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Who was Jeffrey Dahmer? Netflix’s latest true crime obsession dismembered and ate victims
The stench of death emanating from unit 213 at the Oxford Apartments had been noticeable for months before police came calling. Within days, the whole world would know the grisly cause of the smell, and the name of the man who lived in that Milwaukee apartment: Jeffrey Dahmer. → Read More
Former soldier charged in 1982 rape, murder of California 5-year-old abducted on way to school
Anne Pham vanished Jan. 21, 1982, in the time it took her to walk fewer than 1,000 feet to her Seaside elementary school. On Thursday, convicted sex offender Robert Lanoue, who lived around the block from the Pham family in 1982, was charged in connection with her rape and murder. → Read More
Colorado mom who faked years of daughter’s ‘terminal’ illnesses pleads guilty in girl’s death
Kelly Renee Turner, 43, is expected to be sentenced to 16 years in prison next month. Turner, who was initially charged with murder, pleaded guilty to child abuse in the 2017 death of 7-year-old Olivia Gant. → Read More
Harmony Montgomery: Arrest made in connection with New Hampshire girl missing since 2019
Adam Montgomery, age 31, of Manchester, was arrested Tuesday and charged with the felony assault of his daughter, Harmony Montgomery, who was last seen alive in October 2019. The girl, now 7, was reported missing last week. → Read More
North Carolina trooper hits, kills trooper brother, detained driver while responding to traffic stop
Trooper James Horton was responding to a Rutherford County traffic stop just before 9 p.m. Monday, in which his brother, Trooper John Horton, had pulled over a driver. → Read More
85-year-old woman to be paroled in 1973 death of young stepson, killing of husband 2 decades later
Sylvia Ipock White’s release date has been set for Dec. 2, 2022. White, of Kinston, was convicted in 1993 of hiring two men to kill her husband, Billy Carlyle White Sr. She was also convicted in the 1973 murder of her young stepson, Billy Carlyle White II, who suffocated on a plastic bag. → Read More
San Francisco police make arrest in 43-year-old cold case murder of visiting New York teen
Mark Stanley Personette, 76, of Conifer, Colorado, was arrested Dec. 16 on a murder charge. Personette is accused of sexually assaulting and strangling 15-year-old Marissa Rolf Harvey March 27, 1978, as she visited Golden Gate Park. → Read More
Jennifer Dulos: Police conduct new search near park in case of missing Connecticut mother
State police spent hours searching a mulch dump near New Canaan's Waveny Park, where Jennifer Farber Dulos’ SUV was found following her May 24, 2019, disappearance. Her estranged husband, Fotis Dulos, was charged with killing Jennifer Dulos but died by suicide in January 2020. → Read More
Does Washington-area ‘Shopping Cart Killer’ have additional victims? Police fear so
Anthony Eugene Robinson, 35, of Washington, is accused of killing Allene “Beth” Redmon, Tonita “Nita” Smith, Cheyenne Brown and a fourth woman who has not yet been identified. Authorities allege he met the women online, beat them to death at motels and transported their bodies to dumping sites in a shopping cart. → Read More
Florida cops offer $25,000 reward for info on ‘feckless coward’ who raped 7 women in ‘80s, ‘90s
The palm print left on a rape victim’s window in 1988 was useless at the time in solving the crime. Now, that print and DNA evidence have linked one man to at least seven sexual assaults in the ‘80s and ‘90s. → Read More
Man citing dual custody battles kills both women, self while streaming on Facebook Live
Two women found slain at their metro Baltimore homes Saturday had one thing in common: Rajaee Black. The nurse anesthetist is accused of killing both women before taking his own life. → Read More
Frankie Little Jr.: John Doe found in trash bag in 1982 identified as one-time O’Jays guitarist
Police in Ohio have identified partial human remains found nearly 40 years ago as belonging to one-time O’Jays guitarist Frank “Frankie” Little Jr. Workers at a Twinsburg machine shop stumbled upon the musician's skull in February 1982. → Read More
Remains found after Mississippi killer confesses to sister-in-law’s murder days before execution
The presumed body of Felicia Warren Cox, 40, was found Sunday on property her family once owned in Thaxton. The remains were exactly where her brother-in-law, David Neal Cox, indicated they would be before his Nov. 17 execution for his wife's 2010 murder. → Read More
Suspect in Georgia girl’s killing has history of abuse charges, was suspect in another child death
When Alabama deputies went Monday evening to the vacant Phenix City home where Jeremy Williams once lived, they made a gruesome discovery — the body of a missing Georgia 5-year-old. → Read More
Man serving 295 years in prison charged in woman’s 1996 murder at California pizza shop
Priscilla Lewis didn't return from her final break the night of Sept. 24. When the cook at the pizza restaurant where she worked went looking for her, he made a horrifying discovery. → Read More
Bones found in submerged car linked to Auburn University student missing since 1976
Auburn University student Kyle Clinkscales, 22, vanished without a trace one winter night in 1976 on his way back to campus from his Georgia hometown. → Read More
Man executed for wife’s murder confessed to 2007 murder of missing sister-in-law
David Neal Cox, 50, was executed by lethal injection Nov. 17 in Mississippi. Two days later, his lawyers hand-delivered a letter he'd written confessing to the murder of Felicia Warren Cox, who vanished three years before Cox killed his wife. → Read More
Love triangle ends in murder of Southwest Airlines worker at Texas airport, cops say
Bernard Walter Christmann, 50, of El Paso, is charged with murder in the Nov. 19, 2021, homicide of 49-year-old Juan Anzaldo, a Southwest Airlines employee at the El Paso International Airport, seen at right. Anzaldo was killed in an employee parking lot. → Read More
Nevada’s ‘Jane Arroyo Grande Doe’ IDed as 17-year-old New Mexico girl slain in 1980
The girl found slain Oct. 5, 1980, in an undeveloped desert area of Henderson has been identified through DNA and genetic genealogy as Tammy Corrine Terrell, 17, of Artesia, New Mexico. Terrell was last seen alive in Roswell a week before her murder. → Read More
Fire Island John Doe: Genetic genealogy IDs second Alaska cold case victim in 6 weeks
Troopers said Wednesday that a man found slain in 1989 on Fire Island, west of Anchorage, has been identified as Michael Allison Beavers, 40, who was reported missing by his wife in January 1980 after he failed to come back from a Seattle business trip. → Read More