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Home Alone spotlights murder–suicide of 17-year-old Katie Key by Jason Lynn McCamey

April 17, 2018, 5:00 am
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This week Home Alone examines the tragic murder-suicide involving Katie Key and Jason Lynn McCamey. 17-year-old Katie was a student at West Greene High School who got good grades and worked a job at JC Penney to get some extra cash. However, she had also been having a semi-secretive relationship with 29-year-old Jason. She’d dated him a short while before realising he was abusive and probably dangerous. When she finally dumped him things only got worse, with Jason phoning her home constantly and sending endless texts. Katie lived with her parents and her father tried to make the home more […]

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Valerie Longstreath’s lucky escape from shotgun-toting ex Randy is spotlighted on Home Alone

April 17, 2018, 6:04 am
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Valerie Longstreath
Valerie Longstreath and her adopted teenage son Nathan are trying to start afresh but her ex-husband Randy tries to ruin it, Home Alone investigates. It was the evening of July 2014 in Mount Ayr, Iowa, and Valerie and her son were at home when there was a knock at the door. When she answered her ex-husband Randy was standing holding a gun. She slammed the door shot and locked it, moving away from the door as she did. Randy then fired through the door and blasted the locks with several more shots. Valerie acted quickly and ran to the back […]

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Former stripper Marjorie Orbin shot her husband Jay and cut up his body with a jigsaw – Betrayed

April 17, 2018, 6:44 am
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Marjorie Orbin
In a gruesome murder Jay Orbin’s torso was found in the Arizona desert and his murderer proved to be very close to home, Betrayed spotlights the case. 44-year-old Jay Orbin was a self-made man and a successful jewelry and art dealer, who lived in Phoenix, Arizona. On September 8, 2004, Orbin travelled home from Florida and that was the last time anybody saw him alive again. A few weeks later his wife and former Las Vegas stripper, 43-year-old wife Marjorie Orbin, reported him missing and on October 23 a torso was found in a plastic box in the outskirts of […]

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Firefighter Sam Dreher’s split with wife led to him being murdered by her boyfriend Michael Minor – Web of Lies

April 17, 2018, 7:14 am
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This episode of Web of Lies examines the murder of Sam Dreher by his estranged wife’s boyfriend Michael Minor. Sam Dreher was a medic and firefighter with Charlotte County Fire and EMS, he had split up from his wife Danielle and had began dating someone else. Something that happens with many marriages, but in this case the breakup was to set off a series of events that led to the 39-year-old’s death. In August 2012 he confronted a man trying to steal some items from his car, the pair argued with the man drawing a gun and demanding Dreher’s wallet. Dreher […]

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Sixth-grade teacher Lisa Fuillerat and her partner were murdered by Fuillerat’s estranged husband Vincente

April 17, 2018, 8:06 am
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Lisa Fuillerat and Samara Routenberg
Middle school teacher Lisa Fuillerat was murdered along with her partner by her estranged husband Vincente, Forbidden: Dying for Love examines the case. Florida couple Vincente and Lisa Fuillerat were going through a difficult divorce, with Lisa having moved in with her lover 39-year-old Samara Routenberg. In February 2017, when the pair failed to turn up for a scheduled meeting about their divorce, Lisa’s lawyer called the police and asked them to check her home. Police found three dead bodies at the scene and soon worked out that 53-year-old Fuillerat had gone to the home his estranged wife, 51-year-old Lisa, shared with […]

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Missing Wisconsin 15-year-old Kayla Berg is spotlighted on Disappeared

April 17, 2018, 8:30 am
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This episode of Disappeared examines the case of missing Wisconsin teen Kayla Berg who went missing after being dropped off to meet her boyfriend. Kayla Berg was last seen on the night of August 11, 2009. The teen was hanging out with her 24-year-old friend Kevn J. Kielcheski, with the pair driving around their hometown of Antigo, Wisconsin, and alelgedly smoking marijuana. Later in the evening Kielcheski dove Kayla to her boyfriend’s house in Wausau, around 40 miniutes away. He told police that the house had no lights and that he did not wait for her to go inside before […]

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Chillicothe murders spotlighted on ID’s The Vanishing Women

April 18, 2018, 6:06 am
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Chillicothe missing and murdered women
A series of murder and missing person cases in the small town of  Chillicothe, Ohio, made the headlines back in 2015 and Investigation Discovery is airing the entire first season of The Vanishing Women today – the series spotlights the cases. In total six women went missing from the town over a fairly short period, with four of them later turning up dead. The first woman to disappear was 27-year-old Charlotte Trego, who went missing in May 2014. She was followed by 37-year-old Wanda Lemons, who disappeared six months later. Neither of the women have been found and all attempts […]

