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Jennifer Hyatte and George Hyatte were married in prison and murdered for their ‘honeymoon’

May 15, 2018, 9:47 am
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Jennifer Hyatte fell in love with a career criminal and then murdered so she and her husband could taste freedom, Forbidden: Dying for Love examines the case. Hyatte started a relationship with jailbird George Hyatte whilst she was working as a nurse at Northwest Correctional Complex in Tenn. In a sort of memoir that she later wrote, Hyatte described it a love at first sight and the pair began a relationship. Prison officials soon found out about the affair and sacked Hyatte from her job. However, this did not stop the couple seeing each other and just a few months later […]

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Former Hell’s Angels leader Daniel Roberts murder his ex-girlfriend Melissa Mendoza

May 16, 2018, 8:33 am
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Melissa Mendoza
Melissa Mendoza and Daniel Roberts were an unlikely couple who hit it off, but their relationship turned deadly, Hear No Evil examines the case. Melissa Mendoza and Daniel Roberts met at the legal firm where Mendoza worked and Roberts was a client following a motorcycle accident. The pair hit it off and within a few months their relationship became fairly serious. A year later they had a baby on the way and decided to move from California to Daniel’s hometown in Maine. However, by 2005 things had turned sour for the couple and they were engaged in a custody dispute […]

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Shannon Crawley murdered her lover’s fiancé Denita Monique Smith – Hear No Evil

May 16, 2018, 11:10 am
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Shannon Crawley’s jealousy led her to murder Denita Monique Smith in cold blood, Hear No Evil examines this case of passion turning deadly. Jan. 4, 2007, in Durham and North Carolina Central University student Denita Monique Smith was leaving her apartment when she was shot in the back of the head, her body was found in the stairwell by the complex’s maintenance man. Detectives investigating the murder received a tip that single mother Shannon Crawley might be a person of interest. It turned out that Smith’s fiancé, Greensboro police officer Jermeir Stroud, had been seeing another woman at the same time as […]

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Philip Gattuso’s murder in Fargo featured on See No Evil

May 16, 2018, 1:45 pm
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This episode of See No Evil, the CCTV true crime show looks at the murder of Philip Gatusso. 49-year-old Gattuso was a periodontist and had been left a widower after his wife died following a botched heart operation. The Fargo resident being left to bring up their 3-year-old daughter and his two older sons, whilst balancing his career and dealing with his wife’s untimely death. However, in November 2009 his dead body was found in his home, where he’d been beaten to death with a hammer and his home burgled. Upon his death the grandparents rushed to comfort their granddaughter but it was not too […]

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Carlesha Freeland-Gaither had a lucky escape from kidnapper and rapist Delvin Barnes – See No Evil explains how CCTV helped save her life

May 16, 2018, 2:45 pm
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Carlesha Freeland-Gaither was a 22-year-old nursing assistant working in Philadelphia, when she just disappeared – See No Evil shows how CCTV helped save her life. When Freeland-Gaither was reported missing on November 2, 2014, police examined CCTV cameras in the area and in a stroke of luck one of the cameras had captured the moment that the young woman was violently kidnapped after stepping off a bus. The attacker could not be identified initially but a wide appeal was put out and less than 72 hours later a tip off from an ATF Office in Richmond, Virginia gave police a possible suspect. The […]

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Sexual predators Mark and Scott Blankenburg feature with teen killers David and Michael Same on Evil Twins

May 17, 2018, 4:10 am
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Mark and Scott Blankenburg
This episode of Evil Twins spotlights the crimes of two sets of twins, pediatricians Mark and Scott Blankenburg and 17-year-olds David and Michael Same. The Blankenburgs were working as pediatricians based in Hamilton, Ohio, when they were investigated on various charges related to child abuse. These included 22 charges of being in possession of child pornography, abusing various patients in their care and then bribing the patients to keep quiet. In 2009, both brothers were charged and after a lengthy trial Mark Blankenburg, 54, was found guilty of numerous crimes and sentenced to between 21 to 27 years in prison. A few months later his brother Scott […]

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Twins Wasel and Wael Ali shared DNA and early unnatural deaths – Investigation Discovery highlights their cases

May 17, 2018, 5:01 am
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Wasel and Wael Ali were as close as you’d expect and both shared a passion for the military and law enforcement, but their lives ended short – Evil Twins on Investigation Discovery examines their deaths. On August 27, 2007, the body of Wasel was found in some woods near Columbia, he’d been choked to death. It took until 2011 for police to charge his brother Wael with his twin’s first-degree murder. Detectives believed the pair argued and this resulted in Wael murdering 19-year-old Wasel. There was little evidence and DNA samples at the scene were not used as the twins […]

