Robert Creek forced Illinois DCFS to take custody of his 14-year-old daughter in order to save her life. She chronically ran away from the residential center where she was placed. In 1996 turned up dead in a nature reserve in Wisconsin. Law Enforcement didn’t catch her killer until 2014, and the court process quickly became complicated.
On November 26, 2016, 61-year-old Joel Guy Sr. and 55-year-old Lisa Guy were murdered and dismembered in their Knoxville, Tennessee home. They had planned to retire and stopped funding their 28-year-old son’s life. Their son, Joel Guy Junior, was quickly identified as the perpetrator.
14-year-old Aundria vanished from her home on March 11th, 1989 recently after accusing her adoptive father Dennis Bowman of molesting her. Dennis told authorities she had stolen money and left home. Aundria was classified as a runaway for decades. They arrested Dennis Bowman for murder and he eventually revealed what happened to his daughter.
Minister Matthew Winkler failed to show up at church on Wednesday night and was found dead inside his home. His wife shot in him the back. Was she an abused preacher’s wife or a murderer?
Jeffrey Moreland quit his job as a police officer because of a Parkinson’s disease diagnosis. He assaulted and murdered 2 women, one of which was his ex-girlfriend’s mother. Despite trying to elude law enforcement, they caught him when his ex-girlfriend identified him after seeing the composite sketch on a billboard.
Maria Lauterbach was a United States Marine who was 8 months pregnant when she disappeared from Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Her remains were found in the backyard of Corporal Cesar Laurean who she had accused of sexual assault.
Police were called to the UW Arboretum, where Dr. Potter and Robin Carre were found in a pool of blood. Their killer was 18-year-old Madison West High School student Khari Sanford, who was their daughter’s boyfriend.
Richard McNair was convicted for murder and received a lengthy sentence. He managed to escape from prison three times and was considered one of American’s most wanted.
In 2005, David Jordan went to the Tennessee DOT building where he shot his estranged wife along with several of her coworkers. 3 people died and 2 were injured. Jordan resides on Tennessee’s death row.
4 people died and 2 were seriously injured when Travis Reinking shot up a Waffle House outside of Nashville, Tennessee in 2018. Reinking suffered from severe schizophrenia and law enforcement took his guns away prior to the incident. The father gave the guns back to his son a few months prior to the shooting.
A woman was found deceased in a cornfield in the Town of Raymond in 1999. It took 20 years for police to identify the victim and find her killer, Linda LaRoche, who was a registered nurse living in Cape Coral, Florida.
Chai Vang unintentionally trespassed on private hunting land in northern Wisconsin. This led to an altercation and he claimed self-defense after shooting 6 dead and wounding 2.
Brenda Andrew and boyfriend James Pavatt killed her husband, Rob Andrew, to collect on his $800,000 life insurance policy. Brenda, James, and Brenda’s two children fled to Mexico but were eventually captured. Brenda and James currently sit on Oklahoma’s death row.
Colleen Slemmer thought she was being invited to the woods to smoke pot. Instead, she was tortured and murdered by her 18-year-old classmate Christa Pike, who is the only woman on Tennessee’s death row.
Two extraordinary Dartmouth professors lost their lives when two high school students believed that killing them would lead to their dream future.
Two professors committed horrible crimes, and their faults and flaws were only visible around the edges. No one could have foreseen or prevented what happened.
Rusty Sneiderman had big dreams. This Harvard MBA was trying to be an entrepreneur when he was gunned down after dropping his son off at school. After weeks of investigation, law enforcement disproved that the murderer was the boss of Rusty Sneiderman’s wife.
Randall Woodfield was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in 1974 and was dropped before the season started. The organization never released an official statement but Law Enforcement was aware that Woodfield was exposing himself to women. After his time with the Packers, Woodfield’s behavior escalated to robbery, rape, and murder.
Bruce Cleland met and married the love of his life. She was more interested in his money. The couple was carjacked and Bruce was killed. Less than a year later, his wife was arrested for the murder.
A 15-year-old girl goes missing and no one searches for her, no one reports her missing, and no one was looking out for her well being including the family, friends, and members of the community that might have kept her safe.