For decades, the domestic violence movement has run on a familiar script: the abuser is bad, the survivor should leave, and the system’s job is to punish after the fact. It’s a script that’s shaped everything from police response to funding priorities to the questions we, as a culture, instinctively ask when we hear about […]
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Companion post for Crime Clueless, Parts 1 & 2 — “No One Stopped – The Murder of Barbara Mae Tucker”. On the night of January 15th, 1980, multiple drivers on a road at the edge of Mount Hood Community College in Gresham, Oregon watched a 19-year-old woman run into traffic, waving her arms and begging
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Eric Preimesberger, 29, was a father of two, a motorcycle salesman, and a fixture of Reno’s scooter racing scene — the kind of guy who, according to his own mother, could land in a country where he didn’t speak the language and walk away with ten new friends by dinner. On April 24, 2010, his
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Two weeks before Stacy Hunsucker died, a South Carolina nurse named Lana Clayton was arrested for poisoning her husband with eye drops. The case dominated regional headlines across the Charlotte area for weeks. Thirty miles away, in Mount Holly, North Carolina, a flight paramedic named Josh Hunsucker was reportedly watching. On September 23, 2018, Stacy
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In May of 2016, a woman walked into the York County Sheriff’s Office in South Carolina to report something strange. She told deputies she’d been struggling to load a crossbow downstairs, carried it up to the bedroom where her husband was sleeping, and it had “accidentally” gone off — striking him in the back of
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They were married over 60 years. Then, over one quiet weekend in May 2014, Russell and Shirley Dermond were killed inside the gated Georgia lake community they’d called home for over a decade. His body was found decapitated in his own garage. Hers was found ten days later, weighted down at the bottom of the
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A Crime Clueless Case Overview — Parts One and Two On the evening of November 1st, 1996, more than 100 people were waiting at a home in the Sabino Canyon area of Tucson, Arizona. They had wine. Someone had hand-painted glasses as party favors. Two friends had spent the entire evening at a restaurant across
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He wasn’t supposed to be there. That’s the detail that stays with you long after you’ve heard everything else about this case. Carmen J. DeLuca III — CJ — was twenty-three years old, recently engaged, and the manager of a 24-hour gas station just off Interstate 91 in East Windsor, Connecticut. He was covering the
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On the morning of June 27, 2000, Molly Bish drove with her mother to a pond in rural Massachusetts. By the time anyone realized something was wrong, she had been gone for less than ten minutes — and despite witnesses reporting screams from the direction of the beach, investigators would find no blood, no torn
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On a Friday morning in December 1995, John and Shelly Markley helped their five children get ready for school in their Bristolville, Ohio, home. Shelly put the youngest, eight-year-old Johnny, on the bus around 8:30 AM. By the time those kids came home that afternoon, both parents had vanished. The doors were unlocked. The coffee
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