Chapter 01A Sad Holiday Season
John Taylor
John Taylor murdered 16-year-old Leanne Tiernan in Bramley, Leeds, in 2000. Her body was found in Lindley Woods in 2001. Photos from the case.
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Volume 10
The real people, places and evidence behind the 12 cases in True Crime Case Histories, Volume 10 by Jason Neal. Pick a chapter to read the case and see its photos.
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Chapter 02The Closet
Mary Rowles, Alice Jenkins
Mary Rowles and Alice Jenkins got 30 years each after abused boys escaped their home in Akron, Ohio, in early May 2003. Photos from the case.
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Chapter 03The Christmas Tree Farm Murders
Ricky Riffe, John Riffe
Ricky Riffe was convicted in 2013 of the 1985 murders of Ed and Minnie Maurin, Christmas tree farmers from Ethel, Washington. Case photos.
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Chapter 04A Perfect Holiday
Lianne Smith, Martin Smith
Lianne Smith killed her children Rebecca, 5, and Daniel, 11 months, in Lloret de Mar, Spain, in 2010 and got 30 years in 2012. Case photos.
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Chapter 05The Girl Scout
David Alan Westerfield
David Westerfield kidnapped and murdered 7-year-old Danielle van Dam in Sabre Springs, San Diego, in 2002 and was sentenced to death. Case photos.
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Chapter 06Wheres Savanna
Brooke Crews, William Hoehn
Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind, 22 and pregnant, was killed in Fargo, North Dakota, in 2017 by neighbor Brooke Crews. Photos from the case.
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Chapter 07The IHOP Murder
Alan Bryant, Dee Casteel, Michael Irvine and others
Dee Casteel, Alan Bryant and two hired men were convicted in the 1983 Dade County, Florida, murders of Art Venecia and Bessie Fischer. Case photos.
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Chapter 08The Bushy-Haired Stranger
Frank Jarvis Atwood
Frank Jarvis Atwood abducted and killed 8-year-old Vicki Lynne Hoskinson in Tucson, Arizona, in 1984 and was executed in 2022. Photos from the case.
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Chapter 09They Got in the Way
Louise Porton
Louise Porton murdered her daughters Lexi Draper, 3, and Scarlett, 17 months, in Rugby, England, in 2018 and was jailed for life. Photos from the case.
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Chapter 10The Conman
Christopher Hightower
Christopher Hightower murdered Ernest, Alice and Emily Brendel in Barrington, Rhode Island, in 1991 and got life without parole. Case photos.
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Chapter 11The Swindler
Rob Petrick
Rob Petrick murdered his wife, cellist Janine Sutphen, in Durham, North Carolina, in 2003; her body surfaced in Falls Lake. Photos from the case.
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Chapter 12Pretty in Pink
Ezra McCandless
Ezra McCandless stabbed Alex Woodworth to death near Spring Brook, Dunn County, Wisconsin, in 2018 and was sentenced to life. Photos from the case.
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