Murder Down South

Selmer, TN. 2006. Police respond to a call from church members, reporting they had found their minister dead in his home, with a shotgun wound to his back. An amber alert was raised to find his kidnapped wife, Mary, and their 3 daughters. Turns out Mary and the girls hadn’t been kidnapped at all.

Today, we take a look at the murder of Matthew Winkler.

Charlotte, NC. 2008. The body of a 20 year old student from UNCC was found laying near a river bank, feet away from her crashed car, with multiple ligatures around her neck.

Today, we take a look at the mysterious murder of Ira Yarmolenko.

Blacksburg, VA. 2008. A 22 year old graduate student was brutally murdered on campus by a fellow student, Haiyang Zhu, a mere two weeks after arriving in the USA for her graduate program.

Today, we take a look at the murder of Xin Yang.

Lexington County, SC. 1985. 17 year old Sharon Faye Smith is kidnapped days before her high school graduation. Days later, 9 year old Debra May Helmick meets the same fate. All the while, phone calls are coming in, taunting the families.

Today, we take a look at the crimes of Larry Gene Bell.

Charlotte, NC. 1992. Young African American women are being found by friends and family, dead. Murdered in their own homes.

Tashonda Bethea, Caroline Love, Shawna Hawk, Audrey Ann Spain, Valencia M. Jumper, Michelle Stinson, Vanessa Little Mack, Betty Jean Baucom, Brandi June Henderson, Deborah Slaughter, Sharon Lovett Nance

Today, we take a look at the crimes of Henry Louis Wallace, The Taco Bell Strangler.