The Murder Blog

A Difficult Beginning in Apartheid South Africa In 1964, Moses Sithole was born in Vosloorus: a town near Boksburg Transvaal Province in apartheid South Africa. His mother and father, Sophie and Simon Sithole, had very little and with five children…

Anna Moriah Wilson, known as Mo, grew up surrounded by people with a deep love for sports. Her entire family was athletic in some way, and as a young child, Mo quickly fell in love with competitive cycling. She was also a talented skier, but cycling…

In the summer of 2012 Morgantown, West Virginia, was the home to three teenage girls, each one of them on their own separate journeys through life. First in the group was the sixteen-year-old Skylar Neese, a girl who only a few years before that su…

On New Years’ Day, 1981, Minnesota police received a strange call at 3am. A male caller with an unsettling high-pitched voice simply gave them directions to a location, telling them that if they went there, they would find a girl who had been …

On the 28th of January 1971, Dana Ewell was born to two highly successful parents. His father, Dale Ewell, had become a multi-millionaire through aircraft sales after leaving the US Air Force, and the two Ewell children grew up surrounded by privile…

36-year-old professional football player Steve McNair enjoyed a successful and lucrative career in the NFL. The Houston Oilers drafted him third overall in 1995, and two years later, he was named their regular starting quarterback when the team move…

​A mistress isn’t just a term used for a woman having an extramarital affair, it is also a term that describes a woman in a position of control. David Harris had two women in his life, a mistress and a wife. The question was, which one had mor…

  In 1978, Marlyse Honeychurch and her two young daughters vanished into thin air. The last person to see Marlyse was her boyfriend, Terry Rasmussen, who spent time with her and her family on Thanksgiving. During the holiday, Marlyse got into …

On the 22nd of April, 1974, six men drove to a home audio shop in Utah. They planned on robbing the store, taking hostages, and killing anybody who they encountered inside.  At the time the men arrived, the store was just about to close, and t…

Adrienne Shelly was an actress, film director, and screenwriter. She became known from acting in independent films such as Hal Hartley's The Unbelievable Truth (1989) and Trust (1990). She wrote, directed, and co-starred in the 2007 Waitress, a post…