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Murder is an age-old thing. Many people believe that crime and violence is a new phenomenon, but people have been killing each other for various reasons for all of recorded history. So it is no surprise that when we look back a few decades we can still find some rather interesting murder cases. People murder for love, money, vengeance, personal advancement, or simply for the fun of it. This case of Beaulah Overell is no exception to those motivations....
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It is not often that stories appear where we find the perpetrators of violence being children and the victims being parents. Although, scattered throughout history it has been seen that children can be capable of shocking amounts of violence, and many, assuming their innocent nature, fall victim to them. In Coral Springs, Florida in 1997 one such story took place. And still the actions of the evening resonate throughout the community.
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Here are many stories of black widows, women who kill their husbands for power or financial gain. These women have been scattered throughout history and the ones who have been caught for their crimes often make us take a second to consider what the people we love, and believe love us, are truly capable of. You may never know whom you are sleeping next to, but should you really be concerned that they will poison your oatmeal or shoot you while you...
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There are many situations where people will end up dead and too often it is because they decided to try to do a good deed. Perhaps they stopped to offer assistance to someone on the side of the road. Perhaps they picked up a stranded person. Perhaps they approached the wrong individual to ask them why they looked so sad. So many acts of kindness are often rewarded with violence that it is shocking that anyone is willing to offer aid at all. But there...
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