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Divorce and child custody battles can be brutal, but they rarely end in murder.  In February, 2002, Alan Bates and his wife Terra were excited to pick up his two daughters from the home of his ex-wife, Jessica McCord.  His relationship with Jessica had been acrimonious since the divorce, but he loved his girls and […] The post Overdue Motorists: Alan & Terra Bates appeared first on Tieg...

The Schenecker family home was in a nice neighborhood; the kind of place couples choose to raise a family.  Julie, her husband Parker, and their two children, Calyx and Beau, seemed to be living the good life in their spacious home located on a cul-de-sac in a gated community.  But on January 28, 2011, the […] The post The Devil They Knew: Calyx & Beau Schenecker appeared first on Tiegr...

William Bradford Bishop, Jr., was born and raised to succeed.  With classic good looks, cultured parents, and a Yale education, he expected a lot out of life.  As an adult, he married a beautiful woman who gave him three healthy sons.  They travelled the world, eventually settling into a Maryland suburb. Bishop built a career […] The post The Bradford Bishop Murders appeared first on Tiegrab...

Jennifer Cave and Colton Pitonyak had their addiction to drugs in common, but they were otherwise two very different people. Jennifer was known as a caring person who tried to help everyone she met.  Pitonyak was a drug dealer with a growing propensity for violence. In August of 2005, when Jennifer didn’t show up for […] The post When Darkness Fell: Jennifer Cave appeared first on Tiegrabber...

Ellen Boehm’s husband left her for another woman, abandoning his three children without visitation or financial support.  With only her secretarial job to support them, Ellen had to move her children out of the family home and into an apartment building. Money was tight, but Ellen had some strange priorities. She was crazy about professional […] The post Mommy’s Little Moneymakers: The...

In the spring of 2005, brother and sister Shasta and Dylan Groene were just normal kids, out playing in their yard in their bathing suits. Neither they nor their parents had any way of knowing that a violent pedophile was watching them.  Joseph Duncan III, recently paroled, had been trolling the area, looking for fresh […] The post Shasta’s Story: The Crimes Against the Groene Family a...

On November 26, 2001, the fire department of Cantonment, Florida, was called to the burning home of Terry King. Terry was dead in his reclining chair, but he had not been overcome by smoke.  He had been bludgeoned to death.  Once the fire was extinguished, concerns turned to Terry’s two sons, Derek, 13, and Alex, […] The post Killing Dad: Alex & Derek King appeared first on Tiegrabber .

Graduate student Annie Le disappeared from her lab at Yale University just five days before her wedding.  When she was first reported missing, investigators theorized that she had cold feet and had likely run off for some time alone.  But Annie’s family and friends didn’t believe Annie would do that.  She was very much in […] The post The Vanishing Bride-to-Be: Annie Le appeared first on Tie...

In September, 2015, 25-year-old Jack Taylor was found dead in the graveyard of St. Margaret’s Church in East London.  Jack was not the first young man to be found dead under unexplained circumstances, all within a few hundred yards of each other. It was initially believed that these deaths resulted from drug overdoses, but Jack’s […] The post The Grindr Killer: Stephen Port appeared first on...

How much are your loved ones worth to you?  Priceless, right?  You cannot put a dollar amount on a person’s life.  Not so for Karl Karlson. There were so many tragedies and coincidences in his life that his second wife suspected him of two murders and several instances of insurance fraud.  In fact, she became […] The post Cashing In: Karl Karlsen appeared first on Tiegrabber .

Kathy Stobaugh married the wrong man.  Once she realized her mistake, she did everything right in order to set off on a better course.  She worked full-time, went back to college, and accomplished her dream of becoming a kindergarten teacher.  Saving her money, she rented a new house and moved there with her two children.  […] The post Gone & Never Forgotten: The Kathy Stobaugh Story ap...

On the morning of Friday, August 16, 1996, Marissa Moody brought her 6-year-old son to the impressive home of Janet and Perry March to have a play date with 5-year-old Sammy March. The March family seemed like the picture-perfect family, but Marissa never felt comfortable around Perry March.  He was intimidating and snubbed her at […] The post The Disappearance of Janet March appeared first...

In 2006, 33-year-old Mechele Linehan was visited by the Alaska police regarding a 1996 murder.  Back then, Mechele had been an exotic dancer.  The murder victim was a former client named Kent Leppink.  But, in 2006, Mechele was a professional woman married to a physician and raising a young daughter in Washington state. Her arrest […] The post The Fisherman & the Flirt: The Death of Ken...

