This quiet suburban street looks like a normal New York suburb but Lutz family who were the main characters in The Amityville Horror book went through hell in their newly purchased dream home. The said house has a tragic history and Lutz family supposedly experienced it first hand. Yes, it was confirmed that the book featured plenty of false accounts and recollections, but it helped put Amityville on the map and the story soon became well-known throughout the United States and the rest of ...

Sacramento, California has seen a fair share of gruesome crimes during the 1970s and 1980s. That city was the hunting ground of the Original Night Stalker who is still unidentified until this day. Richard Chase was also active in the area and he was nicknamed the Vampire of Sacramento due to the uncommon ritual which included drinking the blood of his victims.So when Gerald Gallego and his partner in crime Charlene Gallego embarked on their rampage of kidnapping and killing young te...

Robert Ben Rhoades became a truck driver in the 1980s. He was a disturbed individual who saw his new employment as a perfect hunting ground. After all, the victims would come to him, asking for a ride. He was known nationwide as The Truck Stop Killer. While the total number of his victims is still unconfirmed, Rhoades was one of the most dangerous serial killers because he was driven by his sexual fantasies and the need to dominate.

The couples who commit murder together are not so rare. Of course, there is always a leader and a follower in those instances. But what happens when the law enforcement cannot pinpoint the blame on a single person and determine which one was the killer and who was the accomplice? The case of Christina Marcum and her ex-fiance Jason Singleton is a perfect example because each of them put the blame on the other person. It is still unclear what exactly happened on that January night in 2011, ...

A discussion of different satanic cults that have appeared across North America in the last thirty years; The Cult of Santa Muerta, The Death Cult of Mexico and others.

An anthology of True Crime...Serial killers are often caught in a span of five years because they cannot evade the justice forever. But one man managed to ruin many lives over four decades. A suspect in three murders, Robert J Gross was on a police radar many times, but they simply couldn't find any physical evidence connecting him to the crimes. The DNA technology was non-existent back then, and the forensic teams worked with what they had available. But he simply couldn't always b...

Susan and Felix Polk did raise a lot of eyebrows when they announced their engagement, and it was not solely because of the age difference. The two of them started their love affair when she was just a troubled teenager and he was married to another woman. Unfortunately, their story didn't have a happy ending. Susan was a mental patient after all, and it seemed like Felix simply couldn't help her, no matter what he tried. So what drove this woman to murder her husband? How did their relati...

Before the fall of the Berlin Wall and the ultimate demise of the Soviet Union, little was known about the crimes that were committed behind the iron curtain. The law enforcement did their best to keep the information from the western media and paint a picture of a perfect society where murder do not happen. However, one serial killer managed to keep thousands of people on their toes back in 1980s and 1990s. He was known as the Fisher or Boa, and his hunting ground was Odinstovo district w...

Before the satanic panic of the mid-80s and the accusations of the sexual abuse within the institution, the Catholic Church managed to cover up a murder in Toledo, Ohio. It shouldn't come as a surprise because they were a very powerful organization back in the day and would do anything to save their reputation, including manipulation. The murder victim was a nun, and the only suspect – a priest.Knowing how the public would react if this got out to the media, the higher-ups from the ...

When it comes to strange murder cases, the story of Christina Resch Boyer surely tops that list. She was a troubled foster child that became well known in Columbus, Ohio when unexplainable occurrences started happening in her household. Christina was only fourteen when her supposed psychokinetic abilities reached the headlines all over the country. The entire nation was interested in the phenomenon, and many believed that she truly possessed these powers.

Many prominent crime figures rose to fame during the 1960s and 1970s in New York. The city itself was a fertile ground for drug dealers and mafia bosses who aimed to control poorer parts and neighborhoods. One of them was Frank Lucas who reached a legendary status when he reinvented the drug trade in the United States by smuggling the goods straight from the source. The drugs he sold were pure and he used the Vietnam War situation to his advantage.Frank Lucas was an eccentric drug t...

History shows us that men are most likely to commit heinous crimes but women are no strangers to violence either. Yes, they do not kill frequently and female killers do not engage in killing sprees so often. Instead, their crimes are driven by passion and sometimes even obsession with another person. They are not prone to selecting a random victim but would turn on their partners, friends, or family. Women are usually not killing for the thrill but they do so for their own personal gain, e...