Sinister and Sarcastic

On July 23, 2007, two men broke into the Petit family home. The men spent several hours with the family, before escalating the situation to a tragic level.

Gacy was sentenced to death on March 13, 1980. He was executed by lethal injection at Stateville Correctional Center on May 10, 1994.

In December 1978, twenty-six bodies were unearthed from Gacy's crawl space over the course of a week; three others were also unearthed elsewhere on his property.

John Wayne Gacy was finally arrested on December 21, 1978 following the disappearance of Des Plaines teenager Robert Piest.

Born in Chicago, Illinois in 1942, John Wayne Gacy grew up being abused by his father. After becoming an adult, John left home and traveled to Las Vegas. His childhood was difficult and it shaped his…

In the early morning hours of June 23, 1991, Dorothy Donovan was awoken by the sound of glass breaking. As she investigated the noise, she was shocked to find a mysterious stranger at the bottom of h…

We discuss the legends of El Chupacabra, Beast of Bladenboro, and the Bear Lake Monster

David Carpenter stalked, raped, and murdered several people in National Parks in California during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

January 2022, Officer John O'Keefe was found unresponsive in the snow covered front lawn of another Boston Police officer. His girlfriend was arrested shortly thereafter. But as the trial began in Ap…

William Burke and William Hare teamed up to murder sixteen people and sell their bodies to Dr. Knox for dissection at his anatomy lectures.

Living in New Jersey with his wife and kids, Richard Leonard Kuklinski appeared to be a normal man in the 1980s. But, Richard was skilled in keeping his personal life separate from his work life. Whe…

The Murdaughs were once a prominent family in South Carolina for nearly a century. Within the last decade, the name has been tarnished by a litany of financial crimes and murder.

In 1976, 16-year-old Trenny Gibson went on a field trip with 38 other students and her horticulture teacher to the Great Smoky Mountains. The students hiked along a trail to observe the plants and tr…

Colleen Ritzer was a vibrant, 24-year-old teacher killed in a place she loved and should have been safe for absolutely no reason.

Thelma Todd was an actress and businesswoman in the late 1920s and early 1930s. On the morning of December 16, 1935, Thelma's body was discovered in her convertible, inside a garage. She was found to…

Mercy Brown died of tuberculosis in 1892 along with her mother and siblings. When her brother fell ill, the villagers believed that the only explanation was a vampire had been sucking the life out of…

Betsy Faria was found murdered, stabbed 55 times on Dec 27, 2011. She had gone to her chemotherapy appointment that day and was driven home by her friend, Pam Hupp. Betsy was found by her husband Rus…

Betsy Faria was married with two children when she met Pamela Hupp in 2001. In 2011, Betsy was diagnosed with breast cancer and Pam became a very supportive friend. But did she have an ulterior motiv…