Chapter 01The Crossword Murder
Matthias S
The 1981 crossword murder of seven-year-old Lars Bense in Halle-Neustadt, East Germany, solved with 551,198 handwriting samples. Case photos.
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Volume 12
The real people, places and evidence behind the 12 cases in True Crime Case Histories, Volume 12 by Jason Neal. Pick a chapter to read the case and see its photos.
12 chapters · 32 photographs
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Chapter 02Better Off in Heaven
Laurel Schlemmer
Laurel Schlemmer drowned her sons Daniel, 6, and Luke, 3, at their home in McCandless, Pennsylvania, in April 2014. Photos from the case.
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Chapter 03The Groomer
Luke Harlow, Stephen Beadman
Kayleigh Haywood, 15, was groomed online by Luke Harlow and murdered by Stephen Beadman near Ibstock, Leicestershire, in November 2015. Case photos.
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Chapter 04The Wrong Wife
Nancy Brophy
Romance novelist Nancy Crampton Brophy shot her husband, chef Dan Brophy, at the Oregon Culinary Institute in Portland in June 2018. Case photos.
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Chapter 05The Champions
Ryan Champion
Ryan Champion arranged the 2014 murders of his parents, Lindsey and Joy, and sister Emily in Cadiz, Kentucky, then killed the gunman. Case photos.
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Chapter 06The Screwdriver Killer
George J. Davies
George J. Davies murdered Gaetane Boivin, 17, and Brenda Jane Doucette, 9, in Connecticut in May 1957 and was executed in 1959. Case photos.
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Chapter 07Tennessee
Philip Chism
Philip Chism, 14, murdered teacher Colleen Ritzer at Danvers High School in Massachusetts in October 2013. Case facts, updates and photos.
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Chapter 08Death in the Cornfield
James Worley
James Worley abducted and killed University of Toledo student Sierah Joughin, 20, near Metamora, Ohio, in July 2016. Case facts and photos.
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Chapter 09The Fifth Nail
Joseph Edward Duncan III
Joseph Duncan killed three members of the Groene family near Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, in 2005 and kidnapped Shasta and Dylan. Case photos.
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Chapter 10Tony the Pervert
Shaun Anthony “Tony” Armstrong
Shaun “Tony” Armstrong murdered three-year-old Rosie Palmer in Hartlepool, England, in June 1994 and was jailed for life in 1995. Case photos.
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Chapter 11The Ice Cream Killer
Estibaliz “Esti” Carranza
Estibaliz Carranza, Vienna’s “Ice Lady,” shot her ex-husband Holger Holz and partner Manfred Hinterberger in 2008 and 2010. Case photos.
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Chapter 12Missing in Mississippi
Newton Alfred Winn
Annie Laurie Hearin vanished from her Jackson, Mississippi, home in July 1988; Florida lawyer Newton Winn was convicted in the plot. Case photos.
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