Heather Strube was murdered by mother-in-law Joanna Hayes who disguised herself as a man – Murder Calls

April 26, 2018, 5:10 pm

≫ Next: Sara Dixon’s murder was planned by stepson Robert Dixon to protect his inheritance – Grave Secrets

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Heather Strube’s murder was shocking enough, shot in front of her son in a parking lot with a dozen witnesses, but as Murder Calls explains the truth about her killer was even more shocking. April 2009, in Snellville, Georgia, and Heather Strube, 25, was in the middle of a divorce from her husband Steven, with the pair had recently been sorting out custody of their baby. Strube was in the Target parking lot where Steven handed over their 18-month-old son Carson, he drove away and Strube strapped the boy into his car seat. It was then someone approached Strube and […]

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Sara Dixon’s murder was planned by stepson Robert Dixon to protect his inheritance – Grave Secrets

April 27, 2018, 10:33 am

≫ Next: Ejaz Ahmad was murdered by his wife Leah Ward and then decapitated – Evil Stepmothers spotlights this grisly case

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Sara Dixon’s husband required full-time care but her stepson was not happy about his inheritance getting spent and he decided to have her murdered, Grave Secrets examines the deadly family feud. November 28, 2007, in Graham, North Carolina, and Sara Jones Bright Dixon, 68, was at home when two men kicked in her door and shot her twice in the head. In 2009 police arrested her stepson Robert Dixon, 49, and two men detectives thought he’d hired to kill his stepmother. Thomas Clay Friday, 40, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in exchange for a life sentence and he also testified […]

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Ejaz Ahmad was murdered by his wife Leah Ward and then decapitated – Evil Stepmothers spotlights this grisly case

April 27, 2018, 2:14 pm

≫ Next: Golden State Killer suspect Joseph James DeAngelo appears in court – People Magazine Investigates

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Ejaz Ahmad was shot, stabbed and decapitated by his young wife Leah Ward, Evil Stepmothers examines this case of cold-blooded murder. May 2003, and Pakistan-born store owner Ejaz Ahmad, 41, was found dead in a shed behind his house in Memphis, Tennessee. His body was discovered by his 11-year-old son and the boy’s grandmother, as they went to check on a pet chicken. Their discovery was a gruesome one with Ahmad badly decomposed body wrapped up in plastic and decapitated, with no sign of his head. He’d been shot in the chest and repeatedly stabbed in the neck and upper […]

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Golden State Killer suspect Joseph James DeAngelo appears in court – People Magazine Investigates

April 27, 2018, 5:48 pm

≫ Next: Patricia Matting and her brother James Smith plotted to kill her husband Fredrick Matting in the Dead of Night

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Joseph James DeAngelo was arrested this week as police announced the dramatic news that he was a suspect in the Golden State Killer rapes and murders, this special episode of People Magazine Investigates examines the shocking news. The Golden State Killer acquired his moniker after a spate of burglaries, rapes and murders in California in the 1970s and 80s. He started as a prolific cat burglar and then progressed to raping women living on their own or with kids.  His crimes then escalated to attacking couples and he is thought to have murdered at least 12 people. He’d typically surprise […]

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Patricia Matting and her brother James Smith plotted to kill her husband Fredrick Matting in the Dead of Night

April 30, 2018, 9:02 am

≫ Next: Eugene Merton Whitehall murdered Dennis Kelley and Carl McFarland before setting fire to their house

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Fredrick Matting was murdered in his own driveway and the attacker was his brother-in-law, Dead of Night examines the case of a brother and sister who plotted to kill. Nov. 2, 2010, Cordova, Tennessee, and 51-year-old Fredrick Matting came home from the late shift only to be viciously attacked in his own driveway. The machinist was stabbed, beaten and shot to death, with neighbors witnessing him fleeing his attacker down the street before collapsing. Police soon tied the crime to Matting’s wife, Patricia Matting, and her brother, James Smith, whom police alleged she’d gotten involved in a plot to kill […]

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Eugene Merton Whitehall murdered Dennis Kelley and Carl McFarland before setting fire to their house

April 30, 2018, 10:03 am

≫ Next: Rayna Rison murder was a cold case for over a decade until Jason Tibbs was arrested

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Dennis Kelley and Carl McFarland were murdered and their killer tried to hide his crime by setting their farm on fire, Evil Talks: Chilling Confessions examines the case. July 16, 2014, in Cresswell, Oregon, and Dennis Kelly, 65, and Carl McFarland, 69, were found in the remains of their burned-out house on a pig farm near the town. At first police thought they were investigating a tragic accident but it soon became clear that something more sinister had happened. They soon arrested 43-year-old transient Eugene Merton Whitehall, who’d worked at the farm in the past. Police alleged that Whitehall had gone to […]

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Rayna Rison murder was a cold case for over a decade until Jason Tibbs was arrested

