Criminal Curiosity

Geetha Angara was a senior Chemist working at the Passaic Valley Water Commission in Totowa, New Jersey. When she was promoted, there was a lot of animosity & hostility towards her. On February 8, 2005, she was found dead in a water tank. Bruising on her body in the autopsy indicated someone tried to strangle her and her cause of death was drowning. Pathologists and Police have believed it was an accidental drowning, while others believed one of her coworkers murdered her, but who?

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Joseph Christopher was a serial killer in the 1980s. He tried to get mental health help and was denied and 14 days later he began his murder spree. He is responsible for the murders of 13 black men and boys in Buffalo, New York. He was dubbed by the media as both the ".22 Caliber Killer" and the "Midtown Slasher."

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Cari Farver met a man in 2012, shortly after she went missing, and for the next 3 years Dave and his nonserious partner Liz would be harassed with thousands of emails and texts but it was only a cover for a jealous lover's murder.

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David Nixon was a successful businessman living a nice life in Grapevine, Texas. In 2002 he was murdered and with forensic testing and using tire impressions, they were able to find his killer.

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Carl Watts also known as the "Sunday Morning Slasher" murdered girls and women over an eight-year period in Michigan, Canada, and Texas. Until he was caught in 1982.

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Francine Hughes was an American woman who, after thirteen years of domestic abuse, set fire to the bed where her live-in ex-husband Mickey Hughes was sleeping, on March 9, 1977, in Dansville, Michigan. Mickey was killed and the house was destroyed in the resulting fire.

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The gruesome murder of 18-year-old Shannon Siders in Newaygo, Michigan, in mid-July 1989. Her body was discovered three months later, and the case remained unsolved for over two decades. 

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On May 3, 2002, a 7-year-old girl walked half a block to school in Milwaukee. Since then there have been theories and more questions about what happened to Alexis Patterson 21 years ago.

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The Colonial Parkway murders took the lives of at least 8 victims along the Colonial Parkway in Virginia, between 1986 and 1989 and the case is still unsolved.

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In 1985, a United States Marine Corps Lance Corporal, Suzanne Marie Collins was tortured, raped, and killed. She was working in Millington, Tennessee's Naval Support Activity Mid-South at the time of her murder. Collins, a trainee at the base, was due to graduate from avionics training on the day of her death. Sedley Alley, the man who is believed to have killed her, was given a death sentence based solely on a confession that didn't line up; it was later redacted; he was executed in 2006; but, given the state's refusal to conduct DNA testing on 11 samples, you have to question whether her killer was actually brought to justice.

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On March 19, 2000, 19-year-old Chester Poage was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered by 3 men, he thought were his friends in Spearfish, South Dakota. The 3 men were convicted and 2 were sentenced to death, one dying in 2007 from the lethal injection, the other is the only death row inmate in the state of South Dakota, and the third one was sentenced to life in prison.

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Oliver Northup and his wife Claudia had been happily married for 17 years when they were tortured, killed, and mutilated in their home by a 15-year-old kid. Daniel Marsh was ten years old when he began fantasizing about killing people and becoming a serial killer. This case sparked a debate concerning the sentencing of teenagers who commit heinous acts.

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In the Summer of 2004, 24-year-old Tamika Huston went missing in Spartanburg, SC. Her ex-boyfriend was a prime suspect until DNA evidence ruled him out. Her case didn't get national media attention because, at the same time, Laci Peterson and Natalie Holloway's cases were in the news. A key found in Tamika's car led police to give Tamika the justice she deserved 15 months later.

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After Thanksgiving on November 27, 1998, 25-year-old Corey Parker was expected to show up to work at the Ragtime Tavern, when she did her manager became concerned, the manager sent one of the cooks to check on her. Police would soon a disturbing scene. After going through many suspects, one man Robert Denny refused to give up his DNA, until one day he spit on the floor and there was a break in the case.

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On November 9, 1996, in Torbay, Canada, Gary O'Brien allegedly abducted his three sons, Adam, 14, Trevor, 11, and Mitchell, 4. Since Gary's divorce, he had custody of the children on Saturdays. This Saturday was supposed to be like any other Saturday. Only this time Gary called his ex-wife Diana, and stated that he wouldn't be bringing the kids back and that his house was rigged with bombs. The O'Brien Brothers have been missing for 27 years and the case remains open.

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Lorenzen Wright was a basketball player, who played for 13 seasons in the NBA. On July 18, 2010, he went missing after failing to attend his sister's baby shower. 10 days later his body was found and his ex-wife Sherra Robinson & her friend Billy Raye Turner were found guilty of his murder. Sherra collected his $1 million life insurance; 10 months after getting it, she spent $970,000 on whatever she desired.

On September 28, 2000, David Camm's wife, Kim, and two children 7-year-old Bradley and 5-year-old Jill were all murdered in the garage. David would end up being convicted of their murder twice, acquitted on the third, and spending 13 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit.

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In 1971 and 1972, 6 black girls were abducted and murdered in the Washington D.C. area, the killer was dubbed "The Freeway Phantom" because of their use of the freeway to get in and get out. 52 years later, there are no witnesses, no leads, and the serial killer has remained unidentified.

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Barry Winchell, a 21-year-old private first class stationed at Fort Campbell, was dating a transgender woman, Calpernia Adams, when he was murdered by his roommate, for who he was dating. His death brought to light the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, which is quite a shocking policy.

In the late 1990s, Sante and Kenny Kimes were known as Mommy and Clyde, and they were involved in a string of crimes across the United States, beginning with stealing, forgery, scams, and eventually ending in murder because they wanted money.

Dana Satterfield was a successful 27-year-old woman, she was a mother to her two children and the owner of her own hair salon. In 1995 she was found murdered in her own salon, and the case would go cold for 10 years after her daughter without knowing it would help solve her mother's murder.

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Ashley Pond, 12, went to the bus stop every morning to get to school when she went missing one day in January 2002. Authorities initially classified her as a runaway, but after two weeks, they changed their minds. Miranda Gaddis, another girl who is a friend of Ashley Pond, goes missing in March 2002. Ashley reported unwanted and inappropriate behavior to her teacher, who reported it to CPS about a man named Ward Weaver, and nothing was done. Ward Weaver would go on TV and claim his innocence over a concrete slab where Ashley Pond was subsequently discovered. Ward was arrested and sentenced to life in prison in 2002. Ward Weaver Sr., the father was also convicted of double murder and has been suspected of 24 -26 murders. Francis Weaver, Ward Weaver's son has been in prison since 2014 for his involvement in a murder. This is an excellent example of "the apple does not fall far from the tree."

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Officers Richard Phillips and Milton Curtis were both murdered in 1957 after pulling over a man for running a red light. The murders stayed unsolved for 46 years until 2002 when they were solved thanks to technology, handwriting analysis, a family member contacting the police and how the police officers marked their killer for life. They were successful in bringing the murderer to justice. 

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