When it came to Jeffrey Dahmer’s apartment in Netflix’s Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, director Carl Franklin pictured a gritty fish tank filled with yellow-green algae and lifeless fish. He wanted to reach audiences on a visceral level, placing viewers in the notorious serial killer’s putrid living room …
Read More »Did 'Poltergeist Girl' Christina Boyer Really Murder Her Three-Year-Old Daughter?
Two questions linger over the new ABC News Studios/Hulu limited docuseries Demons & Saviors. Did Christina Boyer possess some kind of telekinetic power? And, more pertinently, did she murder her three-year-old daughter, a crime for which she has been incarcerated in Georgia since 1992? Demons & Saviors does its best …
Read More »'Doomsday Mom' Lori Vallow Sentenced to Life Without Parole for Murder of Her Children
Lori Vallow, the Idaho mother convicted in May of the shocking murders of her 7-year-old son “JJ” Vallow and 16-year-old daughter Tylee Ryan, will spend the rest of her life in prison, with no possibility of parole, a judge ruled Monday. All told, Vallow received five life sentences — including …
Read More »Lucie Blackman: The Missing Woman Who Exposed Tokyo's Seedy Underbelly
Horrible crimes have been committed amid Tokyo’s shadowy nightlife, and a young Western woman is in the middle of it. So are the police and the media, each handling things as they’ve been taught, which doesn’t endear them to each other. No, it’s not another season of HBO’s Tokyo Vice, …
Read More »Why Did It Take So Long to Catch the Long Island Serial Killer?
On Friday morning, news broke that a suspect had finally been placed in police custody for the infamous LISK murders, the deaths of four sex workers whose remains had been found in burlap sacks on Long Island’s Gilgo Beach more than a decade ago. Though one of the highest-profile cases …
Read More »Former Manson Family Member Leslie Van Houten Released From Prison
Leslie Van Houten, who in 1969 participated in a double murder at the direction of Charles Manson, was released from prison on Tuesday morning. Nancy Tetreault, a lawyer for Van Houten, confirmed her release to Rolling Stone and said the prison had kept the exact date and time confidential. “She …
Read More »When Cops Let a Serial Killer Terrorize Queer New York
One of the most telling moments of Last Call: When a Serial Killer Stalked Queer New York, the new HBO docuseries about a serial killer who terrorized gay men in the Nineties, comes when director Anthony Caronna is interviewing a pair of retired police detectives who worked the case. The …
Read More »He Spent a Decade Trying to Prove His Parents Killed His Teen Sister
We all have issues with our parents, be them related to love, money, neglect or other grievances and wrongdoings, real or imagined. But the story of Stephen Pandos is more extreme than most. He spent a decade trying to prove that his mom and dad were responsible for the unsolved …
Read More »Idaho Murder Suspect 'Stands Silent' During Arraignment, Judge Enters Not Guilty Plea
A judge in the Idaho Murders case has entered not guilty pleas on behalf of suspect Bryan Kohberger in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho college students. When the judge asked Kohberger’s attorney whether he was prepared to plead to the charges, the attorney said she and Kohberger …
Read More »Cash App Founder's Alleged Killer Pleads Not Guilty to Murder
On Thursday, Nima Momeni pleaded not guilty to charges alleging that he fatally stabbed Cash App founder Bob Lee in San Francisco and left him to bleed to death, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Momeni, who also worked in tech, was arrested April 13 for Lee’s murder, nearly two …
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