Crime and Crochet

The Dardeen Family was murdered in Ina, Illinois in 1987. The father was found in a forest next the home while the rest of the family was found dead inside the home. To this day a killer has not been charged in this case although there has been a confession.

In August of 1990 Danny Rolling murdered 5 college students in Gainesville, Florida. Because of his unique positioning of the victims bodies he was also linked to 3 murders in Louisiana from the previous year.

Charles Albright was a serial killer in the 1990s that killed at least 3 victims. He got his name “the eyeball killer” because each one of his victims were found with their eyeballs missing.

After getting into an argument with his girlfriend on the night of August 8, 2013, 26 year old, Brandon Lawson left his home and headed to his father’s home. After his truck ran out of gas in the middle of the night, on Route 277 in Texas, he called to his brother and police but he was never seen or heard from again.

February 4, 2010 was the last day anyone had contact with the four members of the McStay family. When they were reported missing there were almost no leads until the family was found buried in shallow graves 3 years later with an arrest to follow one year later.

In November 1998, Wayne Adam Ford walked into a police station in California to tell the officers he was serial killer. He killed at least 4 women throughout his time as a truck driver in 1997 and 1998 and without his confession he may have never been caught for his crimes since being a truck driver made him hard to track down.

On June 12, 1962 Frank Morris and the Anglin brothers, John and Clarence, escaped from Alcatraz island. The island was one of the most secure prisons and many people assumed no prisoners would ever be able to make it out alive. The question still remains did these men actually survive their escape or did they die at sea? In this episode I also share some small town rumors that I’ve heard about this case, since I live in the area where the Anglin family did.

On Easter of 1992 Dale, Glee, and Tiffany Ewell were shot and killed in their Fresno California home. The son, Dana Ewell, came under suspicion after acting strange following the death of his family. After lots of investigation it was found that Dana and his college friend, Joel Radovcich, planned the murder in order to gain access to the Ewell’s millions.

In September and October of 1982, 7 people in the Chicago area were killed by taking Tylenol capsules that we poisoned with cyanide. To this day no one knows who added cyanide to these pills or what their motives were for doing this.

The Menendez family seemed to be perfect from the outside looking in. But on August 20, 1989 when brothers Lyle and Erik Menendez shot and killed both their parents in their Beverly Hills Mansion this made everyone question what really went on behind closed doors and what actually happened to lead up to the death of Jose and Kitty Menendez.