Diane Downs: Springfield Oregon Child Shootings, Forensic Wound Trajectories & The Surviving Eyewitness
On the night of May 19, 1983, 27-year-old postal worker Elizabeth Diane Downs drove her blood-soaked red Nissan...
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Lori Vallow & Chad Daybell: The Idaho Doomsday Cult Murders, Pet Cemetery Excavations & Forensic DNA
Between September and October 2019, 16-year-old Tylee Ryan, her seven-year-old adopted brother Joshua ‘JJ’ Vallow, and 49-year-old school librarian Tammy Daybell were...
Dorothea Puente: The Sacramento Boarding House Murders, F Street Garden Excavations & Forensic Toxicology
In November 1988, Sacramento Police homicide detectives and forensic anthropologists initiated a grim excavation across the shaded yard and rose gardens of...
Belle Gunness: The La Porte Indiana ‘Hell’s Princess’ Murder Farm, Arsenic Forensics & The 1908 Excavations
In May 1908, the smoking ruins of a rural farmhouse on McClung Road in La Porte, Indiana, yielded one of the most...
Charles Starkweather & Caril Ann Fugate: The 1958 Nebraska Killing Spree, Forensic Ballistics & Roadblock Capture
In January 1958, an eight-day explosion of homicidal violence across the frozen plains of Nebraska and Wyoming claimed the lives of ten...
Kip Kinkel: Thurston High School Shooting, Forensic Ballistics & The 111-Year Oregon Sentence
On the morning of May 21, 1998, 15-year-old Kipland Philip Kinkel walked into the crowded cafeteria of Thurston High School in Springfield,...
Israel Keyes: Samantha Koenig Abduction, Hidden Kill Caches & The FBI Anchorage Interrogations
On the sub-zero evening of February 1, 2012, 18-year-old barista Samantha Koenig was abducted at gunpoint from the Common Grounds espresso kiosk...
Herb Baumeister: Fox Hollow Farm 10,000 Skeletal Fragments Excavation & The I-70 Murders
In June 1996, forensic anthropologists, cadaver dog teams, and sheriff’s deputies initiated an unprecedented archaeological and osteological recovery operation across the 18-acre...
Gary Heidnik: The Philadelphia Cellar Torture House, Captive Escapes & Forensic Recovery
On March 24, 1987, a terrified 25-year-old woman named Josefina Rivera approached Philadelphia police officers, leading them to a modest three-story rowhouse...