Category: True Crime

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.

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.

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.

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.