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A TEEN PRANK TURNS DEADLY
A game of Ding-Dong Ditch leaves 3 best friends dead, a neighbor charged with murder, and 6 grieving parents in search of justice.
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A GRIEVING MOTHER’S CRUSADE
After Her Son Survived The Las Vegas Mass Shooting Only To Die In Another A Year Later, Susan Orfanos Didn’t Want Thoughts And Prayers—she Wanted Gun Control. Now She’s On A Mission
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JENNIFER ASBENSON
Nearly 3 Decades After Jennifer Asbenson Escaped The Clutches Of A Murderous Monster, She Reveals The Nightmares That Still Haunt Her—and The Strength She Never Knew She Had
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FATAL CRUSH
DID A COWORKER’S OBSESSION LEAD TO MURDER? For years Kevin Prasad tried to persuade Thandar Seinn to go out with him, but she was engaged to someone else. Finally, police say, his infatuation drove him to kill
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ESCAPE FROM HELL
Abby Alvarado suffered 17 years of horrific sexual abuse at the hands of her aunt and uncle. But the power of love - and her own inner strength - gave her the courage to break free.
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DEADLY ROMANCE
The Real-life Story Behind Dirty John - Debra Newell thought she had finally found her own Prince Charming in John Meehan. But her fairy-tale romance turned into a nightmare
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MURDER SHE WROTE?
Police Charge a Romance Novelist with Killing Her Husband
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WHO KILLED THE FIRE CHIEF’S WIFE?
Fatally Shot & Set On Fire. More than a year after Nanette Krentel’s body was found in the charred remains ofher home, police are still looking for a killer who knew how to cover up a murder with flames.
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A HUSBAND’S JEALOUS RAGE?
Grade School Principal And Her Mom Killed At Home. Nine months after elementary school principal Jennifer Dupras and her mother, Cynthia Houk, were fatally shot in their Fresno, Calif., home, police arrest Jennifer’s estranged husband, Alan, for murder.
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MURDER IN THE CAMPGROUND
After a man is fatally shot while camping with his daughters at a California park, authorities desperately search for a killer
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‘I BROUGHT DOWN A CULT’
Despite being raped and abused by Nuwaubian cult leader Dwight York, Niki Lopez found the strength to expose him to the FBI—and helped save dozens of others
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INSIDE THE HOUSE OF HORRORS
Details of the torture endured by the Turpin children stun a Riverside County courtroom
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THE GOLDEN STATE SERIAL KILLER CAUGHT?
AN ARREST AFTER 40 YEARS: Police say Joseph James DeAngelo—an ex-cop and a father of three—is one of the nation’s most prolific serial killers and rapists
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HOUSE OF HORRORS: NEW REVELATIONS
A FAMILY’S DARK SECRETS: In January, Louise Turpin was arrested for torturing and abusing 12 of her 13 children at her California home. Now her sister Elizabeth Flores reveals more shocking details of Louise’s past
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RETURN OF A CULT?
In 1993, 79 lives were lost in a clash between federal agents and Branch Davidians in Texas. Today a new ministry is rising from the ashes
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GIRL SCOUT MURDER MYSTERY
Four decades after 3 girls were brutally slain, police hope DNA test results will finally solve Oklahoma’s most notorious cold case
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SHERRI PAPINI ABDUCTION MYSTERY
THE VANISHING - Police release suspect sketches and new DNA evidence in the puzzling case of a young California mom of 2 who vanished for 22 days. Inside the search for answers
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THE GOLDEN STATE SERIAL KILLER
THE HUNT FOR A MONSTER. His sadistic rapes and murders claimed at least 57 victims. Four decades later investigators aren’t giving up on answers—or justice
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Gunshot Victim to M.D.
Hit in the throat by a stray bullet at age 17, Joseph Sakran became a Trauma surgeon to save other victims. Now he’s working to stop the shootings - and make the streets safe.
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A Killer’s Double Life Exposed
Deadly Love Triangle. Male escort David Meza seduced millionaire Jake Merendino then murdered him for cash to set up his other life—with his pregnant girlfriend.
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A Young Mother’s Fatal Fall
Did Her Boyfriend Get Away With Murder? Rhonda Casto plunged to her death while hiking with partner Steve Nichols in Oregon’s Columbia River Gorge. He said it was an accident - but her family isn’t so sure.
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Deadly Revenge
SERIAL KILLER DOCTOR - After being fired from a residency program at Creighton University School of Medicine, Dr. Anthony Garcia is convicted of murdering 4 innocent victims in a twisted plot of vengeance.
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HORROR ON THE BEACH
THE LONG ISLAND SERIAL KILLER The bodies of at least 10 victims have been found on New York’s Gilgo Beach. Are they connected? Now the FBI has joined the hunt in hopes of bringing a sadistic killer to justice.
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Murdered By Manson?
Nearly 5 decades after her body was found, Reet Jurvetson is finally identified by police. Did the Manson family kill her?
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Killer in the Family
An Honors Student Raised In Wealth, Ashton Sachs Showed No Sign Of Violence—Until He Shot His Parents While They Slept
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My Search for a Serial Killer
For 10 years reporter Christine Pelisek followed the bloody trail of Lonnie Franklin Jr - and helped victims find justice.
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Suicide on Live TV
The Christine Chubbuck case 40 years later. New films examine the case of a TV reporter who shot herself on air.
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Chiller Killer - Michael Gargiulo
In the fall of 2000, Christopher Duran and Ashley Ellerin were outside her yellow bungalow behind Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood when a good-looking guy offered to help Duran fix his flat tire.
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Raven, Death of a Hollywood Beauty
Raven was one of the youngest and toughest Hollywood street runaways, living in alleys and back lots where beatings, drugs and prostitution are still common. Addicted to meth, the stunningly beautiful 15-year-old foster kid and runaway turned tricks to buy drugs.
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Grim Sleeper's Sole Survivor
That bloody night almost 21 years ago is pivotal in helping to solve one of the greatest murder mysteries ever to face Los Angeles police: that of the Grim Sleeper serial killer.
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Grim Sleeper Returns
Grim Sleeper Returns: He's Murdering Angelenos, as Cops Hunt his DNA
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©   Christine Pelisek