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Joshua Alan Wade is known for being a serial killer, hailing from the state of Alaska. At least five deaths are attributed to him, though it is widely speculated that there may be more victims. The following is a roughly chronological account of his life, with special emphasis on what is known about his upbringing, as well as his two most documented murders and their subsequent murder trials.
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The murder of Janette Roberson still haunts Reed City, a small community in Michigan. A young mother was murdered in a very mysterious way while working - in the middle of the day. And no one heard a single thing. The murder itself is a real challenge since the killer disappeared without being noticed by anyone. The store was open and serving customers which is another peculiar detail. Surely, it was a busy day, but someone must have seen something...
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Maria Boyne, committed a crime so savage, so merciless, and so stupid that the newspapers and TV media fed like frenzied sharks on the titbits that emerged from the sordid event.A part of the horror of Boyne's crime came about because it contrasted so sharply with the mundanity of the suburban streets in which it took place. Barnehurst had, like much of that part of London, suffered at the hands of the Luftwaffe in the second world war. Vast areas...
1624) So Damn Evil
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A look at two of the most notorious female killers in recent memory. Karen Lyn Dalton was a meth addict seeking revenge against her roommate who pawned off all of her jewelry. What ensued was the one of the most sordid accounts of torture in the history of California. Sheila LaBarre hated men. She hated them so much she would entice younger men to her farm with the promise of sex only to torture and kill them.
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Kenneth Allen McDuff, also known as the "Broomstick Killer" because of the way he murdered one of his first victims: 16-year-old Edna Louise Sullivan who he killed in August 1966 along with her boyfriend and his cousin. After being sentenced to death, the United States Supreme Court, in 1972, determined that the death penalty was unconstitutional and, as a result, McDuff's death sentence was commuted to life in prison. He was eventually paroled and...
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Death followed Lyda Trueblood everywhere she went. At first glance, it may have seemed that the young woman was facing a run of bad luck — but as the run continued, suspicions began to arise...Northeast of Kansas City, in the small town of Keytesville, Missouri, a true "black widow" was born on October 16, 1892. Over the course of her life, Lyda Anna Mae Trueblood took on seven married names, and is most well-known as Lyda Southard. However, Idaho...
1627) The I-70 Strangler
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On the surface, Herb Baumeister looked to have a 'normal' life. He was married with three children and the founder of a successful thrift store chain...But behind the scenes there was a very troubled individual. He had been committed to a psychiatric hospital by his father in his youth and his wife could count on one hand the number of times they had sex over the course of their twenty-five year marriage. Baumeister was a closeted homosexual...and...
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"Paranoid" is the term often ascribed to those who believe that others are out to get them. Society doesn't tend to take these fears seriously, especially when it comes from someone who doesn't lead a dangerous life. After all, there aren't many people who can definitively say that there are people plotting to do them great harm. But for one Washington woman, the gut feeling that someone was planning her death was more than just paranoia. In fact,...
1629) Cold Case BC: The Stories Behind the Province's Most Sensational Murder and Missing Persons Cases
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Eve Lazarus (Cold Case Vancouver) investigates murder and missing persons cases that have perplexed and fascinated British Columbians for years.
In her book “Cold Case Vancouver”, crime historian and reporter Eve Lazarus used investigative skills to shine a light on the city's most baffing unsolved murders. In “Cold Case BC”, Lazarus casts her gaze more widely on long forgotten and unsolved murder cases throughout the province of British...
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A love story gone horribly wrong, and the complex web that had to be untangled to get to the truth... On August 4th 1992, paramedics responded to an emergency call to Number Seven Summit Drive, Peru, Indiana. Outside, the caller still had the phone pressed to her ear, presumably still talking to Duke Memorial Hospital Emergency Room's dispatcher. Inside the master bedroom was a lifeless body lying on a couch, seemingly asleep. Upon closer inspection,...
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Oh God,' the voice was twisted with fear and horror, but the dispatcher was calm in the face of the caller's distress. 'She's got a knife in her neck.' It was 9.40 pm, just two days after Christmas 2011 and Russ Faria had arrived home to find his wife lying, blood splattered, on the floor. His immediate assumption was that she had killed herself. Betsy was in the latter stages of terminal cancer, and often her condition got on top of her.
The seditious...
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Andrea Claire aka Samantha Scott was a former actress, appearing in MASH, Bewitched as well as appearing in Playboy magazine. After four failed marriages, she married an older man in Robert Sand, a wealth businessman. She claimed to have suffered sexual abuse during this marriage and stabbed Sand 27 times in 1981. In 1982, she married for a sixth time, but then attempted to kill her new husband before being arrested and sentenced to 26 years to life...
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On August 24, 2011, Michelle Despain came home to find her husband, Marc, shot dead in the family's Arkansas home. As a real estate investor and appraiser, Marc provided his wife and kids with anything they could ever want — but while the family seemed to have more than enough money, there was trouble brewing under the surface of all that happiness...the family's idealized version of the American Dream all came to an end when Despain came home from...
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On the surface, the MacNeill family seemed perfect. Martin, a successful physician, and his wife Michele, lived in a gated community in Utah's Pleasant Grove neighborhood. The couple had four biological children, and had adopted four more. They were well-liked, and were all active in the Church of Latter Day Saints. Behind closed doors, though, a storm was brewing that was about to turn deadly.
1635) The Hillside Stranglers
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Cousins Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, Jr. are collectively known by their media epithet "The Hillside Strangler". These two men were responsible for the murders of at least nine females, ages 12 to 28, during the late 1970s in Los Angeles, California, and Bianchi killed two more in Washington. After their first three victims did not gain much attention because they were prostitutes, Bianchi and Buono decided to abduct and murder middle-class "nice"...
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Drugs, violence, and bloodshed are three words that one can use to describe one of the most notable female drug traffickers and killers in history. She was ruthless, she was merciless, she did not care who or what was in her way because for her, life was a path that she was destined to walk, no matter how bumpy the road is and no matter how many obstacles and hurdles she had to jump over to get to her final destination. She had killed more people...
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Heather Elvis was a native of Horry County and she was a graduate of St. James High School in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina. After her graduation in the year 2011, Heather moved into an apartment in Carolina Forest. She shared this apartment with her best friend and coworker, Brianna Warrelmann. Heather was making a living by waitressing at the Tilter Kilt in Myrtle Beach and The House of Blue's in North Myrtle Beach. During her time as a waitress,...
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Two days before Christmas, in 2012, Sandra—or Sandy—Melgar was found tied up inside of a closet in her home in a nice neighbourhood of Houston. A chair was forced against the doorknob, keeping her trapped in the confined space. Her husband Jaime—Jim—Melgar had been stuffed into a different closet—but unlike Sandy, Jim had been killed, first. A medical examiner's report concluded that Jim had died of blunt force trauma, and multiple stab...
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Teenagers who commit serious crimes aren't as widespread as many people like to think. Certainly, there's the teenage impulse to fight against authority which may result in shoplifting, vandalism or trespassing. This is why, when teenagers commit particularly heinous crimes, the world is shocked by their violence. Males are much more likely to commit crimes of this nature than females - which, once more, makes crimes committed by teenage girls all...
1640) When Gwendolyn Kills
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In 1986, a troubled young woman named Gwendolyn Graham left her home state of Texas for Grand Rapids, Michigan. There, she took a position caring for elderly patients as a nurses' aide at Alpine Manor Nursing Home, under the supervision of a woman named Cathy Wood. It didn't take long for the relationship between the two women to grow from a professional working relationship to a budding friendship—and even less time for that friendship to become...
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