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In the early morning hours of June 6th, 1996 residents slept peacefully in their beds as the moon hung over the quiet neighborhood of Dalrock Heights Addition, in the small town of Rowlett Texas.
At 2:30 a.m., a 9-1-1 operator received a frantic call for help. Darlie Routier, a 26-year-old wife and mother of three young boys, reported that a knife-wielding intruder had broken into her house, attacking her and her two of her young sons.
From a loving...
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The search for Caylee made front-page headlines when news broke of two-year-old Caylee Anthony's disappearance from her home in Orlando Florida in mid-July 2008. Caylee's own mother, Casey Anthony stepped into the national spotlight after the suspicious disappearance of her daughter. As her story unfolded the strange story started to come out, this included a dysfunctional family life, an array of deceptions and criminal conduct.
As the investigation...
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Somebody knows what happened to Madeleine McCann, the 3-year-old little girl, who disappeared without a trace from her bed in a holiday resort on a family vacation in Praia Da Luz, Portugal, on May 3rd, 2007.
Madeleine was sleeping in a back bedroom of an unlocked apartment with her young twin siblings as her parents, Kate and Gerry, ate dinner and drank at a Tapas bar about 75 metres (just over 246 feet) away with friends who had joined them on...
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On August 20th, 1989, privileged brothers, 21-year-old Lyle and 18-year-old Erik Menendez, gunned down their parents in their Beverly Hills mansion. Entertainment executive Jose Menendez was, shot in the head at point-blank range. Their mother, Kitty was, shot multiple times, while trying to escape. They admitted to having committed the murders, but claimed to have been victims of abuse. The jury thought otherwise, and eventually found them guilty...
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The most authoritative account ever written of how an ordinary juvenile delinquent named Charles Manson became the notorious murderer whose crimes still shock and horrify us today.
More than forty years ago Charles Manson and his mostly female commune killed nine people. It was the culmination of a criminal career that traces back to Manson's childhood.
Manson puts the killer in the context of his times, the turbulent late sixties, an era of race...
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