The Murder Blog

The Making of a Monster: Daniel LaPlante’s Early Years A loner. A creep. A childhood soaked in neglect and streaked with a steady parade of run-ins with the law. Some stories seem almost engineered to remind us why certain stereotypes exist. …

The Disappearance of Maura Murray: True Crime’s Most Baffling Mystery What would drive a seemingly normal college student to pack up her belongings, crash her car on a remote and snowy New Hampshire road, and vanish into thin air? That’…

The Typical Courtroom Playbook (And a Surprise Third Option) When a case heads to court, the script usually follows one of two familiar paths. First, the defendant might plead guilty, which speeds things up by skipping straight to the sentencing ph…

The West Memphis Three: Convicted for Being “Weird”? The story of the West Memphis Three isn’t just a true crime case; it’s a cautionary tale about how badly things can go when fear and bias overtake reason. What if three te…

The Crime That Shook West Memphis: 1993 In 1993, West Memphis, Arkansas, was the kind of place where people left their doors unlocked and kids rode their bikes until dinner. That peace shattered when the bodies of three eight-year-old boys—St…

The Shocking Rise and Mysterious Fall of Natalie Wood A Love Story on Screen, a Tragedy Off It“One hand, one heart, even death won’t part us now.” Those dreamy lyrics from West Side Story sound like a promise, don’t they? A …

The Baton Rouge Killer Wasn’t Alone On May 27, 2003, Derrick Todd Lee, the Baton Rouge Killer, was finally in cuffs. Cue the collective sigh of relief from Baton Rouge. The boogeyman was behind bars, and surely, the nightmare was over. Case c…

A Chilling Day in Delphi: The Last Moments of Libby and Abby On an unseasonably warm February afternoon in 2017, best friends Liberty “Libby” German and Abigail “Abby” Williams set out to explore the Monon High Bridge Trail …

Who Was Brian Wells? Brian Douglas Wells was, by all accounts, the human equivalent of a reliable clock. Forty-six years old, a pizza delivery man with a decade-long tenure at the same pizzeria, and a guy who didn’t just show up—he alwa…

Netflix’s Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey Dives into the Unsolved Mystery   The Netflix docuseries Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey takes a deep dive into the chilling and endlessly frustrating investigation sur…