Luz Hernandez’s body was found on Wednesday, Feb. 7 after the kindergarten teacher from New Jersey didn’t show up for work the day before.
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1996 Murder of Kristin Smart
A jury is finally being assembled for a 26 year old murder case. Kristin Smart was last seen after a party near her college campus in California, and her remains have never been found. Paul Flores was charged with first-degree murder, accused of killing Smart while trying to rape her in her dorm room. His father, Ruben Flores, is accused of helping his son dispose of the body.
New Podcast Episode: The Moors Murders
For Myra Hindley and Ian Brady, Manchester was their hunting grounds, and the moors -- a vast stretch of barren landscape -- was their dumping grounds. Britain's most reviled killers preyed on children, abducting and violently murdering their victims before leaving their bodies in shallow graves.
New Podcast Episode: The Victims of Dorothea Puente
40 years ago, Dorothea Puente had everyone fooled into thinking she was a kindly grandmother. Friends, tenants at her boarding house, social workers and the police all bought her act. In reality, she was much younger than she appeared, and far from kind. Preying upon the elderly, unhoused people and alcoholics, Dorothea assumed no one would search very hard for her victims.
Stephen Dee Richards: The "Nebraska Fiend"
In 1876, Stephen Dee Richards left his home and his family in Ohio to go west in hopes of finding wealth. Within two weeks of arriving in Nebraska, he would commit his first murder, with eight more to follow. This would go on to give him the title as the first serial killer in Nebraska.
Sammy Vecchio was found buried to the neck. Was the wealthy mob associate’s murder part of an Ontario biker war?
His body was found just a few kilometres from the ramshackle white farmhouse of long-time biker Wayne (Weiner) Kellestine, who’s now in prison for murder in the deaths of eight members of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club.
New Podcast Episode: Texas Killing Fields
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.
The true story of the Cape Cod Vampire
The so-called "Golden Age of Serial Murder" lasted from 1970 to 1999. About 80% of all known serial killers operated during that period. Which makes Antone Charles Costa, usually known as Tony, ahead of his time: He killed at least two and probably eight women between 1966 and 1969. The circumstances of their deaths were strange, and fake news generated around his arrest made those circumstances seem even worse than they were. As a result he earned several colorful nicknames, like "Chop Chop" or "The Cape Cod Casanova." But the name that really stuck was most horrifying of all: "The Cape Cod Vampire."
New Podcast Episode: Case Closed and Re-Opened
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.