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Robert Blake Murder Case -- Actor Robert Blake, star of the 1970s series "Baretta," is loses the civil suit against him and is held financially liable for the murder of his wife. Mark David Chapman gunned down former Beatle John Lennon. Now he's up for parole. Gripping interview with John Lennon's killer. On 20th anniversary of John Lennon's murder, son Julian discusses their relationship.
Who killed Christa Worthington? From a prominent local family, she had worked as a fashion journalist, writing for Women’s Wear Daily, Elle, and The New York Times. Around her 40th birthday, Christa moved to Truro, Massachusetts where her family spent summers. January 6th 2002, Christa, 46, a single parent with a young daughter, was found murdered in her beach home. Christa was last seen on Friday, January 4th, 2002. This was the first homicide in Truro, in more than 30 years. Her daughter Ava, 2 ½, with her body. On April 15, 2005, the local garbage collecter from Hyannis, Mass., Christopher M. McCowen, 33, was charged with the stabbing death. McCowen who pleaded innocent is held without bail on first-degree murder and aggravated rape charges based on DNA. McCowen has a lengthy criminal record of violent crimes and collected garbage at her home. Nightmare In Napa -- The murders of former beauty queen Leslie Mazzara and her roommate Adriane Insogna both 26 years old shocked Napa, California. Karen Tipton, the mother of two young daughters was brutally murdered in her Decatur, Ala. home on March 12, 1999. Her husband, a prominent doctor, was ruled out as a suspect, and the focus of the investigation shifted to a young man arrested several weeks after the crime. The Ward Weaver Story: On a stormy winter morning, Ashley Pond, 12, a seventh-grader at Gardiner Middle School, headed for the school bus stop in Oregon City, OR about 8 a.m. Jan. 9, 2002. Ashley did not make it to school. Two months later on March 8, 2002, 13-year-old Miranda Diane Gaddis, disappeared after she left her apartment at 8 a.m. for the school bus. Ashley and Miranda attended the same school, rode the same bus, were in the same dance class and had a common friend. Phil Spector: Off the wall? Legendary record producer Phil Spector, 62, has been charged with 1st-degree murder after Lana Clarkson, 40, was found shot dead inside his Los Angeles mansion, February 2003. Phil Spector Murder Case... He told Esquire magazine Clarkson "kissed the gun" before pulling the trigger. 3 years before he was charged with murder, he handed down some wisdom. Jon Benet Ramsey DNA Rules Out Parents! Scott Peterson - Guilty -- Sentenced to the Death! In 1998, Patrizia Reggiani, Italy's "black widow," was sentenced to 26 years in jail for hiring a hit man to kill her estranged husband, fashion heir, Maurizio Gucci, Mafia-style, outside his Milan office. Her family now claims new medical tests show the extent of the brain damage from a brain tumor years ago meant she could not have planned a murder.
The alleged leader of a gang that called itself the "Northwest Mafia" will face stiffer charges in the killing of Rachel Burkheimer, based on new accusations that he ordered the killing of the 18-year-old Marysville, WA woman.
On Sept. 15 2002, Kern County Assistant District Attorney, Steve Tauzer, Kern County , was found dead in his Bakersfield, Calif., garage stabbed repeatedly in the head. Jane Andrews -- The former aide to the Duchess of York, has been found guilty of murdering her fiancé, Tom Cressman, 39, after discovering a sexy e-mail he sent to another woman and sentenced to life imprisonment. Jane Andrews is appealing her conviction. Relentlessly portrayed as a callous social climber, here she gives her account of their relationship and the hours that led up to the killing. March 15, 2001, college student Danny Petrole, 21, the son of a retired Secret Service agent, was shot 9 times as he sat in his car outside his townhouse in a Manassas, Va. affluent suburb. Owen Barber, 21 told police, Justin Wolfe, 20, hired him to kill Petrole for money and drugs. Wolfe, was charged with capital murder. The Murder of the Notorious B.I.G. -- Suge Knight, gangster cops and allegations of police cover-up: the shocking story behind LA's most famous unsolved crime and the whistle-blower who wants to set the record straight. Damning testimony by his own brothers and an incriminating victim's diary helped convince Delaware jurors Thomas Capano, 46 was guilty of murdering Anne Marie Fahey, 30 and dumping her body at sea in 1996. Waco, Texas -- Patrick's parents, Valerie and Brian Brabazon; his girlfriend, Jessica De La Rosa, and his friend, Daniel Okopnyi, speaking for the accused, attorney, Grady Irvin. The Baylor University basketball player, Patrick Dennehy's, accused shooter, a former teammate, Carlton Dotson, suggests he acted in self-defense and said he had been hearing voices. Quadruple Murder -- July 2002, Los Angeles County, in one house, 4 people from one family were murdered, Miguel Ruiz, 38, his wife