Workplace Crimes
Crimes rooted in a job, a colleague or the workplace itself.
30 cases
A Doctor's Blood
On Halloween night 1992 in tiny Kipling, Saskatchewan, a distraught young mother sought help from the town's beloved Dr. John Schneeberger — and what she remembered from that examination room would pit her word against his DNA.
The Girl in the Barrel
During a final walkthrough before the sale of a Jericho, New York house in September 1999, the buyer insisted on removing a 355-pound barrel that had sat wedged in the crawlspace for decades — a barrel the seller had never once opened.
Models Inc.
On June 28, 2007, Paige Birgfeld drove home from a picnic with her high-school-sweetheart ex-husband and vanished — and the search for the Grand Junction, Colorado mother of three uncovered a secret life no one around her suspected.
The Glamour Girl Slayer
Long before he posed as a professional photographer hiring Los Angeles models, Harvey Glatman was a bullied Denver kid with a disturbing childhood fascination with rope — an obsession that never let him go.
Captain Cash
London heroin dealer Ken Avery — 'Captain Cash' to the underworld — lost everything when he turned informant, so he changed his name to Ken Regan and fixed his ambitions on a wealthy Heathrow freight importer named Amarjit 'Neil' Chohan.
The Submarine Case
Journalist Kim Wall skipped her own going-away party for a two-hour ride on inventor 'Rocket' Peter Madsen's homemade submarine, the UC3 Nautilus — and by the next day the sub was at the bottom of Copenhagen harbor and Madsen's story was already shifting.
Murder in the Sacristy
On Holy Saturday 1980 — her seventy-second birthday — Sister Margaret Ann Pahl went early to prepare the chapel at Toledo's Mercy Hospital, intending to confront Father Gerald Robinson about his sermon; a bloodstained cloth on the chapel floor was the first sign something was wrong.
A Glitzy Cowboy Tale
Ted Binion, heir to the Horseshoe casino fortune, buried millions in silver in a desert vault near Pahrump, Nevada — and only two people had the security codes: Binion himself and his young girlfriend's new friend, Rick Tabish.
The Killer Cop
When a sheriff's cruiser stopped teenage hitchhikers Nancy Trotter and Paula 'Sue' Wells on Florida's Treasure Coast in July 1972, Deputy Gerard Schaefer lectured them about the creeps and kidnappers out there — then kindly offered the girls a ride to Jensen Beach.
The Musclebound Murderer
Signal box operator Gary Vinter stabbed co-worker Carl Edon thirty-seven times in a trackside workshop, then calmly returned to his post. Years later, released from prison a second time, the six-foot-seven Vinter had a new bride — one who already knew she'd made a terrible mistake.
Worlds Worst Mom
Driving near Lake Tahoe at dawn in June 1984, Maybel Harrison spotted flames beside the highway: a young woman burning on a makeshift pyre, bound, gagged, and unidentifiable. Nearly a decade later, Terry Knorr told police a story about her own family that no one believed.
A Tragic December
On a snowy December Friday in 2010, Joanna Yeates kissed her boyfriend goodbye at the Bristol train station, had drinks with coworkers, and bought a pizza for her first night alone in their basement flat. She never answered another of his calls.
Better Off in Heaven
To her Pittsburgh-area church and school colleagues, Laurel Schlemmer was sweet, kind-hearted, and devout — a woman who had never wanted the children her husband Mark insisted on. One morning, with their grandmother watching television downstairs, Laurel ran a bath for the boys.
The Wrong Wife
Chef Daniel Brophy unlocked the Oregon Culinary Institute at 7:22 a.m., just as he always did. Minutes later, a colleague found the beloved instructor dead on the kitchen floor — two bullets aimed at his heart, a scene as calm as a calculated assassination.
The Leaf Killer
When Tina Herrmann missed her shift at the Mount Vernon Dairy Queen, her manager drove out to check on her — and found a house full of blood but no trace of Tina, her two children, or her friend Stephanie Sprang.
The Goleta Postal Massacre
Coworkers at the Goleta mail facility knew Jennifer San Marco as the quiet sorter who argued with someone who wasn't there. After being forced out of her job, she moved to New Mexico, bought a handgun — and in January 2006, she came back.
The Cape Coral Monster
Jan Cornell rushed home before her early-morning shift in May 1990 to find her Cape Coral townhouse silent — her eleven-year-old daughter Robin and roommate Lisa Story inside. The DNA left behind would wait twenty-six years for a match.
Friendly Reminders
No one outside the family noticed that thirteen-year-old Erica Parsons had been missing for a year and a half — until her adoptive brother Jamie, kicked out after a fierce argument, walked into the Rowan County Sheriff's Office with a chilling accusation about their parents.
No Body, No Crime
On Mother's Day 2018, hairstylist Joleen Cummings failed to pick up her three children in Yulee, Florida. Suspicion fell on a coworker at Tangles Hair Salon — a woman who, it turned out, had lived under eighteen different names across fourteen states.
The Butcher of Aberdeen
On the last day of February 2000, coal miner John Price told coworkers in Aberdeen, Australia, 'If I'm not here tomorrow, it's because Kath killed me.' Hours earlier, he had taken out a restraining order against his partner, Katherine Knight.
The Night Shift
Nineteen-year-old Katie Poirier was working the late shift alone at D.J.'s Expressway Conoco in Moose Lake, Minnesota, in the spring of 1999 when a man walked in before closing. A grainy security tape captured what happened next — and launched a desperate search.
Shared Psychosis
Swedish twins Ursula and Sabina Eriksson lived quiet, unremarkable lives an ocean apart for forty years. Then, in May 2008, within hours of reuniting in Ireland, something shifted — setting off one of the most bizarre and baffling cases ever caught on camera.
The Trainspotter
Estate agent Stephanie Slater left her Birmingham office in January 1992 to show a house to a client who had booked by letter. Hours later, a chillingly calm voice phoned her office: 'I have your employee... it will cost you £175,000.'
The Jack in the Box Murders
Late on a Sunday night in May 2002, a familiar face in uniform knocked at the locked door of a Mesa, Arizona Jack in the Box, claiming he had been called in to work. Assistant manager Fausto Jimenez recognized recently fired coworker Christopher Hargrave — and turned the lock.
The Facebook Killer
Derek Medina was a regular at the Miami Denny's where single mother Jennifer Alfonso worked the graveyard shift — generous with tips, obsessed with his phone, and far more dangerous than his self-help books suggested.
The Bargain Basement
Dr. Anthony Pignataro cruised Buffalo in a red Lamborghini selling cut-rate cosmetic surgery. In his makeshift basement operating room, paramedics found patient Sarah Smith dying — and the doctor holding a bent coat hanger.
The Closing Shift
When the manager of the Bethesda Lululemon opened up on a March morning in 2011, the store was ransacked, Jayna Murray lay dead in the back hallway — and coworker Brittany Norwood was bound on the bathroom floor, moaning.
Mockingbird Hill
On a December morning in 1987, a man in a black coat and cowboy hat shot receptionist Kathy Kendrick in a Russellville law office and drove off toward the next name on his list — and what Ronald Gene Simmons had already done at Mockingbird Hill was worse.
I Can Help You
Security cameras along North La Brea Avenue recorded a masked man drifting from store to store all morning. A little after 1:30 he entered Croft House, where 24-year-old design consultant Brianna Kupfer was working alone.
The Conduit
Ina and David Steiner ran a small newsletter covering eBay from their Natick, Massachusetts home. In August 2019 came the strange subscriptions, the threats, and a preserved fetal pig — a campaign traced somewhere no one expected.
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