Near the San Francisco Bay area Mary Vincent was assaulted, raped, mutilated and left for dead by Lawrence aka “Larry” aka “Bill” Singleton. After being released from prison, he murdered a woman in Florida. 

For all Credits and Sources please visit crimehappens.com/Episodes and see EP30 – My Attacker: Story of Mary Vincent 

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Jo Rogers and her two daughters Michelle and Christe went on vacation and never returned. Their bodies were later discovered floating in the Tampa Bay.  

SOURCES

BOOKS

American Monster by JT Hunter

Tourist Trap by Fred Shrum

Pulitzer Prize Winning Series by Tom French

https://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/three-bodies-were-found-floating-in-tampa-bay-30-years-ago-what-happened-after-the-murders-20190603/

ARTICLES

https://law.justia.com/cases/florida/supreme-court/1997/84812-0.html

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/fl-supreme-court/1254657.html

http://library.law.fsu.edu/Digital-Collections/flsupct/dockets/84812/84812ans.pdf

https://casetext.com/case/chandler-v-crosby-4/

https://supremecourt.flcourts.gov/content/download/344343/file/01-1468_ans.pdf

https://www.casemine.com/judgement/us/5914b814add7b04934782e89

https://murderpedia.org/male.C/c1/chandler-oba.htm

http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/chandler1275.htm

https://www.fox13news.com/news/kelly-ring-oba-chandler-interview

https://andelman.com/ARTICLES/obachandler.html

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1989/06/10/Three-slain-women-drowned-police-say/3703613454400/

https://www.theledger.com/story/news/2014/02/27/south-florida-cold-case-linked/8167563007/

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-09-30-mn-260-story.html

https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1992/11/15/oba-the-troubled-years/

https://forensicfilesnow.com/index.php/2023/07/18/oba-chandler-cruising-killer/

https://www.geni.com/people/Oba-Chandler-Jr/6000000021635220507

https://projects.tampabay.com/projects/classics/angels-and-demons/

MUSIC

Theme Song: Dark Swag by Tiny Music

Background Music: Meditate

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Melanie McGuire was a former highly accomplished fertility nurse in the state of New Jersey.  She would do anything to be with the man she loved, even if it meant killing her husband. 

SOURCES

 https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/nj-superior-court-appellate-division/1559582.html

https://casetext.com/case/mcguire-v-attorney-gen-1

https://murderpedia.org/female.M/images/mcguire-melanie/indictment.pdf

https://murderpedia.org/female.M/m/mcguire-melanie.htm

https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/news/local/middlesex-county/2014/07/10/mcguire-attorney-seeks-time-hearing/12486425/

https://www.facebook.com/ABC2020/videos/melanie-mcguire-insists-shes-innocent-in-husbands-2004-killing-2020/243764417059581/

https://www.grunge.com/883110/where-is-the-suitcase-killers-ex-lover-bradley-miller-now/

https://abcnews.go.com/US/suitcase-killer-melanie-mcguire-defends-innocence-inside-prison/story?id=73099717

https://www.google.com/search?q=bill+mcguire+police+sketch&sxsrf=APwXEddqWbvYijbE49C_qiNON5PNQPWNNQ%3A1683986064092&source=hp&ei=kJZfZIyXA82pkdUP9KOboAY&iflsig=AOEireoAAAAAZF-koFwXWgbIhMc2wxd4Vays3RCHU1th&ved=0ahUKEwiMn575uPL-AhXNVKQEHfTRBmQQ4dUDCAk&uact=5&oq=bill+mcguire+police+sketch&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAMyBQghEKABMgUIIRCgAToHCCMQigUQJzoFCAAQgAQ6DgguEIAEEMcBENEDENQCOgsILhCABBDHARDRAzoICC4QgAQQ1AI6CwguEIAEEMcBEK8BOgUILhCABDoGCAAQFhAeOgQIIRAVOgcIIRCgARAKOggIIRAWEB4QHVAAWPQ8YIxGaAFwAHgAgAHaAYgB9Q-SAQYyMy4zLjGYAQCgAQE&sclient=gws-wiz

https://archive.centraljersey.com/2007/04/18/defense-defendant-did-not-conduct-internet-searches/

https://nypost.com/2007/04/29/inside-cheating-wifes-gruesome-suitcase-murder/

BOOKS: 

To Have and to Kill by John Glatt

MUSIC

Theme Song: Dark Swag by Tiny Music

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Best friends or frenemies? A birthday celebration goes very wrong. 

