Major Crimes and True Crime

Parkmann was one of the richest men in Boston, a powerful and mean-spirited landlord. He disappeared one day trying to collect a debt from an second-rate chemistry professor at Harvard named Webster, cousin of Daniel Webster, the famous lawyer. The newly-formed Boston Police Department (formed in 1835, first in the nation) was brought in and the first Detective in America (Derastus Clapp) was on the case. The case was broken when Webster’s assistant/janitor, a man named Littlefield, discovered burned bones on the outhouse. He reported to Clapp who had all the bones collected. Parkmann had been an unusually large man and the bones were of an unusually large man. But that wasn’t proof. So the BPD went to Harvard to ask for a definitive test and they invented Forensic Dentistry, taking molds of the teeth and the police when to his dentist who positively identified them as those of Parkmann. Webster was arrested but loudly proclaimed his innocence. Even his cousin wouldn’t ...

The man who killed his pregnant wife and two beautiful daughters for his mistress. Chris Watts had a beautiful wife named Shanann and two young daughters  Bella Marie  and  Celeste Cathryn.  Shanann would often post loving posts like"Happy Husband Appreciation Day! I couldn't imagine a better man for us," .She was pregnant with their third child, a boy they were going to name  Nico , when Chris Watts killed all of them. Chris was living a dual life and was having an affair with a young colleague named Nicol kessinger, who was very much aware about his wife and children. He admitted killing his wife to marry Nicol. Shanann's body was found buried in a shallow grave and the girls had been dumped in oil tanks on the property of Watts' former employer - the Anadarko oil and gas site. It was Shanann's best friend who contacted police and got him arrested. There are so many videos where his daughter is saying that he is the best father. H...

The murder of Jeffrey Curley. Jeffrey Curley was a 10-year old Cambridge, MA boy who was abducted by Charles Jaynes and Salvatore Sicari after the two men offered to help him with his bicycle on October 1st, 1997. Sicari drove the trio to a gas station where Jaynes sexually assaulted Curley and then fatally smothered him when the boy naturally resisted. The two men then proceeded to drive up to the NH-ME border where they sexually assaulted Jeffrey’s corpse in a Manchester apartment before dumping his body in the Piscataqua River, the area in which I was living at the time. I was only a couple of years younger than Jeffrey. Fortunately, Jaynes and Sicari were caught the next day, and both received life in prison. Jaynes was actually up for parole in 2020, but it was understandably denied. This case is disturbing for the obvious reasons- who couldn’t be disturbed by child assault and murder? However, the fact that his body was found so close to where I, a boy of the...

The murder of Tia Sharp Tia was born on June 30th 2000 in Croydon (London) to her teenage mother Natalie Sharp and her father Steven Carter. She was absolutely adored by her mother and her grandmother, a teenage mom herself. When Tia was born, her mother was 18 and her grandmother was 33. Her parents split up shortly after (not sure when), he wasn’t really in the picture. Natalie later got togheter with David Niles and had 2 more kids. Tia was a fun, loving 12 year old, 4`5″ girl. She loved films, music and singing and would often pretend her BlackBerry was a microphone. On Saturday nights, she would be glued to the television for The X Factor; one day, she said, she wanted to be an actress herself. She already had one star billing: above her bed her name was spelled out in giant letters on the wall in her favourite pink. We now know, however, that Tia had a less‑than-perfect home life with her mother and stepfather. In fact, Davit and Natalie, who have two young sons — Tia’s...

On January 28, 1958, Charles Starkweather, a 19-year-old high-school dropout from Lincoln, Nebraska, and his 14-year-old girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate, kill a Lincoln businessman, his wife and their maid, as part of a murderous crime spree that began a week earlier and would ultimately leave 11 people dead. The killer couple’s deadly road trip, which generated enormous media attention and a massive manhunt, came to an end the following day, when Starkweather and Fugate were arrested near Douglas, Wyoming. The crimes later inspired a slew of books, movies and music, including Terence Malick’s 1973 film “Badlands,” starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek, and Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 song “Nebraska.” Growing up, Charles Starkweather was bullied and did poorly in school. He later idolized James Dean and identified with the actor’s rebellious, outsider image. Starkweather committed his first murder on December 1, 1957, when he robbed a gas station and killed the...