In case you’ve just dropped in, we are looking at the death of actress and model Felicia Tang, who is mostly remembered for her work in various erotic media. She was found on the bathroom floor at her 43 year-old boyfriend’s home on Sept. 11, 2009. Felicia was dead by the time the emergency services arrived and had over 320 wounds to her face and body. … Continue reading Case#13: The Preacher & The Porn Star (Part.2)
An exemplary three-part documentary on the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence was nothing less than the story of Britain over the past quarter century. Crime documentaries can easily be a little over the top with their titles, but this is in no way a superfluous choice. Ask anybody from the United Kingdom about the tragedy that befell Stephen Lawrence 25 years ago and most will … Continue reading Stephen: The Murder That Changed A Nation
Shortly after noon on Friday, Sept. 11, 2009 Brian Lee Randone, a 45-year-old white man, called 911 to report that his girlfriend of several months was not breathing. 911: “911 emergency.” BLR: “Yeah. I need, I need an ambulance at 509 West Duarte.” 911: What’s going on?” BLR: My girlfriend, I think she’s having a heart attack.” 911: “Is she breathing?” BLR: “I don’t know.” 911: … Continue reading Case#13: The Preacher & The Porn Star (Part.1)
What does it matter that two crazy teenagers shot 12 other teenagers and one teacher to death at a school somewhere in the American Midwest almost twenty years ago? It was just another school shooting and since then there has been Virginia Tech which accounted for nearly three times as many victims, didn’t it, not to mention any amount of death and catastrophe in places … Continue reading Columbine
We’ll keep this piece spoiler light; but proceed with caution if you haven’t yet watched Evil Genius. Evil Genius: The True Story of America’s Most Diabolical Bank Heist is essentially a whodunnit. Over four episodes of the crime docuseries, co-directors Trey Borzillieri and Barbara Schroeder attempt to determine who is responsible for the 2003 death of Brian Wells, an Erie, Pennsylvania, pizza-delivery man who robbed a PNC … Continue reading Evil Genius
Heaven’s Gate is a well-produced and thought-provoking podcast that takes a deep look at the cult of the same name. Over 20 years ago, this group emerged from obscurity and captivated the world when 39 members took their own lives in a mass suicide. Host Glynn Washington offers insight through interviews with the departed’s loved ones, ex-members and videotapes containing personal messages left behind by the … Continue reading Heaven’s Gate
Becky Watts was a 16-year-old student living in Bristol, England. At the time of her disappearance she was living with her dad Darren Galsworthy and his wife Angie. Becky was reported missing on Feb, 20. 2015 at around 4 pm by her family who proclaimed that her disappearance was “out of character”. Over the following days preceding Becky’s disappearance a social media campaign called #FindBecky was launched … Continue reading Case#12: The Murder Of Becky Watts
“The more you talk about it, the more you come to a realization that this is part of the closure process.” So says Dave Holloway about his involvement in the first installment Oxygen’s recent true-crime series, The Disappearance of Natalee Holloway. For 12 years, Dave has agonized about what happened to his 18-year-old daughter Natalee when she disappeared from the island of Aruba on May 30, 2005, captivating the world … Continue reading The Disappearance Of Natalee Holloway
An almost stranger-than-fiction tale of paradise found and paradise lost is recounted in the documentary, The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden, a true-crime mystery that unfolded in the remote islands off the South American coast during the 1930s that remains unsolved to this day. Tiring of conventional life in Germany, a doctor and his sickly mistress retreat from civilization and head to the furthest … Continue reading The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden
John Myles Sharpe was born Feb. 28, 1967 in Mornington, Australia. Sharpe met his New Zealand-born wife, Anna Kemp, when they were working together at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. They married in October 1994. and lived together in various locations around the Mornington Peninsula area south of Melbourne. Their daughter, Gracie Louise Sharpe, was born in August 2002. She was born with a condition called hip dysplasia, a congenital abnormality … Continue reading Case#11: The Sharpe Family
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