SOURCES

https://goldcountrymedia.com/news/22841/accused-killer-stephanie-erends-takes-stand/

https://www.placer.ca.gov/3324/_1292009

https://www.rosevilletoday.com/news/25-to-life-for-stephanie-erends/

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-caed-2_12-cv-02603/pdf/USCOURTS-caed-2_12-cv-02603-3.pdf

https://goldcountrymedia.com/news/130122/woman-arraigned-for-murder-in-case-of-body-found-in-roseville/

https://goldcountrymedia.com/news/130328/family-of-slain-nurses-aide-speaks-out-on-murder/

https://murderpedia.org/female.E/e/erends-stephanie.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roseville,_California

https://popcenter.asu.edu/sites/default/files/library/awards/goldstein/2010/10-08.pdf

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/sacbee/name/alicia-ernst-obituary?id=23957934

MUSIC

Theme Song: Dark Swag by Tiny Music
Background Music: Chase The Psych by York Trax

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Anthony Sowell is a serial rapist and killer from Cleveland, Ohio.  He raped and assaulted numerous women and was convicted of murdering eleven women, and burying them in his home and on his property.  He is most commonly known as the Cleveland Strangler.

SOURCES

ARTICLES

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Sowell

https://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/sowell-anthony.htm

https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2016/12/ohio_supreme_court_upholds_con.html

https://www.cleveland.com/anthony-sowell/2011/06/sowell_jury_tours_home_on_imperial_avenue_to_see_layout_and_significant_scenes.html

https://www.the-sun.com/news/2298626/who-anthony-sowells-ex-girlfriend/

https://www.cleveland.com/anthony-sowell/2011/06/pleasant_conversations_with_anthony_sowell_turned_violent_without_warning_three_women_testify.html

https://fox8.com/news/anthony-sowell-dies-looking-back-on-imperial-avenue-murders/

https://www.oxygen.com/snapped/crime-news/how-cleveland-strangler-anthony-sowell-was-caught

https://www.cleveland.com/business/2009/11/rays_sausage_tries_to_move_bey.html

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/a-new-house-of-horrors-that-shocked-america-1815760.html

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mayors-niece-lived-with-alleged-cleveland-strangler-anthony-sowell-and-rotting-bodies/

https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2011/03/the_women_of_imperial_avenue_t_2.html

https://casetext.com/case/state-v-sowell-59

https://www.the-sun.com/news/2297846/who-were-anthony-sowells-victims/

https://www.metrowestdailynews.com/story/news/2009/11/05/house-death-on-cleveland-block/41327179007/

https://abcnews.go.com/WN/investigators-insect-experts-search-clues-cleveland-house-horrors/story?id=9064966

https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/local/cleveland/garden-of-11-angels-imperial-avenue-open/95-ee9da55c-b41d-4d1d-9102-4417f8ef4ae6

https://www.clevelandurbannews.com/index.php/component/content/article/1-latest-news/3270-cleveland-activists-imperial-women-coalition-to-host-imperial-avenue-murders-anniversary-rally-on-sat-oct-29-2022-on-imperial-avenue-serial-killer-anthony-sowell-murdered-11-black-women-at-his-simce-demolished-home-on-imperial-avenue-in-cleveland.html

BOOKS

House of Horrors: Robert Sberna

Nobody’s Women: Steve Miller

MUSIC

Theme Song: Dark Swag by Tiny Music

Background Music: Tragedy by SilverHoof

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Anthony Sowell is a serial rapist and killer from Cleveland, Ohio.  He raped and assaulted numerous women and was convicted of murdering eleven women, and burying them in his home and on his property.  He is most commonly known as the Cleveland Strangler. 

SOURCES

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Sowell

https://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/sowell-anthony.htm

https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2016/12/ohio_supreme_court_upholds_con.html

https://casetext.com/case/state-v-sowell-59

https://www.cleveland.com/anthony-sowell/2011/06/sowell_jury_tours_home_on_imperial_avenue_to_see_layout_and_significant_scenes.html

https://www.the-sun.com/news/2298626/who-anthony-sowells-ex-girlfriend/

https://www.cleveland.com/anthony-sowell/2011/06/pleasant_conversations_with_anthony_sowell_turned_violent_without_warning_three_women_testify.html

https://fox8.com/news/anthony-sowell-dies-looking-back-on-imperial-avenue-murders/

https://www.oxygen.com/snapped/crime-news/how-cleveland-strangler-anthony-sowell-was-caught

https://www.cleveland.com/business/2009/11/rays_sausage_tries_to_move_bey.html

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/a-new-house-of-horrors-that-shocked-america-1815760.html

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mayors-niece-lived-with-alleged-cleveland-strangler-anthony-sowell-and-rotting-bodies/

https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2011/03/the_women_of_imperial_avenue_t_2.html

https://www.the-sun.com/news/2297846/who-were-anthony-sowells-victims/

https://www.metrowestdailynews.com/story/news/2009/11/05/house-death-on-cleveland-block/41327179007/

https://abcnews.go.com/WN/investigators-insect-experts-search-clues-cleveland-house-horrors/story?id=9064966

https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/local/cleveland/garden-of-11-angels-imperial-avenue-open/95-ee9da55c-b41d-4d1d-9102-4417f8ef4ae6

https://www.clevelandurbannews.com/index.php/component/content/article/1-latest-news/3270-cleveland-activists-imperial-women-coalition-to-host-imperial-avenue-murders-anniversary-rally-on-sat-oct-29-2022-on-imperial-avenue-serial-killer-anthony-sowell-murdered-11-black-women-at-his-simce-demolished-home-on-imperial-avenue-in-cleveland.html

BOOKS

House of Horrors: Robert Sberna

Nobody’s Women: Steve Miller

CREDITS

Theme Song: Dark Swag by Tiny Music

Background Music: Tragedy by SilverHoof

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Six women kidnapped, raped, tortured and two murdered. One brave women caught in a nightmare that no one can imagine without having lived through it, saves as many girls as she can.

