After reading about the disappearance of 7-year old Samantha Zaldivar, I found a page dedicated to her by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. There wasn’t much written about her life because she died at such a young age. There was one paragraph: “Samantha was a beautiful child, full of life, and full […]
For most of us, the relationship between mother and child is a sacred one. We love our children, put their needs above our own, and will do anything to protect them and promote their happiness. But mother of six Theresa Knorr didn’t feel any such love or devotion for her children, least of all her […]
In 1999, a homeowner in Jericho, New York removed an old 55-gallon barrel from his basement. The trash men would not take it because it was too heavy. So he opened it. The smell was horrific. A woman’s shoe bobbed to the surface. Locked away in that barrel for over thirty years was the now […]
Homemaker Audrey Marie Hilley killed her husband, Frank, in 1975, and attempted to kill her daughter three years later. Her choice of victims, which also included her mother and mother-in-law, were the people close to her. Her motive was money. What makes her case extraordinary is how she managed to elude arrest for three years […]
Regina (Jeannie) Butkowski lived a life of fear after befriending football player Pernell Jefferson. He began calling her at work and showing up unannounced at her home, begging her to date him and eventually threatening to kill her. Jeannie’s co-workers began screening her calls and escorting her to her car at night. She moved in […]
Early on the morning of July 30, 2011, Lisa Harnum called her mother in Toronto, Canada. Terrified, told her mom that she was preparing to leave her fiancé, Simon Gittany. Simon was an emotionally abusive man. Lisa whispered over the phone that if anything was to happen to her, her mother should contact Michelle Richmond, a life […]
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