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He didn't seem like the type — between his roles as a friendly neighborhood gardener and a jolly mall Santa, Bruce McArthur hadn't appeared to be a threatening figure. But in January of 2018, Toronto police began the largest forensic investigation the city had ever seen, and the jovial McArthur was revealed to be, quite possibly, the most prolific serial killer in history to target gay men.
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Tall, blonde, and beautiful, Helm never really made it as an actress — despite leaving her home and a new baby to pursue her career in the movies. However, Helm was touted as the "ultimate party girl," and was a known fixture at parties and bedrooms throughout the Hollywood Hills. Her list of conquests included names like Warren Beatty, Joe Namath, Mick Jagger, and the Shah of Iran — and details of these trysts were recorded in Helm's diary, complete...
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In April, 1973, an American civil rights activist named Perry Ray Robinson traveled from Alabama to South Dakota to participate in a resistance led by the American Indian Movement (AIM) on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. His family never saw or heard from him again, and his wife was convinced that he'd been killed during an incident at Wounded Knee—possibly by the very organization he'd been trying to help.
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Death followed Lyda Trueblood everywhere she went. At first glance, it may have seemed that the young woman was facing a run of bad luck — but as the run continued, suspicions began to arise...Northeast of Kansas City, in the small town of Keytesville, Missouri, a true "black widow" was born on October 16, 1892. Over the course of her life, Lyda Anna Mae Trueblood took on seven married names, and is most well-known as Lyda Southard. However, Idaho...
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Known by many as the Poet Laureate of America's Damned, Stephen Wayne Anderson had a talent for expressing himself with words – earning himself plenty of awards and admiration despite the fact that his literary masterpieces were written while he awaited execution on death row...In fact, Anderson's knack for language allowed him to innately capture the feelings of despair, hopelessness, and regret that were abundant among the condemned. His elegant...
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In 1986, a troubled young woman named Gwendolyn Graham left her home state of Texas for Grand Rapids, Michigan. There, she took a position caring for elderly patients as a nurses' aide at Alpine Manor Nursing Home, under the supervision of a woman named Cathy Wood. It didn't take long for the relationship between the two women to grow from a professional working relationship to a budding friendship—and even less time for that friendship to become...
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Two days before Christmas, in 2012, Sandra—or Sandy—Melgar was found tied up inside of a closet in her home in a nice neighbourhood of Houston. A chair was forced against the doorknob, keeping her trapped in the confined space. Her husband Jaime—Jim—Melgar had been stuffed into a different closet—but unlike Sandy, Jim had been killed, first. A medical examiner's report concluded that Jim had died of blunt force trauma, and multiple stab...
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When Alan Duvall died in August of 2007, his family wasn't satisfied with the initial explanation. Three years later, their doubts were put to rest when authorities arrested his estranged wife, Tami, and charged her with murder, insurance fraud, and obstruction of justice... According to Bartholomew County prosecutors, Tami was hoping to cash in on a life insurance policy that had been taken out on her husband in the amount of $100,000—and she decided...
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A collection of True Crime Stories headlined by the murder of Sherri Rasmussen For 23 years, no one knew how Sherri Rasmussen had died. In February of 1986, the body of the 29 year old woman was discovered in the Van Nuys, California, apartment she shared with her husband, John Ruetten. She'd been beaten, according to the medical examiner, and shot three times in what appeared to have been some kind of struggle. Initially, the Los Angeles Police Department...
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In September of 1980, an obsessively racist 25-year-old man named Joseph Christopher set out on a one-man crusade against blacks — leaving behind him a trail of victims that stretched all the way from upstate New York down to Georgia's deep southwest. He also made a lasting impression on many communities that had previously not experienced serious racially-induced violence, infusing these peaceful areas with a heavy atmosphere of hate and bigotry...To...
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Born on May 28, 1972, Stacey Ann Lannert grew up in what appeared to be a picture-perfect family. She and her sister, Christy, were raised by two loving parents. Tom, their father, worked as a financial consultant, and their mother Deb took on the role of a stay-at-home mom. However, as the two girls got older, their 'ideal' family started to crumble right before their eyes. "In 1990, life as I knew it ended, for better and for worse," Lannert wrote...
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A BEAUTIFUL MOTHER OF THREE...GONE MISSING Before twenty-nine-year old Bianca Carrasco went missing in San Antonio on May 1, 2016, she was overwhelmed by the strain of her unhappy marriage. While Bianca's family said she was trying hard to laugh through her tears, it was clear to see that things between the mother of three and her forty-year old husband, Joe Daniel, were becoming increasingly difficult. "Things were not normal in her life when she...
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