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Doctor Josephakis “Joe” Charalambous had a thriving family practice when he became obsessed with 15-year-old Shelley Joel. Shelley, along with other members of her family, was his patient. Shelley’s …

In the early morning of February 10, 1992, Robin Lee Row’s two-story duplex in Boise, Idaho, was engulfed in flames.  Robin wasn’t home that morning.  She had spent the night at a friend’s house afte…

Police were surprised by Barbara Stager’s lack of emotion when her 40-year-old second husband, Russ Stager, died from an accidental gunshot wound to his head.  Within days, Barbara called her insuran…

Tyler Hadley’s parents were trying to get the 17-year-old to make better decisions in his life.  Since his early teens, he had been using drugs, stealing, and showing a fascination for violence.  His…

Kathleen Folbigg has lived a life filled with tragedy.  As a child, her father murdered her mother, leaving her to grow up in foster care.  But Kathleen seemed to have overcome her difficult past whe…

Divorce and child custody battles can be brutal, but they rarely end in murder.  In February, 2002, Alan Bates and his wife Terra were excited to pick up his two daughters from the home of his ex-wif…

The Schenecker family home was in a nice neighborhood; the kind of place couples choose to raise a family.  Julie, her husband Parker, and their two children, Calyx and Beau, seemed to be living the …

William Bradford Bishop, Jr., was born and raised to succeed.  With classic good looks, cultured parents, and a Yale education, he expected a lot out of life.  As an adult, he married a beautiful wom…

Jennifer Cave and Colton Pitonyak had their addiction to drugs in common, but they were otherwise two very different people. Jennifer was known as a caring person who tried to help everyone she met. …

Ellen Boehm’s husband left her for another woman, abandoning his three children without visitation or financial support.  With only her secretarial job to support them, Ellen had to move her children…

In the spring of 2005, brother and sister Shasta and Dylan Groene were just normal kids, out playing in their yard in their bathing suits. Neither they nor their parents had any way of knowing that a…

On November 26, 2001, the fire department of Cantonment, Florida, was called to the burning home of Terry King. Terry was dead in his reclining chair, but he had not been overcome by smoke.  He had b…

Graduate student Annie Le disappeared from her lab at Yale University just five days before her wedding.  When she was first reported missing, investigators theorized that she had cold feet and had l…

In September, 2015, 25-year-old Jack Taylor was found dead in the graveyard of St. Margaret’s Church in East London.  Jack was not the first young man to be found dead under unexplained circumstances…

How much are your loved ones worth to you?  Priceless, right?  You cannot put a dollar amount on a person’s life.  Not so for Karl Karlson. There were so many tragedies and coincidences in his life t…

Kathy Stobaugh married the wrong man.  Once she realized her mistake, she did everything right in order to set off on a better course.  She worked full-time, went back to college, and accomplished he…

On the morning of Friday, August 16, 1996, Marissa Moody brought her 6-year-old son to the impressive home of Janet and Perry March to have a play date with 5-year-old Sammy March. The March family s…

In 2006, 33-year-old Mechele Linehan was visited by the Alaska police regarding a 1996 murder.  Back then, Mechele had been an exotic dancer.  The murder victim was a former client named Kent Leppink…

When 16-year-old Patricia Columbo took a job in a soda shop next door to a pharmacy, no one even imagined that she and the 36-year-old married pharmacist Frank DeLuca would become involved in a sexua…

On July 5, 2003, 37-year-old Florida bartender Sandra Rozzo was shot in her own garage before she could even get out of her car.  Sandra, known by her friends as Sandee, was a hard worker, a good fri…