k0710 Just after midnight on 1 May 1984, civil servant Anthony Littler stepped off a train at East Finchley station and set off down a dark alleyway towards home. Two minutes later, the 45-year-old lay dying on the ground. Anthony – a “gentle giant” to his friends, who lived alone and loved real ale – had … Read more
DNA and the discovery that dental records were submitted upside down have led to the identification of a Utah John Doe found dead in 1983 — and the remains belong to a 17-year-old boy who went missing four months earlier. Robby Lynn Peay ran away from a youth treatment center in Salt Lake City on … Read more
Investigators said Friday that new evidence indicates that the Tennessee sheriff made famous in the movie “Walking Tall” was likely responsidble for the death of his wife in 1967. Mark Davidson, district attorney for the state’s 25th judicial district, said at a news conference that the evidence they’d found would “more likely than not” bring … Read more
Investigators said Friday that new evidence indicates that the Tennessee sheriff made famous in the movie “Walking Tall” was likely responsidble for the death of his wife in 1967. Mark Davidson, district attorney for the state’s 25th judicial district, said at a news conference that the evidence they’d found would “more likely than not” bring … Read more
The night before his execution on Jan. 24, 1989, Ted Bundy confessed to murdering 30 women while speaking with psychologist James Dobson. There is no way of ever knowing what the real number is, but it could be as high as 100. His last victim was 12-year-old Kimberly Leach, a seventh grader in Lake City, … Read more
Sharon Rocha has grown used to hearing claims that new evidence has been discovered that could overturn the guilty verdict of her former son-in-law, Scott Peterson, who was convicted of killing her daughter Laci and their unborn son in 2002. “There is no new evidence,” Rocha says. In April, San Mateo County Superior Court Judge … Read more
A Florida man who murdered an 18-year-old woman shortly after meeting her at a New Years Eve celebration over four decades ago was executed this week. Dennis Sochor, 74, died by lethal injection at Florida State Prison near Starke at 6:16 p.m. on Tuesday, July 14, according to the Associated Press, the Palm Beach Post, … Read more
Newnan police in Georgia are hoping new information will help crack the cold case of a Georgia teen found shot in the head over 10 years ago. According to the Newnan Police Department, 17-year-old Blake Chappell, who vanished on October 16, 2011, was found murdered two months later. In a video statement last week, the … Read more
Filmmaker Roman Polanski and actress Sharon Tate had one of the most infamous relationships in Hollywood history. Their complicated one-year marriage ended tragically in 1969 when Tate, who was eight-and-a-half months pregnant with the couple’s first child, was murdered — along with her friends Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger, Wojciech Frykowski and Steven Parent — in … Read more
High school football coach Travis Turner has been a fugitive for more than six months — but Nancy Grace made a bold claim about the mystery surrounding his disappearance. “I think he’s alive,” the veteran crime reporter said Thursday, June 11, on Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Grace, 66, suggested that Turner, 46, is “not … Read more