The Murder Blog

It’s 1981. A rural and sleepy American town gathered together, a community united under one banner. The car park rings with the unmistakably deep clink of a shotgun loading before all Hell breaks loose. This was the town of Skidmore; a town de…

Thomas Warren Whisenhant came into the world on January 29th, 1947, in Prichard, Alabama. He was the last and final child born to Willie and Emma Whisenhant, but Thomas’ childhood wasn’t anything like the one his three older siblings had…

Waukesha, Milwaukee, the third most populated county in the state of Wisconsin, and known as “Guitar Town” because they are the home of Les Paul, pioneer of the electric guitar. And they have a fantastic annual tradition. Every year the …

“I’m wondering if somebody can do a wellness check on my brother and his family.” Came the call from one concerned sister to dispatchers around the end of 2019. “They’ve been really sick for probably like the past week …

“He would explain to me that some people were born whores, and that I was one, and I was a slut and nobody’d want me but him,” a girl told the courts. These are words that are so difficult to hear in any testimony, let alone when w…

“You just don’t get it” a Washington County judge spoke to the defendant in a  courtroom earlier this year. “It’s obvious to me that you feel justified. You don’t take any responsibility for the outcome of yo…

So the story goes, in 1983 in Brooklyn, New York, young John Gotti, not quite the infamous leader of America’s biggest crime syndicate just yet, was approached by the leaders of his crime syndicate and ordered to commit a hit on one of their o…

“I’m going to have to kill that security guard…” These chilling words, whether heard or read, are horrifying enough on their own. But they become even more sickening when we realize that the sinister intentions behind them w…

Every once in a while, a person comes along that has us asking whether psychopaths are made or if they are simply born that way. To add to that debate is Joanna Dennehy. Joanna was born in 1983 in St Albans, England, to loving and kind parents. He…

It was the late 1970s, and the city of Columbus, Georgia was being terrorized by serial murderers who were targeting female victims. Several black prostitutes had been found dead in the area, and a killer who the media had nicknamed as the “St…