Twenty three years ago today, 36 year old Girly Chew Hossencofft was murdered by her estranged husband, Diazien Hossencofft, and his girlfriend, Linda Henning. Girly Chew met Diazien during one of several trips to the United States from her home country of Malaysia in the early 1990s. After immigrating to marry and start a new life with Hossencofft, Girly's life in America wasn't what she had anticipated.
The two suspects in Sunday’s stabbing attacks in Saskatchewan, brothers Damien and Myles Sanderson, have both died. The deceased victims from Sunday’s attacks have been identified either by police or family members and range in age from 23-78.
Last Friday, Eliza Fletcher went jogging near the University of Memphis before being reported missing later that day. As authorities began investigating, they uncovered surveillance video of Cleotha Abston abducting Fletcher, and Champion slides with his DNA led to his arrest. Fletcher’s body was discovered on Monday behind a vacant home.
Harold Schester, an American true crime writer, examined serial killers, their victims, and their motives by separating them into four categories in his book The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers.
According to Schester, there is no clear-cut definition or recipe for a serial killer, but it is possible to divide them into four archetypes: power & control, visionary, missionary, and hedonistic. Here are the descriptions.
Richard Wilson, 21, was arrested Sunday after he allegedly killed his parents, Richard Wilson, 47, Ellen Otterman, 50, his sister Rudy Wilson, 16, and his niece, 5-year-old ReNaya White.
Landon Parrot of Ohio was arrested and charged Friday with murder after he allegedly intentionally left his 1-year-old son in a hot car.
On June 4th, 2010, Kyron Horman’s stepmother Terri Moulton watched Kyron Horman walk to class after setting up his science fair project. This would be the last time Kyron was seen alive.
Ten people have been killed and 18 injured in a stabbing spree on the James Smith Cree Nation and in the village of Weldon in Saskatchewan. The two suspects, Damien Sanderson and Myles Sanderson, are still at large.
her daughter’s body in an abandoned, overgrown lot and called it a homicide.
14-year-old Jameion Peterson has been charged as an adult in the homicide of his 10-year-old stepsister.
A motive for the killing and Na'Mylah's cause of death have not been made public. Assistant Prosecutor Stevenson said that no weapons were used in Na’Mylah’s death, and no signs of sexual assault were found.
37-year-old Rubi (or Ruby) Anguiano Salazar and 34-year-old Raymundo Hernandez were charged yesterday for the “brutal and callous” murder of 69-year-old Gerold Lipeles earlier this year.
On July 27, 1981, six-year-old Adam John Walsh was abducted from a Sears department store in Hollywood, Florida. His severed head would be found two weeks later along a Florida Turnpike. In the aftermath of the horrifying crime Adam’s father John Walsh became a victims rights advocate.
When the mummified remains of Reyna Angélica Marroquín were discovered inside of a 55-gallon drum stashed in the crawlspace of a Long Island home, Nassau County investigators had to work backwards to solve a mysterious murder case three decades in the making.
The suspect’s charges are one count of first-degree intentional homicide and two counts of sexual assault, and he is being held on $1 million bond in a juvenile detention center for the murder of 10-year-old Iliana ‘Lily’ Peters in April.
Jermaine Lavanda Bass of Tampa, Florida has been arrested after he allegedly shot his two children, a 5-year-old daughter and his 8-year-old son. The 5-year-old child has died and the 8-year-old is reportedly fighting for his life.
22-year-old Jolissa Fuentes was last seen on August 7th in Selma, California at a gas station. Three weeks into the search for both Fuentes and her car, Fuentes’s family now suspects her disappearance is a criminal matter.
Wicca is an alternative minority religion that began in the U.K. in the 1940s as a pagan movement. The movement arrived in the United States in the 1960s. Unlike the bad reputation of Witchcraft in history, Wicca is not satanic and demonic; it's a 'pre-Christian tradition' that promotes divinity that is sought in nature.
The bombing occurred on September 16th, 1920, and would kill 38 people and injure hundreds more. Though suspicions of anarchist or communist terrorism ran wild, nobody was ever convicted, and nobody ever confessed.
Three people, including a child, have died in a suspected murder-suicide in Portage, Michigan.
After a months-long trial in New South Wales, Australia, 74-year-old Chris Dawson was found guilty today of his wife’s murder. Dawson had been charged in 2018, but the prevalence of only circumstantial evidence and the fact that Lynette Dawson’s body was never found impeded investigation.
