The LAPD received a 911 call from a woman who said her roommate's ex-boyfriend had busted into their apartment. That call, along with the sound of a woman screaming, led LAPD cruisers to the two-thousand-block of Mound Street in Hollywood Hills, early Sunday morning. There, they discovered the body of Dr. Aime Harwick (pictured above) lying on the ground below her apartment's third-floor balcony. Unresponsive, injured from the fall, the ex-Playboy model who'd become a famous

"November 19, 2018, I got a hug from her, and heard the words 'I love you,'" says Ashley Young's mother, Kristine. "I didn't know ten days later she would be dead." Ashley Young was thirty-one-years old when she was killed and then dismembered by Jared Chance after leaving a bar with him in the trendy Eastown district of Grand Rapids, Michigan. One of Jared's neighbors discovered Ashley's torso under a tarp. Police found portions of her arms and legs in a cardboard box. Ashle

When Benjamin Slenk, 18, switched his plea to guilty in September, he became the third teenager in the western Michigan community of Park Township to admit in court that they killed Mr. Gobbles. Sentencing for all three is expected in October. A young girl testified she watched, on the Fourth of July, as the teens went after Mr. Gobbles in the Waukazoo Woods neighborhood of the township. She said they ran over Mr. Gobbles with a car, then attacked his broken body with a golf

Emanuela Orlandi, fifteen-years-old, left a music lesson on a warm evening in Rome. She told friends she would walk home. She was never to be seen again. It's been thirty-six years since the teenage daughter of a Vatican City employee disappeared from the streets of Rome. Some say her disappearance is linked to the plot to kill Pope John Paul II. Other conspiracy theorists say the Sicilian Mafia got her. Or maybe the K.G.B. The Orlandi family refuses to give up. They received

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

Was it murder on New York’s Hudson River or merely a tragic accident? Should she go down in the annals of America’s female murderers, or is she just one more victim of a fractured court system. Angelika Graswald claims she’s not a cold-blooded killer, but New York prosecutors say she purposely pulled a plug on her fiance’s kayak so he’d drown in the storm-tossed waves of the Hudson River. She Cries Alone: A Shocking True Crime Story takes you through the day Vincent Viafore d

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

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

Minnesota: A man is found dead on the bathroom floor, shot twice, towels cover his face and torso. Where's his wife? Missing. Running. Could she be the killer? Florida: A woman who looks enough like the dead man's wife to be her doppelgänger is found dead on a bathroom floor. Towels cover her face and upper body. Could the killings be related? Where is the wife? Federal investigators know she's lost tens of thousands of dollar gambling. Is her love of casino games and slots a

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

"Samantha was by herself. She had no chance," her father, Seymour Josephson, said at a vigil on Sunday.

A couple of months in a county jail cell can clear a man's mind. All that time mixing and mingling with other inmates; but many of those hours, days and weeks alone. And without a computer to access the fevered fetish fantasies a man can find on the internet. Well, it can be like awakening from a bad dream, an evil nightmare. Jake Patterson, the twenty-one-year-old Wisconsin man who kidnapped Jayme Closs after killing the thirteen-year-old girl’s parents, confessed to the cri

The corn rake is an effective farming implement that could be a wickedly deadly weapon. Used by farmers to, you guessed it -- rake corn -- this devilish tool features a 9.7-inch head and four, eight-inch-long tines with chiseled points spaced three-point-25 inches apart. Amy Mullis died with one of these things impaled in her back. Todd Mullis, 42, of Earlville, Iowa, says he found his 39-year-old wife dead after she fell on to the rake. Todd swears he discovered Amy crouched

Charles Edward Johnson and Donnovan Lewis sat in the same classrooms in middle-school and high school. Now they shared a cell in the Kalamazoo County Jail. "If I ever was gonna do this, " Donnovan told Charles while both were in the jail's recreation yard, " I'd do it right here." "Do what?" "You know, do it," repeated Donnovan, "I'd do it right here where the fences have less barbed wire than in other places." Charles didn't think his buddy was serious. Nobody ever went over

Whether or not he pleads guilty or is convicted of killing his girlfriend, stuffing her body into a suitcase and pitching it into a river, Donnovan Terrell Lewis is going to spend time behind bars. That is what jumping over three, fifteen-foot high fences — one topped with shards of glass, another with barbed wire — then stripping off your county jail orange and running through downtown Kalamazoo in your county-issued boxers will get you. But, I’m getting ahead of myself. Don

Check this out! A day after my blog post on the connection between psychopaths and sex dolls comes the news of a company in Toronto that's setting up sex-doll brothels around the world. Or at least that's the goal. The Detroit Free Press reports a suburban Detroit, Mich. community -- Southfield -- has already been approached and said "no!" Think about it: a sex-doll brothel. Who gets hurt? The dolls? Well if you watched the BBC series "Humans", you might have something to say

Venus' mother believes her daughter's husband lured her outside. They fought. He won. Venus' mom wants her daughter back, dead or alive. Never Forgive, Never Forget: A Shocking True Crime Story by Rod Kackley tells the shocking true crime story of a woman whose fear of her husband seems to turn out to be justified, and the story of a mother’s quest to win the return of her child — her best friend — even if it’s only to bury her. The disappearance of Venus Stewart is a shockin

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Did Billy McFarland pull off one of the enormous cons of the 21st century with his aborted Fyre Festival, well documented on Netflix? Or was he merely a guy thirsting for fame and fortune who bought into all the entrepreneur porn he read online? Perhaps he was preying on people desperate to believe. Watch the Netflix documentary on the Fyre Festival and make your own decision. It's fascinating! I couldn't stop watching! You'll learn that Fyre was not Billy's first foray into

An evening of fun morphed into an online date with death for a woman in Japan. Saki Kondo, a 27-year-old woman, living in Osaka had the bad luck to hook up with a New York guy, Yevgeniy Vasilievich Bayraktar, also 27, who was on vacation in Japan. He wound up strangling the poor girl then cut up her corpse with a knife. And, get this: Yevgeniy wanted to be sure he did the butchery correctly, so he went online to make sure he did the dismembering the right way. Cops found Saki