Paul Augustus Howell Scheduled to Die
Florida State Trooper Jimmy FulfordFlorida to execute cop-killerby Robert A. WatersAt 6 p.m., on February 26, 2013, Paul Howell is scheduled to die at Florida State Prison in Raiford for the pipe-bomb...
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Anne RubensteinGetting away... by Robert A. WatersOne-third of all murders in America are never solved. Even with today’s technological advances (DNA, computers, video-camera surveillance, the ability...
View ArticleNotorious Killer "Escapes" the Needle
Multiple Murderer Tommy WyattTommy Wyatt dies of natural causes in Raifordby Robert A. WatersOn February 8, a stone-cold killer met his maker. Thomas Anthony Wyatt, who fled a work crew while serving...
View ArticleMass Murder at Sand Creek
Union troops rape, scalp, and murder Native Americansby Robert A. WatersDuring the so-called Civil War, Federal troops weren’t content to commit atrocities only against Southern civilians. In 1864,...
View ArticleTo Die 10,000 Miles From Home
The Legacy of Sgt. Robert Alvin Frenchby Robert A. WatersMy father, John Waters, was born and raised near Ocklawaha, Florida. He attended East Marion High School with his best friend, Robert Alvin...
View ArticleMissing California Girl Found Dead
TRANSCRIPT: Police statement about the disappearance and murder of Marysa Nichols On Thursday, February 28,Red Bluff (California) Police Chief Paul Nanfito provided this timeline on the search for...
View ArticleWhat Happened to the Bloody Benders?
Kansas family of killers disappearsMa Bender was a skank. Speaking with a heavy German accent, she hovered over guests like an angry hawk. But she could put a meal on the table.William Bender, aka...
View ArticleAmerican Paratrooper Hanged by Great Britain
Karl Gustav HultenKiller's crime spree occurred during World War IIby Robert A. WatersIn 1945, a blitzed-out Great Britain was in no mood to molly-coddle a cold-faced killer. Even if he was American....
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Death in the City of Brotherly Loveby Robert A. WatersThe gruesome events that took place at Gosnell’s Women’s Medical Society in Philadelphia are beyond belief. Dr. Kermit Gosnell, owner of the...
View ArticleColorado's Most Notorious Unsolved Murder
Emily GriffithWho Killed the Retired School-marm?A recent Denver Postarticle by Kirk Mitchell alerted me to this unusual case. Unfortunately, after 67 years, there’s little hope of determining who...
View ArticleWill Larry Eugene Mann Actually Die for his Crimes?
Elisa NelsonThe Long WaitFlorida Governor Rick Scott announced that he has signed a death warrant for child-killer Larry Eugene Mann. The murderer is scheduled to die by lethal injection on April 10th...
View ArticleOutlaws Killed by Citizens
Vintage stories of robbers shot by armed citizensCompiled by Robert A. WatersAlmost from the beginning of this country, armed citizens have successfully fought back when attacked. Until the advent of...
View ArticleConnecticut’s “Mad Dog” Killer
Joseph TaborskySentenced to death and set free to kill againby Robert A. WatersJoseph Taborksy could never quite get it right. A hardened criminal with a cocky attitude, he even got a second chance...
View ArticleIll-Fated Robbery of the Apache Limited
Wannabe outlaws subdued by passengersby Robert A. WatersIn 1937, Wisconsin-born Henry Lorenz Loftus, 22, and Canadian Harry Dwyer Donaldson, 27, longed to see the Wild West they’d read about in the...
View ArticleTwo Unsolved Murders in the Florida Keys
25 years and still countingNOTE: The following information comes directly from the website of the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office.Patty Lanza, 4 years old, murdered on Little Torch Key in 1988Patricia...
View ArticleAre These the Boston Bombers?
Today the FBI released these photographs of suspects in the Boston bombings. If you have information concerning either of these suspects, call the FBI at 1-800-225-5324.
View ArticleWho Knows Why?
Krystle CampbellOn the trail of Boston bombersby Robert A. WatersJust look at the dead: Krystle Campbell, 29, the hard-working manager of a steak house; Lu Lingzi, a Chinese graduate student majoring...
View ArticleFour Miles High and Falling
American airman survives free-fallby Robert A. WatersHigh above Saint Nazaire, France, Sergeant Alan Magee, a ball-turret gunner from New Jersey, began his fall out of the sky. On January 3, 1944,...
View ArticleHelp Find Jessica Heeringa
On Friday night, between 10:55 P.M. and 11:15 P.M., Jessica Heeringa vanished from the Exxon Mobil gas station at 1196 E. Sternberg Road in Norton Shores, Michigan. Police investigators have announced...
View ArticleThe Sadist
Innocent Victim Alice PorterKidnapped in Puebloby Robert A. WatersIn April of 1942, Americans cheered Jimmy Doolittle’s kamikaze-style raid on Japan. In Europe, there was little to celebrate—World War...
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