The Murder Blog

The Unlikely Defense: A Killer in Court It’s one thing to represent yourself in court; it’s another to represent yourself in court and treat it like an open mic night where the goal is to air every grievance, implicate half your contact…

Mark Twitchell: The Dexter Wannabe Who Took Method Acting Way Too Far Mark Twitchell fancied himself a visionary, the kind of filmmaker who wasn’t afraid to explore the darker corners of human nature. The problem was, he didn’t stop at …

Introduction to the Green River Killer: Gary Ridgway’s Dark Legacy The First Victim: Wendy Lee Coffield and the Beginning of a Nightmare Picture this: It’s 1982, and the serene waters of Seattle’s Green River are about to become …

The Chilling Beginnings of Amy Archer-Gilligan In the suffocating heat of a Connecticut summer in 1916, a determined woman sat across a desk from a man she hoped could deliver justice. Nellie Pierce clutched a worn envelope, her brother’s nam…

A Not-So-Classic Family Beginning Florida, 1958. George Waterfield Russell Sr. and his wife, Joyce, had their first child, George Russell Jr., and, on paper, it probably looked like a classic, happy family was in the making. But reality had other p…

Joanna Yeates: A Promising Life in Clifton, Bristol Joanna Clare Yeates had a lot going for her. Born in 1985 in Hampshire, England, she was the kind of person who seemed to make all the right choices—good schools, good degree, and finally, a…

The Dark Cloud Over L.A.’s Sunset Strip Between 1980 and 1983, Los Angeles was in the grip of something dark, something that hung in the air along the Sunset Strip like a fog no one wanted to see. Women were disappearing—vanishing off s…

Confessions from a Convicted Killer Most killers don’t confess. Even when faced with damning evidence, they sit tight, maintain their innocence, and cling to whatever sliver of denial they can muster. But then, there’s Samuel Little. …

A Routine Morning Turns to Horror: The Crash on July 31, 2022 On a quiet morning in Cleveland, Ohio, 17-year-old Mackenzie Shirilla was behind the wheel of a Toyota Camry, accompanied by her boyfriend, Dominic Russo, and their friend, Davion Flanag…

The Beginning of a Monster: Bundy’s Childhood and Early Influences Ted Bundy was born on November 24, 1946, in Burlington, Vermont, at a facility for unwed mothers. Originally named Theodore Robert Cowell, Bundy’s childhood began with d…