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Can This 50-Year-Old Mystery Still Be Solved?
Double Murder in Oak Grove CemeteryWritten by Robert A. WatersIn 1972, Sumter County remained a bulwark against the wave of uncontrolled growth beginning to smother Florida. The mega-city called The...
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Hillbilly Hank Williams
From Honky-Tonk to PopWritten by Robert A. Waters“These pop bands will play our hillbilly songs when they cain’t eat any other way.” Hank Williams.Hiram “Hank” Williams was an unapologetic hillbilly....
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Chicago Doctor Murders Girl
The dope fiend and the ten-year-oldBy Robert A. WatersOn October 7, 1905, the Louisville Courier Journal reported that ten-year-old Irene Klokow “died in a bedroom of the [Dr. Oliver B.] Hart...
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Florida Men Arrested for Grave-Robbing
Skulls of HeroesBy Robert A. WatersUnderneath a full moon, two men stood over a grave. One, Juan Burgos Lopez, 39, took a swig of gin, gargled it, and spat it on the ground. Then he lit a cigar and...
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Savage Murder of Mill Girl
The Crime that Should Not Have HappenedBy Robert A. WatersEighteen-year-old Elizabeth “Lizzie” Lausch worked as a knitter at the Hope Hosiery Mill in Adamston, Pennsylvania. On Friday, May 25, 1918,...
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Hanged as a spy, then comes back to life...
How it feels to die...On June 22, 1906, Rev. J. T. Mann gave an interview to a reporter from the Pensacola Journal describing the sensations he felt as he was being hanged 42 years earlier. This...
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Man Hanged Hero Dog
The Cruelest ActBy Robert A. Waters On December 1, 1937, Daniel Bartlett, 15, and his brother, Bernard, 13, were playing around the old Glen Haven Line Bridge in Irondequoit, New York, when they came...
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The Sentencing of Elizabeth Rodriguez
“Hitting a lick”By Robert A. WatersElizabeth Rodriguez told reporter Tina Whitworth, “I feel guilty, but not responsible” for the deaths of Maxwell Cook, 18, Jacob Redfearn, 18, and Jaykob Woodruff,...
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Falling through the cracks
The BridgeWritten by Robert A. WatersSince it was built 40 years ago, the Sunshine Skyway Bridge connecting St. Petersburg to Tampa, Florida has been a harbinger of tragedy. The four-mile-long bridge...
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A Question of RandomnessWritten by Robert A. WatersHumans are designed for introspection. When a tragedy occurs, we want to know why. But sometimes the reasons can be so complex as to be thought...
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Convicted of Three Murders and Released to Kill Again
"I had no alternative but to kill her..."Written by Robert A. WatersPalm Beach Post staff writer Gary Blankenship summarized Nollie Lee Martin's first murders. "On the night of June 8, 1972, fire raced...
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Five Little-Known Unsolved Murders
I began publishing this blog in 2008. While I've written many stories about high-profile murders, I purposefully seek out cold cases that for some reason never made it onto the big media stage. Here...
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The Churchgoer and the Criminal
Amish Teen Kidnapped, Raped and Murdered on her Way Home from ChurchBy Robert A. WatersIn the middle of a clear day, on Stumptown Road in Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania, Linda Stoltzfoos vanished. That...
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The Strange Child-Killer of Fort Lauderdale
“He fell to the ground but was still breathing...”Written by Robert A. WatersFor some reason, this tragic story has eluded true crime sleuths of the internet. But the tale should be told, this...
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ShadowMan: A Killer Stalks the Hinterlands
Review of ShadowMan: An Elusive Psycho Killer and the Birth of FBI Profiling by Ron FranscellReview written by Robert A. Waters “The breeze. It wasn’t right.Heidi Jaeger was only twelve years old but...
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The Roswell Exiles
The Day General Sherman Kidnapped Hundreds of Georgia WomenWritten by Robert A. WatersHad the Confederate States of America won the Civil War, General William T. Sherman would have been executed as a...
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The Overdue Execution of Virgil Delano Presnell, Jr.
After more than 40 years, Virgil Delano Presnell, Jr. may finally die for his crimes. Last-minute appeals have once again stopped the execution of this child-killer and rapist, but time seems to be...
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Wheelchairs and Bullets: Or How the Weak Survive Predators
True Stories of Victims Fighting BackBy Robert A. WatersOpen carry…Maybe this first case doesn’t fit neatly into my title. Carolann Miracle wasn’t handicapped or weak, but she was only four feet,...
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