True Crime | True Stories by Major James R Howell

Send us Fan Mail On January 11, 2005, defendant shot his wife, Donna Jordan, to death at her office in a TDOT facility in Jackson, Tenn. Defendant also shot and killed Jerry Hopper, who was in the office with Ms. Jordan at the time of the shooting. After leaving the office, Jordan shot and killed David Gordon, a motorist who followed Jordan to the TDOT facility after Jordan ran Gordon off the road...

Send us Fan Mail Trooper Nicholas Hopkins was shot and killed while serving a search warrant at a home at 1426 North 42nd Street and Caseyville Avenue in East St. Louis, Illinois. He and other members of the Emergency Response Team were making entry into the home at 5:30 am when he was shot by an occupant during an exchange of gunfire. Merch https://jrlawman-shop.fourthwall.com/.. . https://www.yo...

Send us Fan Mail During the 1980s, several other women in St. Petersburg were also killed in stabbing attacks, raising fears about a possible serial killer. Neighbors in South St. Petersburg even held community meetings to discuss their concerns, but detectives said those cases likely were not connected. Known as the Summer of Hell "Each one has their differences, which would probably rule ou...

Send us Fan Mail 1969 unsolved stabbing death of a student inside the library on the campus of Penn State University. Merch https://jrlawman-shop.fourthwall.com/... https://www.statecollegemagazine.com/... https://www.aetv.com/articles/penn-st... https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/cold...    • Murder in the Stacks: A Tragic Story  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_...  

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Send us Fan Mail Kate Ragsdale, 73, was killed on Feb. 24, 2013, in her home in The Highlands neighborhood, off University Boulevard and not far off the eastern edge of the UA campus. A neighbor checked on Ragsdale the night of Feb. 24, 2013. Ragsdale was last seen by friends on the Sunday night before she was found. She had been to a friend's home in the Forest Lake neighborhood to watch an...

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Send us Fan Mail Richmond, Indiana officer is shot to death. Merch: https://jrlawman-shop.fourthwall.com/... https://www.youtube.com/@jamesr.howel... https://www.odmp.org/officer/26362-po... https://www.indystar.com/story/news/c... https://www.indystar.com/story/news/c... https://www.wthr.com/article/news/loc... https://www.wrtv.com/news/public-safe...    • Listen: Richmond K-9 Officer Seara Burto...

Send us Fan Mail Woman on Tennessee death row due to be executed in November of 2026 for the 1995 murder of a woman who was stabbed, had her throat slit and a pentagram cut into her chest and finally beaten to death with a piece of asphalt.  Merch https://jrlawman-shop.fourthwall.com/.. . https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/tennesse... https://law.justia.com/cases/tennesse... https://www.wbir.com/video/n...

Send us Fan Mail An American serial killer dubbed "The Sunday Morning Slasher".  Is now suspected to have killed more than 100 women, which would make him the most prolific serial killer in American history.   Merch https://jrlawman-shop.fourthwall.com/... https://murderpedia.org/male. W/w/watt... https://www.findagrave.com/virtual-ce...    • Detectives Lock up a Murderer Using Eviden......

Send us Fan Mail Arkansas Correctional Sergeant is stabbed to death. https://www.youtube.com/@jamesr.howel... https://www.odmp.org/officer/919-serg... . https://www.kark.com/news/local-news/... https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/20... https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/ar-... https://casetext.com/case/jackson-v-p... https://doc.arkansas.gov/facilities/t... https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/en...

Send us Fan Mail On the evening of January 6, 1999, according to Angela, Bea arrived home from work and noticed Lisa wasn’t home. Assuming she was asleep in her room, she attempted to open the bedroom door which was locked. After breaking down the door, Bea found the body of her daughter. She was 27 years old and nine months pregnant with a little girl. Police believed that Lisa may have been the...

