Crimes and Consequences

The women of San Diego, California were near hysteria in 1990.  Headlines in the news read "Eerie Serial Killings Have San Diego Women on the Edge.”  A monster was breaking into the apartment of young women during the day and murdering them.  Six women were killed within one year, and dozens of others were burglarized.   In addition, a handful of women barely escaped the clutches of this serial ki...

From May 1979 to November 1984, there were six unsolved throat-slashing killings in the San Diego area. The police arrested a man and while he was in jail awaiting his trial, the throat slasher struck again. However, this victim, who was left for dead on the side of the road, survived her injuries and was able to help authorities capture the real killer and end his throat-slashing spree. Looking f...

During a cold, wintery week in December 2002, brothers Reginald and Jonathan Carr decided to go on a crime spree that ended with 5 people dead and 2 others mentally scarred for life. The Carr Brothers’ final heinous act ended on December 15, where they shot 5 friends execution-style in a soccer field in Wichita, Kansas. The brothers failed to make sure their victims were all dead, and one of the w...

Almost every true crime addict knows about the infamous Louisiana serial killer Derrick Todd Lee. However, most people have never heard of Louisiana’s other serial killer: Nathaniel Code. Nathaniel had a unique ritual that linked him to at least eight murders but his true victim count is estimated to be double that amount. What made his crimes so unique that even the FBI had never seen anything li...

Earle Nelson was the first serial killer in the U.S. to get widespread media notoriety throughout the United States, Canada, and Australia. During 1926-27, he killed at least 22 people, and most of them were classified as “sex murders”—meaning Earle derived sexual pleasure during the killing. Earle denied responsibility for the murders until his last dying breath—which was taken at the gallows of...

In January of 2007, Channon Christian was a beautiful and intelligent 21-year-old sociology major who studied at the University of Knoxville in Tennessee. She had been dating 23-year-old Christopher Newsom for about two months when they decided to have dinner and then go to a party one Saturday night. They never made it to the party because they were carjacked at an apartment complex. What transpi...

On May 31, 2000, Nineteen-year-old Jill Behrman, went missing while riding her bike in Bloomington, Indiana. A local woman named Wendy Owings, and two of her shady friends confessed to 46 people that they murdered Jill. Wendy provided a detailed confession to the police and passed a polygraph test regarding her account of the crime. Wendy's confession lead the police to drain Salt River, where the...

In the late 1990s, in and around Sacramento, California, James Daveggio and his girlfriend, Michelle Michaud were meth-heads that were obsessed with local serial killers, Gerald and Charlene Gallego. Determined to make their mark like their idols, James and Michelle began a path of destruction that began with committing heinous rape and incest crimes and ended with the torture and death of 21-year...

In January of 2008, Denise Amber Lee was a 21-year-old stay-at-home mother to two young children living in North Port, Florida.   While Denise Lee's husband was at work, a man entered their home in the middle of the day and kidnapped her while she was watching her two boys.  Five people called 911 regarding the crime, one of those people was the victim, Denise Lee.  Listen to all the 911 calls and...

In September 1981, in the idyllic village of Eiching, Bavaria, Germany, a 10-year-old girl named Ursula Herrmann was riding her bike home after having dinner at her aunt and uncle’s house. Ursula never made it back to her house and seemed to vanish into thin air. Her parents received two ransom notes and phone calls from the kidnappers but after they agreed to pay the ransom and were working out t...

In the early ’80s, Michael Ryan was the leader of a small group of followers who lived together on an 80-acre hog farm in Rulo, Nebraska. All of the group’s decisions were determined by what they referred to as “the arm test,” which was a means for God to speak to them. Michael, however, didn’t need to use the arm test, as he claimed God spoke directly to him in his mind. By 1985, some of the memb...

On May 27, 1997, 18-year-old Jeremy Strohmeyer was playing games in the arcade of a hotel-casino in Primm, Nevada, about 40 miles south of Las Vegas.  While he is in the arcade, he notices 7-year-old Sherrice Iverson, who is running around the casino unsupervised.  Jeremy and Sherrice start playing hide-and-seek, and their game turns deadly for Sherrice when Jeremy follows her into the ladies bath...

