Major Crimes and True Crime

Shortly before being executed for the murder of Deputy John Murphy, Dennis Dilda was granted the opportunity to pose for a photograph with his wife and two children. Shortly before being executed for the murder of Deputy John Murphy, Dennis Dilda was granted the opportunity to pose for a photograph with his wife and two children. His final words before the execution were, "Goodbye, boys!" The Hanging of Dennis Dilda In September 1885, Dilda got a job helping to manage William Hamilton Williscraft’s farm. The farmhouse came along with the job and Dilda and his wife and children moved in. Williscraft went to live elsewhere but kept one room in the farmhouse for himself. The room was always securely locked and inside was a locked trunk. Dilda was supposed to have worked alongside the farm’s general caretaker, “General Grant” Jenkins. By December, however, Jenkins had disappeared, and Williscraft noticed the lock had been pried off the door of his reserved room, the trun...

Innocent Photos With Disturbing Backstories. Inside The Final Days Of Kris Kremers And Lisanne Froon And The Eerie Photos They Left Behind In April 2014, two Dutch tourists named Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon went hiking in Panama and never returned. Months later, officials found their bleached bones and disturbing pictures. On April 1, 2014, Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon left their host family’s home to take the family’s dog on a walk through the scenic forests around the Baru volcano in Boquete, Panama. Kremers and Froon were students from Amersfoort in the Netherlands. They had spent six months planning their trip to Panama, which was supposed to serve as part vacation, part service trip. They planned on spending some time hiking and touring while also volunteering with local children, teaching arts and crafts, and learning Spanish. Lisanne Froon, left, and Kris Kremers, right. The two women had been hiking around the Panamanian jungle for the past two weeks as part of a backpacki...

Disappearance of Asha Degree Nine-year-old Asha Degree of Shelby, North Carolina was known as a shy and studious fourth grader. On the night before Valentine's Day in 2000, her parents tucked her into bed at 8 p.m. as usual and without issue. At 2:30 a.m., after a nearby car accident left the neighborhood without power, her father went to check on her and found her still sound asleep. At around 4 a.m., her brother heard a sound he assumed was Asha simply shifting in bed. But the noise was actually Asha leaving the house. She packed her backpack with a New Kids On The Block T-shirt and a copy of a Dr. Seuss book from the school library, then walked out the door and never saw her family again. After 9,000 man hours spent searching for her over the course of more than two decades, investigators are still no closer to solving her chilling disappearance.. Now The Story In Details  Asha Jaquilla Degree (AY-shuh; born August 5, 1990)[1] went missing at the age of nine from Shelby...

Raphael, the artist killed by too much sex? Can you die of too much sex? That's what happened to the divinely gifted Raphael, according to his 16th-century biographer Giorgio Vasari.  Vasari recounts in his book The Lives of the Artists that Raphael, who died aged 37 at the peak of his powers, was brought down by excessive passion. This view of health is medieval: the body is controlled by humours, health depends on a balance of humours, and Raphael's was destabilised by too much action in bed. Well, it's a theory. And yet Vasari goes into detail about Raphael's emotional life. The young, gifted, handsome and courtly artist, he claims, was so enamoured of his mistress that she had to be allowed to live with him in the Villa Farnesina in Rome (as it's now called) while he was painting its frescoes. No sex, no frescoes. The story of Raphael's sensual relationship with La Fornarina, as Vasari names her, fascinated artists down the centuries. Raphael became an icon ...

In March 1998, Amy Bradley, a 23 year old woman from Virginia, went in a vacation with her parents and brother on the Royal Caribbean cruise ship, Rhapsody of the seas. While they were in the vicinity of Curacao in the Netherlands Antilles, Amy mysteriously vanished from the ship. Amy's family last saw her on their suite's balcony in the early hours of March 24th, and eyewitnesses reported seeing her in an elevator with a member of the ship's band sometime afterward. The ship docked in Curacao shortly after Amy's parents reported her missing, but it was not locked down while the crew searched for her. Seven years later, Amy's parents were emailed a photograph from an adult escort website featuring a woman who resembled her. It is speculated that Amy may have been smuggled off the ship in Curacao and sold into sexual slavery. There have been numerous eyewitness sightings of her over the years. One of them came from an American sailor who visited a brothel in...

