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Yeardey Love and George Huguely seemed like the average college couple...dating then drifting apart. It seemed as though, in the beginning, this was something that both sides accepted. Young people change more quickly than older ones, and long college relationships are rare. When a couple had so little time to be together, the process of breaking up becomes easier and more likely. But as their final college days approached, Huguely became less and...
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Is it possible to rationalise a person's actions when he is one who kills fifty-nine people in cold blood? Who had met few, if any, of them and who apparently cannot call on any motivation behind his chilling actions? Surely, not. What we have is a psychopath, or worse, a sociopath. A man who cannot even hide behind the excuse of revenge, or poverty, or religion, or personal benefit or sexual desire to offer some minimal context for his crime.
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Patrick Mackay had killed at least eleven people in his short life, including a four year old child, a nanny, an elderly priest and an 89 year old woman. Today, the killer has been in prison for forty four years. That makes him the longest serving inmate currently serving time in a British jail. He is slightly ahead of the notorious Michael Peters. While, that is not a name which may be familiar to all true crime aficionados, his alternative identity—Charles...
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His reign of terror lasted from the summer of 1984 to August of 1985 when he was finally captured. During this time, Richard Ramirez terrorized the people of Los Angeles before making his way to the San Francisco Bay Area, getting the nickname of the "Night Stalker" because of his propensity to invade homes well past midnight. Claiming to be a Satanist, Ramirez brutalized his victims beyond human comprehension. Now featured in such programs as True...
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David Berkowitz, aka the Son of Sam, plead guilty to eight separate attacks that terrorized New York City in the hot summer of 1976. His weapon of choice was a.44 caliber revolver which he used to kill the six and wound seven others. The attacks put the entire city on alert and Berkowitz managed to elude New York's finest for over a month as he taunted them with letters. After his arrest, he confessed to the crimes but maintained he was under orders...
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From the side angle of his most recent mugshot, Harvey the Hammer still looks like the murderer he is. Flat of nose, shaven headed, protruding chin on his jowly, hanging face, this now old man still retains the features of a childhood nightmare.
But from front on, we see his eyes. They are overhung by flabby eyebrows, and sitting deep inside their sockets, seem dark and broody. There is a half-smile on his face. Not a smirk, not a smile of smugness,...
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Lisa and Rob Whedbee seemed to have it all. He ran a successful insurance business; she was the former high school cheerleader whose pretty looks, blonde hair and bouncy personality made her the centre of social gatherings.
Indeed, their romance was like something out of one of those middle-class Disney movies the company poured out in the seventies. Rob was the football team captain; the jock with brains as well as brawn; the guy who got the girl...
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It was September 14th 2015 when Jack Taylor, a 25 year old gay man was found dead in St Margaret's church in East London. 'If that's where Jack's been found, someone's put him there,' said Jack's sister, Jen. 'The Police could have put a stop to it, and Jack would still have been here.'
Three previous murders had been committed in 2014. In each case, a body was found within a short distance of the others—sometimes in the exact same spot. Yet police...
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Young love is infectious. The future is an open book, each page to be filled as the couple go along. Hope blossoms; everything is rosy. Amy Wroe Bechtel and her husband Steve were an active, outdoor adventure type couple making the small town of Lander, Wyoming a perfect location for their second home together. They had only recently moved into their compact ex miner's cottage on Climbers Row when their paradise was punctured. Because, on July 24th,...
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Some problems become more troublesome the longer they are left. The aching molar which remains untended; the lawn which is left uncut. The same might be said of the case of Ray Gricar. Although, of course, the disappearance and possible death of a man, one with a high local profile, is much more serious than sore teeth or an unkempt yard.
Gricar was last seen on Friday April 15th 2005. It was a glorious day—one of the first of the year in which...
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OK, here's the plot. A oman - let's make her an ex-prostitute - sets out to marry a man. She gets fed up with him and decides to have him murdered.''Whoa, slow down a bit here. How long have they been married?''I don't know, umm, we'll make it five years. No, too long. How about six months? But here's the twist - you're going to love this...'The commissioning executives are already looking at each other in resignation, and surreptitiously glancing...
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Gary Hilton will not walk free again. One way or another, he is going to die in prison. If the gurney does not get him, then old age will. Currently, he sits in his cell paying penance for the deaths of four people including that of Cheryl Dunlap, whom he murdered in the Apalachicola National Forest, which lies in the north of Florida. He received the death penalty for that homicide.
'He will most likely die in prison and most certainly never see...
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Imagine the most boring of jobs. It is hard to come up with one more mundane than working as a Government stock clerk. It seems almost a cliché that a killer who haunts the darkest nightmares should work in such a position. But, William Lester Suff did.
Let's take that cliché a step further and imbue the murderer of prostitutes with another trait. An unusual hobby. Suff was fascinated by cookery, which is probably not such a strange past time in...
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In the 1980s, a series of murders called "The Tube Sock Killings" began.
We should probably start our examination of this brief but intense reign of terror with the first case where the sock was undoubtedly used in some form or other. There are other victims, from earlier, who may also have succumbed to the same killer. But less certainty surrounds these. It was August 1985 and forty-two-year-old Ruth Cooper and her boyfriend, the splendidly bearded...
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Has The Claremont Killer Been Brought To Justice? Sometime in 2020, when the warm Australian winter is turning to searing summer, Bradley Robert Edwards will discover whether or not he has been found guilty of the homicide of two, perhaps even three, of the Claremont murder victims. These were the young women who, in a spate of assaults in the mid 1990s, lost their lives in sexually motivated attacks. The quietly spoken, outwardly calm middle aged...
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It was a beautiful sunny Wednesday morning on May 31st, 2000 and the talented and young Jill Behrman decided to take advantage of the weather and go for a satisfying morning ride. At nineteen years old, Jill was an avid cyclist and enjoyed keeping fit. She had a few hours to spare as her work was only to start later on in the day, around 12pm, so she hauled out her bike, put on her gear and hit the road... When she did not return, her family notified...
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A collection of True Crime stories on the most unlikely of serial killers... even police officers are included here with the likes of Antoinette Frank... Who do you trust? A doctor. A teacher. A police officer? There is something bizarrely discomforting about crime committed by those in authority. It should not really be so surprising, though, that even those in positions of power still err; after all, behind the suit, or the white coat or the badge...
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THE ALLIGATOR MAN
He was the inspiration behind a horror film named "Eaten Alive"...
Joe Ball was long thought to have been an apocryphal figure in Texas. A strange tale told by children to scare themselves. But he did exist and the true accounts of his sadistic nature go beyond any of the fictionalized versions told by the campfire. The grandson of a sadistic slave trader, Joe Ball was a serial killer who may have murdered as many as twenty women......
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The Jamisons disappeared on a warm October day. It would be four years before their bodies were discovered. They were not missed for several days; neither worked and Madyson was home schooled. They were known for setting off at short notice and without informing friends and family. Nobody really noticed their absence, at first.
When their disappearance finally reached the ears of the police, they set out to find what had happened to the family. The...
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Jerry Michael Williams had headed to the Lake for a spot of December duck hunting. Mike, as everybody called him, didn't come home again. The conclusion to draw was clear. The thirty-one-year-old had slipped, fallen into the chilly waters and drowned before falling prey to one or more of those large alligators that waited, barely visible, in the waters. The year 2000 was coming to a close, and the real estate appraiser would not be home for the New...