On August 14th, 1977, blackberry pickers in Everett, Washington, found the body of a young woman hidden in the brambles off the roadside. She had been shot 7 times with a .22-calibre rifle directly in the head, completely disfiguring her face. It was found that the woman had been dead for five days, left out … Read more
In 2005, a Bronx family expanded when Laquan Gilliam showed up at their door with his one-year-old daughter, Quranah. He didn’t offer any information about the child’s mother, Sherrie Stout, but Gilliam told his friend he would return for his little girl in a few days and asked if they could watch her as a favor. When he … Read more
signed with an agency and even booked a spot in a music video. The young woman was excited to see her dreams taking shape, but in February of that year, she ran into some trouble with the law. On the day after Valentine’s Day, Bridget and another woman were arrested after fighting over a man … Read more
For nearly three decades, the abduction and murder of 7-year-old Morgan Violi haunted Bowling Green, Kentucky — a broad-daylight kidnapping witnessed by neighbors and even her own sister, followed by three months of agonizing uncertainty and then a devastating discovery in the Tennessee woods. For years, her killer’s identity was one of the state’s most … Read more
On a quiet spring afternoon in Fort Wayne, Indiana, when the air still carried a chill and the world felt calm and familiar, eight-year-old April Marie Tinsley spent the day the way children are meant to, moving through laughter and play without any sense of danger, unaware that this ordinary moment would become the last … Read more
Dennis Rader is still making headlines from behind bars. The serial killer known as the Bind, Torture, Kill (“BTK”) Killer has continued to arouse investigators’ suspicion in several cold case murders since his 2005 arrest. Rader — who killed at least 10 victims over the span of three decades, per The New York Times — … Read more
Kaitlyn Abree Ledbetter was a 25-year-old woman full of life and hope. Newly engaged to her boyfriend Dustin, she was eagerly planning her upcoming wedding and looking forward to turning 26 in June 2021. Originally from Indiana, Kaitlyn had moved to Hilham, Tennessee, where she lived with her father, Scott Ledbetter, and his girlfriend, Crystal … Read more
Wesley Morgan was playing with four puppies in his Bluff Creek, Louisiana front yard on the morning of Tuesday, May 15, 2001. The 2-year-old was left unsupervised for a few minutes around 9:45 am, when his mother, 19-year-old Ruby Havard, went inside to boil some eggs. When she came back outside a few minutes later, … Read more
It was around 11:15 pm on Thursday, April 4, 1991, when Angela Hammond called her fiancé, Rob Shafer, from a payphone in the parking lot of a Clinton, Missouri supermarket. Rob was babysitting his younger brother that night, and Angie had planned to meet up with him. The 20-year-old was four months pregnant, however, and … Read more
Vickie Lynn Marshall (née Hogan; November 28, 1967 – February 8, 2007), known professionally as Anna Nicole Smith, was an American model, actress, and television personality. Smith began her modeling career as a Playboy magazine centerfold in May 1992 and won the title of 1993 Playmate of the Year. She later modeled for clothing companies, … Read more