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For nearly half a century, the Walker family lived with a nightmare they could not name. Every day, they wondered if the person who murdered 17-year-old Carla Walker in 1974 was someone they passed on the street, someone who smiled at them at church, someone who lived just a mile from their front door. The … Read more

For nearly half a century, the Walker family lived with a nightmare they could not name. Every day, they wondered if the person who murdered 17-year-old Carla Walker in 1974 was someone they passed on the street, someone who smiled at them at church, someone who lived just a mile from their front door. The … Read more

The abandoned Domino’s delivery car sat on a secluded Salem road, engine running, driver’s door wide open, three pizza boxes scattered in the dirt. The 18-year-old driver, Sherry Eyerly, was gone. It was July 4, 1982, and what began as an extra shift for a recent high school graduate turned into a nightmare that would … Read more

The cold steel of the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison was waiting for Martha Place, and on March 20th, 1899, she became the first woman in American history to be executed by this method. The 49-year-old woman from New Jersey had been convicted of murdering her 18-year-old stepdaughter, Ida Place, in a vicious attack … Read more

The shadows of the gallows have stretched across centuries, but the final utterances of those condemned to die remain etched in the collective psyche of a nation. From the first federal execution under the U. S. Constitution to the lethal injections of the modern era, the last words of death row inmates offer a chilling, … Read more

Als die 10-jährige Mirko Schlitter an einem Septemberabend nicht nach Hause kommt, ist das Schlimmste, was Eltern passieren kann, noch nicht absehbar. Die Mutter Sandra ist zunächst nur besorgt, als der Junge gegen 21 Uhr noch nicht von seinen Freunden zurückgekehrt ist. Sie ruft bei der Mutter eines Freundes an, die bestätigt, dass Mirko sich … Read more

Der Fund der Kinderleiche in einer Tiefkühltruhe in einer Reihenhaussiedlung in Dorsten hat die Ermittler vor ein Rätsel gestellt, das erst Jahre später vollständig gelöst wurde. Der zehnjährige Ali war im Juli 1999 spurlos verschwunden, nachdem er mit seinem älteren Bruder in der Stadt gespielt hatte. Während die Familie des Jungen verzweifelt nach ihm suchte, … Read more

In the quiet, sprawling backroads of rural South Carolina, a monster lurked behind a friendly face, and for decades, the disappearances of dozens of people went unnoticed until the horrifying truth emerged. Donald Henry Gaskins, a man who would later be branded the meanest man in America, was not just a killer of dozens but … Read more

A 79-year-old former Braniff Airlines pilot has been arrested in Colorado for the 1981 strangulation murder of a Grapevine, Texas flight attendant, a cold case that remained unsolved for 45 years despite investigators having interviewed the suspect on the day of the killing. Larry Brown, now awaiting extradition to Texas, was charged with the murder … Read more

A 79-year-old former Braniff Airlines pilot has been arrested in Colorado for the 1981 strangulation murder of a Grapevine, Texas flight attendant, a cold case that remained unsolved for 45 years despite investigators having interviewed the suspect on the day of the killing. Larry Brown, now awaiting extradition to Texas, was charged with the murder … Read more