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...

On a February afternoon in 2004, school officials in Lapel, Indiana were trying desperately to reach Cory Clark. She had failed to pick...

In the suburbs of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, thirty-year-old Christine Schultz is living with her two sons from a previous marriage to Elfred...

In late October 2000, Indianapolis detectives had two bodies on their hands. On October 25th, the bodies of a man and woman were found...

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...

On the afternoon of February 20th, 2016, Matt Melen called an Uber in Kalamazoo, Michigan. When the Chevy Equinox arrived, Matt initially...

In a 2020 episode of Family Feud, Steve Harvey asked contestant Tim Bliefnick, “We asked one-hundred married men, what is the biggest...

We are supposed to trust our judicial system to keep known predators off the streets. What happens when that system fails? What happens...

The landscape of horror cinema as we know it today was highly influenced by one infamous midwestern serial killer. His crimes were so...

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...

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...

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 others even though they know it is wrong? This is the story of a serial killer who, unbelievably, was given not just one extra chance but two, despite his pleas to stay incarcerated. The system failed, giving David Maust repeated opportunities to commit heinous murders. David Edward Maust was born in Connellsville, Pennsylvania

Lawrence Scott Dame was born September 16th, 1972. He grew up in Minnesota with his parents and siblings. Unfortunately, when Lawrence,...

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...

Between 1982 and 1984, young men throughout the Midwest were disappearing, to be found dead along the side of the highway. The number of...

Yoko Cullen was an eighty-five-year-old Belleville, IL resident in 2011. The elderly widow was born April 23rd, 1926, in Japan. She...

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...

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...

On Christmas Day in 1999, Cynthia Hrisco and her husband Frank Buschauer were spending their first holiday season as parents. The couple...

On May 15th, 2006, a fisherman walking in a wooded area near Bates City, Missouri, found a freshly dug hole, filled with loose dirt....