Killer Case Files:

20 All New True Crime Stories

Killer Case Files – 20 All New True Crime Stories

Chapter 01: French Quarter Horror

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• NOTE: This case is atypical. The confessed murderer was found (dead) before the victim was found. There was no typical investigation, no trial, and no verdict. Consequently there is no real ‘case file.’

• New Orleans Apartment at Center of 2006 Murder-Suicide Criticized as ‘Exploitative’

• Tour Of Horror House Where Soldier Chopped Up And Cooked His Girlfriend Faces Angry Backlash
  

Chapter 02: Justice for Anne

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• California Police Reopen Murder of 5-Year-Old Girl Who Vanished on Way to School in 1982
  

• Former Soldier Charged in 1982 Rape, Murder of California 5-Year-Old Abducted on Way to School

• Man Pleads Not Guilty in 1982 Cold Case Murder of Seaside Girl Anne PhamS

Chapter 03: The Bitemark

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• Wikipedia: Facts of the Case

• Murderpedia: Facts of the Case
  

• Vanity Fair: A Case So Cold It Was Blue

Chapter 04: Coffee Cup Confession

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• Lancaster New Era: Woman, 20, Slain – 1975

• FOX 43: Lancaster Man Charged in 1975 Cold Case Killing Pleads Not Guilty
  

• Lancaster Online: Attorneys in David Sinopoli Homicide Case Get More Time to Prepare for Court
  

Chapter 05: Dead In The Snow

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• Murderpedia: Facts of the Case

• CBS News: Love and Death in Alaska

• FindLaw: Mechele K. LINEHAN, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee
  

• Find a Grave: Kent John Leppink

Chapter 06: Still At Large

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• Wikipedia: Facts of the Case

• Murderpedia: Facts of the Case

• Provincetown History Project: Story from Life Magazine
  

Chapter 07: The Perfect Crime

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• Wikipedia: Facts of the Case

• Biography.com: Nathan Leopold
  

• Biography.com: Richard Loeb
  

Chapter 08: North Carolina Reaper

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• US Attorney’s Office: North Carolina Man Sentenced to Life Without Parole

• The Sun: Shocking Details Emerge About Serial Killer’s Horror Tactics

• FOX 8: North Carolina ‘Serial Killer’ Gets Life Sentence
  

Chapter 09: Black Widower

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• US Attorney’s Office: Harold Henthorn Arrested For First Degree Murder Related To Death Of Wife

• Westword: Harold Henthorn May Have Tried to Kill Wife Before Fatal Hike Marked With “X,” Docs Say

• Westword: Harold Henthorn at Sentencing for Wife’s Murder: “I Did Not Kill Toni”

• Colorado Politics: No New Trial for Man Convicted of Pushing Wife Off Cliff

Chapter 10: Lethal Love

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• Daily Mail: ‘I strangled him, it feels so good’

• BharatTimes: Chilling Details of Last 53 Minutes
  

• Perth Now: Jamie Lee Dolheguy Sentenced Over Sex Toy Strangling Death of Maulin Rathod
  

Chapter 11: Raked

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• Des Moines Register: Iowa Man Accused of Killing Wife With Corn Rake

• CBS News: A Woman is Impaled by a Corn Rake – But Do Her Fatal Injuries Add Up to Murder?

• KCRG: Hearing to Appeal Todd Mullis Murder Conviction Begins

Chapter 12: Loving Your Murderer

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• Wikipedia: Facts of the Case
  

• YouTube: Writer Murdered by Convicted Killer She Was Rehabilitating
  

• DailyRecored: Story of Scots Gran Who Snared Killer
  

Chapter 13: DNA’s Silent Testimony

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• NBC News: Family, Friends Hoping for Answers Three Decades After Michelle Koski was Brutally Murdered
  

• Law & Crime: Friends and Family Mourn as Brutal 1990 Seattle-Area Cold Case Rape and Murder is Finally Solved
  

Chapter 14: The Lucky End

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• San Diego Union: Man Gets 7 Years to Life in 1969 Slaying of San Diego Woman
  

• NBC 7: Former Navy Sailor Sentenced For 1969 Murder of City Heights Woman
  

Chapter 15: Tortured Transient

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• AZ Central: Police Seek Killers Who Burned Homeless Man Alive
  

• Phoenix New Times: Paradise Valley Homeless Man Who Burned to Death in December May Have Been Tortured

   

Chapter 16: The Backpack Killer

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• Wikipedia: Facts of the Case

• Murderpedia: Facts of the Case
  

• Guardian: Ivan Milat’s Chilling Serial Backpacker Murders Still Haunt Australia

Chapter 17: Notting Hill Nightmare

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• Murderpedia: Facts of the Case

• MurderUK: Timeline of Murders
  

• Plymouth Herald: The Plymouth Girl Murdered by Sick Necrophile Serial Killer
  

Chapter 18: Cannibal Island

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• Wikipedia: Facts of the Crime

• RadioFreeEurope: Cannibal Island: In 1933, Nearly 5,000 Died In One Of Stalin’s Most Horrific Labor Camps

• Memorial Site
  

Chapter 19: Halloween Homicide

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• Detroit Free Press: Medical Examiner Says Chelsea Bruck Beaten to Death
  

• Michigan Live: Daniel Clay Sentenced to Life in Prison Without Parole

• Find a Grave: Chelsea Ellen Bruck

Chapter 20: Unlucky Lottery

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Further Investigation:

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• Wikipedia: Facts of the Case

• Daily Mail: Florida Woman Who Murdered Generous $30M Lottery Winner

• ABC News: How Amateur Web Sleuths Helped Solve the Case of Missing Lottery Winner