The Murder Blog

Derelict, desolate and still ravaged from the constant raids and bombings of the World Wars, 10 Rillington Place was a desperate home for desperate people. Jutting out of the war-torn street of Notting Hill in London, rubble, refuse and even human r…

Pamela Smart’s Early Life: The Perfect Cheerleader Strikingly beautiful and outrageously popular, Pamela Smart just seemed to have it all and that’s just the way that things had always been for her. She was born on August 16th, 1967, in…

The Emergence of the Serial Killer Concept Today the concept of a serial killer, and even the very term itself, is so ingrained in our cultures and in our minds that it’s almost impossible to imagine a point in time when we weren’t cons…

Early Struggles and Neglect In the 1930s, a little boy named James Jones was being raised by a pair of struggling parents. His father, also named James, had been injured in a chemical warfare attack in the first World War, making it difficult for h…

Charles Albright was born in Amarillo, Texas, on August 10, 1933. His biological mother dropped him off at an orphanage where he was later adopted by Fred and Delle Albright. It’s said that Delle Albright was a fiercely protective and somewhat…

Beneath the guise of a friendly neighbor who delighted children with his clownish antics at local parties, John Wayne Gacy hid a darkness that would forever haunt the American psyche. Dubbed the "Killer Clown," Gacy's name became synonymous with pur…

June 17th, 2017, in Montgomery County, Missouri, law enforcement responded to a 911 call that you just don’t see every day. As they pulled into a farm sprawling over seventy-two acres, they found the owner lying in a pool of his own blood. Th…

Today when most of us hear about the state of Florida, it is almost always quickly followed by some quirky story about someone acting incredibly and hilariously stupid (Florida Man), but amidst that light and lively sensation, it can sometimes be di…

In America, Indigenous women and girls are ten times more likely to go missing than any other race or nationality living within the borders. But within that cold and startling statistic hides one even more alarming for the communities it impacts.&nb…

27-year-old Kevin James Loibl was infatuated with pop star Christina Grimmie. It had started as a casual enjoyment of Christina’s music, but had quickly snowballed into complete obsession. She was the first thing he thought about when he woke …