This case had relatively widespread social media coverage by those believing it was a sad suicide story, but the truth has come out.

On September 23, 2019 at 4:30 PM, dispatchers were called to a home at 2442 Route 143 Kempton, Albany Township, Berks county, Pennsylvania by Lisa Snyder. A mother who says her son, Conner Seth Snyder, age 8, committed suicide by hanging himself with a dog lead from the rafter of their basement after telling her he wanted to build a fort with the new dog lead she had purchased. She claimed he was severely bullied in school and kept saying he wanted to die, but did not want to go alone, so, there hanging with him was his little 4-year-old sister, Brinley Louise Snyder, on the same dog lead. 

First responders responded to the 9-1-1 call about 11 minutes later, to find that Lisa claimed she had only briefly tried to get Brinley down from the lead but became sweaty due to her anxiety. The children passed away 3 days later on September 26, 2019. A large police investigation ensued, as this case was shady from the beginning, and on December 2, 2019, Lisa Snyder was finally arrested. She remains in prison while awaiting sentencing to see if she will receive the death penalty. There was no evidence suggesting Conner had ever been bullied. 

OG Release Date: 08/17/2020

Sources:

Crime Online (2019, December 3)

Washington Post (2019, December 3) 

Mcall (2019, December 2) 

People  (2019, December 2)

Mcall (2019, December 2)

Penn Live (2020, June 30) 

Audio:

CrimeOnline-9-1-1 Dispatch 

Press Conference 6ABC Philadelphia 

On August 10, 2019, Scott Whitman returned to his Crawford County, Pennsylvania home sometime after 10 P.M. from his shift as a CNA at a local retirement home to see his wife and son. When he arrived, he noticed the home was dark and his wife's silver Lincoln MKS was missing from the driveway. Where would his wife and their 10-year-old son go at such a late hour, he thought. Upon entering the home, expecting to find a note from Shannon telling him where they had gone, as Darrin was borrowing his phone to view YouTube videos, he instead found the bodies of his wife and son on the sun room floor, both had been shot in the head. The murderer had been the one to steal the Lincoln, as well. Scott's son, Jack Elijah Turner became the main suspect, especially since he was on the run and had been seen with his deceased step-mother's stolen Lincoln on video surveillance as he robbed a Kwik Fill gas station in Mill Creek. A four day manhunt ensued until Jack missed a Greyhound bus in Charleston, West Virginia that was to take him back to Erie, Pennsylvania.

OG Release Date: 08/03/2020

Sources:

True Crime Society  (2019, October 23)

Jacksonville (2019, August 14)

Meadville Tribune (2019, October 8)

Your Erie (2020, February 17) 

Heavy (2020) Jack Elijah Turner: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know. Retrieved from: https://heavy.com/news/2019/08/jack-elijah-turner/

True Crime Society  

Go Erie (2019, October 7)

Audio: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08usf_3ghJk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgx1b7Vip8Q

On December 14, 1995, 17-year-old Krystal Beslanowitch set off on foot to go to  a convenience store in Salt Lake City, Utah at 8:45 PM, but never returned to the motel her and her boyfriend, Chris were living in. Chris walked to the convenience store to search for Krystal, but the employees say they never saw her there.  Two days later, the nude, battered body of a teenage female was found on the bank of the Provo River. She had been beaten to death with granite rocks. Her boyfriend phoned the police after seeing drawings of the Jane Doe's tattoos on the news to tell them he believes the body was that of his girlfriend, Tracy Beslanowitch. It was later determined that Krystal had been using the identity of her step-sister, Tracy, and that the Jane Doe was in fact Krystal. 

18 years later, the murder was solved using new technology known as the M-Vac when police were able to take DNA from the rocks at the crime scene used to kill Krystal. 

OG Release Date: 07/20/2020

Sources:

Laikan Savage (2020, February 1)

Forensic Tales (2020, February 9)

Salt Lake Tribune (2016, September 30)

FOX 13 (2019, September 19)

TV Crime Sky (2019, April 20)

Audio:

On April 27, 2003, 27 members of a 50 member church congregation at the Gustaf Adolph Lutheran Church in New Sweden, Maine gathered for a meeting to discuss the purchase of a new furnace for the church. While at the meeting, 16 members drank coffee from one of two urns holding coffee for the congregation. These 16 members ended up being treated for severe vomiting at two hospitals, one member, named Walter Reid Morrill passed away at the age of 78 due to this illness. Upon investigation, police determined one of the urns holding coffee had been poisoned with extreme levels of arsenic. 

To this day, the case is closed due to police believing they knew who had done it, but the town is divided in whether the case should reopen and find the accomplices or remain closed and let bygones be bygones. 

OG Release Date: 07/01/2020

Sources:

ELCA (2006, April 21)

WGME (2018, April 27)

Murderpedia  

LA Times (2008, June 15)

NY Times (2003, May 1)

ABC News (2006, January 7)

On April 3, 2010 in Manchester, England, 12-year-old, Tia Rigg's uncle, John Maden phoned her mother, Lynne, to ask if Tia could come over to babysit his young daughter. Lynne agreed, and Tia went to John's home, hoping to catch some of the football game that day, as her favorite team, Manchester United, was playing but she had no idea what awaited her at her uncle's home. John drugged Tia before raping her, committing a variety of sexual acts on her, and then stabbing and strangling her to death.  Social services had many chances to take Tia from the care of her mother, Lynne, as Lynne had a history of drug abuse, suicide attempts, and domestic violence, however, they failed little Tia.  

