Crime Stories

Three separate women, unrelated to one another, went missing from the Kansas City area in the 1980s and 90s. They all disappeared shortly after meeting a man online and coming to Missouri to meet him. Police suspected one man was behind the disappearances, and their surveillance of conman John Edward Robinson led them to gruesome evidence of the women's fate.

A common-law couple was found guilty of the 1990 rape and murder of Taunja Bennett near Portland, Oregon. However, a letter signed with a happy face sent to a Portland newspaper claimed responsibility for the murder of Taunja and others.

Stephen Grant reported his wife, Tara Lynn Grant, missing five days after he said she left their house in an unidentified black car. Attention soon turned to Stephen himself, and a search of the family's home revealed Tara Lynn's dismembered body parts.

American Atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair and her family vanished in August 1995, leaving behind an ominous note claiming a family emergency.

On Valentine's Day weekend 1999, three tourists from Yosemite National Park disappeared and were found murdered a month later. At the time, handyman Cary Stayner was questioned but released due to lack of evidence.

In rural Ohio, Jamie Paxton was found dead. Investigators found no evidence at the crime scene, but Paxton's murder mirrored multiple deaths in the area. A psychological profile pointed to Thomas Lee Dillon as a suspect. Police arrested Dillon on firearms charges, giving authorities enough time to gather enough evidence to charge him with the murders that had plagued the community.

When emergency services arrived at the office of respected neurologist Richard Boggs following the report of a patient's death, they had their suspicions regarding the circumstances, but an autopsy found that the man died of natural causes.

On a wintry morning in Sweden, Alexandra Fossmo, wife of pastor Helge Fossmo, was found shot to death in her bed. Soon after, their former nanny Sara Svensson confessed to the murder, but investigators suspected there was more to the story.

In November 1996, Raymond Collin went missing in his hometown of Timmins, Ontario. The discovery of his body days later in a snow-covered truck in downtown Timmins led police to an assortment of possible suspects.

Having told neighbors and police that her house had been broken into and her mother and brother murdered by Albanian thugs, Erika De Nardo's story began to crumble upon a closer police investigation. Finding physical evidence that contradicted her story, police took her into custody, and discovered a disheartening plan that ended with Erika and her boyfriend murdering her family.