He hadn’t set out that day to become a murderer… — Joseph Scott Pemberton, at 19 years old, was inadvertently going to start an international incident on October 11, 2014, that was going to cause protests to erupt on the streets of the Philippines and cause a major headache for the occupant of the White House thousands of miles away. Pemberton…

Childhood rejection turned him into a killer who liked to hunt down his victims like animals — Celia Van Zanten was never going to celebrate another Christmas again. On December 22, 1971, she popped out to buy some soda but wouldn’t be popping home again any time soon. Her body was found a few days later on Christmas Day partially covered in leaves and snow at the…

A drink-fuelled night ends in the worst kind of tragedy — The incident that was going to kill Francis Daniel Brohm was going to be a devastating shock to his family and friends, a blow that was going to be hard for them to recover from, so sudden was the loss. But it was going to be more of a shock…

A good man’s murder that took decades to solve — Roy McCaleb was going to be murdered in his home in Houston, Texas in September 1985 and his killer was going to get away with it for 28 years. At 51 years old, he was a seasoned construction worker, happily married for the second time to Carolyn Sue Krizan-Wilson, and…

He appeared to be just another god-fearing churchgoer, father, and family man. He wasn’t. — At the age of twenty-one, Dennis Radar, after dropping out of Kansas Wesleyan University, joined the United States Air Force. …

An experienced crew, a luxury yacht, and a brutal storm that will test their will to survive — Sailing was in Deborah Kiley’s blood from an early age. Before taking on the job of crewing the luxury yacht, the Trashman, from Maine to Toronto, she had done it all. Texas-born, she had completed the Whitebread Round the World Race at the age of 23 and was accustomed to…

The bad was beaten into him from an early age one blow at a time — Luis Alfredo Garavito Cubillos was as heartless as it’s possible to be and as depraved as it’s possible to become. He wasn’t a particularly menacing-looking individual, wasn’t someone you would immediately find physically threatening as he sauntered by on the street during daylight hours. …

How much longer could he keep getting away with murder? — The first body that was found belonged to Melissa Barthelemy. The date was December 11, 2010, and from the decomposition of her body, it was evident that she had been in the ground for a long time. She had been reported missing in July the year before and was only…

Life tore them apart, death bonded them together — Mary Neilson, at 22 years old, was a psychology student at the University of Western Australia and, strangely enough, it was her car that was going to get her killed. Not in a car crash, but from the person she met at a spare parts yard. She went there to…