When 16-year-old Patricia Columbo took a job in a soda shop next door to a pharmacy, no one even imagined that she and the 36-year-old married pharmacist Frank DeLuca would become involved in a sexual relationship. But that’s exactly what happened. Over the next four years, Patricia’s parents tried to talk some sense into her.  […] The post A Dark Passion: The Columbo Family Murders appeared...

On July 5, 2003, 37-year-old Florida bartender Sandra Rozzo was shot in her own garage before she could even get out of her car.  Sandra, known by her friends as Sandee, was a hard worker, a good friend, and a devoted mother to her young daughter.  The idea that someone would want her dead was […] The post The Silencing of Sandra Rozzo appeared first on Tiegrabber .

Elaine O’Hara of South Dublin, Ireland, spent her life looking for love. Because of her extensive history of mental health issues, Elaine spent many of her years in the St. Edmundsbury Hospital, receiving psychiatric treatment for depressive disorder, self-harming behaviors, and three suicide attempts.  As a result, she missed the usual social milestones of dances, […] The post Groomed for M...

After a night out clubbing with a friend in New York City, the beautiful and kind 20-year-old Kim Antonakos disappeared.  Kim was on her way home in the early morning hours when she was abducted.  Her father, wealthy businessman Tommy Antonakos, immediately began a widespread and organized search for his daughter.  What he didn’t know […] The post Seized & Scorched: Kim Antonakos appear...

In the early morning of April 22, 2016, relatives of the Rhoden family in Pike County, Ohio, began to discover family members brutally killed in their own homes.  In all, eight members of the Rhoden family were murdered, including one minor, 16-year-old Christopher Rhoden, Jr. The victims had been shot to death.  Three young children, […] The post The Piketon Massacre appeared first on Tiegr...

This episode was suggested to us by Jeane, a long-time listener. In fact, Jeane was so enthusiastic about this case that she volunteered to write the script, and we took her up on that. Jeane was a federal prosecutor in the San Francisco Bay area for 27 years, focusing primarily on white-collar crimes, before she retired in 2018. She looks […] The post The Cards He Was Dealt: The Murder of B...

Something different today!  We’re talking about untrue crimes which occurred in a high rise LA office building in 1988. At the center of these events was a detective from New York named John McClane. He and his wife Holly were separated at the time over issues including her blossoming career with the Nakatomi Corporation in […] The post Diehard: An Untrue Crime Christmas Movie appeared first...

Most of us have some compulsions or obsessions.  But what if your compulsion was to poison people?  Then you would be well on your way to becoming a killer.  As a child, Graham Young began experimenting with poisons.  By the age of 14, he was using his family as subjects. His father, step-mother, and sister […] The post The Teacup Poisoner: Graham Young appeared first on Tiegrabber .

In 1999, Leann and Michael Fletcher were just beginning to grow their family as Michael was busy building his career as an attorney. That August, the couple left their daughter, Hannah, with Leann’s parents.  Michael took Leann to the shooting range to teach her how to shoot a gun. Afterwards, taking advantage of the free […] The post Bedroom Betrayal: The Case of Leann Fletcher appeared fir...

18-year old Angie Dodge had just moved into her first apartment in 1996 when her life was suddenly and violently snuffed out. In 1998, a young man named Christopher Tapp was convicted of Angie’s murder.  The prosecution’s case relied on Christopher’s confession.  The defense argued that the confession was coerced and that the state was […] The post The Murder of Angie Dodge appeared first on...

Jennifer Farber Dulos was a woman to be envied.  Educated and attractive, she came from a wealthy New York City family, lived in beautiful Connecticut mansions, married a handsome, educated man, and had five healthy children. After 13 years of marriage to her Greek-American husband, Fotis Dulos, he became aggressive and unfaithful. He told Jennifer […] The post The Disappearance of Jennifer...

New Jersey mom Michelle Nyce spent the last night of her life working the makeup counter at Macy’s, followed by a romantic tryst with her lover.  When she finally arrived home, her husband was waiting for her in a jealous rage. Michelle had come all the way from the Philippines when she was just 20-years […] The post Mail-Order Murder: The Story of Michelle & Jonathan Nyce appeared firs...