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Self-Defense in Knightdale, North Carolina
Woman "reasonably believed her life to bein danger" by Robert A. Waters When violent felon DeondreaAllen Branch broke into the office of accountant Connie Wells, she shot him. A clear case of...
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Who Murdered the California Schoolgirls?
Karen Lynn TomkinsMore than 50 years later, the cases are unsolved…by Robert A. WatersOn July 3, 1962, eleven-year-old Dorothy Gale Brown (called Gale) was reported missing from Torrance, California....
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Book Review
A Matter of Record: The Commonwealth vs. Richard Charles Haefner Derek J. Sherwood Review by Robert A. Waters Derek J. Sherwood is the author of the successful true crime book, Who Killed...
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New Year's Day Murder
The Girl from the Wrong Side of the Tracks by Robert A. Waters One cold night in Cleveland, seventy years ago, Sheila Ann Tuley pulled a heavy coat over her sweater and headed out the door of her...
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Five Folsom Inmates Gassed After Murdering Warden
First use of gas chamber in California by Robert A. Waters In PEOPLE vs. Eudy, the California Supreme Court summarized an attempted breakout at Folsom Prison: "The crime of which the defendants stand...
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Murder on Spook Hollow Road
The Forgotten Girl by Robert A. Waters It was two o'clock in the morning when motorist Richard Wallace noticedthe body of a woman lying beside a brand-new sedan on Spook Hollow Road. He aimed his...
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Cunanan and the Caretaker
William ReeseThe Forgotten Victim by Robert A. Waters Andrew Cunanan murdered five people. Two were celebrities, Gianni Versace and Lee Miglin. Two were former lovers. And then there was William...
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Inferno of Death
Ernest Ivy "Boots" ThomasRememberingIwo Jima by Robert A. Waters It's been 73 years since the bloody Battle of Iwo Jima. Part of General Douglas McArthur's "island-hopping" strategy, Iwo Jima tested...
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Who Was the Fiendish Elephant Killer? by Robert A. Waters A week before Christmas in 1941, a bizarre captionin the San Antonio Light read: "Crazy Hate of Animals Behind the Circus Elephant Murders?"...
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The Teen and the Handyman
Gripping First-Hand Account of Kidnapping and Murder by Robert A. Waters At 9:00 a.m., on normally peaceful Stony Brook Road, violence exploded inside a well-kept two-story home. For many years,...
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Murders Unsolved
Louise Lawson Ghosts of the Unquiet Dead by Robert A. Waters Almost every town, village, and city in America has unsolved murder cases. Some date as far back as the founding of this country, while...
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"The constant drip, drip, drip of innuendo"
Remembering Terrorists who Weren'tby Robert A. WatersIn 2007, Richard Jewell died of complications from diabetes. Only 47, this mild-mannered "mama’s boy" became entrapped in a storm of intrigue...
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Can You Help Solve these Cold Cases?
Julie FullerTwo decades-long mysteries by Robert A. Waters A Sad End for Baby X Rupert, Idaho has a population of nearly 6,000 souls. This quiet town near the Snake River seems an unlikely place for...
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"I had to defend myself and my family..." by Robert A. Waters The following is a police report of an incident that could easily have turned deadly. It happened in my hometown of Ocala, Florida when...
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"Enveloped in Mystery"Compiled by Robert A. WatersIn 1895, a gruesome murder occurred in the backwaters of Florida. A few national newspapers published brief stories about the case, but never...
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Who Strangled 15-year-old Joanne Dunham?
50 years later, murder is still unsolvedFrom the New Hampshire Department of Justice website:"On June 11, 1968 at approximately 7:10 a.m., Joanne Dunham, age 15, was last seen while walking from her...
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$52.00 and a pack of bubble-gum
A Random Murder in Ocala by Robert A. Waters It was early on the morning of February 8, 1985, when I drove by the Tenneco service station and convenience store on State Road 200 in Ocala. The place...
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A Cultural Phenomenon
Walmart Heist Goes Doubly Wrong for Robberby Robert A. WatersRoughly 1 in 20 Floridians have permits to legally carry firearms. Concealed carry has become a cultural phenomenon in the state. Every...
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Searching for the "Hoodie Killer"
Let's Get Justice for Linda Raulerson By Robert A. Waters Ten years later, and there's still no resolution in the stone-cold murder of Linda Raulerson. On the night of July 22, 2008, the life of this...
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Hanging at Four Pole Creek
The First (and Last) Execution in Cabell County, West Virginia by Robert A. Waters For several days before the scheduled hanging of Allen Harrison, overloaded trains chugged into Huntington, West...
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