Major Crimes and True Crime

The slender man stabbing was an incident that took place on May 31, 2014, in Waukesha, Wisconsin. That night, two 12-year-old girls, Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier, lured their best friend, Payton Leutner, into the woods and brutally stabbed her 19 times. Their motive? To please the fictional internet character known as Slender Man. The Story Weier and Geyser had become obsessed with the Slender Man, a tall, faceless entity that had originated from an online Photoshop contest and later expanded into a complex supernatural legend. The girls believed that in order to become Slender Man's "proxies" and protect their families from him, they needed to kill Payton. The friends before the incident Weier later told investigators that Geyser had proposed the idea of killing Leutner in late 2013 or early 2014, and that Geyser had made it seem "necessary." The two girls kept their sinister plot a secret for months, waiting for the perfect opportun...

On May 26, 2016, the lifeless body of 30-year-old Iana Kasian was discovered in the West Hollywood apartment she shared with her fiancé, Blake Leibel. Kasian's body was found lying on the bed, with Leibel at her side. She had been subjected to horrific torture, mutilation, and exsanguination. Authorities described the crime scene as unlike anything they had ever encountered before. The Victim and Perpetrator Iana Kasian was a Ukrainian immigrant who had worked as a tax lawyer in her home country before moving to the United States in 2014 to pursue a career as a model. She had recently given birth to a daughter with her fiancé, Blake Leibel, just three weeks before her murder. Leibel, Kasian's killer, was a former Canadian comic book creator and graphic novelist who came from a wealthy family. His father, Lorne Leibel, was a prominent Toronto real estate mogul and Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame inductee, while his mother was an heiress to the Alros Pr...

  In the late 1990s, Sharee Miller, a young mother of three in her twenties, crossed paths with Bruce Miller while working at his auto salvage yard in Flint, Michigan. Their whirlwind romance quickly blossomed, and within just four months, the couple tied the knot at a Las Vegas chapel. Sadly, the seemingly idyllic union was soon overshadowed by a web of deceit that would ultimately lead to a shocking tragedy. Sharee's Online Escapades Despite her newfound marital status, Sharee spent extensive hours engaging in online chat rooms, a habit that consumed much of her attention while her husband, Bruce, was occupied with running his business. A photo of Sharee Miller's computer set-up in Flint, Michigan. This was what she used to chat with men online. It was during these virtual interactions that Sharee encountered Jerry Cassaday, a former homicide investigator from Kansas City, Missouri, who was struggling with the aftermath of a failed marriage and a downward spiral in his career...