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Homicide

  • Omaima Nelson
    If you live with someone who owns a deep fryer – you may want to read this. You don’t want to piss them off and end up as dinner. Don’t roll your eyes. It’s happened before. Just ask Omaima Nelson’s former husband…
  • The Worst Valentine’s Day Ever
    Couples usually look for romance on Valentine’s Day. Romantic dinners, flowers, jewelry – that sort of thing. The last thing on anyone’s mind is murder. But it turned out a bit different for Dr. John Hamilton and his wife Susan…
  • Scott Kologi and the New Year’s Eve Murders
    On December 31st, 2017 The Kologi family from New Jersey never made it to midnight.  Steven and Linda Kologi, their eighteen-year-old daughter Brittany, and seventy-year-old Mary Schultz (a grandmother figure) were murdered by sixteen-year-old Scott Kologi…
  • The Lawson Family Christmas Murders
    Several days before Christmas 1929, Charles Davis “Charlie” Lawson took his wife and seven children shopping. Then on Christmas Day he killed all of them…
  • Ronald Gene Simmons – The Christmas Killer
    Ronald Gene Simmons is no Santa Claus. He may have a long, white beard but it’s attached to the face of one of the worst mass murderers in the history of Arkansas. In the span of a week, he killed fourteen family members and two other people and injured four others.
  • The Bigfoot Murder
    Larry Sanders and his friend Jimmy Knighten were out “noodling” (fishing with bare hands). Sanders strangled Knighten. He claimed Knighten had summoned Bigfoot to kill him.
  • New Year’s Eve Decapitation
    Christian Gomez was pissed at his mother. He finally decided that he had enough of her nagging. On New Year’s Eve, he went into the garage with his mother, took an ax…
  • Simon Sue and the New Year’s Day Murders
    On December 31, 2019, 15-year-old Tony Dutcher was very excited. He was spending some time with his grandparents as he had done for years. On January 1st, Carl and Joanna Dutcher’s family were surprised when they didn’t call to say Happy New Year as they always do. So they called the police…
  • The Hinterkaifeck Murders
    The Hinterkaifeck murders happened in a small town in Bavaria. It was owned by the Gruber family. On March 31, 1922, all six family members were mysteriously murdered.
  • Johnny Frank Garret
    On October 31, 1981, Johnny Frank Garret broke into a convent in Texas. The convent was across the street from his house. He raped and murdered seventy-six-year-old Sister Tadea Benz. He was arrested, convicted, and sentenced to death by lethal injection. Garret was seventeen years old when he murdered her.
  • The Dumbbell Murder
    Everyone has said the phrase “I want to kill him/her” at least once. You know it’s true. People don’t mean it, but when you’re angry…the thought just works! Although every once in a while, someone decides to try it. But I’ve never heard of anyone that fucked it up as bad as Ruth Snyder!
  • The Amityville Horror Part 1 – The DeFeo Murders
    Amityville, Long Island. You know the name. But before The Amityville Horror, there was something much more horrific…and 100% real. On November 13, 1974, Ronald Defeo Sr, his wife Louise, and their children Dawn, Allison, Mark, and John were shot and killed in their beds. The oldest child Ron Jr. was the only survivor. He was also the shooter. He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison…
  • What’s Your Last Meal?
    We all have our favorite foods. Maybe it’s some that your mother made when you were a kid or a dish at your favorite restaurant. And of course…a dessert to follow it up with! But what if it was the last thing you were ever going to eat? Now that I think about it – I’m not 100% sure exactly what I’d choose. If you can’t make up your mind either – here’s a list of what some famous killers had for their last meals:
  • The Kobe School Killer
    On the morning of May 27, 1997, in the port city of Kobe located on the Japanese island of Honshu, police got several calls from people passing the town’s junior high school about something that looked like a mannequin’s head laying in front of the gate. When police arrived they quickly realized that this was not a mannequin’s head, but the head of an 11-year-old mentally challenged boy named Jun Hase…