May 1, 2018, 2:00 am

≫ Next: Roberto Ayala was murdered by bomb placed by Paul Moore

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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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Roberto Ayala was murdered by bomb placed by Paul Moore

May 1, 2018, 3:00 am

≫ Next: Richard Gagnon was convicted of murdering Charlie and Diane Parker but Bruce Antwain Hill was the real killer

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This week Unusual Suspects examines a case that had Shakespearean overtones as an innocent farm manager Roberto Ayala was caught in a family dispute turned deadly. July 16, 2011, and 43-year-old Roberto Ayala picked up his 7-year-old son Fabian and set off to flood some rice fields using a couple of irrigation pumps. There was an explosion and the electrical box near one of the pump exploded, Roberto was caught in the blast and his young son ran to a neighbor’s house to get help. Sadly Roberto died from electric shock as a result of the blast, which left his body completely […]

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Richard Gagnon was convicted of murdering Charlie and Diane Parker but Bruce Antwain Hill was the real killer

May 1, 2018, 3:00 am

≫ Next: Franklin Delano Floyd’s terrible crimes profiled on Pandora’s Box: Unleashing Evil

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Diane and Charles Parker’s murder in their own home is the subject of Unusual Suspects, in a case where the wrong man spent eight years in prison. April 12, 2005, in Nixonville, South Carolina, and Diane and Charles Parker were found shot dead in their home. Initially police were at a loss to explain why anyone would want to kill them, but some blood was found on the shoes of their daughter’s boyfriend. Richard Gagnon had been dating their daughter Bambi Bennett and initially police charged both her and Gagnon, later dropping the charges against Bennett. In 2008 42-year-old Gagnon […]

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Franklin Delano Floyd’s terrible crimes profiled on Pandora’s Box: Unleashing Evil

May 1, 2018, 7:00 am

≫ Next: William Leasure ‘the most corrupt cop in L.A.’ on Pandora’s Box: Unleashing Evil

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Pandora’s Box: Unleashing Evil examines the many twisted crimes of kidnapper, child abuser, sexual predator and murderer Franklin Delano Floyd. Floyd had been in and out of prison for years and indeed had been on the run for 17 years after he failed to turn up at court whilst on a bond. It was this fugitive status that led him to use the name Clarence Hughes and he’d eventually marry a young woman called Tonya and claimed to have a son with her, Michael Anthony Hughes. She died aged just 20 after a hit and run in Oklahoma City, leaving behind […]

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William Leasure ‘the most corrupt cop in L.A.’ on Pandora’s Box: Unleashing Evil

May 1, 2018, 7:03 am

≫ Next: Franklin Davis murdered babysitter Shania Gray after she accused him of rape

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William Ernest Leasure A.K.A.: ‘Mild Bill’ was a LAPD traffic cop for 17 years but he was dirty as come, Pandora’s Box: Unleashing Evil examines the case. California residents Anne Smith, 41, and Antonio de los Reyes, 63, both had their own businesses but little else to link them, when they were murdered in 1980 and 1981, respectively. Then in 1986 Leasure was arrested after being caught on a stolen pleasure boat, this led to detectives uncovering his links to a huge yacht theft and insurance fraud scam. A search of his home also turned up several illegal gun silencers […]

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Franklin Davis murdered babysitter Shania Gray after she accused him of rape

May 1, 2018, 9:28 am

≫ Next: Rozina and Doug Anderson’s murder at Lake Oswego unsolved for 27 years until John Kelly confessed

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Shania Gray was full of life and an outgoing girl, but her life was cut short when the man she accused of rape, murdered her – Web of Lies examines the case. 16-year-old Shania Gray was a popular and outgoing teenager who did babysitting as a way to make some extra cash, much like millions of other American teens. However, most of her friends and neighbors were unaware that Gray was involved in a sexual assault case against Franklin Davis, a man she’d babysat for in the past. The case alleged that Davis had sex with Gray four different times […]

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Rozina and Doug Anderson’s murder at Lake Oswego unsolved for 27 years until John Kelly confessed

May 2, 2018, 4:00 am

≫ Next: Larry Cragun launched deadly attack on neighbors with hammer

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This week Dead Silent examines the murder of Rozina and Doug Anderson, in a case that went unsolved for 27 years. In August 1988 Rozina and Doug Anderson went on a camping trip near Lake Oswego close to Crescent City in California. The couple were both artists and had only been married since 1986, they’d gone on the camping trip as they shared a real love of the outdoors. The alarm was raised when Rozina failed to turn up for work at the Washington Square Sears. Her family then contacted the police and search of the area was started. Their bodies […]

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Larry Cragun launched deadly attack on neighbors with hammer

May 2, 2018, 8:18 am

≫ Next: Donte Gilbert died in a hail of bullets meant for someone else – Detective Rod Demery recounts the case on Murder Chose Me

