She appeared to lead the perfect life with a caring husband by her side and raising three daughters in their rural Raymond home — Michelle “Shelly” Knotek gave off the impression of having it all. She was raising her three girls in the family home in rural Raymond, Washington, with a loving husband by her side. The couple, who were renowned for their generosity, welcomed struggling friends and family members to live with them…

Then they filmed themselves laughing about it on camera — Sierra Halseth, 16, and her lover Aaron Guerrero, 18, are accused of murdering her father because he refused to let them date any longer. Daniel Halseth, 45, was found dead in his garage on April 9 by Las Vegas police. …

A crime spree inspired by the movie “Natural Born Killers” — A high-profile case started when a woman from a well-known family known as the “Kennedys of Oklahoma,” along with her boyfriend who dropped out of Tahlequah High School, went on a crime spree motivated by the film “Natural Born Killers.” In 1995, 18-year-old Sarah Edmondson and Benjamin James Darras met…

The Horrific Corpsewood Manor Murders — Dr. Charles Scudder, who hailed from an affluent family, had the position of professor of pharmacology at Loyola University in Chicago, which he considered to be a “wonderful career.” People who knew Scudder described him as “intelligent,” “refined,” and “soft-spoken, yet confident.” In 1976, he left the comfort of his…

The sickening injuries they found on her body indicated torture far worse than they could have imagined — Kelly Anne, Margaret Bates’ 16-year-old daughter, was standing in the kitchen when she got home one day from work in Hattersley, England. Kelly Anne had brought her boyfriend home for the first time, James Patterson Smith. When Margaret learned that Smith was in his mid-40s, she was astounded. No mother…

A mix-up with a formaldehyde drip and a saline drip after surgery caused her body to erode from the inside — An accidental embalming of a 27-year-old lady occurred after a regular procedure. Two days after medical professionals unintentionally gave Ekaterina Fedyaeva a formalin drip rather than a saline drip, she passed away from numerous organ failures. A formalin drip, which contains formaldehyde and is typically administered to people who are…

The ongoing sexual abuse Geoghan committed while being transferred from parish to parish was continuously ignored — Priest John Geoghan served in six different parishes during the course of a 30-year tenure in Boston. Additionally, 150 boys came forward to accuse him of sexual abuse when he was a member of the Catholic Church. Higher-ups in the church ignored the ongoing sexual abuse Geoghan committed while being…

He would murder his victims then have sex with their bodies — It was immediately apparent that Patrick Kearney was odd from a young age. His father showed him how to kill pigs behind the ear with a pistol when he was thirteen. As soon as he started, Kearney enjoyed the job and started slaughtering pigs by himself that weren’t supposed to…

A cold-blooded killer with no pattern to his crimes — Paul John Knowles was described by several of the women who met him as “a cross between Robert Redford and Ryan O’Neal,” suave and charismatic. However, what he really was, was a cold-blooded killer with no pattern and no respect for anyone but himself, and to others, he represented their…