In 1974, two Australian nursing students, Lorraine Wilson, and Wendy Evans decided to take some time off from their work and studies to travel around Australia.  Unfortunately for the young women, Lorraine’s car broke down in the middle of their vacation and the repair shop said would take over a week to fix it.  Undeterred, the two decided to hitchhike to Brisbane to spend a week with Lorraine’s...

In 2004, a film class at Hope College in Holland, Michigan, set out to make a documentary on the 1978 cold case murder of 22-year-old Janet Chandler. Janet was known by her family to be a conservative woman of strong Christian faith and morals, but an investigation into her murder showed there was another side to Janet that she kept hidden from her parents. On a cold January night, while working a...

In the summer of 1984, 14-year-old Kenny Myers left his home to go for a bike ride when he failed to return, his mother reported him missing.  His strangled body was found 30 miles away in a park.  A year later, 13-year-old Shawn Moore disappeared while riding his bike and like Kenny, his body was found decomposed two weeks later, 150 miles from his house.  Other teen boys reported being kidnapped...

On June 2, 1991, in southern California, Denise Huber was getting ready to go to a Morrisey concert with a friend.  After the concert, she and her friend, Rob, went for drinks at a local watering hole.  They invited more friends to join them and the night didn’t end until last call.  Denise dropped Rob off at his house at about 2 am, and she told him she was on her way home.  She was never seen al...

Two days before her graduation from high school, 17-year-old Shari Smith was kidnapped from her mailbox. The kidnapper called her family on eight different occasions taunting them and even threatened that Shari's 21-year-old sister, Dawn, would suffer the same fate. Eventually, the perpetrator's phone calls stopped, but his crimes didn't. Two weeks after Shari's disappearance, he called the Smith...

On June 27, 1995 a local newscaster from Mason City, Iowa was running late for her 3am call time at her station.  Jodi Husentruit, who had overslept, hurriedly ran out the door of her apartment, got to her car to go to work, and was abducted, never to be seen again. It was about 4:30 am and there were no actual eyewitnesses.  Police would arrive to the scene by 7:30 am to find her belongings strew...

In 2004, a 22-year-old named Erin went to check on her grandmother's winter home in Deltona, Florida, like she often would, just to make sure everything was fine with it.  On July 31st, she discovered she found items at her grandma's house, such as an Xbox, men's clothing, and mail with the name Troy Victorino on it.  She called the police and they told her since the property was at her grandmothe...

In October of 1986, 17-year-old Alicia from Terra Haute, Indiana, walked two blocks to the gas station to get some pop for her family, but she never returned. Months later, another girl from Alicia's neighborhood disappeared.  An informant and an anonymous tipster provided leads to the police which led to a shocking discovery... Looking for our missing episodes? They are available free on our webs...

In 1973, five teenagers decided to spend their Saturday night listening to the guitar by the campfire at Gitchie Manitou State Park.  Five of them entered the park, but only one left alive.  This story is truly what nightmares are made of...Listen to The Gitchie Girl. Looking for our missing episodes? They are available free on our website www.tntcrimes.com Get Exclusive Members Only, Ad-Free epis...

In 1977, young girls in the suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia were going missing. It wouldn’t be until two years later where the truth of what happened to them would come to light.  Police were told to talk to James Miller—that James had quite the story to tell.  James ended up telling police about the rape, murder and disposal of six young women, some of them just teenagers, at the hands of hi...

Gerard Schaefer, a former Florida police officer, is one of the world's most vile and prolific serial killers.  For 10 years he tortured, mutilated, and murdered women on three different continents.  He took pleasure in the mental anguish even more than the physical pain he inflicted on his victims and preferred to kill two women at one time for "double the pleasure."   In order to ensure he didn'...

Carmine Lapello was a taxi cab driver during the Canadian prohibition on alcohol. He was arrested twice for using his cab to deliver alcohol to the bootleggers. In 1917, he was viciously murdered and humiliated in death by having his pants pulled down leaving him exposed on the road beside his cab. The last people to catch a ride from Carmine was a shady couple that insisted that Carmine drive the...

On January 25, 2012 the body of a woman was discovered in the backseat of a Mercedes SUV that had been abandoned in the City of Detroit.  The police soon discovered the woman was 57-year-old Jane Bashara, who had been reported missing the night before by her husband of nearly 27 years, Bob. Bob insisted Jane must have been murdered after a car-jacking gone wrong, but the police soon uncovered a st...