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Send Kris and Rob a Text Message! From 1967 to 1980, New York City and suburban New Jersey was the playground for a sexual serial killer who would bind, torture, strangle and dismember his victims. He’s been convicted of a number of murders, but many, including the killer himself believe the number is closer to one hundred women and girls. This is the story of Richard Cottingham. The Torso Killer....

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message! From 1918 to 1931, sixty or more full-blood Osage Native Americans were either murdered or died under mysterious circumstances. Why? Because they were wealthy. So wealthy that no other group of individuals in the world at that time had more money per capita. And with money comes greed. And boy did it come. Corrupt men wanted to take advantage of the Osage Nation’s...

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message! In 1978, a young German man entered the United States as a student looking for the American dream. For the next thirty years he would live under a succession of aliases, all while claiming to be an actor, a director, an art collector, a physicist, a cardiologist, a world negotiator, an English Royal and a member of one of the most famous families in America. This...

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message! Los Angeles, California, 1922. Shots are heard coming from the home of Fred and Walburga "Dolly" Oesterreich. The police are called by concerned neighbors and when authorities arrive, Fred is found unresponsive–dead from three gunshot wounds. Dolly was in a closet, locked from the outside. It seemed to be a cut and dry case of a robbery gone horribly wrong. Except...

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message! May 19, 1983. An extremely calm woman arrives at the McKenzie-Williamette Medical Center in Springfield, Oregon. In her car are her three children ages eight, seven and three. They’ve all been shot by what she described as a bushy-haired man. What transpired on this night is still a mystery to some, but to others it’s a straight forward homicide. This is the story...

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message! From May of 1979 to June of 1980, one man murdered a minimum of twenty-one young men and boys in Southern California. Preying on hitchhikers, he would pick up his victims in his van, take them to a location, torture, beat, rape, sodomize and strangle them before dumping their naked bodies along the freeway. He’d been to prison and jail, but he’d also been paroled—...

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message! From May of 1979 to June of 1980, one man murdered a minimum of twenty-one young men and boys in Southern California. Preying on hitchhikers, he would pick up his victims in his van, take them to a location, torture, beat, rape, sodomize and strangle them before dumping their naked bodies along the freeway. He’d been to prison and jail, but he’d also been paroled—...

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message! August 2017, Corning, New York. Forty-seven year old Lloyd Neurauter is tired of making child support payments for his fourteen-year-old daughter, and decided it was time to hatch a plan-to murder his ex-wife and make it look like a suicide. When it came to fruition, no one believed that Michele would take her own life. And when authorities went digging, they foun...

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message! July 8, 1999, Sidney Ohio. Three young girls are found dead in the home of a man who believes he’s being pursued by a satanic cult. The 30 year old male in question had been arrested for indecent exposure more than once, and it was thought he was at it again—only this time he was giving young girls money to watch him pleasure himself, and he made them pay the ulti...

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message! Between 1933 and 1934,  a man and his gangs robbed their way thru twenty-four banks and four police stations across the midwest. He was arrested and put in jail and prison several times. He escaped twice. He was charged, but not convicted of a murder, and he was adored by the public for his personality and charm. When his crime spree came to an end, he’d changed t...

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message! December 20, 2018, the island of Anguilla. Six friends are ringing in the new year together, spending time on the beach in Island Harbor. Before the week is over, 2 of the six are dead, and the other four aren’t talking. But these families want answers, from the Anguillan police force, the coroner and most importantly, the four who came home. This is the story of...

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message! Christmas Day, 1929, Germanton, North Carolina. The Lawson family–all 9 of them– are preparing for the day. Son Buck is hunting, daughter Marie has baked a cake, the Mother, Fannie is taking care of her smaller children and running the house. But it wasn’t a silent night, holy night for this family. Father, Charlie Lawson would murder his family, one by one by one...

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message! Herb Baumeister: The Family Man Who Buried His Secrets in the Backyard In the heart of suburban Indiana, nestled within the sprawling 18-acre property of Fox Hollow Farm, lay the horrifying secrets of a man who led a double life. Herb Baumeister—father, husband, successful business owner—was also one of Indiana’s most prolific and terrifying serial killers. From 1...