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Pregnant teen Tavia Sills was shot dead by her ex-boyfriend Lamondre Tucker – Murder Chose Me

April 18, 2018, 7:35 am
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Tavia Sills was just about to start univeristy and pregnant when she was murdered by her ex-boyfriend, detective Rod Demery on Murder Chose Me recalls the case. Shreveport, La, on September 2008, and 18-year-old Tavia Sills was reported missing by her family, she was five months pregnant and was just about to start her life as a university student. Just three days later her body was found by a couple who were fishing at a local pond. An examination of the body found she’d died from gunshot wounds and had been in the water for several days. Sills ‘s ex-boyfriend, Lamondre Tucker, […]

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J.W. Fuller’s murder during bar brawl is focus of Murder Chose Me

April 18, 2018, 1:07 pm
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Charles Edwards
In this episode of Murder Chose Me, Det. Rod Demery has to track down the two people involved in the fatal stabbing of 55-year-old J.W. Fuller during a bar brawl. Fuller was a regular at Benny’s Tea Room in the Crofton area in Shreveport but his days off patronage were numbered after he got into an altercation with another man and his girlfriend. In August 2002 Fuller ended up in a fight at the bar, which was on the outskirts of town. A passerby found Fuller lying on the street, still alive but obviously badly injured and coughing up blood. He was taken […]

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Maeung Ran Ellis was shot dead by 15-year-old Corenza Kelly – Murder Chose Me

April 18, 2018, 6:59 pm
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Corenza Kelly
This episode of Murder Chose Me features Detective Rod Demery recounting the investigation into the murder of store owner Maeung Ram Ellis, who was shot trying to fend off a robber. Ellis was something of a pillar of the Korean community in Shreveport, La, and owned Goody’s Beauty Supply store on Fairfeld Avenue in the city. In January 2007 a young man entered the store and attempted to rob Ellis. She was in the store with a cashier and when the robber failed to get any cash from the register,  she decided to act. Ellis resisted the robbery and tried to push […]

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Polygamist Pastor James Flanders killed his ‘sister-wife’ Marie Carlson

April 19, 2018, 9:41 am
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Killer pastor James Flanders features on this episode of Forbidden: Dying for Love, where a polygamous relationship ended up in the death of Marie Carlson. James Ty Flanders was pastor of Calvary Emerald Coast Church in Flordia but his complicated polygamous relationships turned deadly. On October 24,2011, 37-year-old Marie Carlson was reported missing by her ex-husband. Police suspected that Flanders had something to do with her disappearance as she’d been his ‘sister/wife’ and part of the relationship that also included his wife Tanya. The three of them shared a home and Carlson had recently had a child, but the true nature […]

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Dr. Adam Frasch lived it large with exotic dancers and fast cars but his passions proved deadly

April 19, 2018, 2:09 pm
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Samira Frasch
46-year-old Tallahassee resident Dr. Adam Frasch lived a high life of fast cars, exotic women and expensive homes but his passion for women eventually turned deadly, Diabolical examines the case. 38-year-old Samira was Frasch’s third wife and the pair had been married for five years when on Feb. 22, 2014, maintenance man Gerald Gardner found her partially clothed body at the bottom of the couple’s pool. Gardner ran into the house and called 911, telling the police who arrived on the scene: “He killed her, he did it.” The autopsy revealed that Samira died from drowning in the pool and […]

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Murder Calls as Tyshika Adkins is found dead by her ex-boyfriend Alonza Dennis Jr.

April 19, 2018, 5:00 pm
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Richard Lavonte Blanks Sr.
This episode of Murder Calls spotlights the murder of Tyshika Adkins and a case of second time lucky for the detectives investigating her murder. Cambridge, Maryland, on June 7, 2004, and 22-year-old Tyshika Adkins failed to pick up her 2-year-old son from his grandmother. The boy’s father, Alonza Dennis Jr., picked him up instead and then headed over to his ex-girlfriend’s apartment where he found her dead on the floor. Dennis called 911 and police arrived at the scene to find no sign of a forced entry or burglary. An examination found that Adkins had been strangled and detectives decided to […]

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Morrad Ghonim had his teenage wife murdered in front of their baby – Diabolical

