It was Christmas Eve 1945 when a fire broke out at the West Virginia home of George and Jennie Sodder, where they lived with nine of their ten children. George and Jennie, and four of the nine children escaped the fire. Maurice, 14, Martha Lee, 12, Louis, 10, Jennie, 8, and Betty, 6, would never be seen or heard from again. George and Jennie Sodder were convinced for the rest of their lives that their five missing children survived, and they would spend their lives searching for them. This is the mysterious disappearance of the Sodder children.

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In the early morning hours of New Year’s Eve 1989, a drunk man by the name of Paul Cox smashed a window of the house where he once lived as a young child, walked upstairs to the bedroom of Dr. Lakshman Rao Chervu and his wife, Dr. Shanta Chervu, and sat calmly on the edge of their bed. When the doctors woke, he stabbed them multiple times, then slit both of their throats. Next, Paul Cox walked to his parents’ house and passed out after having an apparent blackout. The murders of the two doctors would go unsolved for 4 ½ years. This is the story of Alcoholics Anonymous Member Paul Cox.

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Racheal, Tiffany and Christine were the best of friends at Clear Lake High School in Texas. On July 18, 2003, best friends Racheal Koloroutis and Tiffany Rowell were hanging out at Tiffany’s home with a couple of boys—Marcus Precella and Adelbert Sanchez. At 18 years old, they had the whole world ahead of them. But in the blink of an eye, their future plans were gone, and all that remained was a gruesome massacre with 4 dead bodies and lots of questions. Questions that only their other best friend Christine Paolilla could answer.
This is: The Clear Lake Murders.

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Cindy Schaeffer, Andrea Hall, Jackie Gilliam, Jacqueline Lamp, and Lynette Ledford. These are five of the victims of two heinous monsters who raped, tortured, and killed using items commonly stored in a household toolbox. They would commit their crimes against these five young girls over the course of five months starting June 24, 1979 and ending on Halloween. This is: Lawrence Sigmund Bittaker and Roy Lewis Norris. The Toolbox Killers.

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On June 6, 1996 in a small town in Texas, two small boys were brutally stabbed to death as they slept in their family room. The mother, Darlie Routier, whose throat had been slashed, called 911 in a frenzy for help. But when the police and EMS arrived, the crime scene didn't make sense. Twenty-three years later, it's unclear if anyone will ever know who murdered Devon and Damon Routier.  This is the story of a Mommie Dearest. Darlie Routier.

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He was a con man, a forger, and a kidnapper. Women who answered his employment ads and those who met him in BDSM chat rooms, would ultimately turn up missing even though their families continued to receive reassuring letters and emails they were fine. In the end, authorities attributed the murders of eight women to his name, but the real victim tally remains unknown. This is: John Edward Robinson. The Internet’s first serial killer.

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On May 26, 1990, a person disguised as a clown — complete with an orange wig, white face paint, red nose, and gloves — carried a bouquet of balloons and a basket of flowers to the front door of Marlene Warren.  When Marlene opened the door, this clown, with a red smile painted across the face, said nothing as it handed the delivery to Marlene then lifted a pistol and shot Marlene in the mouth. It would take police twenty-seven years to make an arrest. This is the story of the Killer Clown of Palm Beach.

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During the 1950’s, locked away in a toolbox at a Los Angeles bungalow was an odd and gruesome collection of mementos. Photographs. All the pictures were of women. Some were bound. Some were gagged. Some were dead. Keepsakes of a man. A man who preyed on models trying to make it in Hollywood. A man who possessed a rope fetish that would dominate his life. A man who twenty years before the expression serial killer was a part of the American vocabulary, defined the very phrase. This is Harvey Glatman. The Glamour Girl Killer.

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Between the years of 1982 and 1989, in the quiet suburb of Richmond in Vancouver, British Columbia, Cindy James suffered from nearly a hundred incidents of various forms of harassment. From threatening phone calls and frightening collages of letters and pictures, to slashed pillows, burned homes, and bodily harm, Cindy James claimed that someone was trying to scare her to death, literally. But when her body was discovered after she’d been drugged, strangled, and with her hands and feet tied behind her back, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police believed that her death was either an accident or suicide. This is the story of Cindy James, and the invisible stalker.

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On April 28th 1955, 14-year-old Stephanie Bryan is abducted on her way home from school in Berkeley, California. When her body is found months later near the family cabin of  Burton Abbott, newspapers tried and convicted Burton as her killer before he was even charged with murder.  This is the story of Burton Wilbur Abbot. Guilty until proven innocent. Or was he?

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