The boy who vanished in the mountains, 1969 Dennis Lloyd Martin was a six-year-old boy who disappeared in the Smoky Mountains with his family on a yearly camping trip in June of 1969. The Martins met with family friends on the second day of their trip and made their way to Spence Field, a spot known for its good views.  Dennis, his brother William, and 2 children from the family they met on the second day decided to run ahead of the adults and hide in the woods around Spence field to scare the adults when they arrived. The children had left the supervision of the adults for 5 minutes. The 2 kids from the family friends and William hid in one location, but Dennis hid nearby because the red shirt Dennis wore would have given away their location. Dennis was last seen running behind a tree along the forest boundary.  At 16:30, when the adults arrived, the kids jumped out of their hiding spots. When the adults asked where Dennis was, no one knew. Dennis's father, Bill Martin, even ...

There was something about the staircase that bothered him.' Inside the search for Paislee Shultis "They lied to us for two years, including the father, stating that he had no idea where his daughter was." A six-year-old who vanished with her mother from their upstate New York home in 2019 has just been found — hidden in a secret room underneath a staircase in her grandfather’s house. Paislee Joann Shultis vanished on the day she was to be placed in the care of a legal guardian shortly after her parents lost custody of her. Though Paislee’s father told police that the last time he saw her she was being taken to Philadelphia with her mother, investigators were never able to find evidence of them living there.... Read story   And now, they believe that Paislee’s parents abducted her to prevent them from losing custody. Police had gone up and down the basement stairs several times while searching a home in the Saugerties, New York, area Monday for any trace of 6-y...

Steven Edward "Stevie" Branch (November 26, 1984 - May 5, 1993) Stevie passed away when he was 8 years old. He went missing while he was playing outside with his two friends, Chris Byers and Michael Moore (both also eight) in West Memphis, Arkansas. Sadly, all three boys' bodies were discovered in a creek the next morning. They had all been stripped naked, hogtied by their shoelaces, and mutilated. The autopsy found that Chris had died of multiple injuries, while Stevie and Michael had both died from multiple injuries and drowning.  Originally, three teenagers, who became known as the "West Memphis Three", were accused of committing the murders as part of a satanic ritual. The men were arrested, and later convicted of murdering the three boys. However, in 2007, new forensic evidence was presented, and the men were believed by most to be innocent. In 2012, they accepted an Alford plea and were released, after having served 18 years in prison. Sadly, the mu...

The disappearance of Lars Mittank in 2014 In June 2014, 28-year-old German tourist Lars Mittank traveled to the popular Golden Sands resort in Varna, Bulgaria, for a holiday with friends. After displaying unusual behaviour on the trip following a suspected beating, he bolted from the airport and was captured by cameras disappearing into a field of tall sunflowers. No trace of him has ever been found. Footage of his final known movements has been viewed over a million times on YouTube, leading to him being named ‘the world’s most famous missing tourist’. Mittank and his friends arrived in Varna, a city on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, on 30th June 2014. A week later, while drinking in a bar with friends, Werder Bremen fan Mittank got into an altercation with fans of rival Bundesliga team Bayern Munich. After leaving the bar, Mittank disappeared, with his friends unable to locate him for the rest of the night.  However, he turned up at their resort room the following morning, tellin...

A Scuba-Diving YouTuber Just Solved A 21-Year-Old Cold Case After Finding Human Remains In A Tennessee River On April 3, 2000, 17-year-old Jeremy Bechtel called his dad from a party and said he was staying the night, then asked for a ride home the next morning. But when Jeremy’s dad arrived, his son was nowhere to be found, as was Jeremy’s friend Erin. Friends told Jeremy’s dad that the two left together in Erin’s car the night before and never came back. For years, rumors swirled about their disappearance. Some said they ran away to Florida, while others said it was a drug deal gone bad. One person even said he saw them in the back of a truck with blood coming out of it. Police followed all these leads and more, but never turned up anything that might help them solve the case. But last November, a scuba diving YouTuber who works as an amateur investigator on missing persons cases took up the cause — and within days, found the teens’ submerged car in a local river.... ...

The Tragic True Story Of The Classroom Suicide Behind Pearl Jam's 'Jeremy' On January 8th, 1991, Jeremy Delle walked into his sophomore English class at Richardson High School in northern Texas, retrieved a Smith & Wesson revolver from his backpack, and shot himself in the head in front of his classmates. The incident inspired Eddie Vedder to pen "Jeremy" — but his family says the infamous Pearl Jam song couldn't be further from the truth.  Jeremy Delle shot himself in front of his classmates at Richardson High School in Texas on January 8, 1991. He left a suicide note with a friend but police never revealed the contents. According to reports which circulated at the time, he got up in front of the class at 9.45am after being told to fetch an admittance slip for missing class. When he returned, he said: 'Miss, I got what I really went for,' and fired a 357-caliber Magnum in his mouth.  He was living with his father, his parents were divo...

