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Case#13: The Preacher & The Porn Star (Part.2)

Case#13: The Preacher & The Porn Star (Part.2)

In case you’ve just dropped in, we are looking at the death of actress and model Felicia Tang, who is mostly remembered for her work in various erotic media. She was found on the bathroom floor at her 43 year-old boyfriend’s home on Sept. 11, 2009. Felicia was dead by the time the emergency services arrived and had over 320 wounds to her face and body.

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Stephen: The Murder That Changed A Nation

Stephen: The Murder That Changed A Nation

An exemplary three-part documentary on the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence was nothing less than the story of Britain over the past quarter century.

Crime documentaries can easily be a little over the top with their titles, but this is in no way a superfluous choice. Ask anybody from the United Kingdom about the tragedy that…

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Case#13: The Preacher & The Porn Star (Part.1)

Case#13: The Preacher & The Porn Star (Part.1)

Shortly after noon on Friday, Sept. 11, 2009 Brian Lee Randone, a 45-year-old white man, called 911 to report that his girlfriend of several months was not breathing.

911: “911 emergency.” BLR: “Yeah. I need, I need an ambulance at 509 West Duarte.” 911: What’s going on?” BLR: My girlfriend, I think she’s having a heart attack.” 911: “Is she breathing?” BLR: “I don’t know.” 911:“Is she conscious right…

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Columbine

What does it matter that two crazy teenagers shot 12 other teenagers and one teacher to death at a school somewhere in the American Midwest almost twenty years ago? It was just another school shooting and since then there has been Virginia Tech which accounted for nearly three times as many victims, didn’t it, not to mention any amount of death and catastrophe in places other than schools. Why…

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Evil Genius

We’ll keep this piece spoiler light; but proceed with caution if you haven’t yet watched Evil Genius.

Evil Genius: The True Story of America’s Most Diabolical Bank Heist is essentially a whodunnit. Over four episodes of the crime docuseries, co-directors Trey Borzillieri and Barbara Schroeder attempt to determine who is responsible for the 2003 death of Brian Wells, an Erie, Pennsylvania,…

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Heaven's Gate

Heaven’s Gate

Heaven’s Gate is a well-produced and thought-provoking podcast that takes a deep look at the cult of the same name. Over 20 years ago, this group emerged from obscurity and captivated the world when 39 members took their own lives in a mass suicide. Host Glynn Washington offers insight through interviews with the departed’s loved ones, ex-members and videotapes containing personal messages left…

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Case#12: The Murder Of Becky Watts

Case#12: The Murder Of Becky Watts

Becky Watts was a 16-year-old student living in Bristol, England. At the time of her disappearance she was living with her dad Darren Galsworthy and his wife Angie. Becky was reported missing on Feb, 20. 2015 at around 4 pm by her family who proclaimed that her disappearance was “out of character”. Over the following days preceding Becky’s disappearance a social media campaign called #FindBecky…

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The Disappearance Of Natalie Holloway "The more you talk about it, the more you come to a realization that this part of the closure process."

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The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden

The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden

An almost stranger-than-fiction tale of paradise found and paradise lost is recounted in the documentary, The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden, a true-crime mystery that unfolded in the remote islands off the South American coast during the 1930s that remains unsolved to this day. Tiring of conventional life in Germany, a doctor and his sickly mistress retreat from civilization and head to…

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Case#11: The Sharpe Family

Case#11: The Sharpe Family

John Myles Sharpe was born Feb. 28, 1967 in Mornington, Australia. Sharpe met his New Zealand-born wife, Anna Kemp, when they were working together at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. They married in October 1994. and lived together in various locations around the Mornington Peninsula area south of Melbourne. Anna Kemp & John Sharpe on their wedding day. Their daughter, Gracie Louise Sharpe,…

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Case#10: The Wakayama Curry Incident

Case#10: The Wakayama Curry Incident

The matsuri or summer festival is the Japanese equivalent of the English church fête – the chance, once a year, for the community to unite in food and fun and celebrate its togetherness. Such a fête was arranged to take place by the local neighbourhood association in Sonobe, Wakayama, Japan on Jul. 25, 1998. Wakayama – the Sonobe district is highlighted to the north.  Members of the local Women’s…

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Someone Knows Something – Season 2

Someone Knows Something – Season 2

The second season of  CBC Radio’s, Someone Knows Something, follows the disappearance of Sheryl Sheppard in Hamilton, Ontario, USA. Sheppard went missing on Jan. 2, 1998, two days after her boyfriend, Michael Lavoie, offered a proposal of marriage during a live TV broadcast. With some assistance from Sheppard’s mother, Odette Fisher, Ridgen looks into the case as well as the backgrounds of both…

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Case#9: The Bible John Murders

Case#9: The Bible John Murders

The Daily Record urges witnesses to come forward. On Feb. 23, 1968, the naked body of a 25-year-old nurse, Patricia Docker, was found by a man on his way to work in a lane behind Carmichael Place, Glasgow, Scotland. The lane was only yards from her home in Langside Place. She had been raped and strangled. The previous night, she had told her parents that she was going out dancing at a nearby…

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Mommy Dead and Dearest

Mommy Dead and Dearest

Some true-crime documentaries have to embellish and overstate to justify giving so much attention to a garden-variety criminal case. Not Mommy Dead and Dearest. Things are not always as they appear, especially in the case of Dee Dee and Gypsy Rose Blanchard. Child Abuse, mental illness, and forbidden love converge in this mystery involving a mother and daughter who were thought to be living a…

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Timeline: The Highway of Tears

Timeline: The Highway of Tears

The Highway of Tears refers to a series of murders and disappearances along the 720 km (450 mi) section of Highway 16 between Prince George and Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada from 1969 until 2011. The geography of Highway 16 aka The Highway of Tears. Highway 16 is northern British Columbia’s east-west corridor, extending from Jasper in the east to Prince Rupert in the west. This route is…

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The Confession Tapes

Innocent until proven guilty. Everyone has the right to a fair trial. If you’ve got nothing to hide, you’ve got nothing to fear. That’s how it’s supposed to work in a democratic society. But, all too often, that’s not how it plays out. The thought of being wrongly convicted and imprisoned for a crime you didn’t commit is one of the most chilling fates imaginable, a fear our culture returns to…

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Case#8: The Emerald Princess Murder

Case#8: The Emerald Princess Murder

Kristy Manzanares, from Utah, USA, decided to take a trip of a lifetime on a family vacation with her husband of 17 years, Kenneth Manzanares, and their three daughters. The childhood sweethearts, both 39, had booked a week on the luxury cruise ship, Emerald Princess, which left its dock, in Seattle, Washington, to head for Alaska on Jul. 24, 2017. The theme on board the cruise was to be a murder…

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