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Fred Grabbe Resurfaces Some cases stay with you long after the verdict, and

Some cases stay with you long after the verdict, and the Grabbe murder — covered in True Crime Case Histories – Volume 1 — is one of them. Charlotte Grabbe vanished from her...

A Detective’s Call About Harvey Glatman Most of the case updates I write

Most of the case updates I write here follow a familiar shape — an appeal, a parole hearing, a conviction overturned or upheld. This one is different. Harvey Glatman, the “...

Grant Amato and the Ghost Adventures Murder Plot Grant Amato — whose case I

Grant Amato — whose case I covered in True Crime Case Histories – Volume 8 — murdered his parents and his brother Cody in their Chuluota, Florida home in January 2019, after his...

Joshua Webb Update Few cases in True Crime Case Histories ended on as

Few cases in True Crime Case Histories ended on as uneasy a note as Joshua Webb’s. He’s the man from Volume 14 who, on Mother’s Day in 2017, beat and decapitated his mother,...

Mark Twitchell Admits He Killed for the Thrill For years, Mark Twitchell

For years, Mark Twitchell stuck to a single story. The aspiring Edmonton filmmaker – better known as the “Dexter Killer” – always insisted that the 2008 death of Johnny Altinger...

Daniel Wozniak Update: Off Death Row Daniel Wozniak was sentenced to death

Daniel Wozniak was sentenced to death in 2016 for one of the coldest, most calculated double murders I’ve ever covered — a struggling community theater actor who killed two...

Jessica Wongso "The Coffee Killer" Released Jessica Wongso, the woman I

Jessica Wongso, the woman I wrote about in True Crime Case Histories — Volume 3 who was convicted of poisoning her friend Mirna Salihin with a cyanide-laced Vietnamese iced...

Jennifer Pan Update Jennifer Pan, whose murder-for-hire plot against her

Jennifer Pan, whose murder-for-hire plot against her parents is the subject of a chapter in True Crime Case Histories – Volume 5, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in her mother’s...

Alyssa Bustamante Update Alyssa Bustamante, the woman I wrote about in True

Alyssa Bustamante, the woman I wrote about in True Crime Case Histories – Volume 2who in 2009 lured nine-year-old Elizabeth Olten into the woods near St. Martins, Missouri, and...

Jessica Ridgeway Case Update: Killer’s Mother Breaks Her 13-Year Silence In

In October 2025, Mindy Sigg — the mother who turned her own son in for the murder of ten-year-old Jessica Ridgeway — spoke publicly for the first time since the 2012 case I...

Brittany Killgore Update A California appeals court has shut down the

A California appeals court has shut down the latest attempt by Jessica Lynn Lopez — one of three killers convicted in the 2012 torture-murder of 22-year-old Marine wife Brittany...

Candace Hiltz Update When I wrote about the murder of seventeen-year-old

When I wrote about the murder of seventeen-year-old Candace Hiltz in True Crime Case Histories — Volume 4, the case had been cold for more than a decade. The lead detective,...

Tommy Ragan Update Tommy Ragan, the man I wrote about in True Crime Case

Tommy Ragan, the man I wrote about in True Crime Case Histories - Volume 4 who was convicted of the 1977 murder of thirteen-year-old Bruce Kim in Centralia, Washington, died in...