On January 13, 1995 Detectives in Knoxville, TN arrived at a murder scene in Tyson Park. This was unlike anything they had ever seen before. In the dirt leading up to the victim’s body they found finger marks, which implied the victim had been physically dragged to a more remote location while fighting desperately to save her life. Her clothes were strewn up in the surrounding trees, covered in blood, and she had been beaten horrifically and slashed with what they assumed as a knife. She had a deep impact wound on the left side of her head and it appeared that brain matter was visible.  This was a brutal murder and they knew it would rock the community of Knoxville, especially because the victim was college aged, and they had many universities and post high school programs located around them. But what the detectives feared far more than fielding phone calls from concerned parents was the fact that, in the midst of America’s ‘Satanic Panic’, their victim had a pentagram carved into her chest. 

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A Love to Die For by Patricia Springer

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Newspapers.com Access to TN newspapers 

https://myfox8.com/news/court-upholds-sentence-for-only-woman-on-death-row/

https://nashvillebanner.com/2024/09/17/christa-pike-death-sentence-isolation/

https://casetext.com/case/pike-v-state-15

https://www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/19a0205p-06.pdf

https://www.tncourts.gov/sites/default/files/docs/response_-_to_motion_1.pdf

https://archive.ph/20130127053544/http://www.ksdk.com/news/crime/article/311792/147/Death-row-inmate-woos-NJ-man-and-guard-to-help-plan-escape

https://www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/19a0205p-06.pdf

https://www.chattanoogan.com/2016/3/11/319852/Chattanooga-Federal-Judge-Upholds.aspx

On the night of January 27, 1983 John Duffield fell asleep to his television in his bedroom. His wife, Carole, was a nurse who worked the night shift, so sleeping alone was something that he had grown accustomed to, and why the droning noise of the television kept him company. But in the early morning hours he was awoken by the worst sound a parent could hear. He heard the frantic calls and moans of pain from his 15 year old son Paul, whom he knew had fallen asleep on the couch in the family living room. He rushed downstairs to his son and found him unresponsive and in a large pool of his own blood, a massive wound to his head. John could barely process what was happening. He was in shock. He rushed to the phone to call 911…but the phone lines were dead. He had no idea that the chaos of that night had only just begun. 

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Newspaper articles obtained through Newspapers.com ranging in date from January 29, 1983- February 2018 from the following news sources:

Wichita Eagle

Olathe News

Council Grove Republican

The Salina Journal 

Kansas City Star

Kansas City Times

St. Joseph’s News

https://law.justia.com/cases/kansas/supreme-court/1987/59-019-2.html

https://www.kmbc.com/article/man-convicted-in-35-year-old-olathe-murder-wants-out-of-prison/18917466

https://www.facebook.com/groups/in-loving-memory-of-john-carole-paul-kelly-and-janelle-duffield-273705412361/

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-salina-journal-duffield-murders-20/49041/

In the tightknit community of the Woodside Apartments the residents gather each year for the Yuletide fest where everyone in the complex can eat, drink, and be merry as their children play games and visit with Santa. But, as is often the case, when we feel comfortable to let our guard down, that evil takes its opportunity to strike. In the middle of the residents catching up and talking about their holiday plans on that December night in 1989 a 5 year old girl, who had just been seen by her mother a minute prior, was kidnapped in the presence of 115 people. No one had seen anything. 

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https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/archive/special/9704a/11branne.htm

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPcap/1999-11/27/005r-112799-idx.html

https://casetext.com/case/hughes-v-commonwealth-7

https://www.woodsideapartmentslorton.com/sitemap.aspx

https://www.newspapers.com/image/1071961330/?match=1&terms=Melissa%20Brannen

https://www.newspapers.com/image/919607331/?match=1&terms=Melissa%20Brannen

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/man-convicted-in-1989-child-abduction-sent-back-to-prison/3728108/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/crime-law/2019/04/19/abductor-year-old-melissa-brannen-be-released-prison-after-years/

