A Killing in a Small Town (1990)
A Killing In a Small Town is about the case of Candy Montgomery, a desperate housewife who becomes involved with fellow church member Allen Gore who, along with his wife, often socializes with Candy and her husband, Pat. Their children are close friends as well. No one knew about Candy and Allen’s afternoon delights…. until Candy murders Betty one ...
Killer Dads: The Twisted Drives that Compel Fathers to Murder Their Own Kids by Mary Papenfuss (June 2013)
For years we’ve been bombarded with stories of mothers who kill their young but it seems more stories are beginning to emerge of killer dads. In the recently released book Killer Dads: The Twisted Drives that Compel Fathers to Murder Their Own Kids by Mary Papenfuss, readers are invited to learn about recent (and one not-so-recent) cases of death-by-dad. ...
American Serial Killers: True Crime Short Stories Featuring Serial Killers from All 50 States: Part 7
What do you get when you cross a toy box, an elusive thief, a crack addict, a short tempered neighbor, and a hack-happy maniac? You get Part 7 of the American Serial Killer short stories series! NEW MEXICO: David Parker Ray As is all too common in serial killers, David Parker Ray was abandoned by his parents. He was also abused as a child – by his grandfather, ...
Bestial: The Savage Trail of a True American Monster by Harold Schechter (September 1999)
Earle Leonard Nelson (born Earle Leonard Ferral) was born to two syphilis-infected parents and was orphaned within a couple of years of his birth. Raised by his grandmother, Earle showed signs of “arrested development” in his youth, which only got worse as the years went by. In his late teens, Earle was prone to spend days or weeks away from home, ...
American Serial Killers: True Crime Short Stories Featuring Serial Killers from All 50 States: Part 6
This sixth segment in a ten part series profiling serial killers from across America features murderers from Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, and New Jersey. MONTANA: Wayne Nathan Nance Kris Welles didn’t know Wayne Nance very well. Nance was a Missoula, Montana, truck driver who delivered furniture at the same store where Kris was employed and ...
Bad Company: The Startling True Story of Hollywood’s “Cotton Club” Murder by Steve Wick (November 1991)
Karen DeLayne “Laney” Jacobs didn’t want “to be a little Alabama girl with an overdrawn checkbook and a boring job>” Laney had dreams of huge homes, fancy cars, and all the money a girl could ever spend. While most people have the same goal, they spend years working hard to reach it. Not Laney. She wanted it all and right now. Wiggling ...
Evil Intentions: The Story of How an Act of Kindness Led to Senseless Murder by Ronald J. Watkins (February 1992)
In January 1981, Suzanne Maria Rossetti was happy, carefree – living life to the fullest. As such was life the night she pulled into the U-Totem convenience store on Van Buren Street in Tempe, Arizona. It was a pit stop, intended only to waste the few minutes before she was to meet her parents at a nearby hotel, that would forever change the lives of ...
American Serial Killers: True Crime Short Stories Featuring Serial Killers from All 50 States: Part 4
This fifth article in a ten part series on American serial killers covers Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, and Maryland. KANSAS: John Edward Robinson, Sr. Luring his victims from the internet as early as 1993, John Edward Robinson, Sr. is considered to be the internet’s first serial killer. From childhood to 1979, John Robinson had been a nuisance to ...
Against Her Will by Ronald J. Watkins (May 1995)
Kelly Ann Tinyes was anticipating her fourteenth birthday in March 1989 when she got a call from a neighbor just a few doors down and headed out the door, leaving her eight year-old brother to care for their ailing grandmother. Many would see Kelly Ann enter the Golub home at 81 Horton Road but no one would see her leave. Frantic when her daughter didn’t ...
American Serial Killers: True Crime Short Stories Featuring Serial Killers from All 50 States: Part 3
This is the third in a ten part series featuring American serial killers from each of the fifty United States. This segment features killers and their victims from Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, and Iowa. HAWAII: The Honolulu Strangler When we think of Hawaii, a serial killer isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. But between 1985 and 1986, Hawaii ...
Cruel Doubt by Joe McGinniss
Life hadn’t always been easy for Christopher Pritchard. As a young child, his father had left and seldom visited nor contributed to his financial well-being. As a result, his mother had to work long hours and he was often left to be tended to by grandparents, aunts, and uncles. Yet Bonnie Von Stein gave all she could give to her son, Chris, and his younger ...
American Serial Killers: True Crime Short Stories Featuring Serial Killers from All 50 States: Part 2
This is the second in a ten part series about serial killers from all fifty of the United States. In the first segment, I presented information on multiple murderers and their victims from Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas. Now, in part two, I invite you to learn about serial killers from Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, and Georgia. COLORADO: William ...
Little Girl Lost: The True Story of The Vandling Murder by Tammy Mal (December 2012)
On January 2, 1945, nine year-old Mae Ruth Barrett was walking home with sugary treats for her sister and younger cousin when she was viciously attacked. Little Mae would never make it home and a town would live in fear until a killer was caught. But when that day finally came, the towns people would never be the same; their lives forever changed. There would ...
American Serial Killers: True Crime Short Stories Featuring Serial Killers from All 50 States: Part 1
Although the phrase “Serial Killer” wasn’t coined until the 1970s, the truth is these shadowy mysteries have lurked among society since the beginning of civilization. Today, these monsters are the huge, bold headlines of our newspapers and grace our television screens in fictional and reality-based shows. The United States of America has more ...
