Category: True Crime
Tonight’s episode of Dateline on NBC delves into the case of Brittani Marcell, who was brutally attacked with a shovel in her home in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 2008. He left a single drop of blood, but invegistaors were unable to find a DNA match in their database. Five years later, Marcell underwent hypnosis and remembered enough pertinent details about her attacker to solve the case.
When Chris Watts was arrested for
the murder of his pregnant wife and two daughters, it was revealed that he was having an affair at work. It turns out Watts may have led an extensive double life and possibly had many affairs behind his wife Shan’ann Watts’ back.
It’s been four long year since the gripping true crime podcast Serial took the world by storm and fostered a million more true crime podcasts trying to fill the void it left in audio entertainment. Even Serial podcast itself hasn’t bene able to live up to the fervor it initially unleashed with its inaugural season.
Last week Colorado resident Chris Watts murdered his pregnant wife and allegedly murdered his two daughters after admitting to his wife he was having an affair with a coworker. He disposed of his wife's body in a swallow grave oil field owned by Anadarko Petroleum, the company he worked for. He put his daughters' bodies in separate oil tanks. After his arrest for their murders, Watts confessed to strangling his wife Shannan, but claimed that it was his wife who killed their children, not him. A chilling unearthed video shows Watts making a presentation for a communication class six years ago about what causes relationships to fail and how to repair broken relationships.
On the morning of June 21, 2018 8-year-old Curtis Gilbert Collman III was hungry for breakfast, but there was no food in the house. He did search for it, however, and instead found granules of meth on the table, which he thought might be breakfast cereal. The amount of meth the boy ate was staggering and he soon fell ill.
A 30-year-old mother has been arrested and charged with murder after drugs in her system were allegedly transferred to her 11-week-old baby via breast milk in a middle-of-the-night feeding.
A 32-year-old Montana man has been apprehended after leaving a five-month-old baby in alone the Montana mountains for at least nine hours because -- as the prosecution in his case put it -- "the baby was very heavy." Francis Carlton Crowley later broke down in court after hearing the charges against him read aloud.
Samantha Mears, a 19-year-old Montana woman with a history of domestic violence, has been arrested and charged with six new crimes after ambushing her boyfriend and forcing him to have sex with her while she held a machete to his throat.
Earlier this year, prominent Atlanta attorney Tex McIver was found guilty of murdering his wife, Diane McIver, with a single gunshot from the backseat of the car in which the couple was riding on their way home one confusing September night. Despite the verdict, the trial that ended in a life sentence for the 75-year-old Tex ultimately raised more questions than it answered. So what happened to Diane McIver -- a hugely successful and wealthy member of Atlanta's business elite -- and was her death really a murder?
A Georgia mom who let pedophiles rape her kids for cash over an undisclosed period has been sentenced to two decades in prison. Morgan Summerlin, 25, took her five- and six-year-old children to the homes of two different men, who "would then rape and molest them" in exchange for several hundred dollars.
Last night A&EE's Biography network aired A two-hour documentary called "Mary Kay Letourneau: Autobiography" about the controversial decades long relationship that began when May Kay was a 34-year-old teacher and her now-husband was a 12-year-old student in the sixth grade. “[It] sounds young, I get it,” the now 56, says about Vili Fualaau, who is now 34. “He was young, I get it. Am I sorry that he’s the father of my children? No I’m not.”
Jacqueline Ades was shocked to hear that she'd sent the man she'd stalked, threatened, and harassed for months 65,000 text messages. She thought the number would be much higher. “Love is an excessive thing,” the 31-year-old told reporters at a press conference Friday about her arrest after a long, escalating campaign to harass a man who she shared only one date with after meeting on a dating app.
