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Of the many, many criminals who end up on death row, Michael Ross's situation is one of the most complex. Some reluctant guests of the row are vicious and wicked, men and women filled with pure evil. Others are innocent. These are victims of a system which is far from fool proof and frequently driven by political expediency as much as a search for justice.
And some people are killers despite themselves, criminals in need of help as well as punishment....
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Will mankind ever understand its own mind? Only if it one day learns to do so will the crimes of Edmund Emil Kemper III begin to make any sort of sense. Perhaps the splendour of his name gives a clue to the ambitions his mother had for the new born baby, who emerged into the world just a week before Christmas in 1948. Perhaps the hint in that name of a sort of Hollywood-esque cum Hammer House of Horror quality, just the wrong side of the furthest...
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John Wayne Glover-also known as the "Granny Killer"-was a serial killer who was active in Sydney, Australia, between 1989 and 1990 who murdered at least six-and as many as 13-elderly females after hitting them with a claw hammer and then ritually strangling them with their own pantyhose. It was widely believed that Glover's victims represented his mother and mother-in-law who he blamed for his misdeeds. He was ultimately sentenced to six life sentences...
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Two of the sickest female murderers in modern history are profiled. Tiffany Cole engineered a plan to kidnap and kill an elderly couple to steal their money, and dug a grave for them two days before knocking on their door and asking to use the phone. Rosie Alfaro stabbed nine-year-old Autumn Wallace more than 50 times during a burglary to get money for drugs.
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Two stories of senior citizen serial killers are profiled here. Dr. Harold Shipman and John Glover. Shipman was a doctor who is considered one of the most prolific serial killers in history. He would ultimately be found guilty of fifteen murders but many more are suspected. His total victim could be as high as 250. John Wayne Glover was a serial killer convicted of six elderly women and was dubbed the "Granny Killer" by the press. Like Shipman, his...
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James Edward Wood was one of the most unassuming men that you could ever meet. He was the type of person that if you passed by him on the street, you would never know his true agenda was much darker than what appeared. The life of James Wood is largely considered to be that of a true psychopath with no conscience. While the overall depths of his crimes is largely speculation, what is known of his crimes was enough to have him sentenced to death in...
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Madeleine McCann, a young child of three years old, was visiting the popular Portuguese resort town of Praia da Luiz along with her parents and younger siblings, as well as a group of her parents' close friends, when she went missing on the night of May 3rd. Madeleine's disappearance became an international sensation and various police departments in both Portugal and the United Kingdom, as well as Madeleine's parents, would conduct independent investigations...
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One day while Dorothy Stratten was on shift working at a Diary Queen, an older man walked into the store. Dorothy noted his outfit — a long fur coat, lizard skin boots, and gold and diamond jewelry — and she was captivated. She had never seen anyone like him before, and the two talked for a little bit before he drove off in a black sports car. Dorothy was sure she would never see the sophisticated stranger again. To her surprise, the man called...
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In the latter half of 1963, Karyn Kupcinet was living in Hollywood while pursuing her one true dream: to become a famous starlet. She was constantly on the lookout for the role that would land her her big break. From an outsider's perspective, Kupcinet was well-equipped for and well on her way to stardom. Her life had all the ingredients: she had a wealthy, well-known father, an actor boyfriend whose career was gaining steam, and dark sultry looks...
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On March 1, 1932, Charles Lindbergh Jr. was taken from his bedroom, killed, and dumped in some nearby woods. All without anyone inside the house hearing a single peep. It was a case that griped the entire nation, and baffled many for years...Although one man was charged and executed for the crime, well into the 21st century many still doubt he acted alone. While many modern investigators continue to try to piece the events of that eventful night together...
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"The Disappearance of Ann Marie Burr" delves into one of America's most baffling missing person cases. Ann Marie Burr, an 8-year-old girl from Tacoma, Washington, vanished from her home in August 1961, sparking a mystery that remains unsolved to this day. The book explores the events leading up to her disappearance, the initial investigation, and the subsequent search efforts that failed to locate her. It also examines the theories and suspects that...
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On the 15th of July 1997 the world of fashion was changed forever. Gianni Versace had decided to have a change of routine. Instead of sending out an assistant, as he usually would, to collect the morning papers, Versace travelled down to his local coffee shop to get them himself. As he returned home to his Miami Beach mansion, Andrew Cunanan pounced. Firing his gun and shooting Versace twice, a fashion icon fell to his knees and left the world shocked....
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To many, the name Carl Switzer doesn't right a bell-the name Alfalfa, however, does.
As Alfalfa, the freckle-faced kid with an unmanageable cowlick, Switzer won movie fame in the Our Gang comedies of the early 1930s. He later became known to a new generation of children when the Hal Roach films were reissued to television under the title The Little Rascals.
Carl Switzer played the iconic character from 1935-1940, and his popularity surpassed many...
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Before they were thrown into padded rooms, these psychopaths commit one atrocity after another until finally being captured. Joseph Duncan started sexually assaulting minors when he was fifteen until ultimately murdering a family in Idaho. Robert Black, aka Smelly Bob, was a Scottish serial killer who targeted underage girls.
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Women serial killers have long been an oddity in the homicide department. They are able to skirt under the radar as they do not fit the immediate psychological profile. Myra Hindley teamed with her partner Ian Brady as they killed five children between the ages of 10 and 17. Shirley Withers murdered her millionaire boyfriend by tying him up and injecting him with heroin.
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When Robin Lee arrived in Boise, Idaho in the late 1980s she was a struggling single mother with two small children — her son, Joshua, and daughter, Tabitha. Money was tight for Robin. With only a couple of dollars to her name, a new life in Boise was going to be difficult, but Robin was determined to make it work. Luckily for Robin, the local YWCA took her under their wing and offered her a managerial position at their bingo sessions. It seemed...
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Jacque Waller had just finalized her divorce from husband Clay when she drove to Jackson, Missouri to pick up their son from his home. She told her sister and her boyfriend that she would be right back. She was never heard from again.
Police recovered her car, pieces of her purse and fragments of her cell phone along a highway, but she remained missing for months then years. In a diary recovered in the car, Jacque wrote, "He told me a divorce would...
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BFF. Best Friends Forever. Pink plastic necklaces that each hold half a heart, made to interlock when the young wearers bring them together. Having a 'best friend' is an important part of childhood. Girls especially often form very strong bonds with a particular pal which can go on for years.
When that partnership breaks, usually only temporarily, sometimes because the former friends are growing apart, the consequences can, for a short time, be devastating....
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The disappearance of April Pitzer, missing for so long that she has been officially declared as being dead, is an especially tragic story. It is a tale of girl who makes one bad decision. From that a promising life ends in death and an eternity to be endured most probably deep down a mine shaft. The body as abandoned as the pothole in which it lies. This story co-stars a mother who will not give up hope that her daughter's body might someday be found....
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Charles Denton Watson was the pride of Copeville, Texas at one point. Nobody ever suspected that he would become "Tex" Watson, the "lieutenant for killing" in Charles Manson's horrifying "family." It had to come as quite a shock to all who knew him in that small north Texas community. It certainly shocked the world. Everyone who knew him before must have wondered what happened... What went so wrong in Charles Watson's life to take him from choirboy...
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