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The Highway Killer: The Victims of Larry Eyler
Between 1982 and 1984, young men throughout the Midwest were disappearing, to be found dead along the side of the highway. The number of...
Gina Westfall
Sep 26, 202314 min read


The Bingo Murder: The Yoko Cullen Story
Yoko Cullen was an eighty-five-year-old Belleville, IL resident in 2011. The elderly widow was born April 23rd, 1926, in Japan. She...
Gina Westfall
Sep 22, 20236 min read


Thieving & Murdering: The Victims of Dorothy Williams
On December 5th, 1987, the body of seventy-nine-year-old Lonnie Laws was found in his Chicago home. The elderly man had been strangled...
Gina Westfall
Sep 19, 20238 min read


The Bonecrusher: Serial Killer in Peoria
In the summer of 2003, the body of thirty-six-year-old Sabrina Payne was found in a field near Tremont, Illinois. Sabrina was a black...
Gina Westfall
Sep 12, 20236 min read


Accident or Murder?: The Death of Cynthia Hrisco
On Christmas Day in 1999, Cynthia Hrisco and her husband Frank Buschauer were spending their first holiday season as parents. The couple...
Gina Westfall
Sep 10, 20236 min read


Twisted: The Murders of Marsha Spicer & Michelle Huff-Ricci
On May 15th, 2006, a fisherman walking in a wooded area near Bates City, Missouri, found a freshly dug hole, filled with loose dirt....
Gina Westfall
Sep 5, 20239 min read


Dangerous Games: The Victims of Edward Wayne Edwards
At approximately 10am on Monday, August 8th, 1977, police in Summit County, Ohio found the bodies of two missing young people: Billy...
Gina Westfall
Aug 29, 202312 min read


St. Louis Metro Serial Killer or Killers?
In the spring of 2000, an article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch highlights a frightening string of dead bodies dumped in East St. Louis,...
Gina Westfall
Aug 22, 202315 min read


In the Blood: Kalamazoo’s Sibling Serial Killers
On May 30th, 1964, thirty-year-old Gary Smock was in Battle Creek, Michigan, looking for a place to host a youth event for his church. It...
Gina Westfall
Aug 15, 20239 min read


The Foster Child: The Murder of Lisa Knoefel
On November 16th, 2012, a 911 call came into the dispatch center in Lake County, Ohio. On the other end of the line was a hysterical...
Gina Westfall
Jul 18, 20236 min read


Witness for the Prosecution: The Murder of Judy Malinowski
On August 2nd, 2015, patrons of a Speedway gas station in Gahanna, Ohio, were horrified as they watched a man pour gasoline on a female...
Gina Westfall
Jun 27, 20238 min read


The Wedding Guest: The Murder of Bridget Drobney
The small town of Wilsonville, located in Central Illinois, is populated by only six hundred citizens. Before July 13th, 1985,...
Gina Westfall
Jun 20, 20238 min read


A Mother's Nightmare: The Murders of Desiree McCartney & Nathaniel Ritz
In the spring of 2017, Christina McCartney was living in Osgood, Indiana, with her three children, boyfriend, and his young son....
Gina Westfall
Jun 6, 20238 min read


Teenage Killer Couple: The Murders of Bob & Geneva Phillips
On the morning of November 12th, 1997, police in Marion, Illinois, were called to a house on State Street. Inside, the police found the...
Gina Westfall
May 30, 20238 min read


Beyond Reasonable Doubt: The Murder of Theresa Halbach
On November 3rd, 2005, Theresa Halbach’s parents grew concerned when they haven’t heard from their daughter in a few days. The...
Gina Westfall
May 23, 202329 min read


The Good Samaritan: The Murder of Mimi Covert
Mimi Covert had a promising career ahead of her at Southern Illinois University’s School of Medicine. That all changed on January 16th,...
Gina Westfall
May 22, 20237 min read


A Murder in Valley Park: The Death of Casey Williamson
In the morning hours of July 26th, 2002, six-year-old Casey Williamson came downstairs in her nightgown to watch cartoons on the...
Gina Westfall
May 16, 20238 min read


Minding Mother: The Murder of Sepharna Gleason
Sepharna Gleason was born March 3rd, 1851, in Steuben County, Indiana. Sepharna married James Gleason in 1882. The two worked on their...
Gina Westfall
May 15, 20236 min read


Death of a Solider: The Murder of Inez Tulk
When first responders arrived at the Owensville Motor Inn on Thursday, August 4th, 2016, they found a woman shot to death outside her...
Gina Westfall
May 9, 20235 min read


The Murder of David & Dawn Lieneke
On July 4th, 1989, Chester and Frances Lieneke went to play bingo, leaving their two grandchildren at home in the Dutch Hollow Village...
Gina Westfall
May 2, 20236 min read
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