The Many Lives of Edward Wayne Edwards A companion to Crime Clueless’s three-part series. In October 1972, the host of the game show To Tell the Truth read a testimonial to a national audience. The man it described had been on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list. He had committed armed robberies, impersonated a federal
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The 1974 Halloween Poisoning That Changed Trick-or-Treating Forever If your parents ever dumped your Halloween candy on the kitchen table and held each piece up to the light before you could eat it, this case is a big part of why. On Halloween night in 1974, 8-year-old Timothy O’Bryan died in Deer Park, Texas, after
On a rainy Saturday morning over Memorial Day weekend in 1990, a clown pulled into a driveway in Wellington, Florida, carrying a basket of carnations and two silver balloons. When Marlene Warren opened the door, the clown shot her in the face, walked back to the car, and drove away. It would take 27 years
On the morning of February 1, 1896, a seventeen-year-old farmhand named John Hewling was walking to work on a farm just outside Fort Thomas, Kentucky, across the river from Cincinnati. In a corner of the orchard, behind a wall of privet bushes, he saw a woman lying on the bank. That corner was a known
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On June 5, 2003, state police arrived at a house on six wooded acres in Kingston Township, Pennsylvania, with a sealed search warrant. The man who lived there, Hugo Selenski, read it and told them, “You’re looking for bodies? Go ahead. Dig up the yard.” He even offered them his shovels. Within hours, investigators had
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Spoiler note: This post covers both parts of our episode, including how the case was solved. If you want to experience it the way Laura did, listen to both episodes first. In September 2010, a 55-year-old Louisiana landman was found dead on the floor of his Beaumont, Texas hotel room. There was no sign of
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Companion post to our two-part Crime Clueless episode series On the morning of December 16, 2000, Denise Williams watched her husband leave their home on Centennial Oaks Circle in Tallahassee, Florida. It was 3am. He was headed to Lake Seminole — a sprawling reservoir straddling the Georgia-Florida line — to duck hunt before dawn,
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A Crime Clueless companion piece It’s just before noon on a Sunday in December 2009. In a retirement community outside Las Vegas — the kind of place where every lawn is the same shade of green and nothing ever happens — a security camera catches a white Chevy Cavalier pulling up to the end of
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On the morning of February 4, 2015, 18-year-old Sara Nicole Graham left her father’s home in Fairmont, North Carolina, and never arrived at her job at the Walmart in Pembroke. Hours later, her father’s white Chevrolet Astro van was found parked — deliberately, it seemed — in a wheat field off East McDonald Road, miles
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In October 2008, an aspiring Edmonton filmmaker built a real-life “kill room” modeled on a television serial killer — then used it twice. One man escaped. One man didn’t. This is the full story of Mark Twitchell, the case that became known across Canada and internationally as the “Dexter Killer” murder. Who Is Mark Twitchell?
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