SHADES of MURDER

On Midsummer, 2003, in Pirkkala, Finland, the police received a call from a woman who had been told about a murder in which a man had been dismembered. It wasn’t until the second call, which was from a witness to this horrendous crime, that officers began to take the report seriously. These calls would lead investigators down a path to the discovery of atrocious and shocking crimes.

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Between April and June 2017, in the small rural Southern town of Lumberton, NC, whispers of a serial killer spread throughout the neighborhood. The bodies of three women were discovered within only a few blocks of one another. Their deaths would shine a light on the unknown number of missing and murdered Indigenous women of Robeson County whose homicides have yet to be solved. 

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On November 11th, 2010, in the quaint lovely town of Apple Valley, Ohio, law enforcement officers entered a family’s residence who had been reported missing.  Inside officers were met with a bloodbath, but there were no bodies in sight. The investigation would unravel one of the most brutal and bizarre of crimes. For many of the officers involved, they would forever be traumatized by what they saw.

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On January 6th, 1999, in Port St John, Florida, the body of 29-year-old Sonya Nicole Speights was discovered lying in a blood-drenched tub. Investigators were initially informed that it was the sight of an accidental shooting, but the evidence indicated something far more suspicious. Who was this woman and who was the monster who murdered her inside her home?

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When paramedics entered a garage in Studio City, CA, they discovered the body of a woman lying on a pile of blankets. A lit charcoal grill had been knocked to the ground.  What police initially believed to be a tragic accident would unravel a murder mystery so bizarre that it could have been written in Hollywood, and it may have been.

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Disguised under their shared hatred of child predators, a group of men led by the dictatorial direction of an influential older man would embark on the most depraved and twisted of missions. To rid the world of individuals they defined as filth and lacking value, together they would commit some of the most horrifying serial murders the world has ever known. This is the Snowtown Murders of Australia.

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On Friday, October 24th, 2015, at 10:30 am, students gathered inside the cafeteria at Marysville-Pilchuck High School. They casually chatted and ate lunch with their peers like any other normal day. Then out of nowhere, they stood frozen in horror as they witnessed five of their classmates being shot. They dropped their lunches on the ground, tripped over one another to escape, and screamed in terror as the room filled with smoke a...

December 10th, 1909, Savannah, GA. On a brisk winter morning, a patrolman walking the streets of downtown heard loud moaning sounds coming from one of the homes. When he entered the residence, he discovered the bloodied mutilated body of the lady of the house. She was sitting in her bedroom easy chair with her glasses having fallen at her feet next to the newspaper. The imprint of an ax was visible on her skull. It was only the beg...

Christmas is known as a time of joy but not all tales from this season are merry. During the late 1940s and early 1950s, a sinister force invaded the small Southern Baptist town of Wake Forest, NC. Each murder whispers of evil and their darkness still lingers within the town’s lore. These are two chilling tales of Raymond Downing Hair and Luna Holmes Beddingfield.

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Around 2:15 am on Thanksgiving morning, 1995 in Fairfax, Virginia, 911 operators received a call that the Harper residence was on fire. When firefighters arrived at the house, fire and smoke masked the horrific scene inside. Once the flames were extinguished, and the heavy smoke cleared, emergency personnel found the burnt body of a young woman. When investigators examined the scene, they discovered a rolling pin smeared with blood...

On May 11th, 2021, in a town outside of Athens, Greece, law enforcement officers arrived at the residence of a young couple. When they entered the master bedroom, they discovered the swollen blue body of a nineteen-year-old woman. Next to her lying in bed was an infant crying but thankfully unharmed. Near the stairs, crime scene investigators came across a gruesome discovery. A small dog was hanging by its leash. Who murdered this ...

February 1946, in the town of Texarkana, an unknown assailant wearing a sack with holes cut out for eyes and mouth terrorized unsuspected residents. Once the moon rose, the bordering area between Texas and Arkansas would become his personal hunting ground. Within only a few months, the masked killer brutally murdered five people. Three of them escaped his homicidal clutches to tell their stories. The events that transpired would ch...

On October 30th, 1992, in Coulter’s Hole, a beautiful hiking and camping spot near Oil Station, PA, the body of a badly bruised young girl was discovered lying in the creek. She was dressed strangely wearing oversized shorts, a t-shirt that was inside out, and socks which clearly weren’t hers. Investigators had been searching the exact location only the day before, and nothing had been there. Police believed the perpetrator had dum...

In the early morning hours of September 15th, 2004, in Southwick, East Sussex, England, a passerby stumbled upon the body of an elderly woman found along the footpath of a neighborhood. She was lying in a pool of blood. The victim had been viciously stabbed in the back and to the side of her neck. Who was this poor old woman, and what kind of monster slashed her to death while she was walking home? This is the story of England’s Fr...

In early June 2000, law enforcement investigators performed a search warrant in connection to a missing woman on the 16-acre farm of a business owner and grandfather near Kansas City, KS. Cadaver dogs alerted them to a spot where two metal barrels stood. The horrific scene inside would unravel a man’s two-decades-long web of deceit. Who were these victims, and who was the monster who murdered them and stuffed them inside a barrel? 

Frozen in a Truck - The Denise Huber Story Part 1 revealed the terrifying truth behind the abduction and murder of the missing woman Denise Huber. This second part closely details and analyzes the childhood of her killer Joseph John Famalaro, and what may have triggered his violence. This is Part 2 of Frozen in a Truck: The Denise Huber Story

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On July 13th, 1994 in Prescott Valley, AZ, law enforcement vice officers would search a suspected stolen moving truck with a mysterious running freezer inside. They believed they were about to bust a hidden drug operation but what they found inside would chill them to their bones. What appeared to be a woman’s arm was peeking outside of a large black trash bag, and a pool of bodily fluids had crystallized at the bottom of the freez...

On Mother’s Day weekend in 2003, in Tyler County, Texas, a mother of three small children called 911 to report that her sons had been attacked. The weapons used and the confession of the perpetrator would shock and horrify the residents of this tiny close-knit Christian town. Perhaps the only thing more terrifying than the murders themselves were the reasons behind them.

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