Chapter 01Lost in the Desert
Taw Benderly
Taw Benderly reported his partner Loretta Bowersock missing from a Tucson, Arizona mall in December 2004. Her body was found in 2006. Case photos.
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Volume 6
The real people, places and evidence behind the 12 cases in True Crime Case Histories, Volume 6 by Jason Neal. Pick a chapter to read the case and see its photos.
12 chapters · 47 photographs
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Chapter 02Consumed by Desire
Chad Wiersma
Chad Wiersma shot Robert Gibson, his ex-girlfriend’s father, in Kalamazoo, Michigan in April 1996 and took hostages. Photos from the Wiersma case.
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Chapter 03Gay Panic
Michael Magidson, José Merél, Jason Cazares and others
Gwen Araujo, a 17-year-old transgender girl, was killed in Newark, California in October 2002; two men were convicted of murder. Photos from the case.
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Chapter 04Saving a Soul
Carl Eder
Carl Eder, 16, killed Lois Pendergast and her four children in El Cajon, California in December 1958, then escaped prison in 1974. Case photos.
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Chapter 05The Jacksonville Monster
Donald Smith
Donald Smith abducted and killed 8-year-old Cherish Perrywinkle from a Jacksonville, Florida Walmart in June 2013 and was sentenced to death. Case photos.
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Chapter 06Dead in the Water
Oba Chandler
Oba Chandler killed Jo Rogers and daughters Michelle and Christe in Tampa Bay, Florida in 1989 and was executed in 2011. Photos from the Chandler case.
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Chapter 07The Carnival Cult
Mark Goodwin, Keith Lawrence, David Lawrence and others
Tony Ault, 21, was killed by four carnival workers in a ritual at a farm near Auburn, Indiana, in September 1991. The case, sentences and photos.
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Chapter 08The Mousse Can Killer
Robert Mark Edwards
Robert Mark Edwards killed Marjorie Deeble in Los Alamitos, California, in 1986 and Muriel Delbecq in Kihei, Maui, in 1993. Photos from the case.
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Chapter 09A Glitzy Cowboy Tale
Ted Binion
Casino heir Ted Binion died at his Las Vegas home in 1998, and Sandy Murphy and Rick Tabish were later tried for murder. Photos from the Binion case.
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Chapter 10Blue Mist #22
Robert Moorman
Robert Moorman killed his adoptive mother, Maude, at the Blue Mist Motel in Florence, Arizona, in 1984 while on a prison furlough. Case photos.
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Chapter 11The Crybaby Killer
Kenneth Biros
Kenneth Biros killed Tami Engstrom, 22, after leaving a Masury, Ohio, bar in 1991 and was executed in 2009 using one drug. Photos from the case.
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Chapter 12The Darlington Cannibal
David Harker
David Harker killed Julie Paterson, a mother of four, at his flat in Darlington, England, in 1998 and claimed to have eaten part of her. Case photos.
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