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Laura lived in room 518 in Hill Hall dormitory, a single room at Eastern Michigan University. When she walked into her door after the secret Santa Christmas party, she called her boyfriend Travis Scott, who worked at an engineering firm, Covanta Energy, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Scott was working late, and the two spoke for a few minutes before Laura stated that she was turning in for the night. Laura had exams the next day, and when she failed to show up, her friends increasingly grew concerned. They began frantically calling her phone, but she was not picking up. In Hastings, Michigan, Robert and Debra Dickinson, Laura's parents, were also growing concerned. They were a tight-knit family,...
One day while Dorothy Stratten was on shift working at a Diary Queen, an older man walked into the store. Dorothy noted his outfit - a long fur coat, lizard skin boots, and gold and diamond jewelry - and she was captivated. She had never seen anyone like him before, and the two talked for a little bit before he drove off in a black sports car. Dorothy was sure she would never see the sophisticated stranger again. To her surprise, the man called the store a few days later looking for her, and asked her out on a date. The man, 26-year-old Paul Snider, had seen Dorothy's beauty and he had plans for her. Paul was a man with no real means of securing an income. He had dropped out of school when h...
Brian Shaffer called his girlfriend Alexis and expressed how much he missed her and loved her. He told her that he was looking forward to spending the next week with her in Miami. As the call wrapped up, he told her that he was planning on bar hopping with his friend Clint. She asked him to call her the next day, and he readily agreed. After hanging up, he and Clint walked out of a bar called The Ugly Tuna. They made their way down the street, entering a few bars along the way. They would walk into a bar, take a shot or two, and then walk back out to find the next bar. They continued their pub crawl for a while, slowly making their way towards the Arena District. When they got into a bar cal...
Lisa Stebic was an attractive mother of two when she inexplicably went missing in Plainfield, Illinois in April of 2007. When the police received the call about Lisa's disappearance, this sparked immediate questions, with the biggest one at the time being why Craig was not the one who reported his wife missing. A background check revealed that Craig was a former private investigator, and that there were two reports on file regarding his run-ins with the law. The first report dated back to October 8, 1995, when Craig and his father were arrested for possible illegal hunting. There was fresh blood on Craig's truck, but there were no animals found. Police at the time believed that the animals w...
It was August 30th, 1961. Beverly and Donald Burr bedroom was on the main floor of their house, tucked into the rear. They usually slept with their door open just in case their kids needed them sometime in the night. Ann, with Mary in tow, walked into her parents' bedroom and woke her mother, explaining that Mary was feeling really itchy inside her cast. Beverly woke up and took both girls to Ann's bedroom, soothing Mary until she fell asleep. Beverly talked to Ann for a few moments, asking her to look out for Mary. She then headed downstairs and went back to sleep. Sometime after 5 a.m., Beverly woke up and decided to check on Mary. When she got to the room, she found Mary sleeping peaceful...
On June 4, 2002, the Smart family was uncharacteristically busy, and Lois spent the day catching up on much needed work before the family embarked on the day's activities. They had to attend the funeral of a grandfather, and on top of that, Elizabeth was going to receive an award at school. The principal had requested that Elizabeth play her harp during the award ceremony, so she had to be at the venue before the event started. Despite the time constraints and getting the six children to the events, Lois was able to pull it off without a hitch. At the end-of-year ceremony, Elizabeth bagged several awards for physical fitness and academics. By the time they made it home that evening however, ...
Dana Rhoden's sister, Bobby Jo Manley, had been asked by Chris Sr. to feed his pets that morning because he and Gary wouldn't be around. With Hannah May having given birth to daughter Kylie just five days earlier, Chris Sr. knew that Dana would have her hands full taking of their daughter and granddaughter. Bobby Jo gladly agreed, and drove over to Chris Sr.'s house sometime past 7 a.m. on April 22, 2016. When she walked into the house, she was met by a gruesome sight. The house was bloody, and the bodies of the two men were covered in a great deal of blood. Bobby Jo immediately called the police, and her call was received at 7:51 a.m. by the dispatcher. A hysterical Bobby Jo tried describing the scene, and told the 911 operator that the two men looked like they had been badly beaten. Bobby Jo provided the house address, and the operator asked her to walk outside the house and stay there. She was also asked to make sure that no one else went into the house. The shaken Bobby Jo left the house and closed the door behind her. What she saw next was a grisly scene that would shake an entire county to its core.
In late October 2011, police in Florida received a call from a man with a very interesting story. He claimed that his relative's ex-girlfriend had called him about needing the services of a hit man. Unbeknownst to her, the man she had called was a secret government informant, and was not willing to help her carry out the sinister plan. The officers who received the call were not willing to take any chances, especially since the informant was convinced that the woman was actually serious about getting someone to help her carry out the sinister plan. As the man explained, Nicole Faccenda was looking to kill her former boyfriend's new girlfriend...What happened next is a helluva twist...
Catherine Rose Isenberg was an up and coming actress in the East Coast theater scene in the early 1980s. The daughter of a prominent psychologist, she graduated from the top finishing schools and a bright future was hers for the taking in whatever endeavor she choose. But on December 1st, 1984, the beautiful Caroline was viciously assaulted and murdered. Who would want to kill the mild-mannered young actress who had charmed so many theater goers with her "sweet shyness"?
An anthology of True CrimeMurder is tragic no matter when it happens, but society has a stronger reaction to murder when it happens to someone who is loved and adored by all, someone famous, someone for whom life has been cut too short. When an actress is murdered, when her potential for future success taken away, the world seems to stop for a moment. And in the case of Rebecca Schaeffer, everyone is still asking why. Her friends and family were robbed of years of her life. Her fans were robbed of hours of entertainment that she seemed destined for...But for a crazed stalker named Robert Bardo.