Chapter 01The Viking Princess
Tanner Lynn Horner
FedEx driver Tanner Horner abducted and killed seven-year-old Athena Strand near Paradise, Texas, in 2022. He was sentenced to death in 2026. Case photos.
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Volume 19
The real people, places and evidence behind the 12 cases in True Crime Case Histories, Volume 19 by Jason Neal. Pick a chapter to read the case and see its photos.
12 chapters · 70 photographs
These images relate to real crimes and may be disturbing.
Chapter 02The Wrong Car
Nathaniel David Rowland
Samantha Josephson got into the wrong car outside a Columbia, South Carolina bar in 2019. Nathaniel Rowland was convicted in 2021. Photos from the case.
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Chapter 03Blue Earth Jane Doe
Robert Leroy Nelson
A Minnesota state trooper killed hitchhiker Michelle Busha near Blue Earth in 1980. She was a Jane Doe until 2015. Photos from the Blue Earth case.
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Chapter 04The House on Chipman Street
Lemaricus Devall Davidson
Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom were carjacked and killed in Knoxville in January 2007. Five people were convicted. Photos from the case.
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Chapter 05The Limburg Schoolgirl Murders
Lutz Kecke, Monika Kecke
Two sixteen-year-olds, Jasmin and Yvonne, took a ride from a couple outside a German disco in October 1994. A 2001 DNA screening solved it. Case photos.
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Chapter 06The Witch’s Castle
Melinda Loveless, Laurie Tackett, Hope Rippey and others
Four teenage girls tortured and burned twelve-year-old Shanda Sharer in southern Indiana in January 1992. Photos from the Shanda Sharer case.
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Chapter 07Voices and Violence
Douglass Taylor
Douglass Taylor killed his roommate Hans Woerrlein at an Idaho Falls group home in March 2020, weeks after a hospital released him. Case photos.
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Chapter 08The Forbidden Closet
Michele Kalina
Michele Kalina hid the remains of five newborns in a locked closet in Reading, Pennsylvania. Her daughter opened it in July 2010. Case photos.
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Chapter 09The Reno Predator
James Michael Biela
James Biela abducted and killed nineteen-year-old Brianna Denison in Reno in 2008. Familial DNA from his son broke the case. Case photos.
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Chapter 10Fox Hollow Farm
Herbert Richard Baumeister
Herb Baumeister buried at least eleven men in the woods at Fox Hollow Farm in Westfield, Indiana. He died in 1996 before arrest. Case photos.
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Chapter 11The Jack in the Box Murders
Steve Boggs, Christopher Hargrave
Steve Boggs and Christopher Hargrave killed three Jack in the Box workers in Mesa, Arizona, in May 2002. Both went to death row. Case photos.
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Chapter 12The Long Walk Home
Richard Armand Archibeque
Mary Quigley, seventeen, was raped and killed walking home in Santa Clara in 1977. DNA named classmate Richard Archibeque in 2006. Case photos.
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