Why convicted child killer Susan Smith thought she could get away with murdering her young sons
Famous Murder Cases
“Susan Smith writes a letter saying, ‘I’m not a monster.’ News flash! Yes you are!”
Famous Murder Cases
September 29, 2017
Friday Crime Stories: Child killer Susan Smith’s prison mischief & Florida police say they caught a ‘killer clown’
Notorious child killer Susan Smith has been misbehaving in a South Carolina prison, where she is serving a life sentence for the deaths of her two sons, according to People magazine’s Steve Helling. Helling joins Nancy Grace, Crime Stories contributing reporter Mary Ellen Hopkins, forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan from Jacksonville State University, and co-host …
Famous Murder Cases
September 27, 2017
Plano mass shooting suspect flaunted gun, knife at local bar just before he shot and killed eight people three blocks away: Police
Employees at the bar followed behind him and called police, but it was too late
Famous Murder Cases
September 21, 2017
SEE IT: Photos of remains found in search for Natalee Holloway released
Oxygen has released photos of bone fragments that may belong to missing Natalee Hollway, who disappeared on a high school graduation trip to Aruba in 2005. The Oxygen docuseries The Disappearance of Natalee Holloway has chronicled the search for her possible remains and the difficult process of identifying them. As CrimeOnline previously reported, a tipster …
Famous Murder Cases
September 18, 2017
BREAKING: Arrest made in 25-year-old murder of Massachusetts woman
Investigators have made an arrest in a cold case murder that has gone unsolved for a quarter of a century. MassLive.com reports that Gary E. Schara has been arrested and charged with the murder of Lisa Ziegert, who was killed in 1992 in Agawam. She was 24 years old at the time of her murder. District Attorney …
Famous Murder Cases
September 12, 2017
Scott Peterson: Convict had $15K cash, a gun, and brother’s license in car when arrested; photos re-released amid appeal
When Scott was arrested in April 2003 for the murder of his wife, Laci, and unborn son, Connor, police pulled him over with a surplus of items in his car, which helped prosecutors convince a jury he was planning on going into hiding to avoid punishment. In the upcoming ABC true crime documentary, Truth and Lies: …
Famous Murder Cases
September 12, 2017
BOMBSHELL: Carpenter may be connected to unsolved Long Island Serial Killer murders, says prosecutor
A Long Island carpenter recently convicted of two murders may be connected to the unsolved Long Island Serial Killer case, says a prosecutor. As CrimeOnline previously reported, John Bittrolff, 51, was convicted of double murder in July. He is now serving a 50-year prison sentence for the murders of Rita Tangredi, 31, who was found dead in …
Famous Murder Cases
September 1, 2017
Friday Crime Stories: Will ‘new’ witnesses on A&E series help Scott Peterson get a new trial?
An A&E docu-series suggests investigators ignored several witnesses who claimed to have seen Laci Peterson walking her dog at a time that would have excluded Scott Peterson as the killer. Their testimony was not included in the trial that sent Peterson to California’s death row for murdering his wife in December 2003. Nancy Grace examines …
Famous Murder Cases
August 16, 2017
California fights back after convicted killer Scott Peterson accuses the state of allowing a ‘stealth juror’ to help convict him
Scott Peterson, the former Modesto resident currently on death row for killing his wife and unborn son in 2002, thinks that his death sentence is “cruel and unusual” and that a juror tainted the jury’s ultimate decision to convict him. He filed a claim to the state of California in 2015, but the state fought …
Famous Murder Cases
July 24, 2017
CrimeOnline Evidence Locker: Watch the Scott Peterson interrogation tapes
Laci Peterson vanished on Christmas Eve, 2002, and although it’s been almost 15 years since the Modesto mom-to-be disappeared, the hurt and pain still lingers for her family and friends. Interrogation tapes released earlier this year show her husband, the infamous convict Scott Peterson, casually mentioning what Laci did before she went missing, which further infuriated …
Famous Murder Cases
July 20, 2017
Will they find more bodies? Philadephia police join new search of Cosmo DiNardo property where four Bucks County men were shot to death
Law enforcement officers from Philadelphia and Bucks County, Pennsylvania, returned on Thursday to the 90-acre Solebury Township farm property where investigators discovered a common grave last week. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that numerous police officers and detectives performed a “walk-through” of the property on Thursday, a week after Law enforcement officials told the newspaper that …
Drug Crime
June 30, 2017
Jailhouse Justice? Mexican cartel leader who dismembered 6-year-old girl now in US prison
A Mexican drug cartel leader who brutally tortured and murdered a six-year-old girl in front of her parents is heading to prison for life, several times over. According to San Antonio Express News, Marciano “Chano” Millan Vasquez was given seven consecutive life sentences for his direct involvement in 29 murders and for participating in the slaughter …