True crimefans enjoy the unexpected plot twists. However, the stories you’re about to read have taken on a new level of gruesome–so much so that each one may deserve its own Netflix series.We’ve scoured the internet for cases thatgrabbed the headlinesfor a time. While not every story ended in tragedy, most of these unfortunately did. Be forewarned, as some of these narratives take a sinister turn.But especially if you’re a fan of thecrime genre, you may burn some time reading through.This post may includeaffiliate links.
True crimefans enjoy the unexpected plot twists. However, the stories you’re about to read have taken on a new level of gruesome–so much so that each one may deserve its own Netflix series.
We’ve scoured the internet for cases thatgrabbed the headlinesfor a time. While not every story ended in tragedy, most of these unfortunately did. Be forewarned, as some of these narratives take a sinister turn.
But especially if you’re a fan of thecrime genre, you may burn some time reading through.
This post may includeaffiliate links.
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Dave Kroupa had been dating casually after his 12-year relationship ended and ended up meeting a woman named Cari Farver. They hit it off instantly and spent a lot of time together over the next few weeks. This was until Cari texted Dave at work and asked if they could move in together - this was a shock to Dave and he said no. Cari then sent a super nasty response.Dave then started getting bombarded with texts and emails from Cari. The harassment, already relentless and almost daily, started to expand to include other people in Dave’s life, like his recent ex (sort of) girlfriend Liz Golyar. Liz became a constant target of Cari’s stalking and harassment. Things escalated - at one point Liz’s house burned down. (I suggest looking up this case for the full details because there’s so much more to this story).As it turned out, Liz had k****d Cari - ostensibly out of jealousy of Cari’s quickly growing relationship with Dave. Liz then began impersonating Cari and sending messages pretending to be Cari. That’s right, Liz was the one behind all those messages.
True crimeis supposedly gruesome, yet people are inherently drawn to such stories. According to author, scholar, and veteran journalistCharlie Tuggle, a broken justice system has some appeal.
Whilst digging up the backyard, something in the dirt caught Aaron’s eye: a plastic bag. Something hard was inside. Upon pulling it out, Aaron discovered it was a coconut.He was puzzled: Why would someone bury a coconut, especially this deep, in a plastic bag? A closer inspection of the coconut revealed a full set of teeth and eye sockets.He was holding a human skull—not just any skull, but that of his mother.
It started in 1996 when Sally Snowden McKay, 75, and her nephew, musician Joseph ‘Lee’ Baker, 52, were found shot dead inside the historic property.It was understood they’d disturbed a burglar and the suspect – 16-year-old Travis Lewis – had shot them in fright. He then, reportedly, set fire to the house.Despite saying someone else had been involved, on April 7, 1998, Lewis pleaded guilty to the crime.Tried as an adult, he was handed a 28-and-a-half year jail sentence of which he had to serve at least 70 per cent.Sally’s big-hearted daughter, Martha McKay, believed he deserved to be rehabilitated.When Lewis was eventually freed in 2018, after serving 22 years, Martha quietly gave him a job.History was repeating itself as they quickly discovered a body. Martha, 63, was found at the top of the marble stairs wrapped in a blanket.She’d been stabbed. Noticing a back door open, the two officers were searching for an intruder, when they saw a man jump from an upstairs window.Running to a car, the man drove across the yard, but got stuck, and instead headed on foot for the lake.‘He was observed going under the water and never came back up,’ Sheriff Allen said.The man had drowned.Specialist equipment was used to search the lake, and the body of the suspect was located and recovered.The identification must have caused considerable shock. He was discovered to be Travis Lewis.
True crime stories are often presented with a touch of sensationalism, especially on television or podcasts. This adds entertainment value and makes them more appealing.As UNC law professor and authorPatrica Bryanexplains, it encourages listeners to examine the evidence and determine what happened.
True crime stories are often presented with a touch of sensationalism, especially on television or podcasts. This adds entertainment value and makes them more appealing.
As UNC law professor and authorPatrica Bryanexplains, it encourages listeners to examine the evidence and determine what happened.
Anyone Remember The Serial Kr Brothers Of Kalamazoo, Larry And Danny Ranes? One Brother Robbed And Shot Five Men In 1964; The Other Kd Four Women Eight Years Later. Only Family In America To Produce Two Serial Killers That Went On Independent Crime Sprees.They committed their m*****s separately and independent of one another. Their MO’s & m****r weapons were also different. The only twisted similarity, they were married to the same woman!!!
Because of the entertainment value of true crime stories, they become a medium of escapism for people, regardless of the grisly subject matter. Bryan compares this to the same fascination with roller coasters and haunted houses and the adrenaline rush they bring.“There’s something aboutfacing dangerwhen it’s not real, it’s not personal,” Bryan explained. “Some people would say it helps us prepare for the violence in our own lives.”
