In the same vein as Christopher Watts, Christian Longo is a narcissist and unforgivable murderer.
Narrator: Good evening and welcome back to Friday Night Crimes. Tonight’s case comes out of Oregon, a mostly forgotten state in the Pacific Northwest. Christian Longo is a family annihilator that may remind you of Christopher Watts, whose story I covered in a different article unrelated to Friday Night Crimes.
Let’s get into it.
The Timeline
April 25, 1967: Mary Jane Baker was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Her parents were Jehovah’s Witnesses that worshipped in the same congregation as the Longos.
January 23, 1974: Christian Michael Longo was born in Iowa, but he grew up in Ypsilanti Township, Michigan.
1974–1993: His…
Reflecting on the last two years and making plans for my future on Medium.
All new Medium writers make the same mistake.
They foolishly think that they will be fortunate enough to hit the jackpot immediately, and I’m sorry to break it to you, but it’s not that simple.
Don’t worry, I was one of these newbies too, once upon a time.
I won’t waste your time going into the gritty details, but I was essentially stuck in a job I hated, discovered Medium, and decided with minimal research I could “make it big” on a platform that did not know who I was.
Impulsivity, who? We don’t know them.
Jokes aside, I learned fairly quickly that it takes more than desperation and a dream to accomplish your goals. This couldn’t be truer than writing…
We will not forget Megan, Adam, or Jacob.
Narrator: Good evening and welcome back to Friday Night Crimes. Tonight’s story is bittersweet in that it concludes my ongoing three-part series about Megan Kanka, Adam Walsh, and now Jacob Wetterling.
Each of these children had a law named after them because of their murder.
Jacob’s Law actually came first, but because I report my cases in order of statehood, his story comes last. The Jacob Wetterling Act was passed in 1994 and was the first law to initiate a state sex offender registry. The government amended the act in 1996, after the murder of Megan Kanka in New Jersey.
Megan’s Law made sex offender registration compulsory, as her parents had been unaware that…
22 years ago today, somebody dumped the body of a 15-year-old girl in the middle of a Maine highway. The case remains unsolved.
The year 1999 has the rare privilege of existing in a frozen state, especially since it seems so close but is actually two decades in the past. As such, the still-unsolved murder of Ashley Ouellette feels recent but is actually not.
For 22 years, her loved ones have asked themselves two unanswerable questions: Who killed her…and why?
At 3:57 AM on February 10, 1999, the body of 15-year-old Ashley Ouellette was found in the middle of Pine Point Road in Scarborough, Maine. Police ruled her cause of death a homicide; strangulation.
Her body showed no signs of vehicular trauma; someone…
You can’t arrest a corpse.
Narrator: Good evening and welcome back to Friday Night Crimes. Once again, I must apologize for the delay between episodes — life has a habit of getting in the way, doesn’t it? The best laid plans of mice and men and all that.
Anyway, let’s get started. This week we’re diving headfirst into one of Hollywood’s most infamous murders: the brutal slaying of the Black Dahlia.
The Timeline: 1924–2016
Elizabeth “Beth” Short was born on July 29, 1924, in Hyde Park, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. Her parents were Cleo and Phoebe May Short, and Elizabeth was the third-born of five daughters.
In…
The first ever collection of cases for SKS writers!
USA
Victim Name: Rachel Cooke
Crime type: Abduction/probable homicide
Location: Georgetown, Texas
Date of disappearance: January 10, 2002
Victim Name: Sky Metalwala
Crime type: Probable parental homicide (also known as filicide)
Location: Redmond, Washington State
Date of disappearance: November 6, 2011
Victim Name: Maggie Long
Crime type: Arson, homicide by fire
Location: Bailey, Colorado
Date of crime: December 1, 2017
Europe
Victim Name: Madeleine McCann
Crime type: Child abduction, probable homicide
Location: Praia da Luz, Portugal (family was on vacation)
Date of crime: May 3, 2007
Status: Assigned to David Fox
Victim Name: Natalee Holloway Crime type: Abduction, probable homicide Location: Oranjestad…
Mark Redwine’s trial has been delayed several times since his 2017 arrest.
Colorado seriously can’t catch a break. First, there was the still-unsolved and now-infamous murder of JonBenét Ramsey in Boulder. Second, justice for Durango’s Dylan Redwine has been postponed repeatedly since 2017; even though investigators uncovered partial remains in 2013.
Let’s back up for a moment, though, and talk about what led up to this point.
The Victim
Dylan Nicholas Redwine was born on February 6, 1999 to Mark Redwine and Elaine Hatfield. His parents later divorced after being married for 18 years. …
FNC: January 8, 2021
You know the stories of Jeffrey Dahmer and Ed Gein all too well. But what about the first and last state-sanctioned execution?
Narrator: Good evening and welcome back to Friday Night Crimes. Once again, I must apologize for the delay between episodes — life does have a habit of getting in the way, doesn’t it? The best laid plans of mice and men and all that.
Anyway, let’s get started. This week we’re headed to the Far North/Midwest state of Wisconsin to discuss John McCaffary.
The Timeline: 1820–1853
1820
John McCaffary was born in Ireland. Little is known about his early life, but it can be presumed that he was not a political figure or wealthy merchant, otherwise there would be more information about him.
1837–1846
McCaffary…
“Hi I’m Jaycee. I want to thank you for your support and I’m doing well,” — quote from victim’s first public statement post-abduction
When kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard suddenly reappeared after 18 years, her remarkable story completely captivated me. I spent hours reading article after article about her, simultaneously repulsed by the kidnappers’ actions and inspired by Jaycee’s resilience. The monumental trauma that she endured at the hands of Phillip and Nancy Garrido is the sort of thing you never want to think is real.
Though Jaycee herself described her experience in a book titled A Stolen Life: A Memoir, having a third party discuss it can sometimes be more palatable to the public. So, here we go.
The Victim
Jaycee Lee Dugard was born…
It gets better.
This year has had unprecedented amounts of suckage.
Brush fires in Australia, the potential for WW3, the impeachment trial, a global pandemic that has killed millions worldwide, subsequent quarantine, face masks/social distancing, the murder of George Floyd and return of the Black Lives Matter movement, the Summer Olympics postponement, the deaths of Kobe Bryant, Chadwick Boseman, Alex Trebek, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg…
… like I said. Unprecedented amounts of suckage.
If you’re dealing will all of this chaos on top of losing a loved one, whether they passed from COVID-19 or something else, it’s even harder to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
You’ve probably…
