Tonight’s Dateline episode looks at the mysterious deaths of 6-year-old Max Shacknai and 32-year-old Rebecca Zahau, who died within days of each other in 2011 at a California beachside mansion. The sprawling mansion, known as the Spreckels mansion, belonged to pharmaceutical CEO Jonah Shacknai. In July 2011 his six-year-old son Max fell down the stairs…
It took quite a bit longer than the show’s fans would have liked, but we’ve finally gotten official word that Investigation Discovery hit Murder Chose Me has been renewed and will be back for a third season. The news came from Detective Rod Demery himself, who broke the long silence regarding the show on his…
Tonight’s episode of Dateline explores the 2007 death of EB Games store manager Amber Belkin. She was found in the back of the store by another manager who’d been called in to check on her and the store when she didn’t open the game shop on time. He found her suffocated with a bag. It…
August 28, 2003 pizza delivery man Brain Wells lost his life in the middle of an extremely strange and elaborate bank robbing plot engineered by a woman named Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong. This bizarre case was the subject of a Netflix docuseries called Evil Genius and is the subject of tonight’s episode of Dateline. Brian Wells entered…
In 2009 11-year-old Jordan Brown was accused of murdering his pregnant soon-to-be future stepmother in cold blood and then going to school as if nothing had happened. A decade later the now exonerated 20 year-old is speaking out about his experience: “I had no idea what was going on.” 26-year-old Kenzie Houk was carrying Brown’s…
Even by Tommie’s standards, her latest arrest didn’t take long. Less than 24 hours after the Love & Hip Hop Atlanta star was booked on six charges stemming from her alleged assault of a middle schooler at the child’s school, Tommie was arrested again. This time, the charges include obstruction of an officer stemming from…
Love & Hip Hop Atlanta star Tommie’s 21st arrest may also be her most shocking. The 34-year-old — whose real name is Atasha Jefferson — was taken into police custody earlier this week after apparently assaulting a middle schooler at the child’s school. UPDATE – Less than 24 hours after the above arrest, Tommie was…
Lifetime’s Sunday night movie Terror in the Woods deals with a pair of preteen girls stabbing their friend in the woods in the name of an imaginary or paranormal legend called “Suzerain.” The parallels between this story and the 2014 Slender Man stabbing of Payton Leutner are too similar to be a coincidence. (Interestingly enough…
Tonight’s Weekend Mystery episode of Dateline follows the 2014 disappearance of successful Arkansas real estate agent Beverly Carter. The night she disappearance she was showing a house in the small town of Scott, Arkansas. She had told her husband she’d be brining home dinner, but she never came back. The last words Carl Carter heard…
36-years ago 18-year-old Dianne Babcock died in a plane crash in Montana. Her boyfriend, 19-year-old Jaroslaw “Jerry” Ambrozuk, was flying the plane and survived the accident. He fled the scene, leaving her to drown. 24 years later he remerged in Texas under a different identity. At the time the couple were planning to run away…
Dr. George Tyndall was the only gynecologist at the University of Southern California for almost 30 years. He’s currently facing charges of sexual assault by hundreds of women. This week Dr. Oz‘s “True Crime Thursday” dissects this disturbing case. The allegations against Dr. Tyndall date back to the 1990s, and include inappropriate touching, taking photographs…
Today’s Dr. OZ‘s “True Crime Tuesday” examines the mysterious murder of Lorenzen Wright. The professional basketball player went missing July, 2010. His ex-wife Sherra Wright says he had left his home with drugs and money. A few weeks later Lorezen was found shot dead in the woods. His nearly 7-foot-tall, which usually weighed more than…
Tonight’s Lifetime Movie The Girl in the Bathtub is based on the disturbing and mysterious demise of Julia Law, who was found dead in her boyfriend and boss A. Charles Peruto Jr.’s condo. The attorney was cleared in her death after a grand jury found “no evidence of criminal activity” on his part after an…
Tonight’s Dateline explores the gruesome October 2005 murder of a Georgia teacher and beauty queen that went unsolved for twelve years. The case remained cold until true crime podcast Up and Vanished stirred up interest about Tara Grinstead’s murder last year. Now two arrests have been made in connection with the crime. Her body was…
26 years after her murder the family of schoolteacher Christy Mirack is finally getting justice. DNA evidence has linked her 1992 slaying to Raymond “DJ Freez” Rowe and tonight’s episode of 20/20 delves into how the case was cracked. On December 21, 1992 Christy Mirack did not show up for work, so the school’s principal…
Police in metro Atlanta are still searching for a mother who used her son’s sippy cup to sneak alcohol into a movie theater, and then became too intoxicated to care for her child. Kristina Gibson, of Marietta GA, has been charged with one count each of public intoxication and reckless conduct after attending a late…
34-year-old Ohio mother Nikki Dickinson is charged with first-degree misdemeanor child endangering and contributing to the delinquency of a minor after allowing her 10-year-old son to be tattooed in unsanitary conditions. A video of the event shows it took place in a home, at the hands of a 16-year-old who wasn’t wearing gloves. The reason…
