Who Would Steal a Baby Just to Keep a Man? — Of the 500 people who showed up at New Boston High School a week ago, twelve of them will eventually hear why Taylor Rene Parker (aka Morton and Wacasey) murdered her pregnant friend, Reagan Simmons Hancock, and cut her unborn child out of her belly. It is a capital murder…

Children Lost to Violence Then and Now — Let me tell you a story about two little girls, 9-year-old Georgetta Von Buhren and her big sister, 12-year-old Marie. Their story recently came to light when a modern-day treasure hunter named Chelsey Brown bought a mysterious photograph in a vintage New York store and decided to find out the…

Meet the New “Printz” of Darkness What does it say about a person who, when a former friend or lover finds out he’s a serial killer, responds with “I’m not surprised?” Certainly nothing good. But those were the exact words of a long-time acquaintance of Daniel Glen Printz, a man who recently pleaded guilty to the…

Steven Rose Decided to Impersonate a Family Annihilator — Every single one of the roughly 20,000 murders in the U.S. last year devastated the loved ones left behind. But to the media, most of them are not newsworthy. As callous as it sounds, the crimes that most people want to read about are the ones with a twist; perhaps…

Guess Which One Fit James Edward Riley? — I have seen parents humiliate, beat, starve, abandon, and otherwise mistreat a child in ways I never imagined before I became a forensic psychologist. Time and again, I have seen a child desperately clinging to the thinnest shred of attention or love. I don’t know if it’s a survival instinct…

The Story of a Young Mother, a Destructive Cult Leader, and a Dead Child I have read thousands of court documents in my career, and this is the first time I’ve ever encountered a resurrection clause in a plea deal. In 2009…