Posted 5 days ago
Did Kevin’s wife play a part in his murder?
THE STORY SO FAR…
On Father’s Day 2010, Kevin Mengel had planned a big party. But he didn’t show. Although he was still texting his family, alarm bells rang. Finally his mum reported him missing…
THE CASE…
VANISHING HUSBAND
Setting off for work in matching blue polo shirts, Kevin Mengel, 33, and his wife Morgan, 34,…
Posted 12 days ago
STORY SO FAR…
When brothers Alex and Derek King disappeared from their father’s house in Florida in November 2001, their dad probably thought they were just being naughty. But was their disappearance just the mark of troublesome teens, or something more sinister?
THE CASE…
It certainly hadn’t been a fairytale childhood. Abandoned by their mother, put in care by their father Terry, Alex…
Posted 19 days ago
THE STORY SO FAR…
On peaceful Norfolk Island, off the coast of Australia, there hadn’t been a murder for 150 years. Then Janelle Patton arrived. Looking to escape from her big-city life, she hoped she’d find happiness. Two years later, on Easter Sunday 2002, her body was discovered, beaten and mutilated. Police checked everyone on the island, but it was four…
Posted 26 days ago
Susan’s husband put her through imaginable terror – until she fought back
THE CASE… PUNCHBAG
The story so far…
In May 2006, Susan Falls reported her husband Rodney missing and police hoped it wouldn’t be long before he turned up. But when Susan confessed to his murder a week later, the reason for his disappearance suddenly became clear… Or did it?
Susan and Rodney Falls had the…
Posted 40 days ago
Smiling photos… then a husband found murdered
STORY SO FAR
When the body of Ben Oxley, 36, was found in bed, in his home in Minden, Nevada, the police were stumped for a motive. There were no signs of a break-in, he had a happy family life and no apparent enemies. But a closer look at his circumstances left police wondering if all…
Posted 47 days ago
Was the sobbing girl a victim? And what of her alleged attacker?
It was mid-afternoon on a summer’s day when a 16-year-old girl stumbled up to a policeman, sobbing. Her clothes were torn and bloody. Schoolgirl Cathleen Crowell wept that she’d been dragged into a car by three men, brutally raped, and mutilated with a broken beer bottle. Her attacker was soon…
Posted 54 days ago
The missing wife, her barrister hubby and a trail of oil…
THE STORY SO FAR…
August 2007, Perth, Australia. Corryn Rayney left for her weekly dance class in good spirits – she’d asked her husband for a divorce and was excited about the future. But then she went missing, and was found upside down in a makeshift grave…
THE CASE – DIVORCE…
It was…
Posted 61 days ago
A mum had been brutally killed, but was the culprit closer to home?
THE CASE… DARK DAYS
THE STORY SO FAR:
On 27 May 2011, the bloodied body of Ruth Pyne lay bludgeoned in the doorway of her Michigan home. Her horrified family discovered the scene of devastation and raised the alarm – but when the police started looking, the search kept them much closer…
Posted 68 days ago
Was Frederick caring for his lodger or was his interest more sinister?
The story so far…
The year was 1910. When Frederick Seddon took in a lodger, it seemed like good financial sense. He was a well-known businessman and always had a nose for making money, but when his lodger died, leaving all her cash to him, her family couldn’t help but…
Posted 75 days ago
Was Ginger’s friend more deadly than any enemy?
The story so far…
In 1984, the body of Ginger Hayden was discovered in her Texas bedroom. She’d been stabbed 57 times in a bloody frenzy. Polite and friendly, Ginger had no enemies, but as the evidence unravelled, police began to wonder if it wasn’t enemies that had been her problem…
THE CASE… BEDROOM BLOODBATH
It was…
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