Culprit

“Lizzie Borden took an ax …” You may know the rhyme, but do you know the true story behind it? Today, for our final case on daughters who kill, we’re talking about Lizzie Borden. Even though she was acquitted, most people still believe that Lizzie Borden killed her father, Andrew Borden, and stepmother, Abby Borden with a hatchet in 1892. Could she have been innocent, or did Lizzie kill them for h...

Police arrived at the two-story home in quiet Markham, Ontario on November 8, 2010, in response to 24-year-old Jennifer Pan’s 911 call in which she told the dispatcher that three men had broken into her home and shot her parents, Hann and Bich Pan. Police and ambulance services pulled up to find a bloodied Hann in the front yard. Upon entering the home, they discovered Jennifer tied to the upstair...

A blood-soaked scene, three bodies, and one missing girl, the police can hardly be faulted for assuming they were looking at an abduction following a triple murder. But the person who had plotted the murders of Debra and Marc Richardson and their eight-year-old son, Tyler Jacob, wasn’t a stranger. It was 12-year-old Jasmine Richardson who had enlisted the help of her “boyfriend,” 23-year-old Jerem...

São Paulo, Brazil’s largest city, experienced plenty of crime in 2002. With many citizens living in poverty and struggling to survive, police were used to being called to crime scenes in the poorer neighborhoods. However, getting called to the wealthy area of Campo Belo was not the norm. Entering the residence, police found that the rooms on the lower level largely appeared undisturbed, except for...

We will be covering two separate cases about daughters who kill this week. First, when Reid and Miriam Beck’s son, Justin, visits their home on January 17, 2023, because he hadn’t talked to his parents in a few days, his sister, Verity, who is also living in the house, tells him things have “been bad.” Justin can see that when he notices what looks like a body covered with a sheet and a chainsaw n...

With the bodies of her mother, Elizabeth, and sister, Katie, upstairs, Kim Edwards watched the Twilight movies with her boyfriend Lucas Markham, reveling in their unobstructed relationship before police came to arrest them. Having long been jealous of her mother and sister’s close relationship, Kim wanted revenge for how her mother had treated her, and getting Lucas to kill Elizabeth for her was h...

Daughters who kill … That’s our first ever theme, and today, we’re diving into the case of Virginia McCullough. We’ve all dug ourselves into a hole with our lies before. Most of us, though, don’t see murder as our only way out. However, Virginia McCullough decided that murdering her parents, John and Lois, was her only answer. When the police showed up at the family home, they learned that Virgini...