OG Release Date: 06/15/2020

Sources: 

True Crime England (2020, February 4)

 Daily Mail UK (2011, May 13) 

Express (2010, April 5)

The Guardian (2010, October 4)

Daily Mail UK (2011, May 13)

Audio: 

Daily Motion 

DCI David Warren

On the night of June 14, 2015 in Missouri, police entered the Blanchard residence after receiving a call to do a welfare check on a disabled girl named Gypsy Rose and her mother, Claudette "Dee Dee" Blanchard. They found the body of Dee Dee lying face down, stabbed to death. Gypsy was nowhere to be found. Everyone thought this girl would never be able to survive without her mother's care, as she suffered from muscular dystrophy, leukemia, sleep apnea, a chromosomal disorder, and was confined to a wheelchair.......or was she?  Police discovered Gypsy Rose and her boyfriend at the time, Nicholas GodeJohn at his home and begun to realize Gypsy wasn't a victim of Nick, but a victim of her mother. Gypsy had been a victim of Dee Dee's Munchausen-by-proxy syndrome her entire life and believed Nick was her way to escape the clutches of her mother. With his help, she exacted revenge.  

OG Release Date: 06/08/2020

Sources: 

All That's Interesting (2018, April 9)  

Biography (2019, April 4). 

Grunge (2020, March 25)  

People (2019, July 15).   

Meaww (2020, April 7)

Marie Claire (2019, March 21)

Videos for information: 

Dr. Phil:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZJfCpqGRww       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOQcOQ4Mk_I 

Audio: ABC2020: Gypsy's Truth and Lies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mDCbVy3Xp8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysUtZexaZTI

This episode features two cases that occurred 78 years apart, yet are eerily similar and both remain unsolved.  First, the tale of the Hinterkaifeck murders which occurred on March 31, 1922. Five members of the Gruber family along with their maid, Maria Baumgartner, were brutally slain with a Mattock. Before this, strange happenings began occurring on the Hinterkaifeck farm even as far back as six months before the murders. Investigators believe the murderer may have been living in the family's home up until the murders and then shortly after.  These murders remain unsolved 98 years later.

On December 31, 2000, all four members of the Miyazawa family were murdered in their home. The youngest at just six years old was strangled and the remaining members brutally stabbed. There were strange events leading up to the murders, a plethora of obvious DNA and evidence, and the murderer even remained in the home for hours after the murders.  yet these murders still remain unsolved 20 years later.  

OG Release Date: 05/25/2020

Sources:

The Scare Chamber 

Mental Floss (2017, August 31) 

All That's Interesting (2017, November 13)

Defrosting Cold Cases (2014, May 1)

Unresolved (n.d.) 

On November 3, 1998, Maddie Clifton went outside to play and encountered a 14 year old neighbor boy, Joshua Phillips. The two began hitting a baseball back and forth when he suddenly hit the ball and struck her in the eye. Claiming he was fearing he would be in trouble with his parents, especially his abusive father, as he was not to have friends over when they weren't home and he had hurt Maddie, he took her into his house, strangled her for 15 minutes with a phone cord, but when this did not quiet her crying, he struck her in the head with a baseball bat and stabbed her with a pocket knife, then stuffing her body under his waterbed. He re-entered his room later to find that Maddie had not died, so he stabbed her again, this time in the throat, returning her body back to it's hiding spot, where a week later, his mother made the gruesome discovery. 

OG Release Date: 05/18/2020

Sources: 

Sutori (NA). 

AP News  (2018, November 10). 

Crime In My Pocket  (2018, November 30). 

AUDIO:

Josh’s Apology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwj5R6_omoE

Josh’s Mom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68oZoYn8y9U

News: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1N3oAj758w

On the night of January 6, 2007, couple, Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom were saying goodbye to one another as they left a friend's apartment when they were approached by a few individuals planning to steal Channon's vehicle. The carjacking then turned fatal when Christopher was tortured, raped, and shot, his body then left to burn near the railroad tracks. Channon was kept in the home of the ringleader, LeMaricus, where she was brutally raped and tortured, bleach poured down her throat and on her body to dispose of evidence, and then ultimately wrapped in trash bags and stuffed into a trash can with a broken neck, left to slowly suffocate. 

OG Release Date: 05/09/2020

Sources: 

WBIR

Knox News (2017, January 6).

WBIR (2017, January 5). 

WVLT  (2019, August 13). 

AUDIO/VIDEO: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqS6OFuUXe8

On June 11, 2001 police entered the mobile home of Barbie and Ken Atkinson after Ken showed a neighbor that they had been keeping their 8 year old daughter, Lauren Kavanaugh, in a 4x9 closet for 5 years. When police saw Lauren, she was severely malnourished, only weighing 25.6 pounds, the size of a toddler, with matted, lice-filled hair and obvious signs of severe abuse. It was a shock that she even survived, but she lives with the constant trauma of the abuse, and her case is one of the most severe of child-abuse ever seen.

OG Release Date: 04/25/2020

The Dallas Morning News 

The Dallas Morning News 

The Sun U.K. (2017, January 26). 

CBS News (2002, December 13). 

Dallas News  (2019, February 28). 

Audio/Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x80u-8yI2GE&feature=youtu.be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h-C3ph1wWc#action=share

https://youtu.be/9x7we8rPxhI