The Murder Blog

A Childhood of Trauma: The Making of Danny Rolling Daniel Rolling had a childhood unlike most. His father, James Harold Rolling, was a Korean War veteran turned Shreveport police officer. In 1953, he married Daniel’s mother, Claudia, when she…

The Chilling Discovery in Carly's Room Let me take you back to a cold day in March 2024. Picture a mother—Ashley Smylie, a high school math teacher—getting news no parent wants to hear: something disturbing is happening in her o…

Early Life and Troubled Upbringing If looks can kill, then what can a cold and very public dismissal do? That was the question a husband facing his wife in the British courts would find out in the mid-1990s.The man himself was Frederick Walter Step…

A Darker Side of the Roaring 20s When it comes to the Roaring 20’s America, we usually think of big parties, champagne glasses, and new cars. Rarely do we think about healthcare or even that someone could be struggling with something like obe…

“I told him to stop back when he got out if he needed anything… He stopped back.” That heart-wrenching line came from a husband who never imagined that a small act of kindness to a stranger would end in de…

A Fresh Start Turns to Horror in Cabin 28   In the early '80s, Sue Sharp was ready to embrace a fresh start, leaving behind a turbulent marriage and relocating to the serene woods of California with her five kids. But little did she know, the…

Lovers' Lane Murders Along the Colonial Parkway A lovers’ lane is the perfect place for a young couple to enjoy a moment of privacy…but it is also the perfect place for a serial killer to find his next pair of victims. During the late…

The Chilling 1996 Christmas Morning in Boulder, Colorado On Christmas morning, 1996, the police in Boulder, Colorado received an unusual phone call. The caller was Patsy Ramsey, and she told them that her daughter, 6-year-old JonBenet, had been kid…

The Tragic Events of July 6, 2016, in Robbinsdale, Minnesota On July sixth, 2016, something tragic and incredibly heartbreaking happened in Robbinsdale, Minnesota. News of this terrible ordeal traveled like wildfire and eventually brought the whole…

The 1960s. Every channel on the TV had some sort of cheesy comedy ripe with ill-timed laugh tracks and poorly executed jokes. But there was one comedy series out there that dared to stand out from the rest. Hogan’s Heroes was a CBS series loos…