Forensic Files: Innocence Lost (TV 1999) Season 4 Episode 5

Jane Mackle had been nursing her daughter, Barbara, back to health after she caught the flu during her finals week at Emory College in December of 1968 when two masked assailants rushed into their motel room and kidnapped 20 year old Barbara. What would follow would be one of the largest manhunts and rescue missions the FBI would ever take on. Join me as I tell John the story of Barbara Mackle. 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mackle_Brothers 

https://www.themacklecompany.com/index

https://people.com/barbara-mackle-kidnapping-buried-alive-8736831

https://web.archive.org/web/20071110191155/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,900442,00.html

https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/topten-history/hires_images/FBI-293-RuthEismannSchier.jpg/view

https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/USCOURTS-alsd-1_06-cr-00057/USCOURTS-alsd-1_06-cr-00057-0

"Buried Alive". FBI: The Untold Stories. Season 1. Episode 13

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Barbara’s Book: 83 Hours Until Dawn

Herald from that day:

https://www.newspapers.com/image/621746964/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/621747024/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/621747030/

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As five residents slept peacefully in their beds in Lebanon, Maine, on the night of March 29, 1999, a sudden knock at their door would change all of their lives forever. Join me as I tell John about the case of Deborah Brown.

Over the span of three decades a man left bread crumbs for law enforcement officers to find all over the country. Luckily, time and technology would eventually catch up to him and Roy Melanson would have to pay for the crimes he had committed and what he had taken from his victims and their families. 

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https://www.chicagotribune.com/1998/03/22/flower-child/?clearUserState=true

https://vocal.media/criminal/murder-on-kebler-pass-road-michele-wallace

https://www.chicagotribune.com/1998/03/22/flower-child/

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9551613/michele_cecile-wallace

https://www.chicagotribune.com/1994/02/20/now-they-can-say-goodbye/

https://www.chieftain.com/story/news/2008/07/06/state-case-with-local-link/8483778007/

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/83432208/margaret-cecilia-wallace

https://www.wafb.com/story/12581570/deputies-charge-73-year-old-in-connection-with-1988-murder/

Smooth Talker: Trail of Death by Steve Jackson 

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Three members of the Colegrove family were brutally murdered in their home during a thunderstorm in a Pennsylvania town of roughly 379 people. Is the killer walking among them or is it the residents of the town that can help detectives find out who the killer is with their inside knowledge of the family. 

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https://law.justia.com/cases/pennsylvania/superior-court/2020/1220-mda-2019.html

Newspaper articles arcdieved through Newspapers.com from:

The Star-Gazette

Times Tribune

Citizen's Voice

Press and un Bulletin

2007-2009

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On Monday October 19, 1970 in the midst of the Manson family murder trials and with two serial killers on the loose, both the Zodiac and the Co-ed Killer, firefighters in Soquel, CA discover the bodies of five people in the swimming pool of a wealthy home in the Santa Cruz mountains. Through a note left at the scene a murderous cult took responsibility for the Ohta family murders. Join me as I tell John just what happened and who was responsible. 

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https://projects.scpr.org/timelines/capital-punishment-in-california/

https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Santa-Cruz-mass-murderer-kills-self-in-prison-3221281.php

https://history.santacruzpl.org/omeka/files/original/571aa1b2b278eb1f40c3970e109bbcb4.PDF

https://lookout.co/i-wanted-to-see-the-co-ed-killer-in-a-wheelchair-old-and-broken-down-revisiting-edmund-kemper/

https://www.sfweekly.com/archives/yesterday-s-crimes-the-santa-cruz-serial-killer-epidemic/article_9b3d46d5-6be8-5fc0-9779-93e77924685a.html

Murder in California: Rage and Revenge 

By Marques Vickers, 2021 Accessed through Everand

Newspaper articles from the Santa Cruz Sentinel from October 20, 1970-November 23, 1973 accessed through Newspapers.com

On June 8, 2017 a call came into Montgomery County, MO dispatch. The two people on the line stated that someone had been found dead inside a large snake breeding facility and one of the large snakes was not accounted for. When deputies got on the scene they were terrified and had no idea what they were in for. Had someone been killed by a snake or had this been a cold blooded murder?

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https://www.courttv.com/trials/mo-v-renick-2021/

https://www.courts.mo.gov/file.jsp?id=198075

https://abc17news.com/news/top-stories/2022/08/16/attorney-wants-murdered-mans-wife-barred-from-inheritance-payouts/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W_WPo3g_VY

Archived newspapers articles from: Columbia Daily Tribune, Springfield News-Leader, Missouri States Times, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch between June 2017 and May 2023