Jul 27Why Would a Son Who Has Everything Murder His Loving Mom?When Money and Love Aren’t Enough — On July 19, 2022, an uncommon murder took place in an unlikely place. Twenty-six-year-old Doug Solomon beat his 65-year-old mother, Diane Gallagher, to death with a table lamp. He then leaped out of their 16-floor New York City luxury apartment building. Both died at the scene.When …True Crime5 min read
Jul 17Member-onlySadistic Southern California Serial Killer Captured Forty Years LaterThe Recent Arrest of Billy Ray Richardson Shows Justice Never Forgets — Trina Wilson, image provided by her mother Latasha Thomas Richard Ramirez. Douglas Clark and Carol Bundy. Lonnie Franklin. William Bonin. Do these names ring a bell? Southern California was a “hotbed” of serial killers in the 1980s and 1990s. Indeed, the number of active serial killers (captured and not) during…True Crime5 min read
Jul 9Pregnancy, Lies, Kidnapping and MurderWho 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…True Crime9 min read
Jun 28A Hundred Years of Murder-SuicidesChildren 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…True Crime4 min read
Jun 24Searching for One Missing Woman Leads to Diabolical Serial KillerMeet 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…True Crime5 min read
Jun 16Cruel Ex Uses Horrific Family Murder to Terrify Fearful Stalking VictimSteven 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. …True Crime5 min read
May 30Member-onlyViolence, Drugs and GunsThe Terrifying Story of an Online Romance — Violence, drugs, and guns. These were the silent passengers riding along with thirty-nine-year-old James Larson, Jr. when he picked up thirty-year-old Preacious Brower in Kansas City, Missouri. Only she didn’t know it. All Preacious knew was that the man she had met online through Facebook Dating a couple of days…True Crime7 min read
May 16Three Eye-opening Reasons Sons Kill Their DadsGuess 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. …True Crime6 min read
May 5Member-onlyEngineer Beau Rothwell Weighed the Pros and Cons of Wife Versus MistressFive Months Later, His Pregnant Wife Disappeared I volunteer with a Cold Case Foundation, so justice delivered is often justice delayed. In fact, while families are grateful for answers, the truth is often bittersweet. Sometimes the perpetrator is dead. Even when he’s alive, he may be an old man who…True Crime9 min read
Apr 29How Much Influence Can One Person Have?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…True Crime5 min read