Send us Fan Mail January 18, 1970. Karen Ferrell, who was 18 and in her freshman year at WVU, was hitching a ride back to her dorm with her friend, Mared Malarik, who was the same age and in the same year of school.   The pair became fast friends during freshman orientation, despite having distinctly different backgrounds. Karen was a coal camp kid from the Mountain State and Mared hailed from sub...

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Send us Fan Mail April 17, 1996 (Charlotte County, Florida) Thomas Reese and Michael Tish, who were storm utility engineers for Charlotte County, discovered a human skull in a remote, heavily wooded area off of Highway 41 and immediately notified the police department.   While searching the scene, deputies found the nude body of a young, white male that was later identified as Richard Montgomery. ...

Send us Fan Mail Seventeen year old Lisa Pennington, along with her twenty-five year old sister, Cheryl Genzer were last seen alive at the Oklahoma State Fair on September 23, 1987. The sisters would both be found a month later, their bodies in a shallow grave. They had both been shot in the head- but each with a different caliber of weapon. It was known within days that the sisters had last been...

Send us Fan Mail A state trooper is murdered in Indiana. https://www.youtube.com/@jamesr.howel... https://www.odmp.org/officer/26745-tr... https://fox59.com/indiana-news/10-42-... https://www.wthr.com/article/news/loc... https://dailyjournal.net/2023/07/07/l... https://www.wdrb.com/news/indiana-sta... https://www.fresherslive.com/latest/a... https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/...

Send us Fan Mail A Mountain Brook, AL officer on routine patrol discovered Montgomery’s body in the parking lot of the athletic complex of Mountain Brook High School. Montgomery was face down on the pavement and had been shot multiple times, including once in the back and possibly twice in the head. “There was blood in the area and there was other physical evidence that led us to believe she was s...

Send us Fan Mail In February 2019, both Turpin parents pleaded guilty on 14 felony counts, including abuse of a dependent adult, child abuse, torture, and false imprisonment. In April, they were sentenced to life imprisonment with the possibility of parole after 25 years.  Merch https://jrlawman-shop.fourthwall.com/... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turpin_... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-can....

Send us Fan Mail A Gilbert, AZ officer is gunned down. Merch: https://jrlawman-shop.fourthwall.com/... https://www.youtube.com/@jamesr.howel... https://www.odmp.org/officer/20249-li... https://www.eastvalleytribune.com/loc... https://www.eastvalleytribune.com/loc... https://casetext.com/case/state-v-red... https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/...

Send us Fan Mail Lawson was abducted from her Jasper home in the early-morning hours of September 11, 1991. McPherson’s cousin, Jerry Bland, was identified as the main suspect and died by suicide as law enforcement surrounded his home. The kidnapping happened about 3 a.m. at the home Lawson, 25, shared with her husband, 26-year-old Earl Lawson, also an attorney. Merch https://jrlawman-shop.fourthw...

Send us Fan Mail Serial Killer in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Cathy Lyn Shakelford, The first known victim was a member of the Sac and Fox Nation. She ran away at the age of 17 and lived homeless in Oklahoma City. The last sighting of her alive was two months before her death, when she was being treated at the Oklahoma City Hospital. Arley Bell Killian On April 19, 1979, children playing basketball in...

Send us Fan Mail Three correctional officers are murdered in North Carolina. https://www.youtube.com/@jamesr.howel... https://www.odmp.org/officer/23418-co... https://www.odmp.org/officer/23417-co... https://www.odmp.org/officer/23430-co... https://wcti12.com/news/state-news/au... https://www.officer.com/features/hono... https://www.witn.com/2022/10/12/five-... https://www.ncdps.gov/blog/2022/10/1...

Send us Fan Mail Incident date: Wed, 07/03/1991 - 12:00 Location: Inside overturned 1985 blue Subaru station wagon along Highway 297 in Toombs County near Emanuel County line Sex: Female On July 3, 1991, Kirsten Davis, 21, was traveling on Highway 297 in Toombs County not far from the Emanuel County line when she was shot and killed. She died from a shotgun wound to her face and neck. Kirsten&apos...

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