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Out of Control: The Murder of Blake Wolfe
On Thanksgiving Day, Blake Wolfe's ex-wife became concerned that she was unable to reach Blake to finalize plans to exchange the children...
Gina Westfall
Aug 21, 20246 min read


Tragic Coincidence: The Murder of Halee Rathgeber
On April 10th, 2017, Thaddious Rice entered the emergency room at Deaconess Hospital in Evansville, Indiana with his girlfriend’s...
Gina Westfall
Aug 14, 20249 min read


The Greedy Executive: The Story of Charles Albanese
Two medical examiners, Alvin Querhammer of McHenry County and Robert Babcox of Lake County, met up at a conference in 1981. Querhammer...
Gina Westfall
Aug 7, 20249 min read


The Date from Hell: The Murder of Sydney Loofe
On the morning of November 15th, 2017, twenty-four-year-old Sydney Loofe finished her shift as a cashier at Menards in Lincoln, Nebraska. She uploaded a picture to her social media with the caption “ready for my date”. The next day, Sydney failed to show up for her shift at Menards. It was very unlike Sydney to not show up to work, so her friends and family were immediately concerned. The missing persons case began, with family alerting investigators that Sydney had been on a
Gina Westfall
Aug 4, 202414 min read


Murder in the Ozarks: The Death of Tommy Hope
On April 28th, 2004, Cindy Christenson and Brian Norton went to check on their friend, Tommy Hope. Tommy was a single man in his late...
Gina Westfall
Jul 17, 20248 min read


New Year’s Eve Murder: The Murder of Tyrone Hassel III
On New Year’s Eve 2018, there was a disturbance in Benton Harbor, Michigan. Twenty-one-year-old Kemia Hassel called 911 in hysterics. She...
Gina Westfall
Jul 10, 20246 min read


Obsessed: The Murder of Laurie Show
Lisa Michelle Lambert, who went by her middle name, was nineteen years old and pregnant during the holiday season of 1991. She had been...
Gina Westfall
Jul 4, 202412 min read


Delusional & Dangerous: The Story of the Slender Man Stabbing
On May 31st, 2014, a cyclist in Waukesha, Wisconsin came upon a little girl bleeding profusely along a dead-end road. The little girl...
Gina Westfall
Jul 3, 202414 min read


Pending Execution: Did Marcellus Williams Kill Lisha Gayle?
On August 11th, 1998, Dr. Daniel Picus returned to his University City home, a suburb of St. Louis, to discover the body of his wife....
Gina Westfall
Jun 26, 202412 min read


Midlife Murder: The Rob Andrew Story
On November 20th, 2001, just before Thanksgiving, Brenda Andrew called 911. She explained that both she and her estranged husband, Rob...
Gina Westfall
Jun 15, 202410 min read


Eliminating the Burdens: The Staudte Family Murders
Diane and Mark Staudte were raising their four children in the city of Springfield, Missouri. Diane worked as a nurse, while Mark was a...
Gina Westfall
Jun 15, 20246 min read


Unspeakable Crimes: The Stacey Lannert Story
Stacey Ann Lannert was born May 28th, 1972, in St. Louis, Missouri. She was the daughter of Thomas Lannert and his wife Deborah. Tom and...
Gina Westfall
May 8, 202411 min read


A Mother Accused: The Patricia Stallings Case
In 1987, Patrcia Stallings was a new mother living in Arnold, Missouri, just outside of Saint Louis. She was in her twenties in the...
Gina Westfall
May 1, 20248 min read


Always a Victim: The Tragic Life and Death of Thomas Bauer
Thomas Bauer was born in 1935. He married his wife, Joyce, and the two lived a relatively normal life in Granite City, Illinois. In the...
Gina Westfall
Apr 24, 20247 min read


America’s First Serial Killer Family: The Bloody Benders
Following the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act of 1862. Under this act, any person who was at least...
Gina Westfall
Apr 17, 202410 min read


Frenemies: The Murder of Stacy DeGrandchamp
Have you ever noticed that when teenaged boys get into arguments, they tend to argue about it and maybe throw some punches, but then it’s...
Gina Westfall
Feb 28, 20247 min read


Missing: Phoenix Coldon
On December 18th, 2011, Phoenix Coldon left the home she lived in with her parents in Spanish Lake, Missouri, suddenly and without...
Gina Westfall
Feb 21, 202412 min read


The Mystery of the Rain House
The Rain House is a brick house on the corner of Oak and Poplar Streets in Carbondale, Illinois. In 1982, it was the home of Professor...
Gina Westfall
Feb 14, 20244 min read


A Crime Most Vile: The Murders of Cory & Jenna Clark
On a February afternoon in 2004, school officials in Lapel, Indiana were trying desperately to reach Cory Clark. She had failed to pick...
Gina Westfall
Feb 14, 202411 min read


Who Killed Christine Schultz?
In the suburbs of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, thirty-year-old Christine Schultz is living with her two sons from a previous marriage to Elfred...
Gina Westfall
Feb 7, 20249 min read
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