Chapter 01The Gorton Confession
James Patterson Smith
James Patterson Smith tortured and killed 17-year-old Kelly Anne Bates in Gorton, Manchester, in 1996. Case photos and the story behind the conviction.
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Volume 1
The real people, places and evidence behind the 8 cases in True Crime Case Histories, Volume 1 by Jason Neal. Pick a chapter to read the case and see its photos.
8 chapters · 93 photographs
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Chapter 02The Burning Barrel
Fred Grabbe
Fred Grabbe murdered his wife Charlotte on their farm near Marshall, Illinois, in 1981 and burned her body by the Wabash River. Case photos.
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Chapter 03Master and Slave
Graham Dwyer
Graham Dwyer, a Dublin architect, murdered childcare worker Elaine O’Hara in 2012. Phones found in Vartry Reservoir led to him. Case photos.
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Chapter 04The Toolbox Killers
Lawrence Bittaker, Roy Norris
Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris, the Toolbox Killers, murdered five teenage girls in Southern California in 1979. Photos from the case.
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Chapter 05The Security Chief
Chris Coleman
Chris Coleman, a security chief for Joyce Meyer Ministries, strangled his wife and two sons in Columbia, Illinois, in 2009. Case photos.
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Chapter 06A Doctor’s Blood
Dr. John Schneeberger
Dr. John Schneeberger drugged and sexually assaulted a patient in Kipling, Saskatchewan, in 1992, then hid blood in his arm to beat DNA tests. Case photos.
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Chapter 07Rat Alley
Mary Bell, Norma Bell
Mary Bell was 10 when she killed Martin Brown, 4, and 11 when she killed Brian Howe, 3, in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1968. Photos from the Mary Bell case.
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Chapter 08The Stolen Cradle
Michelle Bica
Michelle Bica killed her pregnant neighbor Theresa Andrews in Ravenna, Ohio, in September 2000 and took her newborn son as her own. Photos from the case.
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