Because of the entertainment value of true crime stories, they become a medium of escapism for people, regardless of the grisly subject matter. Bryan compares this to the same fascination with roller coasters and haunted houses and the adrenaline rush they bring.
“There’s something aboutfacing dangerwhen it’s not real, it’s not personal,” Bryan explained. “Some people would say it helps us prepare for the violence in our own lives.”
The Phantom of Heilbronn, often alternatively referred to as the “Woman Without a Face”, was a hypothesized unknown female serial k****r whose existence was inferred from DNA evidence found at numerous crime scenes in Austria, France and Germany from 1993 to 2009. The six ms among these included that of police officer Michèle Kiesewetter, in Heilbronn, Germany, on 25 April 2007.The only connection between the crimes was the presence of DNA from a single female, which had been recovered from 40 crime scenes, ranging from ms to burglaries. In late March 2009, investigators concluded that there was no “phantom criminal”, and the DNA had already been present on the cotton swabs used for collecting DNA samples; it belonged to a woman who worked at the factory where they were made.
Human beings are inherently flawed, and some are capable of harming others. For mystery novelistKathryn Casey, true crime stories portray the human condition and draw people in.“(They) can speculate about what men and women are capable of,” Casey wrote in an article for theBoston Globe. “But these cases actually happened. These events are real, not imagined.”
Human beings are inherently flawed, and some are capable of harming others. For mystery novelistKathryn Casey, true crime stories portray the human condition and draw people in.
“(They) can speculate about what men and women are capable of,” Casey wrote in an article for theBoston Globe. “But these cases actually happened. These events are real, not imagined.”
Mackenzie Shirilla, her boyfriend and another friend were involved in a crash that k****d the boyfriend and the friend.She was a driver and she survived. At first it seemed like maybe there was some fault in the car or that she simply lost control of the vehicle, but as the investigation went on they realized she planned the crash and ran into that wall on purpose.
Sometimes it takes a long time before a twist is finally recognized, and in the case of Jeffrey Dahmer, it took many years for his neighbors to realize the personal impact of Dahmer’s violence. Pamela Bass was one of Jeffrey Dahmer’s neighbors when he lived in Milwaukee. The two were congenial, so much so that when he offered her a sandwich one day before his arrest, she accepted it.After it was discovered that Dahmer was a cannibal as well as an amateur mad scientist, Bass began to worry that she might have eaten human meat. In the film The Jeffrey Dahmer Files she said, “I have probably eaten someone’s body part.”
How about you, dear readers? Are you also a fan of true crime stories? If so, what fascinates you the most? Comment below!
Susan Smith. She was all over the news begging for the return of her two boys who were toddlers. Stating she had been carjacked. After several days, it was discovered that she had let her car roll into a lake with her babies strapped into their car seats.The case gained international attention because of Smith’s false claim that a black man had kidnapped her sons during a carjacking. Her defense attorneys, David Bruck and Judy Clarke, called expert witnesses to testify that she had mental health issues that impaired her judgment when she committed the crimes.Smith was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 30 years.
Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo were a serial kr couple from Canada who raped and md 3 young girls and raped a 4th one between December 1990 and April 1992 including Karla’s little sister Tammy.Karla Leanne Homolka, the “Barbie” in “The Barbie and Ken Killers.” She was thought of as the victim of Paul Bernado’s abuse, being forced into participating in his rapes and ms.She went to the police to report Paul after a particularly bad beating from him that left her in hospital. She was given a plea deal and her lawyer covered up the tape recordings that showed her willingly participating in the rapes and m**s. Once this information was let out, it was too late. The plea deal was made, Paul was arrested and is still in prison and she got out and now is working around children in a school.Shortly after her release she married her LAWYER’S BROTHER. They ended up having 3 children together and live a quiet life although several years ago Karla was volunteering at her children’s school but after public outrage she couldn’t anymore…
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Dean Corll preyed upon young men in the Houston area between 1970 to 1973. What ultimately brought him down was not a police investigation, but one of his own henchmen. Corll raped and md at least 28 young men with the help of David Brooks and Elmer Wayne Henley - two teenage henchmen. It’s likely Corll would have continued to at men until police finally caught on, but when Corll attacked Rhonda Williams, a 15-year-old friend of Henley’s, his spreed ended.Henley invited Williams back to Corll’s house after her alcoholic father attacked her. The two drank and did ds before going to sleep. After waking up in a s**d stupor, Henley discovered that Corll had tied up Williams and a teen boy Henley had brought for Corll the day before. Henley himself had been tied up, but Corll let him go after Henley agreed to attack Williams. Instead, he shot Corll, ending his life.He later went to the police detailing Corll’s crimes and showing them where they had gotten rid of the bodies.
