Serial Killer Edward Kemper
He kicked off his famous serial killing spree by murdering his mother and paternal grandparents.
Edmund Emil Kemper III was born in Burbank, California, on the 18th of December, 1948, to Clarnell and Edmund Senior. He weighed an astonishing 13 pounds at birth, which was an unusually large size for a baby.
The relationship between his parents was extremely...
How Bill Tilghman’s hunt for outlaw Bill Doolin made the Oklahoma lawman a legend.
When legendary lawman Bill Tilghman was killed in the line of duty in November 1924, his distraught wife, Zoe, was left with $80 and the monumental task of caring for their three sons alone. Inspired by the women who had penned books about their accomplished husbands, including Elizabeth Custer, who was...
Of all the dumping grounds around this country, For a Serial Killer, This is as good of a place as any.
In February 1986, four boys were riding their dirt bikes near an abandoned oil field in League City, Texas when they smelled something rotten. They decided to investigate and came across the dead body of a woman. She was lying on the ground just 50 yards...
How the 1978 Lufthansa Heist Led to a Trail of Dead Bodies
A crew of mafia-affiliated hijackers, killers, loan sharks and thieves made off with $5.8 million in cash and jewels. Most involved got 'whacked.'
On December 11, 1978, six masked, armed men burst into the Lufthansa Airlines cargo terminal at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport during a graveyard...
Interview with a Severely Disturbed Killer 17 Years Later.
In today's true crime documentary, we're interviewing a killer 17 years later and analyzing his words from an educational psychological perspective.
November 28,
Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, serving 15 consecutive life sentences for the brutal murders of 15 men, is beaten to death by a fellow inmate while performing cleaning duty in a bathroom at the Columbia Correctional Institute gymnasium in Portage, Wisconsin.
During a 13-year period, Dahmer, who lived primarily in the Midwest, murdered at least 17 men. Most of these men...
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...
1951, The Lonely Hearts Killers are executed.
The Lonely Hearts Killers, aka Martha Beck and Raymond Martinez Fernandez, are executed in the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison in New York. The couple had schemed to seduce, rob and murder women who placed personal ads in newspapers. Beck and Fernandez boasted to killing as many as 17 women in this manner, but evidence suggests...
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The Gut-Wrenching Crimes of Tommy Lynn Sells and How a 10-year-old Ended Him
The...
What Happened To Becky Bliefnick?
On February 23, 2023, Rebecca "Becky" Postle Bliefnick, 41, was shot 14 times execution-style in the middle of the night inside her Quincy, Illinois, residence.
She was alone. Her three boys were staying with their father about a mile away.
After she failed to pick up her children (12, 10, and 5) from school and her father could...
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