Fired up and loaded with ammunition, 35-year-old Juan David Ortiz, a former US Navy Marine Corps trauma specialist, regular churchgoer, and husband with two young children, picked up 35-year-old Guiselda Cantu from San Bernardo Avenue, Laredo's red-light strip, drove her to an underpass half an hour away, and told her to get out of the
Karla Faye Tucker’s trial for the murder of Jerry Dean began on Wednesday, April 11th, 1984, with one of her companions that night – Albert Sheehan – telling the jury how the trio had spent the day drinking, taking drugs and smoking pot before they set out for Dean’s apartment. He said that when they
Come back with us to a gaslit era before anyone had heard of Jack the Ripper – and experience the horrified fascination the police must have felt as a series of apparently unrelated atrocities coalesced into the work of history’s most infamous serial killer... In this series, you’ll read full case reports on ALL the
Thrown out of the family home by his wife Brenda, Rob Andrew was doing his best to maintain a close relationship with his children. Brenda had agreed he could have them for the Thanksgiving weekend, but she actually had deadly plans for him... It was a week after Rob Andrew filed a complaint to the
Neuroscientist Dr. Amy Bishop sat silently at the faculty meeting on Friday, February 12th, 2010, while her University of Alabama colleagues discussed budgets, syllabuses and open days. The meeting had been going for nearly an hour in the windowless, fluorescent-lit conference-room on the third floor when Professor Debra Moriarty yawned and studied her agenda. Suddenly
When she died, the Ballroom world mourned the passing of Dorian Corey. Then a body was discovered in the closet at her apartment and suspicion grew that she’d been a killer... In October 1993, Lois Taylor was still coming to terms with the death of her close friend and ally, Dorian Corey, the famous drag
It was a routine call for AA man Lee Gardin. It was late June, 2021, and he’d had a typically busy day helping tourists driving to and from their holidays in Devon. Now he was helping a stranded woman motorist change a tyre. “There was an odd smell from the vehicle,” said Gardin. “It was
It was a little before 4.30 on the afternoon of Saturday, July 21st, 1990. The sun shone down out of a clear blue sky. It was stiflingly hot, but it wasn’t just the weather that was making the man sweat. Responsibility for that lay elsewhere. As the motor purred quietly, the man turned and looked
John Vickers was among the many people in Britain who were convinced he wouldn’t hang. Many Tory MPs – the Conservatives were in office – had voted to retain hanging in the belief that it would be imposed only in exceptional circumstances and that it would fall into abeyance. To the astonishment of many people
Heather Knecht Reynolds was living the American dream. An accomplished academic, the blonde 41-year-old had a successful husband in a well-paid job in IT and three lovely boys... Was this the same Heather Reynolds who went on trial for the murder of her 17-month-old son Axel in July 2022? In front of a court with