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message! December 1, 1987, Townsend Massachusetts. A pregnant thirty-three year old Priscilla Gustafson and her two young children are found murdered in their home—a home that had  been broken into just two weeks earlier when nothing much was stolen. But items in the house had been moved. When police arrive on the scene, they already have an idea as to who the killer is. A...

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message! Thanksgiving Day 2009. The Merhige and Sitton families are gathering together for a meal. Aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents—the oldest seventy-nine. The youngest is just six years old. One family member had not been invited to the festivities. But he showed up anyway. And after dinner was over, so were the lives of four innocent people. This is Paul Merhige. Th...

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message! One man claimed responsibility for over seventy murders across America. For twenty years he murdered not for financial gain or revenge, but simply to kill for the rush of it. Murdering, only to leave town immediately, he left a ghost of a trail for decades. Until a then year old girl would take him down. This is Tommy Lynn Sells. The Coast to Coast Killer. Sources...

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message! Small town, North Carolina. A grocery store cashier is thought of as caring, pretty and even sexy by some of her male co-workers. She was a Christian woman, who always had a kind word for people and food for the sick. Still, her life wasn't perfect. And the loves of her life weren't perfect either. They were all sick, dying in agony, or dead.  And no one was the w...

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message! Sixteen years, nine hospitals and dozens dead. As a nurse, working the night shift with critical care patients, he flew under the radar, leaving the facility when his activities were noticed only to go to work at the next hospital. Tainting IV bags or injecting the patient or their line with drugs, his murders went undetected until one nurse - who was his friend–...

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message! November 1957, Plainfield Wisconsin. Police arrive at the home of a local farmer and handyman with a search warrant, after a murder earlier that day pointed to the mild-mannered, but odd man. What they discovered in the farmhouse would become one of the most notorious true crimes in American history, inspiring fictional characters of horror movies for years to com...

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message! From May 1918 to October of 1919, the Big Easy of New Orleans was the scene of a brutal serial killer. Targeting mostly Italian immigrants, he would murder his victims and their families while they slept, cutting their throat with a straight razor or bashing their heads in with…an axe. Referring to himself as not human , but a spirit and a demon from the hottest h...

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message! December 6, 1959. 2475 Glendower Place, Los Feliz, California. LA doctor, Harold Perelson strikes his wife in the head with a ball-peen hammer while she sleeps, murdering her before attempting to do the same to his oldest daughter. After failing, he commits suicide. Why would the so-called successful father of three living in a ritzy area of LA want to kill his wi...

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message! October 8, 2009. Bobby and Sherilynn Jamison along with six-year-old daughter Madyson drive thirty miles from their lake home in Eufaula, Oklahoma to see a forty acre plot of land near Red Oak, in Northeast Latimer County. They’re thinking of not just moving, but moving off grid. One day later, the entire family mysteriously disappears leaving behind everything in...

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message! Texas, 2003. Thirty-four-year-old Jeff Wright is murdered by his wife. On this January night in Houston, Susan Wright —a woman described as beautiful, meek and mild-mannered —stabbed her husband not once, not twice, but 193 times. Was he an abusive spouse? Maybe? Did she tie him to the bed before plunging a knife into his body 193 times? Possibly. This case has ev...

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message! In the early 20th century, Dusseldorf, Germany and the surrounding areas were under attack by a sadistic killer. From murdering children to drinking blood, this man was a sexual pervert and serial killer whose victim list was at least twenty-four deep. Sadistic and cruel, he strangled, beat and stabbed men, women and children—not for the thrill of the murder, but...

Send Kris and Rob a Text Message! Between 1969 and 1980, one man took advantage of sex workers, hitch-hikers and runaways in Florida, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, killing 41 women, or was it 88? Was he a serial killer? Or a serial confessor? Because despite his 41 murder confessions, he was brought to trial for just one homicide—a homicide that almost twenty years after his execution had DNA evide...