Because the younger brother had been a model employee, a co-worker called the police when he hadn’t shown up for work and wasn’t answering his phone.

He was five years older than his girlfriend. If they’d both been adults, that would’ve been fine. But she was 15 when they began dating. She kept his age secret from her mother and stepfather.

Sadly, too many children witness their parents arguing and worse. Sometimes those arguments lead to violence. Here, the parents were still living together but no longer married. Divorced five years prior. They had three children living at home—two juveniles and the mother’s young adult son from a previous relationship.

When I was young and living with my parents, I tried to run away once. I sat in the back seat of the family car until they found me. The boys in this true crime, were much more serious about their plan. Perhaps the boy found his home life unbearable, as he targeted his stepfather—I found no testimony about his home life.

It’s not unusual for a 23-year-old son attending college to live with his parents. What is unusual is the son lying about attending college when he’d flunked out. He also lied about being offered an amazing job.

When you’ve been a political consultant for many years who has used questionable tactics to help get people elected, you might look over your shoulder more than most people and perhaps begin to question friendships.

After over 15 years of marriage, a couple divorced. The divorce was contentious and the ex-husband bitter. He became even more bitter after his arrest for failing to pay court-ordered alimony and child support.

Two women, both mentally impaired, in love, living apart, wanting to be together. What’s stopping them? One, living in a care facility—her caretakers. The other—her mother, her caretaker.

Divorce is ugly more often than it’s not. Custody battles. Financial settlements. Division of property. Oftentimes, when the wife is a stay-at-home mom who didn’t contribute financially to the family, the money settlement is especially aggravating for the working husband.

It started with a car fire investigation. The investigation discovered that the fire set to a woman's car whose son was in a complicated relationship was only the beginning.

He had an investor on the hook for his revolutionary cure for HIV, and he would let no one mess it up.

One evening in midsummer, a 35-year-old mother of five children vanished, and no one has seen her since.

One way to get rid of the competition is to hire some thugs to deal with him—in the most permanent way.

A man with schizoaffective disorder who hears a repeated mantra that targets a specific ethnicity is capable of doing harm to himself and others.

Two months into their marriage, everything changed for the dancer when her abusive husband forced her to use credit cards he’d stolen.

One of the random killings the former realtor had claimed as his when he confessed to his crimes was four people murdered at a local store.

Have you ever met or known of a person—even a teenager—whom you thought would eventually do something bad, maybe terrible? That’s the key person in this true crime.

It’s sad for everyone when a couple with a child divorces. When a divorce is contentious, it’s even worse. Then add to the drama the ex-wife’s new boyfriend, who is arrogant and full of himself—her friends had a bad feeling about him.

A 39-year-old married police officer, father of two young children, and field-training officer sat in his police vehicle in a residential neighborhood with a rookie in training.

It’s hard to believe that a highly educated man would think he could hire a contract-killing on his partner and get away with it nowadays. And he wasn’t just highly educated—he was a practicing attorney.