Chapter 01The Castle Doctrine
Byron Smith
Byron Smith shot teenagers Nick Brady and Haile Kifer in the basement of his Little Falls, Minnesota, home on Thanksgiving Day 2012. Case photos.
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Volume 14
The real people, places and evidence behind the 12 cases in True Crime Case Histories, Volume 14 by Jason Neal. Pick a chapter to read the case and see its photos.
12 chapters · 38 photographs
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Chapter 02The South Side Strangler
Timothy Wilson Spencer
Timothy Wilson Spencer, the Southside Strangler, murdered four women in Richmond, Chesterfield County and Arlington, Virginia, in 1987. Case photos.
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Chapter 03The Cosplay Cam Girl
Melissa Turner
Melissa Turner fatally stabbed her fiancé Matthew Trussler at their home in Riverview, Florida, in October 2019. Photos from the Riverview case.
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Chapter 04Room 308
Jesse Kempson
Jesse Kempson murdered British backpacker Grace Millane after a Tinder date in Auckland, New Zealand, in December 2018. Photos from the case.
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Chapter 05The Cape Coral Monster
Joseph Zieler
Joseph Zieler killed Lisa Story and 11-year-old Robin Cornell in Cape Coral, Florida, in 1990 and was identified by DNA in 2016. Case photos.
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Chapter 06A Bad Actor
Daniel Wozniak
Daniel Wozniak murdered Sam Herr and Julie Kibuishi in Los Alamitos and Costa Mesa, California, in May 2010 to pay for his wedding. Case photos.
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Chapter 07The Frame-up
Pamela Hupp
Pam Hupp, Betsy Faria’s 2011 stabbing in Troy, Missouri, Russ Faria’s wrongful conviction and the 2016 killing of Louis Gumpenberger. Case photos.
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Chapter 08The City Planner
Robert Anthony Buell
Robert Anthony Buell, the Akron city worker who killed Krista Harrison in 1982 and Tina Harmon in 1981 in northern Ohio. Photos from the Buell case.
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Chapter 09Death of a Cheerleader
Charles Rathbun
Charles Rathbun, the Hollywood photographer who killed former Raiderette Linda Sobek in the Angeles National Forest in 1995. Case photos.
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Chapter 10Mother’s Day
Joshua Webb
Joshua Webb, who killed his mother Tina Webb in Colton, Oregon, on Mother’s Day 2017, then attacked a worker in an Estacada store. Case photos.
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Chapter 11Collateral Damage
Douglas Garland
Douglas Garland and the 2014 murders of Alvin and Kathy Liknes and their grandson Nathan O’Brien in Calgary, Alberta. Photos from the Garland case.
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Chapter 12The Suitcase Killer
Melanie McGuire
Melanie McGuire, the New Jersey nurse who killed husband Bill McGuire in Woodbridge in 2004 and hid his remains in the Chesapeake Bay. Case photos.
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