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Ten years ago, on November 2nd, 2011, Anatoly Moskvin was arrested. The historian and polyglot was a renowned linguist, writer, and contributor to a number of Publications -- but he hid a dark secret. Moskvin's doll-making hobby was not what it appeared.
It was on Halloween of 1979 that Shirley Ledford was hitchhiking home from a party. She was offered a ride by two men in a van. Those men became known as the "Tool box Killers" due to their use of household tools against their victims.
Actress Dominique Dunne was strangled to death by her abusive boyfriend, John Sweeney, on October 30th 1982.
Back in 1989, the case of the Lesbian Vampire Killer took Australia by storm. There had been a random attack on an innocent victim in Brisbane one night in October, and a man lost his life in the name of drinking blood. When Tracey Wigginton and her accomplices went to trial, stories of vampirism, satanic panic, witches' covens and dark rituals were on everyone's lips.
38-year-old Peter Schnellhardt was found brutally murdered at his job in Williams Lake, British Columbia on July 4th, 2006. With very little movement in Peter's case, and very little media coverage, his family has been desperate for answers. Now 15 years later, although it seems obvious who was involved in Peter's death, it remains a cold case.
Suzanne Rene Richerson was reported missing after she disappeared while working at a Galveston resort in October of 1988. Authorities associate Richerson's presumed murder with a number of unsolved cases connected to the Texas Killing Fields, for which police suspect several serial killers are responsible.
Derek "Ritzy" Ritz was 51 years old when he disappeared from Sebringville, Ontario sometime on New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day in 2017. What happened to Ritzy remains a mystery, though some very plausible rumours have been circulating. Friends believe the police did not take his disappearance seriously because he had a substance abuse problem.
Mark and Debby Constantino were the superstars of the paranormal community until 2015 when they were killed in a double-murder suicide event that had friends and fans shook. It wasn't public knowledge prior to their deaths, but the pair had a tumultuous relationship.
This week marks the 25th anniversary of the death of legendary rapper Tupac "2Pac" Shakur. While driving on the Las Vegas strip, Tupac was shot by someone in a passing Cadillac. The murder of Tupac Shakur is a cold case, no suspect was ever named and the Cadillac was never found.
Lisa Marie Young disappeared 19 years ago while out celebrating a friend's birthday in Nanaimo, British Columbia. While it seems clear now that Lisa was murdered, hers is a tough case to close. A number of barriers stand in the way, including Lisa's indigenous heritage and misguided rumors about the night she was killed.
On this day 9 years ago, a South Korean cult mourned the loss of their leader, Sun Myung Moon. The Unification Church, otherwise known as Moonies, may seem mostly harmless on the surface, but survivors and cult experts alike have spoken about the group's destructive beliefs and behaviour.
Gainesville, 1990 -- On this week in true crime history, the Gainesville Ripper terrorized a college town in Florida, targeting students just as the new school year was getting started. As the killer's murderous spree kicked off, students made a mass exodus back home to be with their families.
Today in true crime history -- on August 20th 1978, five teenage boys were reported missing from Newark, New Jersey. The boys came to be known as the Clinton Avenue Five as news of their disappearance spread. Investigators were baffled as the search for their bodies and any suspects that could be responsible for whatever happened to the missing teens stretched over 3 decades.
In August of 1980, Carol Bundy confessed to some fellow nurses at the hospital where she worked that she had a connection to the so-called Sunset Strip Slayer who they had been hearing about on the news. She and her live-in boyfriend had been on a bit of a murder spree that kicked off when the pair discovered they shared some dark fantasies and decided to start turning them into reality.
The life story of Alberta Odell Jones is a fascinating one, and the story of her death remains a bit of a mystery. Alberta was the first black woman to pass the Kentucky Bar exam, as well as Muhammed Ali's first lawyer, and 56 years ago this week her body was found in the Ohio River after dying under pretty suspicious circumstances.
Kathy Kleiner was just 20 years old when the infamous Ted Bundy entered through the back door of her sorority house at FSU armed with a piece of firewood he had found outside. Bundy had just escaped from jail for the second time when he committed the brutal attack on the Chi Omega house. Though Kathy and her roommate survived, their lives were forever changed, and this assault went down in history as the one with the bite mark evidence that helped convict Ted Bundy.
You probably know Sarah Turney from Tiktok -- she's the one whose sister Alissa was murdered by her father back in 2004, and she risked it all to bring attention to her sister's case and went viral in the process -- which is just what it took to get an arrest in the case.
Robbie Thomas is a Psychic Criminal Profiler who hails from Ontario, Canada, but his work sends him all over North America and sometimes abroad. Robbie works alongside law enforcement to help bring some clarity to unsolved missing person cases and murder investigations. As an indigenous seer descendent from a long line of Spirit Walkers, he has also written several books about his work and his process, and he works as a teacher and mentor to folks who believe they share Robbie's gift.
This week we have the extended version of a previously recorded interview with author SE Moorhead. At MMN, we all loved her sci-fi crime thriller novel, Witness X.
Serving as an informational database of over 1,000 true crime cases (and counting), CrimeDoor is the must-have app for true crime fans and cyber sleuths everywhere. To learn more about the ins and the outs of the app and the company as a whole, I spoke with Zig Gauthier, CrimeDoor’s Executive Vice President of Operations, Strategy and Development; Evan Fisk, the company’s Senior Vice President of Marketing; and Erika Glass, CrimeDoor’s Content Coordinator (and social media extraordinaire).