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Amanda Lee Hall was raped and murdered by Evil Twins Jerome and Tyrone Page

May 17, 2018, 8:58 am
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Jerome and Tyrone Page
Evil Twins examines the case of Jerome and Tyrone Page, who shared a taste for rape and murder. Amanda Lee Hall, a 15-year-old attending Lansdowne High School, ran away from home on June 1, 1992 following a fall out over her boyfriend. Hall spent some time with friends but then eneded up sleeping outside the woman’s restroom of local community center. On June 4 Hall’s partially clothed body was found on a disused road, she’d been raped and strangled to death. Detectives followed a trail of evidence that led to Jerome and Tyrone. The brothers were in their 30s but […]

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Jane Hopkins murdered her kids and then committed suicide – Evil Twins

May 17, 2018, 9:36 am
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Jane Hopkins's kids before she murdered them
Jane Hopkins killed her two kids and committed suicide, her twin sister had tried the same thing in the past but the warnings came too late – Evil Twins examines the case on ID. July, 1997, in a wealthy suburb of Dallas and 41-year-old Emily Jane Hopkins was found dead in her house, along with her two children. She’d slashed the throats of her 9-year-old son and 6-year-old daughter, before killing herself in the bathtub. The day before Hopkins had asked a neighbor to give her ex-husband, Clayton Elliot, a photo album with pictures of the family in it. He […]

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Cheryl Miller and Pam Jackson went missing in a case that went cold for over 40 years

May 17, 2018, 8:29 am
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Cheryl Miller and Pam Jackson in head shots
This week Gone examines the tragic case of Cheryl Miller and Pam Jackson, who went missing on a drive and were not seen again for more than 40 years. It was 1971 and end of the school year in Vermillion, S.D., when Pamela Jackson and Cheryl Miller decided to head for a party with their friends from school out at a local quarry. They never showed and at first nobody thought anything of it as the pair were not exactly party animals. However, alarm bells were raised when they and their 1960 Studebaker car seemingly disappeared entirely. The boys in the car they […]

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Lynda McClelland murdered by her son-in-law David Repasky

May 17, 2018, 9:50 am
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This week Gone examines the case of grandmother Lynda McClelland, who went missing from her Wilkins township home and was never seen alive again. Forest Hills, Pa., in July 2000 and Lynda McClelland goes missing from her home, leaving behind her grief stricken family who are alarmed by her disappearance. Initially there are few leads but the family suspects foul play as they know McClelland would never leave behind her mother, daughter and three grandchildren without saying a word. Her mother had suspicions about McClelland’s son-in-law, David Repasky, whom it turned out was having an affair with his mother-in-law. The police did investigate […]

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Albert Correll and his son Duane Correll were murdered by Jhaden Davis over a debt

May 17, 2018, 5:28 pm
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Albert Correll, 50, and his son Duane Correll
Albert Correll made a desperate 911 call after he and his son were shot in their own driveway, Murder Calls investigates this double murder. June, 2012, in Carteret County and Albert Correll, 50, and his son Duane Correll, 20, left the local Walmart at around 9:24 P.M. Just over twenty minutes later Albert made a 911 call saying that his son had been shot dead and that he’d been shot in the heart. Police arrived to find Duane dead and Albert later died in hospital, despite attempts to save his life. Initially police had few clues to go on, other […]

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Victoria Rickman murdered her boyfriend Will Carter Jr. and claimed he’d raped her

May 18, 2018, 4:01 pm
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Victoria Rickman and Will Carter Jr
Victoria Rickman claimed she shot her ex-boyfriend dead in self defence, but the truth was far darker – 48 Hours on ID spotlights this case. Sept. 13, 2013, and Victoria Rickman made a 911 call to tell police that she’d shot her ex-boyfriend, Will Carter Jr., after he’d raped her. By chance the detective who arrived at the scene also had a film crew with her, taking footage for the true crime show Inside Homicide. Detective Summer Benton was immediately suspicious of the scene, as there appeared to be no sign of a struggle. She went on his hunch and […]

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Andrea Farrington was shot three times by fellow mall worker Alexander Kozak – The Killer Beside Me