Fatal Kiss by Suzanne Barr (July 2012)
When Sylvia Ipock found herself suddenly widowed and a single mother of three boys following her husband’s suicide, she didn’t let mourning keep her from eying the handsome husband of a mentally ill neighbor down the street. Whatever Sylvia wanted, Sylvia got; including the attractive neighbor Billy Carlyle White. After a few months of sneaking ...
Murderous Seduction: Susan Wright and the Murder of her Husband Jeffrey Wright
It was a twisted road, filled with pole dances and drugs for a young couple that was about to join on a path that ended with the murder of one of them. Susan Lucille Wyche was a beautiful, blonde 21-year-old the day she met Jeff Wright. They were both in love after their first date, each without knowing the others darkest secrets. Susan, shortly after graduating ...
The Boy in the Box: The Unsolved Case of America’s Unknown Child by David Stout (September 2008)
He was found in a cardboard box on the side of the road in the Fox Chase section of Philadelphia. He would become known as The Boy In The Box. No one came forward to claim the little boy who was estimated to be between the ages of four and six. He was obviously malnourished, weighing that of the average two year old. And he’d been beaten to death. Who ...
Daddy Dearest: 5 True Crime Short Stories of Fathers Who Killed Their Children
Too often the news reports coming to us through television, newspapers, and the internet are about mothers who have killed their children. No matter how many times we hear about these case, we are still shocked to our very core. After all, it’s so… unnatural … for a woman who carried life in her womb to murder the very child to whom she gave ...
Notes on a Killing: Love, Lies, and Murder in a Small New Hampshire Town by Kevin Flynn and Rebecca Lavoie (April 2012)
Kenneth Carpenter had to be in control. Of everything. But the truth of the matter was, he was in control of nothing. Although he appeared to maintain sobriety for almost a quarter of a century, the fact was he’d simply replaced with it with another drug – one not always recognized as such: women. Whenever Ken attended his Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) ...
Forever and Five Days: The Chilling True Story of Love, Betrayal and Serial Murder in Grand Rapids, Michigan by Lowell Cauffiel (1992)
Cathy Wood and Gwendolyn Graham were drawn to each other like magnets. Cathy was a dominate personality and Gwen had mommy-issues laced with a desire to be dominated. Cathy dominance reared it’s ugly head in a variety of ways, but mostly through manipulation. So it’s no surprise when she and Gwen found themselves working together at the Alpine Manor ...
Missing Monday: Rosa Marie Camacho of Hartford, Connecticut
It was almost a month before police began searching for Rosa Marie Camacho and her mother Rosa Delgado after they went missing on October 24, 1997, following a visit to a Madison Avenue grocer. Why so long, you ask? Maybe it was because the mother/daughter disappearance would serve as a huge embarrassment to the Hartford Police Department, considering one of ...
Bigamist and Murderess: The Story of Jill Lonita Billiot Ihnen Moore Coit Brodie Dirosa Metzger Steely Boggs Carroll
No one is really certain when Jill Lonita Billiot was born. She was prone to lie so frequently about the date and her age that it makes it difficult to know for sure; but most are certain that she was born on June the 11th of 1943 or 1944. Jill experienced a normal American childhood. Her father, Henry Albert Billiot, was a tugboat captain; her mother, Juanita ...
Honor Bound: My Journey to Hell and Back with Amanda Knox by Raffaele Sollecito and Andrew Gumbel (September 2012)
There’s been so much information tossed at followers of the Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito case that, at times, it’s been overwhelming. Guilty or not guilty? Should the United States government get involved or allow the Italian courts to determine justice? There was valid arguments for both sides but somehow the story just never seemed, um, ...
5 True Crime Short Stories of Cheating Men Who Murdered Their Wives
It’s all too common in America today, the cheating spouse who murders their wife or husband to be with their new lover. Although the percentages of men and women who cheat are becoming almost equal, for now the men are still the majority of those practicing infidelity. Men also outdo women in committing spousal homicide. Whether it’s because they ...
Murder À La Carte: Anjette Donovan Lyles and The Murder of Two Husbands, A Daughter, and A Mother-in-Law
When Anjette Donovan married Ben Franklin Lyles, Jr. in 1948, she went to work in his family’s Macon, Georgia, restaurant on Mulberry Street. Lyles’ Restaurant was a hopping diner near the Bibb County Courthouse. Serving lawyers, judges, and many of the area’s politically connected folks, Anjette’s charismatic personality and beauty quickly ...
Cynthia Campbell Ray, David West, and the Cold Blooded Murder of James and Virginia Campbell
During the quiet, predawn hours of June 10, 1982, attorney James “Snake” Campbell and his wife Virginia Campbell lay soundly sleeping in their Houston home when intruders slipped quietly through a window, slithered to the master bedroom, and fired six rounds into their bodies; their young grandsons camped out at the foot of the grandparents bed. Although ...
Who Killed Chrissy?: The True Crime Memoir of a Pittsburgh girl’s Unsolved Murder in Las Vegas by Beverly Simcic
In 1982, Beverly Simcic and Christine Casilio were friends. Sort of. The pair had been roommates for a while but Christine’s lifestyle was a bit more risky than Beverly liked, especially with a young son in her care and she’d parted company with Christine. But in May 1982, when Christine presents Beverly with the idea of a vacation in Las Vegas, ...
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A Killing in a Small Town (1990)
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Bestial: The Savage Trail of a True American Monster by Harold Schechter (September 1999)
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