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Joseph E. Duncan III is a convicted serial killer, serial rapist, pedophile, family annihilator, stalker, abductor, and sex offender who is currently on death row in Terre Haute, Indiana awaiting his execution date. A cunning and manipulative child rapist, Duncan routinely subverted the system by having an affair with his own male psychiatrist.
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A True Crime anthology of women at their most barbaric... In 2006, two young women shocked the world with a brutal crime that seemed straight out of a torture porn movie. Valerie Parashmuti and Jessica Stasinowsky were two lesbian women who fancied themselves as vampires. They had been living together for a year before they took in a troubled sixteen-year-old named Stacey Mitchell. The attractive Stacey, however, caused a rift between the two lovers....
143) The Box Car Killer
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As Bobby lifted his 'gooney stick' axe handle above his head and swung it down with brute force for the third time, he licked his lips as the weapon smashed again into the limp head of his train boxcar companion. He savoured the moment as he watched the frantic eyes of his victim stammer to a halt and slowly drain of life. Bobby had become exceptionally good at taking lives—the lives of those who would not be missed.
This is the true story of an...
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The life of Alicia Shayne Lovera looked like something out of a soap opera. Born into poverty, she was ushered into a life of wealth and privilege when her mother married a rich president of a bank. She grew up to be beautiful, popular and spoiled. But she soon find herself in financial ruin when her stepfather committed suicide, leaving the family with nothing... Her sense of entitlement still intact, she married a struggling math teacher who couldn't...
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Shannan and Chris Watts looked like the perfect couple. She had already proudly posted an ultrasound image of their new child, with whom she was just over three months pregnant, on Facebook. At a party, she would announce the gender of the latest member of the Watts family. It was a boy, and they would call him Nico. The thirty-four-year-old wife, with the good job, the nice home, the terrific kids and the perfect, loving husband really did seem to...
146) One Evil Bitch
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Judith and Alvin Neelley are an American married couple who were convicted of two torture murders in the early 1980s in Georgia and Alabama. Judith became the youngest woman to ever be sentenced to death in the United States, however, the Alabama governor at the time commuted her death penalty to life imprisonment in 1999, likely due to her age. Alvin died in prison in 2005 at the age of 52 due to complications resulting from surgery. Unlike most...
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Robert Charles Browne, a 68-year old Louisiana native, who serves a double-life sentence at the Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility may just be one of the most prolific murderers in American history. However, some of the self-professed serial killer's uncorroborated claims leaves plenty of room for speculation about the cold cases that remain unsolved in the wake of his imprisonment... How many of Browne's purported kills are real? Considering...
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On October 23, 2005, truck driver James Kelly was gunned down in his Cushing, Texas home. Police initially suspected his stepdaughter Shaina Sepulvado and her friends Dallas Christian and Colton Weir as the perpetrators of the crime. But after further investigations, police discovered that James' wife Marcia orchestrated the plot to kill her husband. She had offered the teenagers a car in exchange for murdering her husband, setting off a chain of...
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Dominque Dunne appeared in several films and television series from 1979 to 1982, but was best known for portraying the oldest daughter in the 1982 horror film Poltergeist... She seemed destined for stardom until tragedy struck on October 30th, 1982. Dominique was strangled by her ex-boyfriend, John Thomas Sweeney, in the driveway of her West Hollywood home and went into a coma. She never regained consciousness and died five days later... This is...
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The Yorkshire Ripper was- is- perhaps the most famous British serial killer, aside from his Victorian namesake. His crimes gripped the nation over a five year period, starting in 1975. But behind the media image created for him was a man called Peter Sutcliffe, a normal man from the accounts of all who knew him. He first worked as a gravedigger, before moving on to regular jobs as a salesman, a factory worker, and finally an HGV driver. Nothing out...
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For three and a half years Christina had been missing. Friends, family, and even strangers would gather every Saturday to search for in their small town in North Texas. Just before 10 am, on the 7th of March 2018, the remains of a woman were found by construction workers clearing trees for a housing development in Anna, Texas. The remains were found on the east side of a creek on a hillside just about fifty yards from Taylor Boulevard. The area was...
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Marlene Olive was the instigator in the double murder of her parents in 1975. The killings were referred to in the press as the barbecue murders as the sixteen-year-old Marlene and her twenty-year old boyfriend disposed of her parent's bodies in a barbecue pit in a state park. Her boyfriend, Chuck Riley would be tried as an adult and sentenced to life imprisonment. Marlene would be tried as a juvenile and released at the age of twenty-one.
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Aileen Wuornos, touted as "America's first female serial killer", shot at least seven middle-aged men to death in Florida between December 1989 and September 1990. Their bodies were discovered along Florida's northern and central highways. A self-professed hater of humans, her troubled upbringing and difficult lifestyle contributed to her demise. She confessed to six murders, claiming that she killed her victims in self-defense after they attempted...
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In 1979, a five-feet-one-inch, eighty pound sixteen year old girl would become the first school shooter in United States history. Brenda Spencer would open fire on Cleveland Elementary School, wounding nine children and killing two adults. Her assault would be the first of many school shootings across the nation, most notably Columbine and Sandy Hook.
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Genene Jones, said to be the inspiration behind the Annie Wilkes character in Stephen King's Misery, is due to be released in February of 2018 due to a loophole in Texas law. In 1985, she was convicted for the murder of fifteen month old Chelsea McClelland. Further investigations, however, show that Jones may have been responsible for over 40 infant deaths during the span of her nursing career. Cover-ups, blackmail and manipulations, Jones was able...
156) Suburban Bigamy
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In this thrilling memoir, “Suburban Bigamy: Six Miles Between Truth and Deceit”, author Michael S. Zimmerman chronicles the painful story of two families built on one lie, forever linked through betrayal, infidelity, and bigamy. Then, after hitting rock bottom, Mike becomes a father of his own, and soon discovers something more powerful than the lie: a story of resilience, recovery, and hope.
157) Killer Satanic Cults
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A discussion of different satanic cults that have appeared across North America in the last thirty years; The Cult of Santa Muerta, The Death Cult of Mexico and others.
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Pauline Zile would go on television and tearfully plead for her 7-year-old daughter's safe return after she said she had been ad been abducted from a flea market. The truth was, her new husband had suffocated the girl. They would hide her body in the closet until deciding to bury her days later.
Why would Pauline cover for the girl's stepfather? Was she afraid of his temper or did she have some other motive?
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Shirley Withers and Peter Shellard looked to be a mismatched couple. Shellard was a multi-millionaire dollar real estate mogul and high-end car dealer. Shirley was an ordinary looking bookkeeper; frumpy and shy. But what they had in common was a taste for bondage and S&M.
160) The Lady Killer
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These serial killers had a disdain for women behind their charming facades. Ricardo Caputo was a handsome young man, a sketch artist who was fluent in various languages. His dark hair, dimpled chin, and deep eyes, accompanied with his charming personality, drew people to him. He enjoyed the attention he received from women and tended to seek out intelligent partners who he could hold a conversation with, and preferred women who would sympathize with...
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