The Murder Blog

  It was easy to get lost in the 1980’s and 1990’s in Los Angeles. The city was rife with turmoil and entire neighborhoods sunk deep into decrepit disrepair from the ongoing crack epidemic. Crime rates and homelessness were high, h…

Bianca Devins and Brandon Clark: A Tragic Story of Manipulation and Violence   17-year-old Bianca Devins and 21-year-old Brandon Clark viewed their relationship very differently. In early 2019, the two of them first connected on Instagram whe…

Christopher Dorner came into the world with one word that would shape his life for better and for worse: integrity. Born in the summer of 1979, he grew up in California and later graduated from Southern Utah University. Those who knew him described …

Kenneth McDuff grew up in Rosebud, Texas, the fifth of six children in a seemingly idyllic family. His father, John Allen, ran a successful concrete business during the Texas construction boom of the 1960s. However, beneath the surface, the McDuff&r…

Susan Wright, the Blue-eyed Butcher   Whether you think of her as the ‘Blue-eyed Butcher’ as the media named her, or a victim of domestic abuse as defense witnesses testified, the story of Susan Wright is shocking.   Every …

Michael Ross’s childhood growing up on a Connecticut chicken farm might have looked idyllic from the outside, but in reality, he was raised in a household full of turmoil. Born in 1959, Michael was the eldest of Patricia Laine and Dan Ross&rsq…

On May 8th, 1998, a family in San Francisco, California, welcomed their third child into the world and became complete. This was the Tibbetts family and Rob and Laura Tibbetts now had two sons and a little baby girl, a girl who’d grow up to be…

1930, Perth, Western Australia, a young, unmarried couple sat with a decision to make. Vivian Cooke, a local shop assistant, and his girlfriend Christine Edgar, a young woman originally from Scotland, had just found out that Christine was pregnant…

In 1970, Robert John Bardo was born to an American father and a Korean mother, and as the youngest sibling of seven, his childhood was chaotic. Robert’s dad was in the US Air Force, causing the large family to move states several times, before…

“He has the serpent tongue, the cloven tongue,” a victim’s brother addressed the South Caroloian courts in 2015 before turning to his brother’s killer. “You a devil, man!” Irate, heartbroken and shaken with anger…