Sometimes, Curiosity Kills More Than the Cat — Sources that criticize our cultural obsession with true crime, or the media coverage that feeds it, tend to focus on a few key points. One, it can retraumatize the victims and their families. Two, it can make people who’ve done horrific things seem cool or attractive. Three, it can shape…

I’m Starting to Think There’s No Such Thing as an “Angel of Mercy” — On May 24, 2023, forty-year-old assistant director of nursing Heather Pressdee told investigators that she murdered two patients and attempted to murder another out. of mercy. Pressdee worked at Quality Life Services, a skilled nursing facility that, according to its website has several locations throughout Pennsylvania. Available services range from…

Money, Murder and the Psychology of a Serial Poisoner — One person thought she was taking medication for Covid-19. Another thought she was consuming an herbal remedy. Yet another thought it was a diet aid. But Sararat “Am” Rangsiwuthaporn knew the truth. It was cyanide. They were all dead within minutes. And Sararat Rangsiwuthaporn had achieved her goal. We often…

Truth and Lies About Michael Haight’s Murder-Suicide — On Wednesday, January 4, 2023, concerned neighbors of 4923 North Albert Drive in Enoch City, Utah walked into Michael and Tausha Haight’s home and found eight people’s bodies; forty-two-year-old Michael, his forty-year-old wife Tausha, and their five children; seventeen-year-old Macie, twelve-year-old Briley, twin seven-year-olds Ammon and Sienna, and four-year-old Gavin…

Alex Murdaugh. Bryan Kohberger. Larry Rudolph. Are All These Murderers Narcissists? Alex Murdaugh is currently on trial for the cold-blooded murders of his wife and son. He is also facing a wealth of financial crimes; over ninety at last count. As usual, several people have weighed in on the psyche…

Does Amanda Chapin Fit the Psychological Profile of Poisoner? — Through no fault of his own, 2022 was a horrible year for Wisconsin veterinarian Gary Chapin. 2022 started on a high note. The new year found Dr. Chapin in the ecstasy of a romance with a woman he had met on the internet a year earlier; Amanda Ruiz. There was…

We Don’t Know Much Yet, But His Name is Bryan Christopher Hohberger — The twenty-eight year old suspect is a Ph.D. graduate student in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington. Pullman is about a 15-minute drive from the rental home where four college students were stabbed to death in the early morning hours of November…

Is This the Face of Canada’s Newest Serial Killer? — In 2019, on the first anniversary of her marriage, Erin Leszkovics received the best gift she could imagine; a three-year restraining order against her unpredictable control freak of a husband. She had spent a year living in hell with thirty-five-year-old Jeremy Anthony Michael Skibicki, who could fly into a rage…

Jeremy Anthony Michael Skibicki is Headed for Trial, Which is Good News For All Canadian Women — In 2019, on the first anniversary of her marriage, Erin Leszkovics received the best gift she could imagine; a three-year restraining order against her unpredictable control freak of a husband. She had spent a year living in hell with thirty-five-year-old Jeremy Anthony Michael Skibicki, who could fly into a rage…