Vamarah Mora Gutierrez, 9; Samantha Mora Gutierrez, 10; and Samia Mora Gutierrez, 13; and Nathaniel Kong, the church leader, are dead, along with the shooter. Nathaniel had welcomed him into the church to live after he was kicked out of his home. So he bit (and k****d) the hand that fed him.He had a restraining order from his wife and had domestic violence and other charges against him. He had been arrested for a*****t on an officer just a week ago. He was not allowed to own guns but that didn’t stop him.
Also the money didn’t exist. It was just an email scam.
Usually, criminals aren’t apt to tell the police about their crimes. Not Gary Ridgway, also known as the Green River K****r. In a weird twist on the typical interrogation story, Ridgway was so excited about being able to revel in the glory of being “accomplished” that he immediately gave the police information about everyone he hurt.During his confession, while police were trying to pin him for 49 different attacks, Ridgway one-upped them and admitted to ending 80 victims' lives.
Edmund Emil Kemper IIIis an American serial kr convicted of mg seven women and one girl, between May 1972 and April 1973. Years earlier, at the age of 15, Kemper had md his paternal grandparents. Kemper was nicknamed the “Co-ed Kr”, as most of his non-familial victims were female college students hitchhiking in the vicinity of Santa Cruz County, California. Most of his m*****s included necrophilia, decapitation, and dismemberment.Serial k***r Ed Kemper befriended the very police officers investigating his m*****s, and would socialize with them at a bar called the “Jury Room”. They called him “Big Ed” and never suspected him. When he initially confessed, they thought he was pulling a prank.
Prosecutors argued that David Camm k****d his family and staged the scene, leaving his wife’s shoes neatly lined up on top of her Bronco. Five years later, DNA from a felon who attacks women and steals their shoes was found at the scene.David Ray Cammis a former trooper of the Indiana State Police (ISP) who spent 13 years in prison after twice being wrongfully convicted of the ms of his wife, Kimberly, and his two young children at their home in Georgetown, Indiana, on September 28, 2000. He was released from custody in 2013 after his third trial resulted in an acquittal. Charles Boney is currently serving time for the ms of Camm’s wife and two children.
The story of Charles Manson, his life, and his “family” is full of more strange twists than an M. Night Shyamalan retrospective, but one of the weirdest twists is the mystery of Bernard Crowe. Before his infamous actions, Manson was in a dispute over drug money with Crowe. Worried about the money and Crowe’s affiliation with the Black Panthers, Manson went over to Crowe’s apartment and shot him.Manson thought he took Crowe’s life, and when he was arrested for the m*****s of Sharon Tate and the LaBiancas in 1969, he included Crowe as one of his victims. However, Crowe was still alive. He had never gone to the police about the shooting, never told any of his fellow Black Panthers about it, and never retaliated against Manson, leaving the cult leader to believe Crowe was dead.Susan Atkins - a member of the Mason family - wrote in her book The Myth of Helter Skelter that Manson didn’t realize Crowe was alive until he was arrested for a crime unrelated to Manson.
Linda Laura Hazzard, nicknamed the “Starvation Doctor”, was an American quack, swindler and convicted serial k****r noted for her promotion of fasting, pummeling and hours-long enemas as treatments. In 1911, Hazzard was found guilty of manslaughter in the state of Washington and was sentenced to 2 to 20 years of hard labor for k*****g at least 15 people for financial gain at a sanitarium she operated near Seattle in the early 20th century. She was released on parole after only serving two years and later, on the condition that she move to New Zealand, received a full pardon from Governor Ernest Lister in 1916. Hazzard died at 70 after subjecting herself to her treatment methods.
In April 2018, the public was shocked when authorities announced they had apprehended a suspect in the Golden State K****r (GSK) case. The criminal terrorized California during the ’70s and ’80s in a spree of multiple rapes and 12 suspected fatalities, but he abruptly ended his reign of terror in the late ’80s, leading to widespread speculation that he died and his identity would never be revealed.The suspect, Joseph James DeAngelo, was identified via complex DNA profiling, though. Investigators compared DNA found at various GSK crime scenes to DNA publicly available via genealogical websites. This led them to a connection via a family member of DeAngelo.What makes this twist even more bizarre was that DeAngelo was living a relatively normal life near Sacramento, CA. A retired police officer, he was a regular at a local diner where his only notable trait was being grouchy. It remains unclear why he decided to end his crime spree and resume a normal life.
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