Maritza Trejo, his grandmother Ana Luisa Martinez, and his daughter, 8, was tortured and sexually assaulted. Marriage, Money and Murder: Death In The Hamptons -- Ted Ammon, 52, became the Hamptons' first homicide victim in 20 years. He seemed an unlikely candidate for a fatal beating: standing 6'4", he was extremely athletic and fit. Guilty Verdict in 'Rink Rage' Trial -- Hockey Father Convicted of involuntary manslaughter. Thomas Junta, 44, a 275 pound truck driver killed Michael Costin, 45, 156 pound construction worker. The 3, 10, and 12 year old sons of Costin and Junta were present. Junta challenged his son's hockey coach. The dispute followed to a locker room. Junta left but returned. In front of 12 children the men fought. Costin unconscious, died, his head was nearly severed. A convenience store surveillance video showed Donald Blom, 51, with his hands around the neck of Katie Poirier, 19, May 1999. Blom confessed to abducting, strangling and burning her body in a fire pit on his nearby vacation property. Blom has 6 prior felony convictions, 5 are sex-related. Amanda Mayhew Dealey, daughter of slain Texas millionaire, Charles Mayhew Sr., sued her brother for his father's wrongful death. 3 months after being held liable civilly, police charge Charles Mayhew Jr. for his father's 1998 death. The Predator Among Us - Money, GQ looks, fast cars, beautiful wives. David Miller had all that and a sinister compulsion. Miller usually attacked women he loved when he was angry, with a woman. "After his mom's death, he went on a rampage." Sharon Lopatka, 35, left her Hampstead, Maryland home for North Carolina, on Oct. 13, 1998, willingly to be sexually tortured to death by a man she met on the Internet. She was killed 3 days later. She left a note telling her husband she would not be returning. Robert Glass, 45, a computer analyst for the Catawba County government was charged with 1st-degree murder. Who shot Doris Angleton, 46, mother of 2 young daughters and the wife of Robert Angleton, Houston's top bookmaker? Doris was shot 13 times in her home in 1997. Friends speculated it was carried out by one of Robert's underworld rivals. January 24, 2002, bookie, Robert "Bob" Angleton was arrested and indicted by a Federal Grand Jury. He faces federal conspiracy and murder for hire charges in the death of his wife. Angleton's lawyer, Mike Ramsey claims Angleton was arrested and acquitted on the same charges in 1998. Too Many Hit Men -- February 5, 1997 would have been Steve Ver Woert's 44th birthday, but he didn't make it to his job at a cellular phone company in Redmond, Wash. When a co-worker arrived at his 5th-wheel trailer nearby, she found blood outside the front door and called police.The Cheerleaders -- Tiffany Starr in Dryden, New York, was Captain of the Dryden High School cheerleading squad, student council member, and voted biggest flirt in her class. In 4 years, 6 of her peers, including Sarah Hajney, Jen Boldu, and Katie Savino were dead. So was her father the High School Football Coach. 1996Frank Janto apologized before he was sentenced to life in prison, with parole, when a jury convicted Janto of beating Bongak "Jackie" Koja, 56, to death and dumping her in a trash bin. Janto was convicted in 1991 for beating a woman. Janto was convicted of stealing, sexually assaulting a child and assaulting a woman before he murdered. June 4, 1989, the bodies of Jo, Michelle and Christe Rogers were found in Tampa Bay. March 16, 1988, auto racing great, Mickey Thompson, and wife Trudy were gunned down in the driveway of their California home. Sheriff's investigators knew the murders were a professional "hit." Michael Goodwin, 56, was arrested for the murders. He pleaded innocent. Goodwin earned the title "Father of Supercross" in the 1970's. Manuela and Daniel Ruda are accused of killing a close friend with a hammer and 66 stab wounds. The decomposing body of Frank Hackerts, 33, was found in the couple's apartment. At their trial in Bochum, German they admit stabbing their friend but pleaded not guilty as they were following orders from the devil. Neither has shown remorse and both grinned at the mother of their victim. They received 13 and 15 year sentences to a secure psychiatric ward where they would receive therapy. A Stolen Soul -- Yong Jones, a Maine woman whose devotion to her family carried her on a long, painful journey to seek justice for her son, Laurence Jones Jr. Christine Elkins' disappearance -- The case has gained fame in law enforcement circles nationwide, but remained almost unknown to the general public. A jury convicted Michael Markhasev of murdering entertainer Bill Cosby's only son, Ennis, during a botched robbery. May 29, 1979 -- Federal Judge John Wood is assassinated -- Judge John Wood, known as "Maximum John," was assassinated outside his San Antonio, Texas, home. Charles Harrelson, actor Woody Harrelson's father, was charged with the murder. Drug kingpin, Jimmy Chagra's case was about to come before "Maximum John," and he paid Harrelson $250,000. An investigation into Wood's death was more expensive than the investigation in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. A chilling tale of premeditated parenticide committed by an adult daughter living with her mother and her boyfriend secretly hiding in the closet. Jesse's Gone -- A young hip hop artist from East Oakland, Jesse Rahim Hall, was killed in a drive-by shooting. 