All in Fresh from MMN
After women's screams were reported by a neighbour, authorities paid a visit to Hugo Ernesto Osorio Chavez. A number of bodies were found buried or partially buried on his property.
The murder of Laura Marie Purchase in 1983 was once attributed to notorious Confession Killer, Henry Lee Lucas. But it turned out to be just one of his many false confessions.
Amari Nicholson was just two years old when he was murdered by his mother's boyfriend, Terrell Rhodes.
Roger "Fred" Farmer had been missing since November 2019, until his body was recently discovered in a storage unit rented by his son Jeremy Farmer.
Victoria Roland opened up to MMN about her experience as a trafficking survivor, how she managed to escape, and how she turned this terrible situation into motivation to help other survivors on their journey. As well, she clears up some misconceptions about trafficking, and what a trafficking situation really looks like.
Natalia Smut was stabbed to death in a presumed domestic violence situation by her boyfriend on April 23rd. We had a quick chat with Natalia's sister Vanessa Singh, who spoke of her sister's one-of-a-kind drag performances, and vibrant personality.
We also dug deep into Colorado-based cult Love Has Won, after their leader's partially mummified remains was discovered in the group's co-living space in Crestone.
Although poison itself has been used as an effective mode of killing for thousands of years, toxic substances have played a unique role in the lives of women throughout history as easily accessible and highly effective murder weapons. Cordelia Botkin is no exception— she killed her ex-lover's wife with a box of poisoned candy.
Jaida Peterson and Remy Fennell were murdered within 11 days of each other; both shot to death in a hotel room in North Carolina, and were at least the 14th and 15th transgender women to be murdered in the US so far in 2021.
Rossana Delgado was reported missing by her husband Yhony, who has fought tooth and nail to find his wife. But his perseverance was only rewarded with feeling powerless as the local authorities wouldn't take his wife's disappearance seriously until it was too late.
19-year-old Sierra Hunter went missing from Anadarko, Oklahoma over two weeks ago, but there is reason to believe she may be in or around Austin, Texas.
Kassie Dewey had called it off with her boyfriend of about a year, Joshua Phillips. He responded by attacking Kassie and her 5-year-old daughter, Lilly in their home.
What started as a simple, happy life turned sour when Amy became greedy. Over the course of eight years, Amy poisoned five known victims from 1908-1916. However, the estimated total is near 100. Authorities eventually arrested her in 1916, but the damage was already done. She had collected the money from her victims and used it not only for personal gain, but to continue a deadly business.
Eric Carter-Landin talks about the abuse he and his family endured surrounding the murder of his baby brother back in the 80s, who was responsible for Jacob’s death, and how they have managed to evade the law for all these years.
Dianna Brice was 4 months pregnant with her boyfriend’s baby when she was reported missing. Now her body has been found, and her boyfriend Justin, the primary suspect in her murder has disappeared.
If eyes are the windows to the soul, what do your eyes say about you? Well, a Japanese superstition called "sanpaku" could be the answer. Sanpaku translates to "three whites," and refers to being able to see white either above or below the iris. With two different types, yin sanpaku and yang sanpaku, this theory can predict your fate. So, do you have sanpaku eyes, and if so what do they mean?
Author Will Dean talks about his brand new thriller, The Last Thing to Burn. The book tells the story of a woman being held captive on a remote farm in the UK. Thanh Dao, or Jane as she is renamed by her captor, was trafficked from her home in Vietnam, abused, and stripped of her identity. But now Jane has discovered she is pregnant, and has resolved to protect her child at all costs.
Egypt Covington was bound with string lights and shot to death in her apartment back in 2017. Her family fought tirelessly for answers.
Last Sunday, serial killer Joseph Duncan died of brain cancer while awaiting execution in Indiana.
Jane Toppan, also known as "Jolly Jane," was well liked among her peers. She was always cheerful, caring and easy to talk to. Her colleagues loved listening to the stories she told about her life, and never doubted the grand nature of them. At the time, in the late 19th Century, doctors worked to develop medicine and medicinal practices. No one questioned when a patient died, because it happened all the time. It was almost a natural occurrence. No one questioned Jane when her patients started dying either.
You may have noticed a whole lot of very similar headlines in recent years about gunmen kidnapping schoolchildren in Nigeria, and you might recall the Bring Back Our Girls campaign, but what is really happening over there?
This week an assailant with a modified AR-15 terrorized the patrons of a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, claiming 10 victims including a responding police officer.
Marquis Jaylen Brown, known to friends and family as Jaylen or JB, died under mysterious circumstances on the night of October 4th, 2018. Police were called to Duquesne University to check on Jaylen, who seemed to be in distress. Campus police say that soon after they arrived to his dorm room, he jumped out the 16th story window to his death, completely unprovoked.
Mary Stella Gomez-Mulett, went missing on February 18, 2021. After her husband had a too-perfect explanation for every line of questioning the police pursued, they finally discovered her remains last Friday, March 5th.
When 8-weeks pregnant Kelsie Schelling went missing back in 2013, her boyfriend Danthe Lucas also had a long list of excuses.
If you're like me and love a good murder-mystery show, you know that fingerprints are like the holy grail in murder investigations. Once forensics finds a clean set of prints, the mystery is solved and the culprit caught. But, how exactly does fingerprint analysis work, and is it as reliable as they say?
Roger Kibbe, the I-5 Strangler, met his end in prison just last week on February 28th. But his crimes date back to at least the 70s.
Hunter Chenoweth murdered 3 relatives in their family home in Arkansas, and then fled the scene, abducting his infant nephew to join him in a statewide road trip. But they were intercepted by state troopers.
Take a load off and fill out this spooky Murder Libs story, An Unlikely Arrest, about a mysterious marauder and their dubious capture! For more goofy true crime fun, check out our first edition.
Perhaps the most-known apparition at The Ridges is Margaret Schilling. Not because of how she roams the halls or waits in the window of the room where she died. No, Margaret is known for the stain her body left on the floor that has remained for the past four decades.
