Richard Marc Evonitz had already abducted three girls from their front yards in Virginia before he took 15-year-old Kara Robinson from her friend’s house in South Carolina. Evonitz had a troubling history of criminal sexual behavior, but his friends and neighbors knew him as a good-looking, intelligent, and compassionate person living an ordinary middle-class life. […]
Vicki Bader’s divorce from her attorney husband Seth Bader was beyond contentious. Alimony and child custody issues persisted well after the break up. Vicki, emotionally fragile and at times suicidal, endured months of harassment and gaslighting by Seth and his toxic accomplices. But when Seth decided to involve their oldest son in his campaign to […]
The Death of Jack Watkins Jack Watkins was a retiree in his mid-seventies who was living a good life. As a widower for many years, Jack enjoyed puttering around his house and meeting up with friends at The Breakfast Club. Then Jack met Nancy Siegal. He fell head-over-heels in love with the friendly blonde. They […]
Last night, Dick and I watched the docuseries House of Hammer on Discovery +. The series’ promotions promise to to reveal the “dark, twisted secrets of the Hammer family,” with the help of Armie’s aunt, Casey Hammer. The first of three episodes is “Love Bomb” where we hear the first-hand accounts of alleged victims Courtney […]
Steven Beard grew up poor in Dallas, Texas. He had ambitions to go to medical school, but he joined the Navy during World War II. After the war, Steven took a job at a department store. He met his first wife, Elise, while working at the store. They had three children together. Hard working, smart, […]
The Story of Debra & Christopher Milke: Debra Milke was a cute 24-year-old single mother in 1989. She and her 4-year-old son, Christopher, were living with a friend while Debra prepared to move into her own apartment and start a new job. She was excited for what she saw as a fresh start, saving up […]
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