This past weekend, it looked like Scrapp from LHHATL might have gotten out of prison several years early, after Momma Dee shared a pic of she and Scrapp on Instagram. But we checked with the Georgia Department of Corrections, and they tell a very different story. So is Scrapp DeLeon still in prison, or not?……
Tonight’s Sunday Lifetime movie Believe Me: The Abduction of Lisa McVey is based on the harrowing true crime tale of a teenager forced to fight for her life when she was kidnapped on her regular bicycle route home. When Lisa McVey returned home from escaping from serial killer Bobby Lee Long, her abusive family didn’t…
Love & Hip Hop Atlanta star Tommie recently turned herself in on charges stemming from her 2016 DUI. The imprisonment is just the latest in Tommie’s unfortunate and complicated criminal history, which includes arrests and outstanding warrants in at least three different states. And while our compilation of all of Tommie’s mugshots went viral with…
Tonight’s Lifetime movie Conrad & Michelle: If Words Could Kill stars Bella Thorne as Michelle Carter, a teenage girl who encouraged her depressed boyfriend Conrad Roy to take his own life via frighteningly coercive text messages. Last year, Michelle was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter for her involvement in Conrad’s death. Although the text messages…
Tonight’s Dateline episode, “A Deal with the Devil,” is a truly chilling tale. Scott Kimball had been released early from prison in order to be an informant for the FBI. He told the federal agents that his cellmate Steve Ennis was trying to get him to kill a witness in his drug case. But within…
A few weeks ago home surveillance of an unknown woman ringing a doorbell of a Texas neighborhood in the middle of the night took over headlines as police searched to identify her. In the black-and-white footage the woman appeared to be in distress and seemed to be wearing wrist restraints. Days later the woman was…
In 2012 father of five Srgt. Vincent Goslin returned safe from a tour in Afghanistan only to be murdered near his home. Tonight’s episode of Dateline, “Evil Was Waiting” investigates the story of who gunned him down on a dark Kentucky road. Vince and his wife were driving on a remote road on February 3,…
63-year-old self-published romantic thriller writer Nancy Brophy wrote books like The Wrong Husband (Wrong Never Looked So Right) and seemingly tongue-in-cheek essays like one titled “How To Murder Your Husband.” Now, Nancy’s been arrested for allegedly doing just that. “As a romantic suspense writer, I spend a lot of time thinking about murder and,…
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…
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. This week a man spoke to Ashleigh…
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…
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…
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. Samantha Whitney Jones, of New Britain Township PA, has been formally charged with criminal homicide, following an autopsy that concluded her infant, R.J., “died from a…
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. According…
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. KTVQ out of Billings MT appears to have been the first to report the…
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…
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 daughters to the homes of two different men, who “would then rape and molest them” in exchange for several hundred dollars, plus unspecified drugs….
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…
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…
The Danielle Locklear murder was widely believed to be a “crime of passion” when her killers were found guilty at trial. But the heat-of-the-moment strangling that left a fifteen-year-old girl dead also left her family searching for answers in spite of their legal victory. Now, four years after her murder, a new Dateline episode attempts…
Drug mule puppies?!?!? The Opiate Crisis looms large over the United States, but it’s really a worldwide, human problem. However, the following heartbreaking news story proves that humans aren’t the only victims of heroin (and other opiate/opioid) abuse. Veterinarian Andrés López Elorza was arrested in Spain in 2013 and 2015 for surgically implanting puppies with…
Atasha Jefferson’s extensive mug shot collection got a little bit bigger this week, with the addition of the two LHHATL Tommie new mug shots taken following the star’s arrest on battery charges. Tommie is being charged with two separate counts stemming from a February incident in which she’s said to have attacked an employee at…
In an incredibly tragic story that only becomes more distressing, the murderer of Morgan Freeman’s granddaughter E’Dena Hines claims in court that E’Dena revealed an “inappropriate sexual relationship” she had with Freeman. 30-year-old Lamar Davenport was in a troubled relationship with E’Dena before he stabbed her 25 times outside of her apartment. In addition, Lamar’s…
James Shaw Jr. is dealing with a sudden rash of media attention after he successfully disarmed the Nashville Waffle House shooter outside of Nashville. “I was completely doing it just to save myself,” 29-year-old Shaw said during a news conference regarding the Sunday morning shooting. “I did save other people, but I don’t want people…
A 23-year-old substitute teacher was arrested last week for initiating a “fight club” in a Montville, Connecticut math classroom. There is cellphone video footage of Ryan Fish egging students to slap each other. His motive? He just wanted to be liked. “I’m an idiot,” he told police on his arrest warrant, where he was charged…
