History Dweebs - A look at True Crime, Murders, Serial Killers and the Darkside of History

Reckless, vicious, and without any real plan, Alton Coleman and Debra Brown worked their way through the Midwest in 1984, killing when they felt like it and stealing from or harming anyone who got in their way. In total, they are believed to have committed eight homicides, three kidnappings, up to seven rapes and 14 robberies. The 53-day spree from Wisconsin to Kentucky finally ended when the pair was captured in a park in Evanston, IL.

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The Wineville Chicken Coop Murders were a series of abductions, sexual assaults and murders of young boys that occurred in in the city of Los Angeles and in Riverside County, California in 1928.

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On Agust 23, 1912 four year old Bobby Dunbar disappeared while on a family outing.  Eight months later, after a nation wide manhunt , Police located the boy and returned him to his rightful parents or did they?

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In March 1968, U.S. Troops entered the Vietnamese Village of My Lai searching for Viet Cong Guerillas.  Before the day was over more than 500 unarmed Vietnamese civilians were killed.  Helicopter Pilot Hugh Thompson Jr. and his crew members Glenn Andreotta and Lawrence Colburn courageously ended the massacre by turning their weapons on their own troops. 

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Christine and Lea' Papin were sisters who had an unusually close relationship.  In February 1933, they brutally murdered their employer and her adult daughter.  Before beating their victims to death, the sisters gouged out their eyes while they were still living.

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Robert Hansen was an Alaskan serial killer known for abducting and raping his victims.   Hansen would turn them loose naked in the Alaskan wilderness. He would then hunt them down and kill them with a cross-bow. 

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Robert Ben Rhoades, a former truck driver, raped and killed more than 50 women.  He equipped the cab of his truck with a type of dungeon with handcuffs on the ceiling used to incapacitate his victims. He would systematically photograph, sexually assault and torture his victims for weeks before finally killing them.

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In 2005, Sisters Linda and Charlotte Mulhall brutally stabbed and bludgened an African immigrant to death in Dublin, Ireland.  After they killed him, they dismembered his body. His head and penis have never been found. 

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Winnie Ruth Judd was the nervous type. She liked to carry her own bags because you never knew what (or who) was inside.

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Richard Ramirez was a notorious serial killer known as the "Night Stalker" for murdering 13 people and terrorizing Southern California in the mid-1980s.

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