True Crime

Melanie McGuire is serving a life sentence for the murder of her husband, whose body parts were found scattered in three suitcases. — On the 28th of April 2004, nurse Melanie Lyn McGuire murdered her husband. But she didn’t just murder him. She dismembered his body, stuffed his parts into multiple suitcases, and tossed the suitcases into the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia. It wasn’t long before her deadly secret began to wash up…

A new homicide investigation opens into a low country teenager’s death mere days after the Alex Murdaugh trial ends. — On the 8th of July 2015, in the morning heat of South Carolina, a young boy was found motionless, surrounded by his own blood, in the center of Sandy Run Road in Hampton County. As paramedics arrived, it was clear that the teenager was deceased. He had such significant head…

How did Silicon Valley fraudster Elizabeth Holmes get away with her crimes? A movie tries to explain it — Gloria Steinem has said that women aren’t more moral than men — we’re just uncorrupted by power. Perhaps no one shows better than Elizabeth Holmes how much damage female tech entrepreneurs can do when they get their hands on it. The HBO documentary The Inventor tries to explain how the…

Mary Stauffer went the distance to protect the ones she loved. — In 1965, Mary Stauffer was a 21-year-old ninth-grade Algebra teacher in Roseville, Minnesota. One day, she welcomed a new student to her class: 16-year-old Ming Sen Shiue. Mary was warm and compassionate to Ming just as…

On Feb. 25, 2020, Winter Park woman, Sarah Boone, dialed 9–1–1 requesting help for her boyfriend whom she said was not breathing. When police arrived, Sarah told them an odd story, claiming Jorge Torres Jr. climbed inside a suitcase that she zipped up in a game of “hide and seek.”…

The 17-year-old went to the store to get eggs and never made it back home. — Sharon Ryan was in the mood to bake Christmas cookies on the evening of Thursday, December 16, 1976. The 17-year-old was in the middle of making a batch when she realized that she didn’t have enough eggs. She told her older sister, Patty, that she was going to walk to…

Nelson Jones’ family had plans for the day, but the 11-year-old boy convinced his mother to let him stay home alone. Nelson Louis Jones was a regular 11-year-old boy from Hope, Kansas. Adventurous and competitive, he liked spending time outside fishing and playing baseball. His sister Melissa recalled, “(We’d see)…

Two California men killed a man who disrespected them during a funeral reception. Now, they will never walk free again. United States District Judge William Alsup sentenced Robert Manning, 31, and Jamare Coats, 29, to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the shooting death of a victim…

The ground appeared as a cross that had been carved directly into the earth itself. Upon this holy symbol lay the nude body of a woman whose only adornment was a large silver crucifix that she always wore but instead of the shiny finish that it had possessed just days…