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Larry Cragun murdered his neighbor Patricia Heath with a hammer and injured three other, Dead Silent examines the reason for his murderous rampage. Bayview, North Idaho, in December 2010 and Patricia Heath and three other people were attacked in Heath’s mobile home by a man with a hammer. Larry W. Cragun, 31, was arrested soon after the attack, with several witnesses telling police that he just walked away after the attack and told them he’d just killed four people. Police had already been involved in what was a ongoing dispute between Cragun and the Heaths. Cragun had made various fairly bizarre […]

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Donte Gilbert died in a hail of bullets meant for someone else – Detective Rod Demery recounts the case on Murder Chose Me

May 2, 2018, 9:35 am

≫ Next: Hope Melton was raped and murdered by Nickolas Miller who ran her car off road

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Donte Gilbert was killed in a hail of bullets as he met friends outside a vacant house, Detective Rod Demery explains how he helped to bring Gilber’s killers to justice on Murder Chose Me. Shreveport, Louisiana, on Aug. 9, 2008, and 36-year-old Donte Gilbert was sitting on the porch of an empty house with a few friends, when they were sprayed with bullets. Demery soon realises he is dealing with more than one suspect but even he is surprised just how many people are involved in the attack. Witnesses described four cars filled with young men riding past the house […]

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Hope Melton was raped and murdered by Nickolas Miller who ran her car off road

May 2, 2018, 11:04 am

≫ Next: Alice Swanson realised Evil Lives Here when her husband William Jennings Choyce was revealed as a serial killer and rapist

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Hope Melton was followed from the gas station by Nickolas Miller who ran her car off the road before raping her and then beating the 29-year-old to death with a baseball bat, See No Evil shows how video footage helped catch her murdered. December 26th, 2011, in South Carolina and Beverly Hope Melton pulled into into a Chesterfield County gas station to get some fuel, but as she drove away Melton noticed a man who she’d seen in the store was following very close behind. Alarmed, she called her grandmother on the phone and explained she was worried about the […]

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Alice Swanson realised Evil Lives Here when her husband William Jennings Choyce was revealed as a serial killer and rapist

May 3, 2018, 1:04 pm

≫ Next: Diabolical Cindy McKay seemed god-fearing but murdered boyfriend Tony Fertitta for cash

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William Jennings Choyce Evil Lives Here examines his crimes and how Alice Swanson came to realise her husband was a monster. Stockton, California, resident Choyce began his murder spree in 1997 and went on to murder three women over the next 12 months. Choyce would cruise the streets in his van, which had a fold down bed in the back. He picked up various sex workers and then raped them in the back of his van. He also murdered three of his rape victims and left their bodies posed in grotesque sexual positions. In 1997 and 1998 he raped murdered […]

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Diabolical Cindy McKay seemed god-fearing but murdered boyfriend Tony Fertitta for cash

May 3, 2018, 5:43 pm

≫ Next: Heartbreaking killing of transplant survivor Jonathan Harris on Murder Calls

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52-year-old mother of six Cynthia J. McKay’s greed for cash led her down a life of theft, embezzlement and finally murder – Diabolical examines her many crimes. Long before Cindy McKay was charged with murder she was on the run from law enforcement and had a string of criminal convictions for theft and embezzling people out of money. Many of these thefts were carried out against the places where she worked or individuals who she was romantically involved with. A few years before her arrest for murder she was caught and served one year of a eight years sentence and […]

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Heartbreaking killing of transplant survivor Jonathan Harris on Murder Calls

May 3, 2018, 6:37 pm

≫ Next: Edward Lowry’s brutal murder in South Dakota robbery is solved with CCTV on See No Evil

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The fact that Jonathan Harris was alive at all was a miracle and the young man was an inspiration to many, but he was murdered in a petty revenge attack – Murder Calls spotlights the case. 26-year-old Jonathan Harris was a remarkable young man, with an equally amazing mother. He’d been born with only one kidney and when he turned 12-year-old his health began to deteriorate. He went on to dialysis until his brother donated a kidney to him, sadly this failed and he ended up on an organ transplant exchange program that featured on the Today show. His mother, […]

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Edward Lowry’s brutal murder in South Dakota robbery is solved with CCTV on See No Evil

May 4, 2018, 5:00 am

≫ Next: Surya Sari-Prihatin was murdered by her husband Munawar Toha – See No Evil shows how CCTV helped catch him

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This week See No Evil shows how CCTV helped put together the last movements of murder victim Edward Lowry and even caught his killers spending his money. September 17, 2015, Rapid City in South Dakota, and 56-year-old Edward Lowry was on a night out for a few drinks and little gambling. Sadly it proved to be his last night alive as on his way home he was brutally beaten and stabbed to death in a parking lot for his wallet. The police found very little evidence at the scene of the crime and there are no witnesses, but luckily there was plenty […]

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