Jayme Closs was abducted from her Wisconsin home at age 13 after Jake Patterson murdered both of her parents in October 2018. Patterson held her captive for 88 days, forcing her to hide under his bed for hours without food or water and threatening her to keep silent—until Jayme bravely escaped and found help, leading to Patterson’s arrest and his sentence of life in prison without parole. Her case stands out not just for its brutality, but for her incredible courage and the relief it brought to a shaken community.

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Bob Berdella, the “Kansas City Butcher,” kidnapped, tortured, raped, and murdered at least six young men in Missouri between 1984 and 1987, keeping some victims captive for weeks before dismembering their bodies and tossing the remains out with the trash. His horrors only came to light when one victim escaped, revealing a suburban home filled with torture devices, detailed journals, and a killer whose “darkest fantasies” became a literal nightmare for Kansas City.

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Patrick Frazee brutally murdered his fiancée Kelsey Berreth in Colorado on Thanksgiving Day 2018, beating her to death with a baseball bat in her home while their 1-year-old daughter was in the next room. He convinced his former girlfriend to help clean up the blood-soaked crime scene and dispose of Berreth’s phone to create a false trail, then burned Kelsey’s body on his ranch, all in an attempt to “erase” her and gain custody of their child. Frazee was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole, his actions leaving behind a trail of horror and a community in shock.

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Sam Strange was convicted for the 1994 murders of two 16-year-old girls, Dawn Donaldson and Crissy Campbell, in Grass Valley, California. After years of maintaining he only witnessed the killings and helped move the bodies, Strange was still found guilty and served decades in prison before being released on parole in 2020—a decision that divided the victims’ families, with some choosing forgiveness and others left with wounds that parole can’t heal.

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Chris Watts murdered his pregnant wife Shanann and their two young daughters, Bella and Celeste, in 2018 in Colorado—then played the devastated family man on TV while hiding their bodies at his worksite. Driven by an affair and the classic “new life” fantasy, he became the textbook definition of family annihilator, ultimately confessing to all three murders and earning five consecutive life sentences without parole.

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The Delphi Bridge Murders refer to the 2017 killings of Abby Williams and Libby German in Delphi, Indiana. The 13- and 14-year-old girls were found with their throats cut near the Monon High Bridge after a day hiking; chillingly, Libby managed to film the suspect—later identified as local man Richard Allen—on her phone, capturing his voice saying, “Down the hill.” Allen was convicted in 2024, with evidence linking his gun to the scene and his voice to the recording, finally bringing answers after years of speculation and horror in small-town Indiana.

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