On this day, march, 12, 2019, Pretty 17-Year-Old Girl Buried Alive After Leaving Nightclub In Argentina (Pics) A popular teenage girl was stripped of her clothing and buried alive after she left a nightclub with an older man. Agustina Imvinkelried, 17 years old, had enjoyed a night of drinking and dancing at a local club. The teenager left the party alone around 5:50 a.m., and was seen getting into the car of a 39-year-old man identified as Pablo Sebastian Trionfini. Several days later, the girl was found buried in the woods. The teen’s body was half undressed with ripped clothing and underwear pulled down to her ankles. Soil was in her lungs, showing that the girl was buried alive and died in agony. Surveillance video shows young Agustina leaving alone from the nightclub in the town of Esperanza, Argentina. She was walking unsteadily and appeared heavily intoxicated. The teen was dressed fashionably in high heels and a short skirt as she walked home alone. Police say the girl...

A woman found dead inside a refrigerator in San Joaquin County in March 1995 was identified as Amanda Lynn Schumann Deza in February 2023 'Lady in the fridge' murder victim identified as Bay Area mother of 3 A woman found dead inside a refrigerator has finally been identified after 27 years as Amanda Lynn Schumann Deza, a mother of three who police say was never reported missing. In March 1995, a young man looking for recyclables stumbled onto a fridge off Bacon Island Road, about 10 miles from Stockton. The refrigerator had been shoved down a canal and, when the man opened it, he found the waterlogged body of a woman inside. Investigators from the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office determined she’d likely been dead about six months before the grisly discovery. The woman, who was allegedly found with her hands tied, was the victim of blunt-force trauma. For decades, her identity was unknown. The case went cold. Last year, investigators from San Joaquin County got in t...

Inside The Mysterious Disappearance Of Brandon Lawson, Who Vanished From A Highway In Texas "My truck ran out of gas. There's one car here. The guy's chasing [inaudible] to the woods. Please hurry!"  When Brandon Lawson ran out of gas on rural Route 277 outside of Bronte, Texas, just after midnight on August 9, 2013, nobody was worried at first. His brother set out to bring him a can of gas, and his girlfriend went to bed, assuming he would be back on the road soon. Instead, Lawson simply vanished into thin air. In a bizarre call with 911 just beforehand, he told the operator he was in the middle of the field and that he had "run into" someone or something. And when his brother arrived with the gas, Lawson was nowhere to be found, even though he told his brother over the phone that he could see him.. But Brandon Lawson himself was never seen again.... Read stor After Brandon Lawson ran out of gas in the dead of night on rural Route 277, he made a ser...

An African-American teenager who was convicted and sentenced to death in Pennsylvania on false charges that he had murdered a white woman has been exonerated, 91 years after he was executed. On June 13, 2022, Delaware County Court of Common Pleas Judge Kevin Kelly granted a motion filed jointly by lawyers for Alexander McClay Williams and the Delaware County District Attorney’s office to posthumously overturn Williams’ conviction and death sentence. (Williams is pictured with then-District Attorney William J. McCarter displaying the murder weapon.) District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer then filed a motion to “nol pros” the case, dismissing the charges against Williams and formally exonerating him. Williams, who was sixteen years old when he was put to death in the electric chair, was the youngest person ever executed in Pennsylvania. The court action was the culmination of years of effort by Williams’ family and Sam Lemon, the great-grandson of his trial lawyer, to clear the teen of the ...

Inside the Repulsive World of 'Hurtcore', the Worst Crimes Imaginable Liezy margallo, girlfriend and culprit of peter scully, Australian paedophile and murderer, and my personal nominatee for most evil person ever. Left a rest photo. Right screenshot from one my torture videos " the couple created. Their most infamous video is " Daisy's Destruction  JUST about anything evil can be bought on the dark web, as Eileen Ormsby found researching her new book The Darkest Web. This new extract details the capture of Australian pedophile Peter Scully and child porn promoter Matthew Graham Torment and humiliation used to be a very public spectacle. But in the modern world there are new ways to be cruel, and many of them are conducted from behind a computer screen. It started for "Victim 5" in 2013, when she placed an advert on Gumtree saying she was looking to buy a pet dog. One of the emails the 15-year-old schoolgirl received was strange. It was from Liz, an arti...