On Sunday the thirty first of May 2009, nineteen year old Noelle Washington walked into a police station in Cincinnati and made a statement against her boyfriend. That afternoon she was examined at hospital.

By the following night, she was dead. So was her nine month old son, Anthony.

So was three year old Sha'railyn Wright, who was only staying over.

All three had been shot in the head.

Why had Mark Pickens killed Noelle Washington so violently?

Was it as simple as keeping her quiet?And if it was, why did two small children have to die with her?

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DISCLAIMER - This video contains themes of violence. I do not intend to cause any disrespect to anyone I talk about in this video. This is purely a factual and educational piece that I have put together with information I have found on the internet. Rest in peace, Noelle Washington, Anthony Jones III and Sha'railyn Wright.

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On the morning of August 20, 2016, a family in a small Minnesota town woke up to find their five-year-old daughter gone.

She had been put to bed a few hours earlier, carried from the couch to her own room, still asleep.

Her blanket was also missing. So was her father’s truck. So was his phone. And so was the man who had spent the night in their house.

By lunchtime, an Amber Alert had gone out across the entire state of Minnesota. By late afternoon, police were eighty miles north of Watkins, standing at the edge of a swamp in Cass County.

And by six o’clock that evening, the search for Alayna Ertl was over…

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DISCLAIMER - This video contains themes of violence. I do not intend to cause any disrespect to anyone I talk about in this video. This is purely a factual and educational piece that I have put together with information I have found on the internet. Rest in peace, Barbara Waite.

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On March 31, 2020, 64-year-old Barbara Waite sat playing her piano at her home in Squamish, British Columbia. It was an activity that the adoring mother of two loved to do.

But as she played her melodies, Barbara had no idea that this would be her last moment on Earth.

Because quietly standing behind her, her 21-year-old son, former child actor Ryan Grantham, had a rifle pointed right to the back of her head.

Before she could finish the song, a shot rang out, ending her life.

What followed was hours of planning and driving — Ryan building Molotov cocktails, loading his car, and setting out for a target nearly 5,000 kilometres away: the Ottawa home of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

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Special thanks to Jessica Kwazz for her writing and research help on this episode.

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DISCLAIMER - This video contains themes of violence. I do not intend to cause any disrespect to anyone I talk about in this video. This is purely a factual and educational piece that I have put together with information I have found on the internet. Rest in peace, Barbara Waite.

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00:00 Case 1 - Tia Hernlen

17:20 Case 2 - Scott Amedure

45:54 Case 3 - Tyler Hadley

01:07:01 Case 4 - Maribel Ramos

01:41:04 Case 5 - Monica Botello

01:58:17 Case 6 - Zanesville Zoo Massacre

02:26:17 Case 7 - Daniel Luke

02:42:23 Case 8 - Penelope Jackson

03:13:21 Case 9 - Joanna Simpson

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On the afternoon of Sunday 12 July 2020, 38-year-old Kerry Woolley was found dead inside her own flat, in the West Midlands of England.

It was her new partner who raised the alarm. A man she had been seeing for a matter of weeks.

He stood outside the building, and he called 999.

And when officers arrived, he was distraught. The grieving partner, who had come to check on her — and walked into something no one should ever have to see.

Word went round that street fast, and the neighbourhood was shocked. This was a quiet, ordinary place, and no one believed someone could have done this.

But in the days that followed, investigators found something suspicious.

Footage of a man. Standing at a canal bridge not far from her home. Throwing something into the water.

And when that canal was dredged, they pulled out the weapon that had been used to kill her.

So who was the man in that footage? And who was he to Kerry Woolley?

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In December 2022, police arrested a twenty-eight-year-old criminology PhD student for the murders of four University of Idaho students.

Charging him was one thing. Convicting him was going to be another.

What followed was two and a half years of legal warfare. The state wanted the death penalty. And Bryan Kohberger, was going to make them work for every inch of it.He fought the DNA. He fought the phone records. He fought the car, the eyewitness, the indictment itself. He fought to move the trial three hundred miles. He fought to have the death penalty ruled unconstitutional in his case.But everything was Denied.By the summer of 2025, he was out of arguments, out of appeals, and weeks away from a trial that could have ended with him in front of a firing squad.And then, with almost no warning, he told an Ada County courtroom.

This is the full legal journey of Bryan Kohberger. Every motion, every ruling, the deal that stopped the trial, and the four families who had to sit and listen to it.And then, in July 2026, from a maximum security prison, he surprised everyone once again.He said he wanted to take it all back. That he had been lied to. That he was innocent.So how does a man confess to four murders, and then, a year later, say he never did it?And will Bryan Kohberger get the trial he now says he wants?

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In the early hours of November 13th, 2022, four University of Idaho students were found dead inside their off-campus home on King Road, and the small college town of Moscow, Idaho would never be the same again.

No suspect. No weapon. No motive. For seven weeks, investigators chased a single, chilling lead: a white sedan, caught on camera, speeding away from the scene at 4:20 in the morning.

This is Part 1 of the full story behind one of the most shocking true crime cases of the decade, the Idaho student murders, the manhunt that followed, and the case that would eventually lead to Bryan Kohberger.

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On the morning of February 6, 2021, a 999 call came through to police in South Wales.

"I have just killed the wife, police… I have just killed my wife."

The caller was David Maggs, a 71-year-old retired accountant. When the operator asked what had happened, he said that he had just lost it.

Minutes later, officers arrived at the house. On the bottom step of the stairs lay two red kitchen knives. In the living room, they found David sitting in an armchair, subdued, and seemingly defeated.

Upstairs, in her own bed, lay his wife of nearly two decades, Linda Maggs, dying from wounds inflicted just moments before.

David didn't run and He didn't deny it, and he was arrested at the scene.

What could drive a husband to turn with such sudden, savage violence on the woman he had shared almost thirty years of his life with?

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On the morning of Sunday 24 April 2016, a group of tourists were exploring the rugged coastline of the Munmorah State Conservation Area on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia, when something caught their attention below the lookout at Snapper Point.

As the powerful surf surged through the blowhole, the object repeatedly surfaced before disappearing beneath the white foam. At first, they couldn’t tell what they were looking at. Then it rolled over, and the horrifying truth became unmistakable. It was the naked body of a young woman, floating face down as the waves dragged her violently across the jagged rocks.

Police were called immediately, and a dangerous recovery operation began along the slippery coastline. A rescue helicopter went down to retrieve the body. Detectives quickly ruled out any possibility of an accident. The young woman had been stabbed almost 40 times, with the fatal wound to her throat. They believed she had been deliberately left there, not carried in by the sea.

She had no identification, no phone, no bag, and nothing to reveal who she was or how she had ended up on a stretch of coastline.

It would take homicide detectives days just to learn her name and to find out who had murdered her.

And when they finally did, the answer was far closer to home than anyone could have imagined.

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On 29 January 2017, Gillian and her husband, Norbert, left their home in Birmingham to carry out what should have been a routine evening of home visits for the care business they ran together.

But by the end of the night, one of them would be dead.

As Gillian sat in the passenger seat of their car, Norbert reached for a hidden axe and struck her more than 40 times, leaving her body strapped into her seat.

How had a husband and wife who had built a life, a family, and a business together reached this point? And what drove Norbert to commit such a brutal and senseless act?

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