Madison McGhee always believed that her father died from a heart attack – but that all changed in 2012. The Charleston, Virginia, native, who was 16 at the time, was visiting her family at her grandmother’s house. She suddenly had a strange feeling that she couldn’t breathe. The patriarch was on her mind. “I remember...
Thomas Randolph, aka the “Black Widower,” was retried and convicted last year in connection with the murders of his sixth wife and the hit man he hired to get the job done back in 2008. But even though he sits in prison now for those two killings in Las Vegas, Nevada, questions about the deaths...
Sunday marks 50 years since Ted Bundy, one of America’s most infamous serial killers, abducted two young women on the same day from the same crowded Washington state beach. Although it was not the first time Bundy struck twice in one day, snatching the two women in a four-hour timeframe was among the most brazen...
A California woman’s plan to fake her own kidnapping in 2016 has brought some renewed attention to the unsolved disappearance of 16-year-old Tera Smith, who vanished from a run nearly 26 years ago. While Sherri Papini’s hoax kidnapping inspired a Hulu documentary series, “The Perfect Wife,” which premiered earlier this year and made national headlines,...
Steve Fishman was 19 years old when he hitched a ride with a serial killer. The aspiring reporter needed a ride to Connecticut, where he was interning at the Norwich Bulletin, his hometown newspaper. He was staying with a pal in Boston. It was the fall of 1975, and, in those days, hitchhiking was common,...
If you or someone you know is the victim of domestic abuse, please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 800-799-7233. Lawyers for Gabby Petito’s family are asking a Utah judge to allow their wrongful death lawsuit to continue as her parents rip into the Moab Police Department for minimizing scrutiny over their alleged failures...
RIVERHEAD, N.Y. – A year after the arrest of Rex Heuermann, a New York City architect accused of living a double life in the family-friendly Massapequa Park suburb, a task force is still pulling new evidence out of the trove of items seized during a 12-day search of his house. On July 13, 2023, Suffolk...
EXCLUSIVE – A now-63-year-old woman narrowly escaped serial killer Christopher Wilder in 1977, when she was 16, but she didn’t know it until years later. On a Fort Lauderdale beach in late June of that year, LeAnne, who asked to be identified only by her first name, was hanging out with her friends when two...
The Getty family is known for its immense wealth but also its misfortune. J. Paul Getty made his fortune in the oil industry, beginning work in Oklahoma oil fields with his father, according to the Getty Museum. The businessman negotiated a 30-year oil concession between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait in the late 1940s, giving Getty...
Gypsy Rose Blanchard, who recruited her former boyfriend to kill her mother after years of being forced to pretend she was gravely ill, announced Tuesday that she is pregnant and hopes to give her child everything she lacked growing up. Blanchard said in a YouTube video that the baby is due in January, which will...