1966, Charles Yukl killed, raped and sodomized Suzanne Reynolds, secretary, aspiring actress, and a singer. He was in Sing Sing from 1969 to 1971, a model prisoner he was moved to minimum security until he was paroled June of 1973, no longer mentally ill. In 1974 he murdered Karin Schlegel, 23. He hid her body under the bed and then dumped it on his roof. Murder on 'Abortion Row' -- John Salvi was serving more than 2 life terms for shooting 7 health care workers in a Boston suburb in the worst violence at abortion clinics in the nation. Salvi, 24, was found dead in his cell at Massachusetts' maximum security prison in Walpole. America's Most Wanted Takes Credit for a Killing -- Mazariego-Molina's family contends he was the victim of vigilante justice, encouraged by perhaps intentionally erroneous information from the LA Sheriff's Department transmitted by a national television broadcast. Lamar Z. Brooks was found guilty for a second time for the April 1996 stabbing deaths of Rachel Carlson and her infant daughter, Alexis Stuart. The paths of a homeless veteran and a Seattle teenager cross tragically beneath a highway overpass. David Ballenger, a homeless man, was killed in a Seattle neighborhood. He was stabbed 18 times in an attack by 3 teenagers, one boasted, "One less bum on the face of the earth." Chandran Nathan, 35, Obsessed with Hema Sakhrani, confronted her fiancé, Shaleen Wadwhani at his Long Island home and emptied 41 rounds from an assault rifle through a door.
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Ingleside, TX-City Confidential --Ingleside, Texas, the sleepy sister city of Corpus Christi, came alive in 1996 when the body of a Houston businessman was found in a shallow grave. Almost immediately, suspicion fell on Mark Crawford, an engaging character who had served as the town's mayor. Crawford was dogged by rumors of a shady past and how these stories led to the death of his business partner. Crawford was caught after he fled town. But new charges in a new state opened a whole new chapter in this strange saga. Red Zone: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of the San Francisco Dog Mauling by Aphrodite Jones January 2001, Diane Alexis Whipple bled to death in the hallway of her Pacific Heights apartment building when she was mauled by two Presa Canarios, a vicious breed of attack dog imported from the Canary Islands. City Confidential - Nashville: Murder In Music City -- Nashville is one of the nation's fastest growing cities. The country music business rivals the movie business when it comes to glamour and excess. But 20 years ago, The Grand Ole Opry was was more like a family gathering than a concert. That would be shattered in 1973 when David "Stringbean" Akeman, one of the most popular performers on Nashville's Grand Ole Opry and CBS's HEE HAW and his wife were robbed and murdered in their country cabin.
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Days of Terror: The Compelling True Story of the Hunt
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Another Little Murder by Phil Cleary The Vengeful Heart and Other Stories A true crime case-book Stephen G. Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth -- Distills a dozen true murder tales into a single chilling volume. The book provides an inside look at the motives, passions and terror wrought by the country's most brutal killers. Lethal
Shadow: The Chilling True-Crime Story of a Sadistic Sex
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by Stephen G. Michaud Profiles James Mitchell De Bardeleban, from his initial arrest as a counterfeiter to the discovery that he was also a sadistic kidnapper, torturer, and sex murderer responsible for a 20 year reign of terror. The Night the DeFeos Died: Reinvestigating the Amityville Murders by Ric Osuna Death in Paradise: An Illustrated History of the Los Angeles County Department of Coroner by Tony Blanche, Brad Schreiber Unnatural celebrity deaths and unnaturally celebrated murders pockmark the history of Los Angeles, looming as large in the public imagination as the Hollywood stars themselves. Death in Paradise is the first authorized history of Los Angeles by way of its coroner's office, revisiting important or high-profile cases that remain shrouded in mystery. With many never-before-published photographs documenting the notorious deaths of Bobby Kennedy, Sam Rummel, Dorothy Dandridge, Bugsy Siegel, Sharon Tate, Janis Joplin, and others, this book presents an unflinching view of Tinsel town's dark underbelly. The book includes over 100 photographs of infamous crimes from every decade of the 20th century.
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