The Michelle Gibson Murder-For-Hire Case
Steven Gibson, the owner of a machine shop, lived in Peoria, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix. He resided in the Thunderbird Vista neighborhood with his 41-year-old wife Michelle, their 15-year-old...
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Montia Marie Parker lived in Maple Grove, a suburb of Minneapolis, Minnesota. The 18-year-old cheerleader was one of 1,800 students who attended Hopkins High School. In February 2013, she sent a...
View ArticleThe Sara Kruzan Murder Case
While the law of murder is quite clear on what behavior constitutes the crime, occasionally there are cases that make the strict enforcement of that law seem unfair. The Sara Kruzan case falls...
View ArticleThe Lee Kaplan Rape Case
On Thursday June 16, 2016, officers with the Lower Southampton Township Police Department, operating on a children-in-danger tip, visited the home of 51-year-old Lee Kaplan. Mr. Kaplan resided in...
View ArticleThe Woodrow Karey Murder Case
Over the past several years places of worship have become places of sudden, violent death. Preachers, a church organist and a handful of congregants have been murdered inside their churches. Most...
View ArticleThe Michael Barbar Murder Case
In 2009, 51-year-old Michael Barbar, a native of Lebanon, lived with his wife Maysam and their two daughters, ages 10 and 6, in a two-story house in Perris, a Riverside County town of 70,000 in...
View ArticleKenneth Douglas: The Morgue Employee From Hell
First you are murdered, then your corpse is sexually abused. This represents the ultimate victimization. Having sex with a dead person, while a relatively minor crime, reflects behavior that is...
View ArticleThe O. J. Simpson Murders: A "Crime of the Century"
In America, the combination of celebrity worship and the fascination with violent crime has produced a dozen or so "crimes of the century." Obscure people, by virtue of their willingness to commit...
View ArticleSchool Teacher By Day, Porn Star By Night
In 2000, Stacie Halas, who lived as a child in Florida, graduated from Newbury Park High School in Thousand Oaks, California. Four years later, with a degree in education, she graduated from...
View ArticleThe William Keitel Murder Case
William Keitel and his wife Michele were married in 1989. The couple resided a few miles north of Pittsburgh in Ohio Township, Pennsylvania. In October 1996, following a tumultuous marriage and...
View ArticleThe Abernathy/Walker Sex Trade Case
On February 5, 2003 a judge sentenced 20-year-old Rasul Abernathy, a resident of Coatesville, a Philadelphia suburb in eastern Pennsylvania, to three to ten years for selling drugs. He began...
View ArticleSirgiorgio Clardy: The Sociopath From Hell
Sirgiorgio Clardy was bounced from one foster home to another in Portland Oregon because he was a kid no adult could handle. In 2000 when he was thirteen he attacked his foster dad with a baseball...
View ArticleThe Richard Kirk Murder Case
In 2014, Richard Kirk, 47, resided in Denver's Observatory Park neighborhood not far from the University of Denver. Richard and his wife Kristine purchased the upscale Tudor style home in 2005....
View ArticleThe Anthony Taglianetti Love Triangle Murder Case
In 2010 Anthony Taglianetti and his wife Mary resided with their four children in Woodbridge, Virginia. A former Marine, Mr. Taglianetti worked at the Marine Museum. Later that year the couple...
View ArticleFinding Leanne Bearden
In 1999 Leanne Hecht from Roswell, Georgia graduated from the University of Georgia. With her degree in marketing she moved to Denver, Colorado after being offered a job there. In 2008 Leanne...
View ArticleThe Anders Behring Breivik Mass Murder Case: The Insanity Defense in Norway...
The Anders Behring Breivik Mass Murder Case On July 21, 2011, 32-year-old Anders Behring Breivik set off a bomb in Oslo, Norway that killed eight. Mr. Breivik, later that day, opened fire at...
View ArticleThe Carlos Diaz Attempted Murder-Arson Case
Carlos Diaz and Cathy Zappata were married in 2007. He worked at W. D. Auto Repair at Tenth Avenue and 207th Street in Harlem, New York. A year later the couple had a son. In 2010 Mr. Diaz lost...
View ArticleThe James D. Willie Murder Case
At 1:30 in the morning on Tuesday May 8, 2012, police in Panola County, Mississippi found 74-year-old Thomas Schlender dead in his 1999 Ford 150 pickup. Shot several times, he had crashed into a...
View ArticleFree Speech Versus the Right Not To Be Threatened
Anthony Elonis, an employee at an amusement park in Allentown Pennsylvania was upset when his wife Tara left him in May 2010. The couple had two children. In October 2010, fuming over his...
View ArticleDiane Staudte and the Power of Poison
In 2012, 62-year-old Mark Staudte resided with his wife Diane and their four children in a modest neighborhood in Springfield, Missouri. The couple met years earlier at a small Lutheran College in...
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