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At around 2 a.m. on June 5, 2002, Elizabeth was woken up by a male voice whispering in her ear "I have a gun at your throat. Don't make a sound. Get up and come with me." When she opened her eyes, she saw a tall figure looming over her, and immediately felt something cold against her throat. Afraid of what the man would do to her family if she didn't comply with his instruction, she got out of bed quietly and stood up.
Mary Katherine was startled...
1702) Who Killed Arlis Perry?
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Arlis Kay Perry was a newly married nineteen-year-old when she entered Stanford Memorial Church at Stanford University in the late night hours of October 12th, 1974. She would be found the next morning, the victim of a brutal murder in what appeared to be a ritualistic killing. Her case has remained unsolved for the past forty-two years. Various rumors and theories abound as to who her murderer was. There is conjecture that she was the victim of the...
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Two real life femme fatales are profiled here. On the exterior, they presented themselves as sweet and caring. On the inside, however, lurked the heart of a killer...Carolyn Warmus murdered her lover's wife out of a jealous rage. Her case would attract national attraction and would lead to comparisons to the movie Fatal Attraction. Two television movies about her story have been produced, Belinda Van Krevel would be imprisoned to asking her boyfriend...
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It was a warm summer morning on January 26, 1966, when the three Beaumont children left their suburban home to celebrate Australia Day at the beach. The children regularly made the trip by themselves, so their mother felt at ease providing them with bus fare and sending them on their way while she visited and had lunch with a close friend. However, she would return home that afternoon to find that the children still had not returned. That morning...
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Joyce Chant seemed like a typical mother and wife. She had three sons and was married to her husband of 21 years, Wayne Chant. Wayne's cousin would describe him as "laid back" and that he worked hard at the family vending business that he inherited from his father. They bought a small house in the Sydney suburb of Revesby and settled down with their three kids. They seemed like an average family, but the suburban community of Revesby had no idea the...
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On July 5th, 2004, a Frito Lay delivery pulled into the empty parking lot of a distribution center in Rome, Georgia. The man noticed that another man-one he didn't recognize-was coming out of the office, and although someone in the office in the early morning hours wasn't unusual, not recognizing the man was. According to the diver, the man who came into view appeared to be nervous-looking over his shoulder, glancing around, and checking behind him....
1707) Killer Michelle Knotek
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Michelle and David Knotek lived just outside of Raymond, Washington. Their home was one of the better ones in the area—on the outside at least. Theirs was a large and beautiful farmhouse sitting in its own four acre plot. The idyll was furthered by the large number of well cared for animals that roamed the farmhouse's extensive grounds. But inside the warm walls life was very different; three people were murdered viciously within that plot; two...
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Maria del Rosio Alfaro, better known to the media as Rosie Alfaro, is the first woman to be sentenced to death in Orange County. Her story is a tragic one, set in a town nearby Disneyland in Anaheim, California. By the time that Rosie was thirteen, she was heavily into drugs and considered by many to be an addict. At this age, Rosie was often doing fifty speedballs a day for weeks at a time. Regular doses of this highly addictive cocktail were just...
1709) Killer Ashley Humphrey
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There can be many reasons why someone will commit murder. Many do it for money, for revenge, or simply because they are evil people. Some people commit murder for love, but it is a rare case when someone commits murder out of fear. Such was the case in Pinelias County, Florida when the life of a young woman is turned around all because of a man who is not what he seems. And the consequence of this relationship is the death of someone she'd never even...
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History shows us that men are most likely to commit heinous crimes but women are no strangers to violence either. Yes, they do not kill frequently and female killers do not engage in killing sprees so often. Instead, their crimes are driven by passion and sometimes even obsession with another person. They are not prone to selecting a random victim but would turn on their partners, friends, or family. Women are usually not killing for the thrill but...
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Those who knew Houston's 'Candy Man' Dean Corll all described him the same way — well-mannered, considerate, quiet, neatly groomed, and cheerful. He could usually be found in one of the more affluent communities within Houston, entertaining young boys at a small candy factory owned by his mother — the boys would pop in to watch as the pieces of candy came off the assembly line, and they all got along well with Dean.
But some boys saw a completely...
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Angela Stoldt had anger issues...One day she became so enraged at her neighbor that she stabbed him to death. She then placed several of his body parts in her oven and stove in an effort to cremate him...When her hare-brained scheme didn't work, she enlisted the aid of her own children to scatter her neighbor's body parts around them advising them to tell anyone who asked that the body parts were "from a deer"...She remains one of the most uncouth...
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A 31-year-old woman of Asian descent, sits nervously in front of the microphones and journalists, ready to make her statement and ready to talk through how her life has turned out over the past twenty years. Kim Tien cuts a meek figure with her long dark hair pulled back into a ponytail. She sits twisting her fingers anxiously as her blue fleece jersey crumples against the desk. As the journalists shoot off their sensitive questions, she looks wide-eyed...
1714) Beautiful Black Widows
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They mate and they kill. These women used their beauty to attract men before killing them for reasons that only they understand. Samantha Scott appeared in numerous shows such as Bewitched and MASH before turning on her older husband and stabbing him to death. Tracey Grissom was gorgeous head-turner in her small town before she claimed her husband abused her to the point where she had to shoot him to death.
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Kelly Gissendaner, born Kelly Brookshire, became the sixth and last woman executed in Georgia for her role in the murder of her husband, Douglas Gissendaner, by her lover, Greg Owen. The murder was gruesome, Kelly demonstrated a lack of credibility with lies, and the murder was clearly premeditated- three things that helped a jury convict her of her role in the murder. What hurt her the most, though, was that her former lover turned on her and testified...
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Todd Kohlhepp was a successful realtor with a dark history.
A past which involved kidnapping and sexual assault.
He would rape a classmate at the age of fifteen and be tried as an adult. Remaining in prison for over fifteen years, he would be released at the age of thirty. Claiming to be rehabilitated, he took advantage of every educational opportunity in jail, learning graphic design and earning a college degree. While in prison, he learned how...
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On Christmas Eve 1945, a fire consumed a two-story house timber house outside Fayetteville, West Virginia that was occupied by George Sodder, his wife Jennie, and nine of their ten children (the oldest, Joe, was serving in World War II at the time.) Yet, the story has never been solved and there are still questions that haunt both the town of Fayetteville and the remaining Sodder child, Sylvia Sodder Paxton, is still hunting for the truth and trying...
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Kristina Fetters was the youngest woman in the state of Iowa to get sentenced to life in prison without parole after she murdered her great-aunt. But eighteen years later she would be re-sentenced after the Supreme Court ruled that mandatory life sentences for minors was unconstitutional.
Kristina would later be released to a hospice center as she developed breast cancer in prison.
But what happened that fateful night of October 25th, 1994? Kristina...
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The murder of Jeanne Clery shocked anyone who read the story. A young and beautiful college student away from home for the first time falling prey to a random and violent stranger. The stuff of every parent's nightmare. But Clery's parents were determined to do something about her death, to not have her daughter simply be another forgotten statistic. Their daughter's death would usher in the Clery Act which would be implemented around college campuses...
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What is our picture of the perfect grandmother? Surely, they should be loving, spoilers of their grandchildren. Grandmothers should be a source of advice and support to their own children. Being a parent is a tough job, and the experience and skills that the older generation can offer can be a life-saver during the good times, let alone when things get tough.
But in the case of Silvia Meraz Moreno, we see a different side of the loving Grandma. Life...
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