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...
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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...
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...
John Wayne Gacy: The ‘Killer Clown’, 8213 Summerdale Crawlspace Excavations & The Robert Piest Pharmacy Clue
In December 1978, the disappearance of a fifteen-year-old high school student from a suburban Chicago pharmacy initiated a forensic excavation that exposed...
Ed Gein: The ‘Plainfield Ghoul’, Waushara County Farmhouse Forensics & The Birth of Modern Criminology
On the bitterly cold evening of November 16, 1957, local sheriff’s deputies entering a decrepit, unlit farmhouse outside Plainfield, Wisconsin, stumbled into...