SOURCES
https://murderpedia.org/male.H/h1/heidnik-gary.htm

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-3rd-circuit/1097178.html

https://law.justia.com/cases/pennsylvania/supreme-court/1991/526-pa-458-1.html

https://www.newspapers.com/image/185910668/?fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjE4NTkxMDY2OCwiaWF0IjoxNjY3NTkwMTgyLCJleHAiOjE2Njc2NzY1ODJ9.PcBk35GLfe_I-tae24SBy9uqoWOoX-9jGJpqgVv2-DI

BOOKS:

Cellar of Horror by Ken Englade

Cellar Girl by Josefina Rivera

CREDITS

Theme Song: Dark Swag by Tiny Music
Background Music: The Meditate by Meditative

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Six women kidnapped, raped, tortured and two murdered. One brave women caught in a nightmare that no one can imagine without having lived through it, saves as many girls as she can.

SOURCES
https://murderpedia.org/male.H/h1/heidnik-gary.htm

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-3rd-circuit/1097178.html

https://law.justia.com/cases/pennsylvania/supreme-court/1991/526-pa-458-1.html

https://www.newspapers.com/image/185910668/?fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjE4NTkxMDY2OCwiaWF0IjoxNjY3NTkwMTgyLCJleHAiOjE2Njc2NzY1ODJ9.PcBk35GLfe_I-tae24SBy9uqoWOoX-9jGJpqgVv2-DI

BOOKS:

Cellar of Horror by Ken Englade

Cellar Girl by Josefina Rivera

CREDITS

Theme Song: Dark Swag by Tiny Music
Background Music: The Meditate by Meditative

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When a young woman begins dating a man she met through an online dating app, things go terribly wrong. 

SOURCES
https://mediaweb.kirotv.com/document_dev/2016/04/12/Seattle%20homicide%20probable%20cause%20doc_3674402_ver1.0.pdf
https://people.com/crime/man-who-found-dismembered-remains-of-wash-mom-in-trash-can-recounts-horrific-discovery/
https://people.com/crime/ingrid-lyne-ex-girlfriend-of-accused-killer-regrets-not-calling-police/
https://people.com/crime/washington-man-dismembered-woman-remains-recycling-bin/
https://people.com/crime/disturbing-allegations-surround-alleged-killer-of-seattle-mom-ingrid-lyne/
https://people.com/crime/mother-of-three-assumed-dead-by-seattle-police-suspect-in-custody/
https://people.com/crime/friends-remember-mother-of-three-who-was-dismembered-allegedly-by-date/
https://people.com/crime/ingrid-lyne-text-exchange-between-mother-of-seattle-nurse-and-alleged-killer/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Ingrid_Lyne
https://www.seattlepi.com/local/crime/article/When-he-walks-Ingrid-won-t-Man-gets-28-years-12477194.php
https://www.kiro7.com/news/murder-suspect-described-as-creepy-by-previous-date/218118924/
https://nypost.com/2016/04/13/slain-mom-dismembered-in-own-home-pruning-saw-found-near-bathtub/
https://www.q13fox.com/news/grisly-details-revealed-in-murder-of-renton-mom-suspect-claimed-he-was-too-drunk-to-remember-prosecutors-say
https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/man-pleads-guilty-to-murdering-renton-mother-he-met-online/618441343/
https://www.kiro7.com/news/man-in-renton-mothers-murder-to-face-judge/211485251/
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/suspect-dismemberment-washington-mom-ingrid-lyne-charged-murder-n555646
https://heavy.com/news/2016/04/john-charlton-ingrid-lyne-murder-suspect-facebook-page-death-penalty/
https://www.seattlepi.com/local/crime/article/Prosecutor-Dismembered-woman-killed-at-home-7244335.php#photo-9787430

CREDITS
Theme Song: Dark Swag by Tiny Music
Background Music: The Meditate by Meditative

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REDDING, CA| In 2010, a young man is chased down and murdered

SOURCES

http://www.murderpedia.org/female.W/w/williamson-vanessa.htm

http://www.murderpedia.org/female.W/images/williamson-vanessa/people-v-williamson.pdf

CREDITS

The post Murder in Redding, California first appeared on Crime Happens.