly after graduation, she moved into an apartment with her boyfriend. They paid for it with the help of...

Judith Eva Barsi was a promising child star before her father József Barsi murdered her and her mother Maria inside their Los Angeles home on July 25, 1988.  Judith Barsi was only 10 years old when her father murdered her in their San Fernando Valley home. On the outside, Judith Barsi seemed to have it all. At just 10 years old, she had snagged a number of film and TV roles, appearing in Cheers and Jaws: The Revenge and lending her voice to animated...

Notorious Serial Killer ID'd In Lake Elsinore Teen's Brutal Slaying Police say the 1986 death of 19-year-old Lake Elsinore resident Cathy Ann Small is linked to Death Row inmate William Lester Suff.   LOS ANGELES, CA — Almost 40 years after her battered, nightgown-clad body was found dumped in a South Pasadena neighborhood, DNA tests connected a Lake Elsinore teen's murder to a notorious Southern California serial killer, authorities announced Tuesday. Confronted with the...

The Boy in the Box - An unidentified young boy found dead in a cardboard box in Philadelphia in 1957, his identity and killer remain unknown       The discovery of an unidentified young boy's lifeless body in a cardboard box in Philadelphia in 1957 became one of the city's most haunting and enduring true crime mysteries - The Boy in the Box. Estimated to be around 4 to 6 years old, the child's identity and killer remain unknown to this day. Despite...

The Unsolved Mystery of the Beaumont Children: Australia's Oldest Cold Case" The haunting disappearance of three young siblings from an Australian beach in 1966, a case that has remained unsolved for decades.       In 1966, a devastating and chilling event rocked Australia, forever etching the names of three young siblings into the nation's history - Jane, Arnna, and Grant Beaumont, known collectively as the Beaumont children. On January 26, a day...

The Wood Chipper Murder - A Chilling True Crime Richard Crafts - Disposed of his wife's body by using a wood chipper, leading to the case being nicknamed the "wood chipper murder." **Richard Crafts: The Wood Chipper Murder - A Chilling True Crime**   In the annals of true crime history, few cases have sent shivers down the spines of the public quite like the Wood Chipper Murder. At the heart of this chilling tale lies Richard Crafts, a seemingly ordinary man whose heinous act left...

The Story of The Slender Man Stabbing Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier, story           Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser(right)     The slender man stabbing was an incident that took place on May 31, 2014, in Waukesha, Wisconsin. That night, two 12-year-old girls, Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier, lured their best friend, Payton Leutner, into the woods and brutally stabbed her 19 times. Their...

On July 13, 1955, nightclub owner Ruth Ellis is executed by hanging for the crime of murdering her boyfriend David Blakely. Ellis was the last woman in Great Britain to be put to death. Ellis was born in Rhyl, Wales, in 1926. She left school as a young teenager, had a child and worked a variety of jobs, eventually becoming a nightclub hostess. In 1950, she married dentist George Ellis, with whom she had a second child. The marriage was short-lived and Ruth Ellis returned to working...

On the night of July 13, 1966, eight student nurses are brutally murdered by Richard Speck at their group residence in Chicago, Illinois. Speck threatened the women with both a gun and a knife, tying each of them up while robbing their townhouse. Over the next several hours, Speck stabbed and strangled each of the young women throughout various rooms of the place. One young woman, Corazon Amurao, managed to escape with her life by hiding under a bed; Speck had lost count of his...