January 10, 2018, 7:24 am
This week Unusual Suspects examines the murder of Rayna Rison, a case that took detectives 20 years to solve. March 26, 1993, in La Porte, Ind, and 16-year-old Rayna Rison went missing and was never seen alive again. Her body was found around a month later in a shallow pond, she’d been strangled to death. Rison was a bright student who also worked three jobs and had dreams of becoming a vet, but her life also had a darker side to it and she was the subject of abuse by several men in her life. Police initially suspected her brother-in-law Raymond
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January 10, 2018, 8:15 am
This week Locked Up Abroad spotlights freelance photographer Matthew B. Schrier’s remarkable escape from Al Qaeda. Schrier was working in Syria near the Turkish border in December 2012 when a Jeep cut his party off on the road and three men leapt out. They captured him and placed him in the back of their 4×4 at gun point. The group turned out to be Jabhat al-Nursa, who are an affiliate of Al-Qaeda in Syria. Schrier was moved about various prisons in Aleppo over the next few months and decided to convert to Islam as a way of getting better treatment. During
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January 10, 2018, 10:27 am
This week sees the return of TLC’s reality show My 600-lb Life for Season 6, following the lives of people struggling with extreme weight problems. In this premiere episode we meet Lee and Rena, who met and fell in love at a bariatric rehab clinic. Unfortunately the clinic told them that they could not remain romantically involved and stay at the center. Instead they left and tried to combat their weight issues themselves. However, this proved to be disastrous with both their weights going through the roof, leaving 42-year-old Lee weighing 714lbs and 39-year-old Rena at 542lbs. Now Lee struggles to
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January 10, 2018, 2:18 pm
This week on Black Ink Crew there are dark clouds asgets accused of disturbing the peace and the local community sign a petition to have the Atlanta store shut down for good. A party is in full swing in Atlanta with everyone enjoying themselves when the night is interrupted by some cops and city officials who tell Ceaser that he’s been charged with disturbance of the peace. To make matters worse another guy appears with a big petition that has the signature of 400 local people who want the store shut down. Ceaser’s worries are not restricted to the law,
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January 11, 2018, 5:50 am
This week The Perfect Suspect spotlights the disappearance and murder of Katrina Smith. Machesney Park, Winnebago County, on October 22, 2012, and 30-year-old Katrina Smith went missing after going out to run some errands. Her husband, Todd Smith, reported her missing on October 25 and her family and friends soon started a huge search for her. They found her car, purse and cell phone but there was no trace of Katrina. A few days later some evidence emerges about Todd’ history, with a conviction for arson stemming from when he tried to burn down his family home with his parents
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January 11, 2018, 6:45 am
This week Killing Fields continues the investigation into the murder of 28-year-old Carrie Singer, whose body was found partially naked in a field back in 2004. Isle of Wight County, Virginia, in July of 2004 and Carrie went missing Her body was discovered in a field by a farmer and she’d been brutally beaten to death. Randy Patrick was head of the investigation at the time and it has stayed with him since. Now, with the guidance of Lieutenant Thomas Potter and help of a team of investigator, Randy hopes to finally put this case to rest and bring some closure
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January 11, 2018, 8:07 am
This week Interrogation Room examines the abduction, rape and murder of Aundria Crawford and Rachel Newhouse by serial killer Rex Krebs. Nov. 12, 1998, was when Cal Poly student Rachel Newhouse went missing after going out for a meal. Just a few months later Cuesta College student Aundria Crawford was grabbed from her apartment, both women were 20-years-old and both were never seen alive again. 33-year-old Krebs was a convicted serial rapist and had already severed ten years of a twenty year service when his parole officer noticed he had an odd injury whilst making a visit. Eventally investigators arrested Krebs on a
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January 11, 2018, 8:39 am
This week on Jay Leno’s Garage Arnold Schwarzenegger is in the garage and is keen to show off his electric G-Wagen. It’s all about gas, or rather the alternatives to it, on this week’s show and who better to advocate that former Governor or California and the Terminator, Arnold Schwarzenegger. He might be famous for his huge muscles but he wants his footprint on the environment to be small. Schwarzenegger asked Kreisel to convert the 500 horsepower G-Wagen to electric and they managed to keep the same power but shaved 500kg off the weight. The car is now valued at about $1
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January 13, 2018, 10:27 am
This week Zak Bagans, the Ghost Adventures team and rapper Post Malone head to Arizona and a former meatpacking plant that is now a haunted tourist attraction, but is there anything to it. Zak explains that the building was previously used to kill and process millions of animals and says that blood was flowing through the building like a water facet that was never turned off. What does this have to do with the paranormal? Well Zak wonders what kind of entities or spirits that volume of blood and death might attract. He also talks about how important animal sacrifice and
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January 15, 2018, 12:08 pm
The so-called ‘Sweetheart’ murders of John Riggins and Sabrina Gonsalves, both just 18 when they were killed, features on Investigation Discovery series People Magazine Investigates this week. Riggins was a popular sports lover and Gonsalves was ready to get her college career started. People thought they made a sweet couple. However, their teenage romance was brought to an abrupt end when the pair of them failed to turn up to a surprise party being held for Gonsalves’ elder sister Andrea on December 20, 1980. In the morning friends and family became very worried and started searching for the couple, with police