The Pablo Ibar 2018 trial — the fifth time Pablo will be tried for the triple homicide known as the Casey’s Nickelodeon Murders — was scheduled to begin weeks ago. But new developments for both the prosecution and defense pushed Pablo’s trial back yet again. And a new complication has just arisen, in the form…
There’s finally a happy ending for Cleveland kidnap victim Michelle Knight. The resilient women announced on a taping of Dr. Phil set to air April 24th that she got married two years ago. “It’s so good to see you… I got really good news for you,” the 36-year-old tells Dr. Phil in a preview clip…
32-year-old Robin Spielbauer was a mother of two, a divorcée — and, largely unbeknownst to her, involved in a love triangle that would eventually culminate with her murder along a quiet stretch of road in Amarillo, Texas. The investigation into the “Helium Road murder” — or “The Pink Gun Mystery,” as the Dateline episode devoted…
News of Love & Hip Hop New York star Safaree Samuels robbed at gunpoint broke when the man himself shared it in a shaky interview with Angie Martinez immediately following the incident. Shortly thereafter, police engaged in a high-speed chase after the suspects, who allegedly nabbed more than $183,000 in jewels and cash. Safaree, who…
Murder Chose Me‘s Rod Demery is a legendary figure in Shreveport, Louisiana, thanks to his superhuman success as a homicide detective. Lately, Rod’s been weighing the “dilemma” of “where he would be most effective” with his efforts at improving the city — but is Rod Demery running for mayor of Shreveport? The notion may sound…
The Casey’s Nickelodeon murders remain unsolved despite 24 years’ worth of accrued evidence against the two main suspects. Pablo Ibar (pictured above, following his most recent arrest in 2016) and Seth Penalver have been the focus of seven separate trials, one hung jury, two death sentences, and two successful appeals, but neither man has been…
Vili Fualaa crashed his SUV into two cars last month. According to TMZ, his estranged wife Mary Kay Letourneau arrived at the scene of the February 2nd crash and convinced cops to not go through with a field sobriety test because Fualaa’s attorney was on the way. He did have a blood test performed at…
The drama of Corey Feldman’s life continues to get ratcheted up. In the latest segment, Corey tweet a scary story about being stabbed by a syringe when he was in his car. The assailant reportedly opened his door and tried to inject him with something. He said LAPD were on the case of an attempted…
When people go to an amusement park or waterpark, especially with their children, they expect it to be safe. We put an enormous amount of trust in the designers who envision these massive constructions that create the illusion of defying physics. Most of the type we can trust that these adrenaline-inducing thrill rides just create…
In a new GQ interview Girls Trip star Tiffany Haddish spilled some piping hot tea that’s currently scorching Twitter. Now Chrissy Teigen says she knows the answer to the question that’s enthralled social media. Will the rest of ever know #WhoBitBeyonce? This past December, 2017, Haddish attended an afterparty of Jay-Z’s concert in Inglewood, California…
Love & Hip Hop Atlanta star Tommie has been arrested once more, just in time for the LHHATL Season 7 premiere. The latest chapter in the LHHATL Tommie arrested saga stems from Tommie allegedly throwing down on an employee at a Lenox Square Mall jewelry store on February 1st. As we reported at the time,…
Oklahoman Patricia Ann Spann, best known as the woman who married her daughter in March 2016, has been sentenced to two years in prison on a charge of felony incest. Bizarrely, the charge comes a decade after Patricia also married her then 18-year-old son. According to NewsOK.com, the 45-year-old Oklahoma native married her daughter, 26-year-old…
Detective Rod Demery’s brother Patrick became one of Rod’s unwitting inspirations following Patrick’s conviction on a murder charge in 1994. As we’ve written previously, Patrick Demery was stabbed friend Ronald Sherman to death while high on cocaine, then tied up Sherman’s girlfriend and daughter, stabbed them both, and raped the girlfriend. Both women survived. (Click…
Photo: Susanne Nilsson 42-year-old Viktoria Nayrova Brooklynite was arraigned Tuesday for attempted murder in a very curious case She’s charged with attempting the steal the identity of her doppelgänger by lacing her cheesecake with a tranquilizer in August of 2016. After her victim dozed off, Nayrova allegedly stole her passport and other personal items and…
Tiona Rodriguez, the New York teen mom who rose to true crime infamy after being discovered shoplifting at Victoria’s Secret with the newborn she’d just killed hidden in her bag, has been sentenced to 16 years in prison on a reduced charge. The New York Daily News reports that Tiona Rodriguez, who was discovered with…
Love & Hip Hop Atlanta‘s Tommie has reportedly had yet another public throwdown. Only this time, instead of brawling with Joseline, Tommie apparently attacked a jewelry store employee at Atlanta’s upscale Lenox Square Mall. The LHHATL Tommie jewelry store fight story breaks down like this. According to TMZ, who broke the story, Tommie and an…
Brian Roberto Varela, 19, of Martha Lake WA, has been arrested and charged on three counts after raping a teenager as she died of an overdose from drugs he gave her, then texting photos of her body to friends and breaking into her phone to conceal evidence. According to the Everett Herald, on Saturday, February…
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