The author of the true crime classic Lobster Boy now turns his investigative skills to the chilling true story of Kendall Francois, one of the most bizarre serial sex-killers of modern times.HOOKER HUNTERIn October, 1996 women began vanishing off the streets of Poughkeepsie, New York. All were yo...
On January 24, 1848, as carpenter James Marshall worked on building a sawmill at John Sutter's Fort, east of Sacramento, California, he accidentally discovered a pea-sized nugget of gold in a ditch. Just like that, the scope of the American myth changed. From 1848 to 1850, 90,000 people trekked a...
In November 1997 in Flint, Michigan, police found the body of 45-year-old waitress Nancy Billiter. An autopsy revealed that she'd been bound, beaten, sexually violated, and then injected with a lethal mixture of battery acid and heroin. Police suspected Nancy's friend, Carol Giles, and her boyfri...
In 1980 in Toledo, Ohio—on one of the holiest days of the church calendar—the body of a nun was discovered in the sacristy of a hospital chapel. Seventy-one-year-old Sister Margaret Ann had been strangled and stabbed, her corpse arranged in a shameful and stomach-churning pose. But the police's m...
When 18-year-old Aaron Iturra was shot to death in his bed, the first person his grief-stricken mother turned to was Mary Louise Thompson. Why? Because Thompson, herself the mother of a troubled teen, had become an active campaigner against teen gang activity. But neighbors were horrified when po...
It was 8:49 A.M., May 9, when Todd Hand and Joe McCurdy picked Jon Lawrence up at the Santa Rosa County Jail.“The girl’s just up a ways from Blue Springs,” said Lawrence as he got in.He had had time to think and had a better idea where Jennifer was buried. Hand tooled the car out into the county,...
Appendix III PRESIDENT POLK’S 1848 STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS The President shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient. —U.S. Constitution Article II, Section 3 Pr...
He also said that it was Carol, not him, who had used gasoline and charcoal lighter fluid to ignite Billiter’s body in the park in Flint, where they dumped it. As for having sex with Nancy either alive or dead, he denied ever having sexual contact with Nancy Billiter at any time. As for Jessie Gi...