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January 15, 2018, 2:19 pm
This week Independent Lens airs a special that envisions the book that James Baldwin never finished, which was to recount the remarkable lives and murders of his close friends Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr. and Medgar Evers. Born in 1924, Baldwin was an author with several important literary works including his collection of essays published as Notes of a Native Son. His work explored the complex nature of racial and sexual classification in the Western world and also took an early look at the difficulties faced by gay and bisexual men in society. Baldwin was also a political activist and by
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January 16, 2018, 4:57 pm
The Duc d’Anville expedition took place from June 1746 through to the fall of the same year and was a huge effort by the French to regain Acadia, part of which is now Nova Scotia, and its capital Port Royal from the British. The expedition included 11,000 men who were transported across the Atlantic in 64 ships, making it the largest force to head to the continent before the American Revolution. Leading this mighty military task force was Admiral Jean-Baptiste Louis Frédéric de La Rochefoucauld de Roye, Duc d’Anville, who took charge of the 20 warships, 32 transport ships, 21
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January 17, 2018, 10:57 am
Alaskan Bush People’s matriarch Amy Brown refused to give up when she was given the devastating news that she had cancer, made all the worse by being told by some doctors that she had just a 5% chance of surviving. Now in some stunning news the 54-year-old has been told her lung cancer, which had metastasized to her back and chest, has gone! Speaking to People Magazine, she said that even the doctors were stunned at the turnaround. Ami had undergone radiation and chemotherapy in order to try and at least give her more time, with the family moving from
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January 17, 2018, 3:05 pm
This week on My 600-lb Life, Janine is extremely obese and can hardly move but she is looking to change her lifestyle and get her life back. Janine knows that her body cannot handle everything that she is going to put it through on the big day, but she also knows that she has no real choice. She says: “It’s time to just suck it up buttercup, it’s time to go..gotta get this done.” Janine says that she has tried literally everything else to get her weight under control and so she knows this visit to Dr. Nowzaradan in Houston really
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January 17, 2018, 5:12 pm
This week on Family by the Ton, Chitoka has to get a house call from the doctor as she bites the bullet and confronts her obesity head on. Dr. Procter arrives and starts by asking about how she eats, whether it’s three meals a day or something different. Chi The doctor explains that for a patient like Chitoka who has been essentially bedridden for three years it is clear that she has an enabler or enablers, who are buying her food and getting the things she should not be eating. He says that it is not just changing Chitoka’s attitude
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January 17, 2018, 6:31 pm
This week Josh Gates and the Expedition Unknown go after some of the remaining treasure from the 1982 book The Secret. The book was published by Byron Preiss in 1982 and uses a tale and series of paintings to describe the location of certain valuable treasures. The story starts over 300 years ago and tells of a time when all the fair people, dragons, goblins, fairies and other mythical creatures fled the old world and headed for the new, looking to escape humanities spread. They brought with them all their treasures and jewels, including twelve very special ones. However, one day
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January 20, 2018, 11:47 am
This week Your Worst Nightmare tells the story of Adriane Fields, who survived a brutal encounter with killer Dale Scheanette. Arlington back in 1996 and Christine Vu and Wendy Prescott were raped and murded, left strangled in their bathtubs. Fields had just seen the story on the news and got a really bad feeling about it. She started thinking that she might be next, later telling the press that: “I just knew it. I can’t explain it.” Fields began to think that she was being watched and decided to move to Grand Prairie. The on October 26 1999 her worst nightmares came
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January 21, 2018, 10:22 am
This week Evil Lives Here spotlights the disturbing case of so-called Black Widow Blanche Taylor Moore, who may have poisoned five or more people. Blanche Taylor Moore as born in Concord, NC, in 1933 and first got married in 1952 to James Taylor. The pair had two children together, though their families would soon be subject to some strange deaths. First was Blanche’s father, Parker, whom she had an on and off relationship with. He passed away in 1966 with what would later be seen as the symptoms of arsenic poisoning. In 1970 James Taylor’s mother, 83-year-old Isla, also died
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January 21, 2018, 1:06 pm
This week On the Case With Paula Zahn spotlights the tragic rape and murder of Vicki Lynn Klotzbach, in a case that took over 20 years to solve. Oct. 20, 1981, in Coralville and 22-year-old Vicki Lynn Klotzbach was reported missing after she failed to appear for her work. Tragically just three days later her partially naked body was found in a cornfield. her arms had been tied behind her back and her eyes covered with tape. Vicki had also been raped before she was shot once in the head, in what detectives described as execution style. The killing was reported
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January 21, 2018, 6:34 pm
This week UFC Unleashed features some of the best breakthroughs from last year in the shape of Mike Perry, James Vick, Cynthia Calvillo, Paul Felder and Brian Ortega. Perry competes in the Welterweight division and made is debut back in 2016 against Lim Hyun-gyu, where he won on a technical knockout. His 2017 record saw him score two knockouts with Alex Reyes and Jake Ellenberger being taken out in the first and second rounds respectvely. He also suffered a defeat through unanimous decision to Santiao Ponzinibbio. Cynthia Calvillo competes in the strawweight division and is currently ranked 6. She started
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