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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 7, 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
Apr 30, 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 23, 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 16, 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


Guilty or Innocent: The Case Against Sarah Jo Pender
In late October 2000, Indianapolis detectives had two bodies on their hands. On October 25th, the bodies of a man and woman were found...
Gina Westfall
Feb 1, 202410 min read


Murder in Brownstown: The Death of James Skinner
In 2017, the quiet town of Brownstown, IL was shocked to learn that a local Fayette County man had died in his home. At first, it was...
Gina Westfall
Jan 24, 20247 min read


The Uber Driver’s Rampage
On the afternoon of February 20th, 2016, Matt Melen called an Uber in Kalamazoo, Michigan. When the Chevy Equinox arrived, Matt initially...
Gina Westfall
Jan 11, 20248 min read


The Family Feud Murder
In a 2020 episode of Family Feud, Steve Harvey asked contestant Tim Bliefnick, “We asked one-hundred married men, what is the biggest...
Gina Westfall
Jan 3, 20248 min read


Free to Kill Again
We are supposed to trust our judicial system to keep known predators off the streets. What happens when that system fails? What happens...
Gina Westfall
Nov 29, 20238 min read


Real Life Horror: The Story of Ed Gein
The landscape of horror cinema as we know it today was highly influenced by one infamous midwestern serial killer. His crimes were so...
Gina Westfall
Oct 30, 20237 min read


The Serial Killer Dentist of St. Louis: Glennon Engleman
Dr. Glennon Englemann was born February 6th, 1927, in Saint Louis, Missouri. Dr. Engleman grew up on the south side of the city and felt...
Gina Westfall
Oct 24, 20239 min read


Born to Be a Serial Killer: Steven Pfeil
Steven Pfeil was born on June 7th, 1976. He is the middle child of his parents, Gayle and Roger Pfeil. Gayle and Roger had a son older...
Gina Westfall
Oct 17, 20239 min read


Don’t Let Me Out: Serial Killer David Maust
Are some people just born evil or do bad parents create monsters? Is it possible that some individuals can’t fight the compulsion to harm...
Gina Westfall
Oct 10, 202310 min read


The System Has Failed: The Murder of the Mimbach Family
Lawrence Scott Dame was born September 16th, 1972. He grew up in Minnesota with his parents and siblings. Unfortunately, when Lawrence,...
Gina Westfall
Oct 8, 20236 min read


A Husband’s Secret: The Victims of Herbert Baumeister
In the early 1990’s, young men from the gay bar scene of Indianapolis were disappearing. Just a few years after the arrest of Larry...
Gina Westfall
Oct 3, 202312 min read
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