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981) When Gwendolyn Kills
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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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With over 71,000 missing persons, Canada is one of the leading countries on this terrifying list. Even though the law enforcement is doing their best to locate these people, many of them slip through the cracks due to poorly led investigations. One of those cases is the disappearance of Marilyn Bergeron who was last seen in Quebec on February 17th, 2008. The city of Quebec is known as a safe place to live, and many of the residents love the fact that...
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In 1983, Vernice Ballenger, with the help of her estranged husband Mac Ballenger and two other men, arranged the robbery and subsequent murder of her elderly aunt Myrtle Ellis. Her motive was simple-money. It all began earlier that year, when Myrtle Ellis was involved in a car accident. She was taken to the hospital, where a rather unusual discovery was made. Ellis had $60,000 in cash on her person. This large sum of cash made headlines. Local newspapers...
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Ariel Castro kidnapped and imprisoned three girls between the years 2003-2013. He kept all three captive in his house on a residential street in Cleveland, Ohio where he raped and tortured them. Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus were held until May 6, 2013. Berry escaped with her six-year-old daughter and was able to call the police. The other girls were rescued, and Castro was arrested within a matter of hours.
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Elena Lobacheva, 26, was the sole woman in a murderous Russian gang that targeted the homeless and alcoholics in the city of Moscow. With their trial on 22nd June 2017, the court heard the horrific details of how she, and her two accomplices, killed at least 15 homeless people. In one incident, a victim was knifed 171 times, whilst another was repeatedly struck with hammers. The killing spree occurred mainly between July 2014 to February 2015. Never...
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Carol Bundy teamed up with Doug Clark and would become known as "The Sunset Strip Killers" as they committed a series of murders in Los Angeles during the late spring and early summer of 1980. Targeting teenage runaways and prostitutes, Carol helped lure these unsuspecting young women back to her apartment where she would help torture and murder them.
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-The clock on the wall of the Caffey house showed 3.55am—the time that the flames had engulfed the Texan cabin which had been home to Terry Caffey, 41, his 37-year-old wife, Penny, and their three children—16-year-old Erin, Matthew, 13, and Tyler, who was 8. But it wasn't the fire which had claimed the lives of Terry's family... It was Erin Caffey herself.
988) Missing Tiffany
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As shocking as it might seem, there are over 100,000 missing person cases active in the United States this very second. While the majority of them are eventually found, there is a large percentage of those who have been gone for years. The police extended their investigations as much as they could, and they reached the very end because there was no new information. Finally, those cases simply turn cold.
Missing person cases are particularly difficult...
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Martha Marek was a black widow before her time, seeing murder as a means of collecting insurance money. She murdered her husband, daughter, and elderly relative all of whom had benefits that would be bequeathed to her after their deaths. After she killed one of her roommates, the state sentenced her to death by way of guillotine... But what inspired her murders? Her own husband had initially coached Martha on how to defraud insurers... by chopping...
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Hogan's Heroes was Crane's first real taste of fame, but it was also his last. Though he toured the U.S. afterwards as part of a theater group, and starred in another sitcom, his career took a sharp downward turn after the cancellation of the show he was famous for.
But in a turn of events that turned his minor stardom to notoriety, Crane was murdered in 1978, in his own home. He was brutally beaten, maybe even strangled, in what seemed like a senseless...
991) She Came From Hell
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Tiffany Cole spied on an elderly couple plotting a way to kill them and take their money. Teresa Lewis used a combination of sex and money to manipulate two men into killing both her husband and stepson in order to gain $250,000 in a life insurance scheme. Brenda Spencer predated the killings at Columbine and Parkland as she went on a shooting spree at the school directly in front of her home. Kimberly Saenz hated her job as a nurse and proceeded...
992) A Nut With a Gun
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A True Crime anthology taking a look back at some of the more infamous mass shootings in history. Brenda Spencer was an abused teenager who lived across the street from the elementary school where she began firing upon after she had a "bad Monday." Sylvia Seegrist was a certifiable nut job who drank carpet cleaning liquid for kicks... but when she had a gun in her hand it spelled doom for the patrons at a local shopping mall. Thomas Dillon was thought...
993) Kill 'Em Grandma
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Two True Crime tales of elderly women who didn't let old age keep them from creating mayhem.
Nannie Doss - No matter how hard Nannie tried to find true romance her efforts failed. She seemed to find men who were a lot like her father, abusive, or they were skirt chasing alcoholics. Nannie couldn't handle it and began to kill her husbands and other members of her family.
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George Moscone was set to announce Dan White's replacement to the Board of Supervisors on Monday, November 27, 1978. He had ultimately decided to choose a more liberal candidate, federal housing official Don Horanzy. In his home, Dan White showered, shaved and put on his best suit. He also picked up his .38 caliber Smith & Wesson Model 36 Chief's Special revolver, loaded with hollow-point bullets. He put 10 extra hollow-point shells in his pocket...
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The unsolved disappearance of Jennifer Kesse from her Orlando, Florida condo in the early hours of January 23, 2006, garnered widespread attention from the local and national media alike, leading to large-scale search parties conducted by the Orlando Police Department and FBI. However, despite the fact that Jennifer Kesse disappeared over ten years ago in the parking lot of her apartment complex, investigators are no closer to solving the case.
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When you think about school shootings, the first thing that will come to mind is troubled students going on a killing spree and murdering their peers without any good reason. Even though similar crimes happened numerous times in the past, the thorough coverage of Columbine turned school shootings into worldwide news. The experts started to recognize it as a real problem because the frequency increased after 1999 even though the security at schools...
997) Missing Bethany
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In many ways, the life of Bethany Decker was not so different from others her age and who shared similar backgrounds. She worked full time as a waitress and attended college at George Mason University, majoring in global environmental change. Sure, she was only 22 and married with one son, just 17-months-old. But that is hardly uncommon. And yes, her marriage was faltering, but even that was hardly unique, especially when married at such a young age...
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Amy was looking for a new lease on life when she moved to Las Vegas. She owned a successful cleaning company and developed an insatiable passion for the poker tables. She would meet Bruce Weinstein in one of the casinos and the two immediately hit it off. But shortly after their meeting, Bruce disappeared. She told his mother that he simply went out and never came back. But she told police that a gang of mobsters came and kidnapped the bookie. Bruce...
999) A Killer Unlikely
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Gwenda Sloane doesn't fit the typical mold of a murderer. We often think of murderers as displaying inconsistent behavior and having alternate motives to their actions. Many times, murderers show a history of crime and recklessness. Gwenda Sloane simply doesn't fit these criteria. In crimes that have taken place over the previous decade, the murder committed by Gwenda Sloane didn't garner as much attention as some others of a similar time period.
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On January 19th, 2010, 22 year old Alexandra Tobias was playing Farmville on Facebook at home in Jacksonville, Florida when she was interrupted by the cries of her three month old baby, Dylan. She tried to silence him by shaking him roughly — hitting his head in the process.
The child fell unconscious and she placed a frantic call to 911. The child would be taken to the hospital where he would die the next day. Alexandra would be arrested for second...
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