May 19, 2018, 10:41 am
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Andrea Farrington
Andrea Farrington was working at a busy mall when she was shot three times in the back by Alexander Kozak, The Killer Beside Me spotlights the case. June 12, 2015, at the Coral Ridge Mall in Coralville and 20-year-old Andrea Farrington was working at the Iowa Children’s Museum when Alexander Kozak arrived on the scene and shot her three time in the back. The pair worked together and had a texting relationship that was sometimes sexual in nature, but detectives did not believe their relationship had ever gotten physical. Kozak had texted to another woman that a girl at his […]

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William Vincent Brown raped, mutilated and murdered his victims in the Dead of Night

May 21, 2018, 9:28 am
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William Vincent Brown
William Vincent Brown chose his victims carefully, looking for women who were drug addicts or had mental health issues, Dead of Night examines his crimes. Starting in 2003, William Vincent Brown raped and murdered several woman over a period of 11 months. Baltimore in the spring of 2003 and a woman was picked up by what she was a cab. Instead of taking the woman to her destination, he drove her to a nearby park where he raped her and then tried to cut off her ears. The woman survived the attack, unlike the attacker’s next two victims. In the […]

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Ashley Pegram was murdered by her Kik messenger date Edward Bonilla – Web of Lies

May 22, 2018, 5:07 am
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Ashley Pegram murdered
Ashley Pegram was looking forward to a date with a man she’d met online, but their first date was to be her last after she was murdered – Web of Lies examines this tragic case. April 3, 2015,  in Summerville, South Carolina, and 28-year-old Ashley Pegram went on a date with Edward Bonilla, who’d she met on the Meet Me dating app. Pegram was never seen alive again and when police examined her cell phone records they decided that Bonilla was a prime suspect. His answers regards what happened on the night of the date were also inconsistent and on […]

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Amber Smith shot her fiancé Trenton Mallory in the head as he slept – Married to Murder

May 22, 2018, 5:44 am
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Amber Smith murdered her partner Trenton Mallory in cold blood, Married to Murder examines the case. March 6, 2014, in Levering, Michigan, and Amber Smith called police to her home, claiming it had been burgled. When deputies arrived on the scene they found the house had been ransacked and they also found the body of Smith’s fiancé Trenton Mallory in the bedroom. Mallory, 36, had been shot in the head with a .22 caliber rifle and appeared to have been killed whist he was sleeping. Police could find no evidence of anyone else being in the house and their suspicions began […]

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Mom of 13 Carolyn Clark murdered in front of kids by estranged husband – Deadly Devotion

May 22, 2018, 6:37 am
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Carolyn Clark murdered
Carolyn Clark was a mother of thirteen children and trying to start a new life, but her murderous estranged husband had other ideas – Deadly Devotion examines this tragic case. May 7, 2005, in Ashtabula, Ohio, and a neighbor and friend called police to the home of Carolyn Clark, after hearing breaking glass and screams from her apartment. When police arrived they found Carolyn, 43, dead and her estranged husband, Ralph Clark Sr., 44, still on the scene. He’d tried to shoot his wife, but then the gun had hammed he’d beaten her to death with the gun’s butt. Clark […]

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Lisa Huff Filiaggi was murdered by her jealous ex-husband James Filiaggi – Your Worst Nightmare

May 22, 2018, 7:34 am
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Lisa Huff Filiaggi murder - seen here in a family photo
Lisa Huff Filiaggi was trying to start a new life with her kids, but her ex-husband could not bear to see her happy with another man – Your Worst Nightmare spotlights her murder. Jan. 24, 1994, in Lorain County, Ohio, and James Filiaggi arrived at his ex-wife’s home in a rage. Lisa frantically called 911 as he smashed the door down and then she fled out of her house and down the street. Filiaggi chased Lisa into a neighbor’s house, where he found her hiding from him in a closet. He then dragged his ex-wife into the bathroom where be […]

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Reggie and Carol Sumner were buried alive in plan hatched by their former neighbor Tiffany Cole

May 22, 2018, 8:15 am
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Reggie and Carol Sumner moved from South Carolina to Jacksonville, Florida in 2005, after decided they wanted to enjoy a more laid back life but they ended up buried alive – Your Worst Nightmare spotlights this disturbing case. The Sumners, both 61, had known Tiffany Ann Cole for many years, their families having lived next to each other for some time. So when they decided to move to another state, they also agreed to sell their car to Cole. She’d arranged to make regular payments to the couple and had driven down several times with a few friends to their new home […]

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