Michelle Lodzinski was a young, single mom whose little boy Timmy was abducted from a carnival and murdered in 1991. Trouble was, Michelle’s story didn’t seem to add up... Hundreds of people attended five-year-old Timmy’s funeral, and Michelle appeared so grief-stricken at times during the service that her parents had to hold her up. But
As the hours passed, the odour of the steam rising from the copper became fetid and the horrible liquid in it changed colour several times, each darker than the time before. At last, Kate Webster was satisfied that the boiling water had done all she could reasonably expect of it. She let the fire die
Alan Hruby loved the luxury lifestyle his family had worked for. Trouble was, he couldn’t afford it. When his parents threatened to cut him off financially, he hatched a deadly plan... Taking a 9mm pistol that he’d found in his father’s truck, he began by shooting his mother Katherine. Maybe she’d been the one to
When 13-year-old Dylan Redwine discovered his estranged father’s darkest secrets, his young life was in danger... It wasn’t until June 2013 that the case finally started to develop. Some partial remains of Dylan Redwine’s body were found about eight miles up Middle Mountain Road, just a few miles as the crow flies from his father
It was just after 8 o’clock when a dishevelled 39-year-old man in a black cap and trainers came in lugging two suitcases. He said he’d come to see the psychiatrist Dr. Kent Shinbach. But Shinbach, 70, was busy with other patients, so the man sat and waited. Then after fidgeting for a while he got
At 50 Patrizia Reggiani was still beautiful, but she had a problem. The Italian authorities believed she was responsible for the murder of her ex-husband Maurizio Gucci, 46, the fashion empire heir gunned down by a hit-man as he arrived at his Milan office on Monday, March 27th, 1995. Three years after the shooting the
“Carol is dying as I write...” Harry Jarvis penned these chilling words in a note to his mistress who was living a few yards away in his garden shed. “Then we have the house to ourselves and sell all in it to move on. Dangerous times, but we will get there,” he continued. The drugs
Waiting to meet his sweetheart, a ship’s steward named Eaves paced slowly up and down Oldhall Street, Liverpool on the evening of December 10th, 1913. As he was passing a shop, a shutter from the door fell on him, denting his bowler hat. The shop seemed shut, but in a moment or two a youth
In February 1990 a city council worker found a human skeleton on a hillside near a park in a Seattle suburb close to the Meat Market strip. The skeleton was passed on to the Green River task force. Later the skull turned up in Portland, Oregon. The only theory on offer was that the killer
Joe O’Reilly thought he’d carried out the perfect murder. His planning had been thorough; the execution of the killing brutal and calculated. He began by researching the effects of various types of head injuries. How DNA and bloodstains are often the downfall of murderers. And in the following weeks he plotted what he thought was