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Rod Kackley
- Jan 25, 2020
- 1 min
Teens Accused of Cold-Blooded Killings
Two teenagers stand accused of truly heinous, shocking true crimes today. Both, allegedly, slaughtered their families. In the first case, an Alabama teen, Landon Hudson Durham, 16, is accused of not only stabbing his mother and two brothers to death; police say he actually went to bed, slept the night away, and then went to school the next morning like nothing had happened. The second case involves a kid whose blood runs even colder. The blood in this teen's veins could be do
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Rod Kackley
- Jan 24, 2020
- 1 min
Blue Moon Murder Trial! What's the motive: money or witchcraft?
Photo by Cerqueira on Unsplash Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan raised the possibility of a witchcraft-linked ritualistic murder timed to the appearance of a blue moon when an elderly woman and her two adult sons were found dead. However, prosecutors in a Florida courtroom told a jury Jan. 21 that the actual motive was much more mundane: money. Donald Wayne Hartung Sr. faces three counts of premeditated first-degree murder in the deaths of his 77-year-old mother, Voncile
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Rod Kackley
- Dec 24, 2019
- 2 min
Trans Teen Murdered! Hate Crime?
Her family and friends remembered Nikki Kuhnhausen as a "rainbow of light" during a standing-room-only candlelight vigil held December 20 for the transgendered teenager in Larch Mountain, Oregon. The seventeen-year-old went missing in June. Some people out picking bear grass on Larch Mountain in early December found a human skull, which was later identified as Nikki's last remains. "She was a rainbow of light," says Kuhnhausen's mother, Lisa Woods. "She loved me unconditional
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Rod Kackley
- Dec 21, 2019
- 2 min
Doppelgänger Killer Pleads Guilty to Murder Charge
With her shoulder-length, unkempt hair falling over her face, wearing a prison orange jumpsuit, Lois admitted Dec. 17 that she did kill Pamela Hutchinson. Lois changed her plea, in a Florida courtroom, from not guilty to guilty, and with that also accepted a life sentence in prison. In addition to the charge of first-degree murder with a firearm, Lois today also pled guilty to three other charges — grand theft of a motor vehicle, grand theft, and criminal use of identificatio
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Rod Kackley
- Sep 23, 2019
- 2 min
“Pathetic Subhuman” Slaughters His Family: A Shocking True Crime Story
Canadian Menhaz Zaman, told his fellow online gamers that he had to kill his family, to spare them from dealing with the knowledge that he was a “pathetic subhuman.” The twenty-three-year-old says he “slaughtered” four members of his family because he didn’t want his parents to “feel the shame of having a son like me. I choose to kill. It’s all very selfish.” Menhaz admits in his message that his decision to viciously slay his parents and two others came from his “cowardice.”
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Rod Kackley
- Sep 12, 2019
- 2 min
Wife Beater Turned Killer in California? "World's Worst Nightmare," Says Victim's
Pleasant Valley was anything but pleasant the day El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office deputies discovered a pile of body parts while the deputies were busting a California man on an outstanding domestic violence warrant. Now, investigators believe the deputies stumbled upon the remains of the wife beater’s dead spouse. Anthony Gumina, hands cuffed behind him, sat on a curb, Saturday, with his little pet dog beside him, as deputies combed through every inch his home and propert
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Rod Kackley
- Aug 13, 2019
- 2 min
Killer Caught!
Curtis Ray Watson had already done time for aggravated child abuse. Most recently, he was being held on a conviction of "especially aggravated kidnapping." And, now he is back behind bars in a Tennessee state prison facing new charges. Unfortunately, Watson (pictured above), who broke out of a Tennessee prison Wednesday, was not arrested before raping and killing a 64-year-old Department of Corrections administrator, Debra Johnson. Watson killed Debra with a cord wrapped aro
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Rod Kackley
- Aug 5, 2019
- 2 min
Let's Do Murder: A Shocking True Crime Story
"There's a new angel in heaven with an extra bright halo.” Jim Alleman, Iowa State University engineering professor Celia Barquin Arozamena and Collin Richards couldn't have been farther apart on the spectrum of life. She was ready to begin the next phase of her life that included a professional career and marriage. He wanted a woman to rape and murder. Celia had everything to live for. Collin had nothing to lose. They would come together one day in September 2018. Only one
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Rod Kackley
- Aug 1, 2019
- 2 min
Woman Killed, Head Tossed To Neighbor's Lawn
Sydney, Australia police discovered Rita Camilleri's body in the kitchen of the home she shared with her daughter, Jessica. Rita's head was on a neighbor's lawn. The scene was so bloody, so horrific that several police officers needed counseling to cope with what they'd seen. Not bad enough? Okay. How about this? A four-year-old boy, hidden in a back room, lived through the crime. Police say Jessica, 25, for some reason, went after her fifty-seven-year-old mother with first
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Rod Kackley
- Jul 22, 2019
- 2 min
Manhunt for a Canadian Killer: A Shocking True Crime Story
Murders so brutal and violent it took three days to identify the bodies and open caskets won’t be allowed at the funerals. A manhunt’s underway in British Columbia, Canada, following the discovery of the bodies of a North Carolina woman, Chynna Noelle Deese, and her Australian boyfriend, Lucas Robertson Fowler, Both in their early twenties, the couple was found dead along a highway, according to the Royal Mounted Canadian Police. Chynna’s brother, British Deese, told the Char
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Rod Kackley
- Jun 29, 2019
- 1 min
Salt Lake City Police Find Human Tissue With DNA Matching Missing Salt Lake City Woman, Murder Suspe
Salt Lake City, Utah police haven't found her body yet, but they do have human tissue matching MacKenzie Lueck's DNA. MacKenzie's a University of Utah student, only twenty-three-years-old, who's been missing since June 20. That's the day her family filed a missing person report. MacKenzie, who's been very active on social media, hadn't posted anything since June 17. The last time she was seen, MacKenzie took a Lyft from Salt Lake City's airport to a city park. There she got i
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Rod Kackley
- Jun 28, 2019
- 2 min
Science Wins! California Murders Solved Thanks to New DNA Technology
Janet Ann Taylor, 21, decided to hitchhike home from the Stanford University campus on March 24, 1974. The next day, a delivery driver found the young woman, the daughter of former Stanford athletic director and football coach Chuck Taylor, dead. Janet had been strangled to death and left in a ditch on Sand Hill Road west of I-280. More than forty years later, San Mateo County, California prosecutors are charging John Arthur Getreu with her murder. The seventy-four-year-old
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Rod Kackley
- Jun 18, 2019
- 1 min
Murder! 12 Shocking True Crime Stories Only $9.95!
