Chapter 01Divorce by Homicide
Susan Wright
Susan Wright stabbed her husband Jeff 193 times and buried him in the backyard of their Harris County, Texas, home in 2003. Case photos.
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Volume 23
The real people, places and evidence behind the 12 cases in True Crime Case Histories, Volume 23 by Jason Neal. Pick a chapter to read the case and see its photos.
12 chapters · 91 photographs
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Chapter 02Keep Digging
Antone “Tony” Costa
Tony Costa killed Patricia Walsh and Mary Anne Wysocki after they visited Provincetown in January 1969. Four bodies were found in Truro. Case photos.
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Chapter 03Bad John
Johnny Lee Thornton
Military policeman Johnny Lee Thornton killed three teenagers at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, in January 1977. One girl walked out. Case photos.
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Chapter 04The Closing Shift
Brittany Norwood
Brittany Norwood murdered coworker Jayna Murray at the Bethesda, Maryland, Lululemon store in March 2011 and staged a break-in. Case photos.
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Chapter 05Mockingbird Hill
Ronald Gene Simmons
Ronald Gene Simmons killed 14 relatives at Mockingbird Hill near Dover, Arkansas, then two more in Russellville in December 1987. Case photos.
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Chapter 06The Lonely Hearts Killers
Raymond Fernandez, Martha Beck
Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck robbed and killed widows across 1940s America. Janet Fay died at Valley Stream, New York, in 1949. Case photos.
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Chapter 07The Speed Freaks
Wesley Shermantine, Loren Herzog
Wesley Shermantine and Loren Herzog killed across San Joaquin County, California, from 1984 to 1998. Photos from the Speed Freak Killers case.
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Chapter 08Two Hundred Feet Below
Scott Phillip White
Scott Johnson died below the cliffs at Manly, Sydney, in 1988. Scott White admitted the killing decades later. Photos from the Scott Johnson case.
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Chapter 09Fourteen Days
Frederick “Fritz” Klenner Jr, Susan “Susie” Newsom Lynch
Fritz Klenner and Susie Newsom Lynch killed seven relatives in North Carolina and Kentucky in 1984 and 1985. Photos from the Bitter Blood case.
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Chapter 10Middle Mountain
Mark Redwine
Dylan Redwine, 13, vanished during a court-ordered 2012 visit near Vallecito, Colorado. His father Mark was convicted in 2021. Case photos.
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Chapter 11The Body Broker
Stephen Douglas Gore
Stephen Gore’s Biological Resource Center in Phoenix cut up donated bodies and sold the parts until an FBI raid in 2014. Photos from the case.
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Chapter 12The Wishing Well
Betty Lou Beets
Betty Lou Beets buried two husbands in the yard of her Cedar Creek Lake home in Texas. She was executed in 2000. Photos from the Beets case.
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