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When her son, Walter, failed to return home on March 10th, 1928, after taking a trip to the cinema, Christine Ida Collins would begin a heart-breaking and lifelong search for him whilst also battling a LAPD Captain who was willing to go to extremes to save his and his department’s reputation. As the day began
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Countess Elizabeth Bathory de Ecsed was a Hungarian Countess and alleged serial killer, who earned the monikers of Blood Countess and Countess Dracula after being accused of the torture and murders of up to 600 girls and young women throughout her kingdom between 1590 and 1610. But was Elizabeth really the monster she was purported
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On October 24th 1983 Paul Freshour went on trial for the attempted murder of Mary Gillispie, a school bus driver in the town of Circleville, he was found guilty and sentenced to seven to twenty-five years. During his eleven-year imprisonment he maintained his innocence and continued to do so after he was paroled in May
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On the morning of December 1st 1948 the body of a man was discovered on Somerton Park beach, about seven miles out of Adelaide. When police arrived at the scene they found the deceased laying in the sand, head propped against the sea wall with his legs outstretched and feet crossed. It seemed almost as
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Early in the afternoon of January 2nd 1935, a man checks into the Hotel Presidential of Kansas City under the name of Roland T Owen. He is dressed well and sporting a dark coloured overcoat, however the staff note that he has no bags with him. They also can’t fail to miss the quite visible
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Charles ‘Chuck’ Morgan went missing on 22nd March 1977 after dropping his daughters off at school. It would be three days before he eventually showed back up at home with, according to his wife, a plastic zip tie around his wrists and a plastic handcuff around one ankle; Chuck was also missing a shoe. Unable
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