Chapter 01Friendly Reminders
Casey Parsons, Sandy Parsons
Erica Parsons, 13, vanished from Rowan County, North Carolina, in 2011; her adoptive parents Casey and Sandy Parsons were convicted in 2019. Case photos.
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Volume 16
The real people, places and evidence behind the 12 cases in True Crime Case Histories, Volume 16 by Jason Neal. Pick a chapter to read the case and see its photos.
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Chapter 02The Highway of Tears
Cody Legebokoff
Cody Legebokoff murdered Loren Leslie and three Prince George women in British Columbia in 2009 and 2010, near the Highway of Tears. Case photos.
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Chapter 03The Christadelphian
Gary Lee Schaefer
Gary Lee Schaefer killed Katy Richards in Springfield, Vermont, in 1983 and was suspected in two earlier girls’ deaths. Photos from the Schaefer case.
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Chapter 04It’s Done
Seth Techel
Seth Techel shot his pregnant wife, Lisa Techel, in Agency, Iowa, in May 2012 and was convicted after a third murder trial in 2014. Case photos.
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Chapter 05No Body, No Crime
Kimberly Kessler
Kimberly Kessler murdered hairstylist Joleen Cummings at a Yulee, Florida, salon in 2018, and Joleen’s body was never found. Case photos.
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Chapter 06Apartment 9
Moe Gibbs
Moe Gibbs murdered Valley City State University student Mindy Morgenstern in Valley City, North Dakota, in 2006. Photos from the Gibbs case.
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Chapter 07Sacred Trust
Richard Lavigne
The 1972 killing of 13-year-old altar boy Danny Croteau in Chicopee, Massachusetts, and the priest named as his killer in 2021. Case photos.
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Chapter 08The Krug Park Killers
Amanda Bennett, Sebastian Dowell
Kaytlin Root, 17, was lured by Facebook to Krug Park in St. Joseph, Missouri, in 2016 and killed by Amanda Bennett and Sebastian Dowell. Case photos.
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Chapter 09The Bedroom Basher
Gerald Parker
Gerald Parker, Orange County’s “Bedroom Basher,” killed five women in 1978–79, and DNA freed Kevin Green in 1996. Photos from the Gerald Parker case.
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Chapter 10Five Fatal Minutes
Joseph Michael Lopez
Natalie Bollinger, 19, of Broomfield, Colorado, was shot in 2017 after a Craigslist ad drew Joseph Lopez, who got 48 years. Photos from the case.
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Chapter 11The Frankston Serial Killer
Paul Charles Denyer
Paul Denyer murdered Elizabeth Stevens, Debbie Fream and Natalie Russell around Frankston, Melbourne, in 1993. Photos from the Frankston murders case.
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Chapter 12The Mission Valley Mall Murders
Carlo Mercado
Carlo Mercado killed Gianni and Sal Belvedere and Ilona Flint at San Diego’s Mission Valley mall on Christmas Eve 2013. Photos from the case.
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