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Couldn't Cheat Death: The Unsolved Murder of Escaped Convict Troy Leon Gregg
On July 28, 1980, a convicted killer escaped from death row just days before he was to be executed. The next day he was found dead in a river. What…
 • Timothy Reynolds
Partners in Crime: The Violent and Bloody Legacy of the Cook Brothers
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, two brothers embarked on a bloody reign of terror in Toledo, Ohio. Nearly two decades later, DNA evidence would help…
 • Kirsten Ford
Horror at 25 Cromwell Street: The Twisted Tale of Fred and Rose West
For decades, few knew the horrors that went on inside the unassuming walls of 25 Cromwell Street in Gloucester. In 1994, the shocking truth would come…
 • Rachael Elizabeth
"The Bogle Curse": How Four Generations of Criminals Defined A Family
For generations, the Bogle family came to be defined by their criminality, with at least 60 family members known to have been incarcerated over the…
 • Donna Patton
Party Crasher: The 1967 Halloween Party Murder of Kenneth Lindstrand
On October 29, 1967, 32-year-old Kenneth Lindstrand was shot and killed at a Halloween party in Van Nuys, California. For more than a year and a half…
 • Timothy Reynolds
Shadow of Evil: Jacqueline Roubideaux and the Oklahoma Refrigerator Murders
In 1976 and 1977, the city of Lawton, Oklahoma was horrified when 3 toddlers were abducted and locked inside a refrigerator. After one of the children…
 • Kirsten Ford
Tragic Betrayal: How Bradford Bishop Murdered His Entire Family and then Disappeared
On March 1, 1976, 39 year old Bradford Bishop did the unthinkable, murdering his entire family without warning. After that, he disappeared from sight…
 • Kristine De Abreu and Timothy Reynolds
Crime Lord of Mumbai: The Rise and Disappearance of Indian Mob Boss Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar
Emerging from the impoverished streets of Mumbai, India, Dawood Ibrahim rose to become one of India's most powerful organized crime figures. After…
 • Kates Lara
Unknown Destination: The Disappearance of Federal Fugitive and Aircraft Hijacker Catherine Marie Kerkow
On June 2, 1972, Catherine Marie Kerkow and her boyfriend Willie Roger Holder hijacked Western Airlines Flight 701 from Los Angeles to Seattle and flew…
 • Kates Lara
Another BTK Victim?: New Evidence Points to BTK Killer's Involvement in 1976 Disappearance of Oklahoma Teen
20 years after he was convicted on 10 counts of murder, serial killer Dennis Rader, known as "BTK" is now a suspect in the 1976 disappearance of…
 • Kristine De Abreu
Bad Company: The Chilling Tale of Colleen Stan, "The Girl in the Box"
In May 1977, 20-year-old Colleen Stan was picked up by a couple while hitchhiking from Oregon to California. Unbeknownst to her, the next seven years of…
 • Kates Lara
"Monster of the M1": The Unsolved Murders of Jacqueline Ansell-Lamb and Barbara Mayo
In 1970, two young women were brutally assaulted and murdered after hitchhiking along Britain's M1 motorway. Because of the striking similarities…
 • Timothy Reynolds
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