Jose Esquivel was startled when he heard the frantic knocking on his front door. Standing up, he walked to the door to see who it was. When he did, his friend, Omaima Nelson, was standing there, crying. He was surprised to see her there, and even more so to see her in such a […]
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In late 1990, the body of Mary Lou Pratt was found in a quiet Dallas, Texas neighborhood. She had been severely beaten and then shot to death. If that wasn’t bad enough, it was soon discovered that her killer had expertly removed both her eyes. Mary Lou had just become the unwitting victim of one
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At first, the kids thought that the woman in the grass was a store mannequin. But the more they looked, the more they realized that it wasn’t fake. It was a real body. By the time the investigators with the Dallas Police Department had arrived in the remote neighborhood of Oak Cliff, someone had
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When Johann Whynack married his Marie, he hoped that they would spend the rest of their lives happily ever after. But Marie loved another man and saw no reason to stop seeing him even after she was married. As the marriage continued, the love triangle quickly took a toll on their lives as it spiraled
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Johann Whynack checked the clock. It was just after 9 o’clock at night. It was Saturday night, and he was thirsty. Grabbing a beer bucket, Johann left the apartment and began walking toward a local saloon. As he walked, he let his mind wander back to the old country. Born in Eastern Europe, Johann
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In 1996, Bobie and Marilyn Blewer, professional food vendors from Missouri, set up their trailer at the Iowa State Fair. It was – and is – one of the biggest fairs in the country and had been a regular stop for the Blewers for twenty years. Then, one sunny afternoon, as thousands of people enjoyed
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Standing in the hot Florida sun, Jerimy realized that he was finished. The money was gone, and his name was in papers across the country. He had run, had tried to be clever, but now he realized that it had all been pointless. Jerimy took a deep breath and lowered his head. Besides, he was
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When it was built in 1903, the Claypool Hotel was designed to be the best and brightest of Indianapolis’ hotels. And, for forty years, it was. Then, starting in 1943, a serious of tragic events that included two murders and a fire led to the Claypool’s dramatic destruction in the 1960’s. But does something of
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Bates House had to go. It was beautiful and famous, but it had faded. There were modern amenities that it couldn’t offer, not to mention the fact that it just wasn’t big enough to accommodate the growing number of people that were coming into the city. The owner, Edward Claypool, knew that. When he
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In 1954, two maids found a horrible odor coming from a dresser in one of the rooms at the Claypool Hotel. When the dresser was searched, hotel staff found the badly decomposed body of a woman in the bottom drawer. Her name was Dorothy Poore, an 18-year-old trying to build a future in Indianapolis. What
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