It was the late 1960s, and the naked, mutilated, dead bodies of young women were being found one after another along Michigan roadsides and in vacant lots. A serial killer was running wild. His victims ranged in age from thirteen to twenty-three. I was a junior high school student, born in 1955, old enough to read the newspapers and listen to the adults at my grandmother's house discuss the crimes. The stories hit home with me since all but two of the girls butchered by this

Ten years ago tonight, July 24, 1979, serial killer Ted Bundy broke into the Chi Omega sorority house on the campus of Florida State University and brutally murdered two young women. Bundy disappeared from a Colorado jail cell just two weeks before committing what would be his last two homicides. He pounded Lisa Levy and Margaret Bowman to death in their sorority house, smashing their heads with firewood before choking them to death with stockings. Bundy had killed two beauti

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

Young, attractive, blonde — Lucy Letby may also be lethal. Lucy’s a nurse in England who is accused of killing eight babies and attempting to murder three more, police say. Cheshire authorities told the world June 13 that “a healthcare professional” had been taken into custody as part of an “ongoing investigation” against them. The BBC identified that person as Lucy Letby, who was first arrested in July 2018 on suspicion or murder involving the deaths of eight babies at Count

Maybe they've got the guy who's been killing middle-aged hookers in the Motor City! The Detroit Police Department announced they arrested a man described as a "person of interest," June 7. Officers found 34-year-old DeAngelo Kenneth Martin at a bus stop in the Motor City. He's known to be homeless, police say, and often hangs out on the east side of the city. The arrest comes after three women, all in their mid-50's, all naked, and all said to be prostitutes, were found dead

There was something going on inside Tim. She could tell that. But middle-aged crazy is middle-aged normal as far as Anne could tell. But, wh

Chapter Two Smartphone rang. It was Jason in the newsroom. Adam gave him a condensed version of the twenty minutes he spent with Chief Doolan, and learned that while he was in there getting nothing, the TV station, had finally picked up the story and splashed it on their website, right under the story about the St.Isidore Antique Festival. That festival should empty out the town, Adam thought with one side of his brain. If you line all the antiques on one side of the town, th

I know there is a sex cult involved in this. Sadomasochism is what it is called. And I am about to bring it down. All I need is some evidenc

Jason Dalton, the Kalamazoo, Michigan man who said the devil took over the Uber app on his iPhone and told him to kill six people and wound two more, is going to spend the rest of his life behind bars without any chance of parole. Dalton shocked his attorney, his family, and the rest of a Kalamazoo County courtroom Jan. 7 when he stopped jury selection for his murder trial and entered a plea of guilty to all charges. Dalton pled to six counts of murder, two counts of attempte

Photo by Anderson W Rangel on Unsplash Did naughty or nice make any difference to a serial-killing Santa Claus in Canada? Prosecutors are not saying yet, but pending his trial, police are finding what Santa left behind...a grisly trail of evidence turning the stomachs of the most grizzled cops. Toronto Police investigators, helped by specially trained dogs, have discovered body parts planted in garden planters and a ravine; all, allegedly, left behind by a serial killing shop

Jack the Ripper warned London police that he was going to kill again, if you believe that a postcard dated 29 October 1888 was written by the serial killer. Legend has it that Jack killed five women between August and November 1888. All the murders remain unsolved. London police closed their investigation in 1892. Now comes word from the BBC that a postcard, said to have been written by the Ripper himself, warned police that another murder -- to be his last -- was coming. A B

Lust. Sex. Murder. Love. A teenage girl with murder in her soul hooks up with a middle-aged serial killer with love in his heart. Bree is kidnapped. Her parents are killed. Their house explodes. No worries. It’s all part of Bree’s wicked plan. Now she just has to dump, Tim Sheldon, the serial killer who’s fallen in love with her. Is she going to be able to get rid of him? Or, will someone else have to die? Again, no worries. Bree has a plan, a wicked plan. But will it be enou