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On Halloween in 1974, father of two Ronald Clark O’Bryan took his children, Timothy and Elizabeth, trick-or-treating in their neighborhood. Just after Timothy ate a pixy-stick later in the evening, he began complaining of stomach pains and ultimately collapsed. He would later die from cyanide poisoning and his father would be dubbed ‘The Candyman’ for his role in Timothy’s murder.
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.
The once powerful now disbarred lawyer Alex Murdaugh pled not guilty Wednesday to the murders of his wife and son who were found dead on their property in June 2021.
The Great Depression brought ruin to American families and livelihoods, eroding hope in the idea of the self-made man. This dissatisfaction gave rise to the Gangster Era, and in the Gangster Era, few were as successful, or popular, as the Dillinger Gang.
In 1932, America was electrified by the kidnapping of renowned aviator Charles Lindbergh’s 20-month-old son. The legendary trial to come would launch the true crime genre into the media titan we know it as today.
Monday afternoon, there were two attempted bank robberies in the same hour. The banks, situated in Brazoria County, were right across the street from one another.
At around 7:00 p.m. on April 20, 2022, Julio Ramirez and his friend Carlos Camacho went out for the night in Hell’s Kitchen, a Manhattan neighborhood in New York City. The pair visited several bars before ending their night at the Ritz Bar and Lounge. Later that night, outside the bar, Ramirez would enter a cab with three unidentified men, and an hour later he would be found “unresponsive” in the back of the cab.
Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, known to music fans around the world as Selena, was shot at a Days Inn Motel by Yolanda Saldívar on March 31, 1995. The outpouring of grief from around the world would cement Selena’s legacy as an icon.
For years, power couple Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein trafficked teenage girls among their powerful peers. Maxwell’s sentencing today brings closure for some of those victims, but it’s not the end of the battle.
In the state of New York, serving alcohol to anyone in the LGBTQ+ community was illegal. This meant bars across the state, especially across New York City, were raised by police. With a blatant disregard for government rules, the Mafia held a near-monopoly on gay bars in New York City.
March 2022, a wealthy 73 year old gay man named Gary Ruby was viciously murdered in his multi million dollar home in Hawaii. His 23 year old boyfriend has been arrested for it.
Federal prosecutors charged Tiger King’s star Bhagavan “Doc” Antle in South Carolina with money laundering on Monday after his arrest on June 3.
Late last night in Jourdanton, 46-year-old Gonzalo Lopez was declared dead after a shootout with the Leon County Sheriff’s Office. He’s suspected of killing a family to steal their truck earlier that day.
Aspiring romance novel writer Nancy Crampton-Brophy was found guilty by a jury on Wednesday, May 25 of the second-degree murder of her husband, Daniel Brophy. Crampton-Brophy’s motive for killing her husband appears to be economic, looking to receive his $1.5 million life insurance policy.
Nathan Carman, 28, of Vermont, was arrested yesterday on multiple charges including murder on the high seas in the 2016 death of his mother, Linda Carman, according to federal officials.
On May 24, 1935, 9-year-old George Weyerhaeuser was kidnapped off the street in broad daylight in Tacoma, Washington. What would come of this case would make it one of the most famous in the American Northwest.
When Breana Noojin Nix was found dead in her bathroom in March of 2020, her husband Steven Nix had an explanation for everything. But Steven's stories were full of holes. He suggested his wife had died of an accidental overdose, after hiding a secret drug problem from everyone she knew. Brittany Noojin knew that would have been completely out of character for her sister, and also knew that Steven would lean on his connections to evade suspicion.
David Pettis was convicted Monday of grinding up and mixing the drug into a bowl of ice cream he gave to his wife Peggy Pettis, 64, on June 25, 2018.
Pettis called 911 on June 25, 2018 to say his wife was blue in color and not breathing.
Prosecutors say the wife of an exotic reptile dealer is the real snake in the grass.
Lynlee Renick’s trial began Monday in Columbia, Missouri for the first-degree murder of her husband, 29-year-old Ben Renick.
Investigators claim that Lynlee shot and killed her husband on the property they shared in Montgomery County on June 8, 2017. They believe her motive was money.
Stephen Gibbs, 45, attacked Emma Brown at their home in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, on 30 January.
The flooring worker flew into a rage when Ms Brown told him she wanted to end their relationship, Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court heard.
Ms Brown, 49, was found by neighbours in a pool of blood having been stabbed in the face, arms and stomach.
