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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There is a version of this story that most of America never heard. A sixteen year old girl. Straight-A student. Athlete. The kind of teenager who made everyone around her believe the future was going to be just fine. She traveled from her hometown in North Carolina to Baltimore to spend Christmas with her older
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Room 260: The Unsolved 1980 Double Murder at the Amana Holiday Inn On September 12, 1980, two people checked into Room 260 at the Amana Holiday Inn in Williamsburg, Iowa. They had driven 265 miles from St. Joseph, Missouri, for a secret weekend together. By the next afternoon, both were dead — killed in one
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The Murder of Brandy Renee Dyson: 20 Years Without Justice in Lake Charles, Louisiana On November 5th, 2005, in the aftermath of two catastrophic hurricanes, 32-year-old Brandy Renee Dyson was found dead in the water behind the Lake Charles Civic Center in Louisiana. She had been strangled. A man was arrested, indicted, and jailed for
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She Was Fine: The Disappearance and Unsolved Death of Mitrice Richardson A deep dive into one of the most infuriating unsolved cases in Los Angeles County history. On September 17, 2009, at 12:28 in the morning, a 24-year-old woman walked out the front doors of the Lost Hills Sheriff’s Station in Calabasas, California. She had
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