April 19, 2018, 6:24 pm
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Vicki Ghonim was shot dead in front of her husband and baby son, but it would be over 20 years before the terrible truth about her murder would be revealed, Diabolical examines the case. La Mirada, Cal., on July 23, 1992, and 19-year-old Morrad Ghonim, his wife Vicki, 17, and their six month old baby were just leaving a local park in their car after a walk. As they drove out of parking lot a man shot his wife repeatedly in the head. Ghonim sped through red lights as he rushed his dying wife to hospital, with police pulling him over […]

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Lisa Solomon murdered on Christmas Eve – The 1980s: The Deadliest Decade spotlights killing of new bride

April 20, 2018, 5:00 am
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Lisa Solomon and husband Matthew
This week The 1980s: The Deadliest Decade examines the murder of Lisa Solomon, who went missing on Christmas Eve. December 1987 and 22-year-old Lisa Solomon should have been looking forward to the festive season with her new husband Matthew Solomon. Instead on Christmas Eve, Lisa went missing and her husband, together with friends and neighbors, conducted a well publicised search for her. He told police that they’d had a argument after dinner and then she’d went out for a walk. Meantime he said that he napped but upon walking up he’d found that Lisa had still not returned. Eventually Lisa’s […]

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Charles Stuart’s murder of pregnant wife Carol enflamed racial tensions in Boston

April 20, 2018, 7:01 am
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Charles Stuart shot his pregnant wife Carol in the head and then wounded himself in attempt to fake a robbery, The 1980s: The Deadliest Decade examines this high profile case. October 23, 1989, in Boston and Charles Stuart makes a call to 911 to report that he and his pregnant wife had been carjacked and shot. Stuart survived his shot to the abdomen but Carol later died in hospital from her gunshot wound to the head, with her unborn baby being delivered two months premature and dying several weeks later. Stuart told police their attacker had been a 6 foot […]

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Roy Joe McCaleb’s murder took nearly three decades to solve – Evil Stepmothers

April 20, 2018, 4:55 pm
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Roy Joe McCaleb ‘s murder by his wife Carolyn Sue Smith Krizan is the subject of this episode of Evil Stepmothers on Investigation Discovery. Roy Joe McCaleb was a veteran of the Korean War and was a foreman at Brown and Root, where he’d worked as a solid employee for 20 years. He’d been married for over 20 years as well but that relationship has succumbed to the stresses of time and he found himself single once again. He met Carolyn Sue Smith Krizan and the pair hit it off, with McCaleb looking for a companion and Krizan craving some […]

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Stephanie Crane, 9, left a bowling alley and Disappeared

April 22, 2018, 2:49 pm
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Stephanie Crane
9-year-old Stephanie Crane has been missing for nearly 25 years, Disappeared on Investigation Discovery Oct. 11, 1993, Challis, Idaho, and Crane went bowling with friends, before heading home. She was last spotted walking towards the local high school and has not been seen since. Stephanie was described as being a bit of a tomboy, enjoying fishing trips and hunting with her dad. It is thought she left the bowling about 5:00 p.m. and possibly went to head home or to watch a soccer game at the high school. The next day hundreds of people from the town turned out to […]

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Seath Jackson was horrifically murdered by Amber Wright and Michael Bargo – Grave Mysteries

April 23, 2018, 8:50 am
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This episode of Grave Mysteries spotlights the terrifyingly brutal murder of 15-year-old Seath Jackson by Amber Wright and Michael Bargo. In March 2011 everything between Seath Jackson and Amber Wright seemed great, with Jackson posting on his Facebook page that he loved Amber. But a month later things were not so rosy and he was calling her a slut on the same page. Amber was soon dating another teenager called Michael Bargo and he became obsessed with Jackson and eventually decided to kill him. Wright, her 16-year-old step brother, Bargo and two other friends worked out a plan to lure […]

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Danish Minhas hired fellow student to stab his mother Tabassum Khan to death

April 23, 2018, 8:52 am
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Danish Minhas
Tabassum Khan was stabbed to death in her own home by a hired killer, but as Killer Confessions spotlights the person behind the killing was her son. November, 2009, in Houston, Texas, and 43-year-old Tabassum Khan was stabbed to death in her own apartment. Detectives were initially a little suspicious of Khan’s son Danish Minhas, he found his mother’s body but his claim of staying out all night on a date and driving didn’t ring true. Later they discovered a handprint on blood left on a door handle, this matched up a few weeks later to Nur Mohamed – who […]

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