Andrew Luster was the heir to the Max Factor Cosmetics fortune. He lived a life of a leisure, never had a job, and spent much of his time surfing. Luster pursued women who were significantly younger and he assaulted several victims unbeknownst to them by slipping GHB into drinks.
A Maryland high school senior fled to Israel after murdering another teenager. The incident escalated tensions between the US and Israel. 17 years after the crime, the main perpetrator found himself in a standoff with the Israel Prison Service and this case ended in tragedy for every family involved.
Three friends decided to rob the McDonald’s in Sydney River, Nova Scotia, Canada. The crime escalated when they decided to murder three employees and permanently disable a fourth worker.
Joe and Beth Wellnitz and their son, Dennis were killed in their home, in Columbia, Kentucky. The case went cold for 10 years and when it unraveled, the perpetrators were not strangers to the family.
Pam had a family she loved, was running competitively, and had a tight-knit circle of friends. She was living her best life until she was found deceased in her bathtub on the morning she was supposed to run a half marathon. When law enforcement took a closer look, Pam’s life was not as together as it seemed and her husband was not as innocent as their friends believed.
Stacey Schoeck didn’t want a divorce and instead decided to have her 5th husband killed on Valentine’s day.
Marriages sometimes don’t work out and most reasonable couples opt for a divorce. Nathan Leuthold decided to kill his wife as a Valentines day gift for his new love.
When Ricky Gray and his nephew, Ray Dandridge, decided to go on a crime spree, 1 person was hospitalized and 8 people were left dead.
Staff Sergeant Calvin Gibbs deployed to Afghanistan in 2009 and by summer 2010, his team was charged with the murder of 3 Afghan civilians.
Hiking is generally a safe activity but in 2007 and 2008, a few unlucky individuals happened to cross paths with Gary Michael Hilton while out on the trail and they never returned home.
Dick and Lynn Ehlenfeldt bought a Brown’s Chicken franchise in Palatine, Illinois and created an environment where all the employees felt like it was their second family. On the night of January 8th, 1993, everyone working in the store was murdered and the case remained unsolved for 9 years. Two men were finally convicted of the crimes.
Dick and Lynn Ehlenfeldt bought a Brown’s Chicken franchise in Palatine, Illinois and created an environment where all the employees felt like it was their second family. On the night of January 8th, 1993, everyone working in the store was murdered and the case remained unsolved for 9 years.
This boy band mogul had it all – fame, fortune, success, and respect. Greed slowly unraveled the threads of his life and revealed that every business he built was based on a con.
Michelle Dorr and Laura Houghteling’s lives were cut incredibly short because they happened to cross the path of Hadden Clark.
Many of us have a past that is fairly benign. Some people have a past littered with atrocious crimes that they concealed for decades. Today we talk about four stories where genetic genealogy revealed long-held secret crimes.
Sometimes willful disbelief is a protective mechanism that gets people through a difficult time in life. In this case, it was a dangerous choice made by those in power that allowed a priest to harm a community.
A former dentist changed careers and opened a business that supplied human biological products to tissue banks. Disease screens, family consent, and proper refrigeration of cadavers are all steps he decided to omit.
What happens when a lottery employee has just enough computer network security knowledge to be dangerous?
19-year-old Rachel Timmerman was set to testify against the man who raped her when she mysteriously disappeared. Around that time, four other people vanished as well. The one thing they all had in common was they came into contact with Marvin Gabrion.
The Carr brothers committed a spree of random and violent crimes that forever altered the lives of 7 individuals. This was one of the most tragic events in Wichita, Kansas history.