Chapter 01The House of Secrets
Virginia McCullough
Virginia McCullough killed her parents John and Lois in Great Baddow, Essex, in 2019, then hid their bodies for four years. Case photos.
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Volume 20
The real people, places and evidence behind the 12 cases in True Crime Case Histories, Volume 20 by Jason Neal. Pick a chapter to read the case and see its photos.
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Chapter 02The Hammer Killer
Alex Christopher Ewing
Alex Christopher Ewing’s 1984 hammer attacks killed Patricia Smith and three of the Bennett family in Colorado. DNA solved it in 2018. Case photos.
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Chapter 03Silent Screams
Brett Hallow, Sarah Hallow
Autumn Hallow, 8, was starved and killed in Elk River, Minnesota, in 2020. Her father and stepmother were each given 40 years. Case photos.
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Chapter 04The Digital Trail
Benjamin Fawley
Taylor Behl, 17, vanished from VCU in Richmond, Virginia, in 2005. Ben Fawley pleaded to her murder and got 30 years. Photos from the Behl case.
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Chapter 05A Shot in the Dark
Dr. Richard Schmidt
Dr. Richard Schmidt injected Lafayette nurse Janice Trahan with HIV-tainted blood in 1994. Virus DNA convicted him in 1998. Case photos.
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Chapter 06The Smooth Talker
Roy Melanson
Roy Melanson killed Napa bar owner Anita Andrews in 1974 and Colorado photographer Michele Wallace weeks later. DNA closed both. Case photos.
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Chapter 07The Gilbert Goons
Treston Billey, Jacob Meisner, Taylor Sherman and others
Preston Lord, 16, was beaten to death outside a Queen Creek, Arizona, Halloween party in 2023, a case tied to the Gilbert Goons. Case photos.
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Chapter 08The Facebook Killer
Derek Medina
Derek Medina shot his wife Jennifer Alfonso at their South Miami home in 2013, then posted a photo of her body on Facebook. Photos from the case.
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Chapter 09The Animal
Jerry Walter McFadden
Jerry “the Animal” McFadden killed Suzanne Harrison, Gena Turner and Bryan Boone in Texas in 1986. DNA tied him to a 1979 Portland murder. Case photos.
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Chapter 10The Last Meal
Bronwyn Meeks, Dominic Samuels, Brennan Thomas
Bronwyn Meeks lured Dylan Whetzel to his death in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, in 2021 after a McDonald’s stop she called his last meal. Case photos.
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Chapter 11The Baseline Killer
Mark Goudeau
Mark Goudeau, the Baseline Killer, murdered nine people in Phoenix in 2005 and 2006 and was sentenced to death nine times in 2011. Case photos.
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Chapter 12The Crown Hill Murder
Nathan Matthews, Shauna Hoare
Becky Watts, 16, was killed at home in Bristol in 2015 by her stepbrother Nathan Matthews, who dismembered her body. Photos from the case.
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