Chapter 01The Poet
Ruth Finley
For four years Ruth Finley of Wichita, Kansas, reported threats from a stalker called the Poet. In 1981 police learned who wrote them. Case photos.
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Volume 28
The real people, places and evidence behind the 12 cases in True Crime Case Histories, Volume 28 by Jason Neal. Pick a chapter to read the case and see its photos.
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Chapter 02The Vanishing Act
Elmer Crawford
In July 1970 the Crawford family car was found below Loch Ard Gorge, Victoria, a mother and three children inside. Elmer Crawford vanished. Case photos.
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Chapter 03One of Their Own
Stephanie Lazarus
Sherri Rasmussen was killed in her Van Nuys, California, condo in 1986. DNA from a bite mark led to LAPD detective Stephanie Lazarus in 2009. Case photos.
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Chapter 04The Monster of the Andes
Pedro Alonso López
Arrested in Ambato, Ecuador, in 1980, Pedro Alonso López confessed to killing more than a hundred girls. Released by 1998, he then vanished. Case photos.
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Chapter 05Cinnamon
David Arnold Brown
Linda Brown was shot in her Garden Grove, California, home in 1985 and stepdaughter Cinnamon took the blame. David Brown was convicted in 1990. Photos.
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Chapter 06Amerithrax
Bruce Ivins
In 2001 anthrax letters killed five people in the United States. The FBI named Fort Detrick, Maryland, scientist Bruce Ivins, never charged. Case photos.
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Chapter 07The Unicorn
Ira Einhorn
Philadelphia counterculture guru Ira Einhorn kept Holly Maddux’s body in a trunk for 18 months, then fled the country in 1981. Photos from the case.
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Chapter 08Her Father’s Daughter
Kathleen Folbigg
Kathleen Folbigg served 20 years for the deaths of her four babies in New South Wales before genetics cleared her in 2023. Photos from the case.
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Chapter 09It Couldn’t Be Helped
William Gravlin
In September 1964 ex-firefighter William Gravlin killed his wife Bette, daughter Betty Sue and five stepchildren in Troy, Michigan. Case photos.
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Chapter 10Jannah Bride
Khalil Abu Rayyan
Khalil Abu Rayyan of Dearborn Heights told an online “bride” about plans to shoot up a Detroit church in 2016. She was working for the FBI. Case photos.
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Chapter 11The Dollmaker
Anatoly Moskvin
Historian Anatoly Moskvin dug up the graves of young girls in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, and kept 26 bodies as dolls in his flat until 2011. Case photos.
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Chapter 12The Bishop of North Marshall Street
Gary Heidnik
Gary Heidnik chained six women in the basement of his North Marshall Street house in Philadelphia in 1986–87. Two died. Photos from the Heidnik case.
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