Murder! 12 Shocking True Crime Stories Regular price: $12.95 Special Sale Price for Crime Stories Bookstore Customers! Only $9.95 Click here to order your autographed paperback! #BookSale #ShockingTrueCrimeStories #murder #MurderStory #robberystories #homicidalmaniacs #deadlynurses
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Rod Kackley
- Jun 6, 2019
- 1 min
Detroit Manhunt: Serial Killer Murdering Prostitutes
Detroit police warn Motor City hookers to watch out for a guy who picks up women, taking them to abandoned buildings, raping and killing them. The killer, police say, seems to be going after women in their 50s. The warning follows the three murders of women in the city, and police say the cases could be linked. “We’re not trying to create alarm,” Detroit Police Chief James Craig says. “But we want to get this information out.” Back in May, social media in Detroit was red-hot
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Rod Kackley
- May 28, 2019
- 1 min
Missing and Presumed Murdered
Murder charges have been filed against a man in Salem, Oregon, in connection with the case of a missing woman and her three-year-old son. Nobody’s sure yet if Karissa Freewill, 25, and her toddler son, William (pictured above) are dead or alive. But they have not been seen since May 13. Salem police Lt. Treven Upkes isn’t saying much about the case. He declines to even talk about why 52-year-old Michael John Wolfe, the biological father of William, is considered a suspect. Ho
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Rod Kackley
- May 22, 2019
- 2 min
Detroit: Woman Killed, Tossed into Dumpster Like Throwing Away Garbage
A registered sex offender, also convicted of car theft, weapons charges, and armed robbery, is accused of killing a 27-year-old Detroit, Michigan woman and tossing her body into a dumpster. Elizabeth Candice Nichole Laird, was going to nursing school. Her corpse only discovered after someone told police he saw blood in an elevator of a neighborhood apartment building. Three days later, James Quill Cockerham was arrested. Detroit Police Chief James Craig called Cockerham, "a c
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Rod Kackley
- Apr 18, 2019
- 2 min
What Was She Thinking? The Shocking True Crime Story That Wasn't
The story of Sol Pais could have ended with one of the most disturbing, bloodiest, shocking true crime stories ever. An 18-year-old woman, Sol drove from Miami to Colorado because of her obsession with the 20th anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre. By her side was a pump-action shotgun. Columbine High and other schools in the area closed today, three days before the anniversary of the tragedy. More than half-a-million kids were kept at home in the Denver-area. Wh
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Rod Kackley
- Apr 16, 2019
- 2 min
Accused Las Vegas Killers Busted! Women Behind Bars, Boyfriend Runs
Two women, one a mother and former blonde bombshell Playboy Italia model, the other a vivacious bartender, are waiting for their next Las Vegas court dates in jail cells. Both women are accused of killing a 71-year-old psychiatrist, who had a history of helping beautiful women pay their rent and other bills. Dr. Thomas Burchard's half-naked and bloody corpse was discovered stuff in the trunk of a blue, two-door 2017 Mercedes-Benz in Las Vegas, in March. He'd been bludgeoned t
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Rod Kackley
- Apr 5, 2019
- 1 min
Cops Find Human Skull -- Shocking True Crime Case Closed!
(LtoR: Brady Oestrike, Brooke Slocum, Charles Oppenneer) Shocking True Crime Update: A skull found in northern Kent County, Michigan is that of Charles Oppenneer, one of two people thought to have been murdered by Brady Oestrike in July 2014. As detailed in one of the most-read books in the Shocking True Crime section of the Crime Stories Bookstore -- She Deserved Better -- Oekstrike kidnapped, raped, tortured, and killed Charles' girlfriend, Brooke Slocum. But first Brady ha
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