Yvette addressed her court-martial hearing: “I know the big question in everyone’s mind is why I did it. But I have no answers, and no answer will ever be an excuse for what I did. I understood I was shooting them and that’s why I’m guilty.” Laying the tarpaulin over the floor by the bed,
It was shortly after 12 p.m. on a pleasant Wednesday in April 1934, and the man calling the office of Sheriff E. F. Cooper of San Diego County, California, gave his name as Martinez. He said he had gone with friends to the Black Mountain picnic area, and their outing had been ruined by a
“My temper got the best of me. I picked up a claw hammer which was in the kitchen and struck him in the head with it. He fell to the floor. I just could not call the police and turn myself in. The only way I could handle the body was the way I did
The tape recording was played for the jury, and a year after his death 40-year-old high school baseball coach Russ Stager was heard voicing his suspicions about his wife Barbara. “The first husband, I don’t really know what happened. According to his parents, there was some foul play involved. He is supposed to have accidentally
She was a community stalwart whose life had been devoted to music and the church in Coudersport, Pennsylvania. So when popular Darlene Sitler was brutally gunned down by her ex-husband in front of the congregation in December 2012, the community was left horror-struck... As Pastor Evon Lloyd opened her Bible to read from Corinthians, the
Friends said Jim and Kelley Cannon were a bit of a mismatch. She was gorgeous, willowy and vivacious, he was five-foot-seven, rather plain, but fiercely ambitious. They lived in an $800,000 home with their three young children in a smart suburb of Nashville,Tennessee, favoured by US senators, and from the outside they looked like the
His whole life was stranger than fiction – and the final chapter was anything but happy. Sentenced to life in prison for the 2000 murder of his friend Susan Berman, multi-millionaire New York real-estate heir Robert Durst died, still accused of killing his wife Kathie in 1982... You couldn't invent a man like Bobby Durst.
Something died in Tracy Edwards when he stared into the eyes of Jeffrey Dahmer, the serial killer who sexually assaulted and cannibalised at least 17 young men in America during the 1980s. “It was like meeting the devil,” he said. “All the darkness you could ever imagine was concentrated in those eyes. I felt as
“He will present a grave danger of taking another human life. This man is bright, well read, and capable of fooling all but the very best psychiatrists and social workers. He’s another Ted Bundy. He could charm a victim to her death. I consider Edwin Snelgrove to be the most dangerous defendant I have ever
Jodi’s boyfriend wanted her to dress up as Little Red Riding Hood for a sex session. But when he got tired of her she flew into a jealous rage and shot him, stabbed him and slit his throat... They met for the first time at a conference in Las Vegas in September 2006. He was