On October 13, 1984, a 20-year-old Texas college student Angela Samota was found dead in her apartment. The autopsy revealed she had been raped and fatally stabbed in the heart. Her case went cold until Samota’s friend and roommate, Sheila Wysocki, took matters into her own hands. A decade after her friend’s death, while watching […] The post How Sheila Wysocki Solved Her Best Friend’s Murder appeared first on True Crime Magazine ..read more

The Golden State Killer became notorious for his disturbing habit of taunting authorities and his victims both before and after his attacks, often through phone calls. Although there are over 10 phone calls attributed to the killer, only 3 of them have been recorded. 1977 “Never Gonna Catch Me” Call On December 2, 1977, a man claiming to be the East Area Rapist called the Sacramento Police, saying: “You’re never gonna catch me, East Area Rapist, you dumb fuckers. I’m gonna fuck again tonight. Careful!” The call was recorded and later released to the public. The killer attacked his next victim ..read more

Meet Joachim Kroll - a German serial killer who led investigators back to his crime scenes and re-enacted the murders with volunteer police officers. Between 1955 and 1976, Kroll kidnapped, raped, strangled, and mutilated at least eight women. On July 4, 1976, Kroll was arrested for kidnapping and killing four-year-old Marion Ketter after a man notified the police that his neighbor, Joachim Kroll, had clogged the pipes in their apartment building by flushing rabbit innards down the toilet. After examining the sewage pipe, police realized that the innards were not those of a rabbit but of a s ..read more

Meet Joachim Kroll - a German serial killer who led investigators back to his crime scenes and re-enacted the murders with volunteer police officers. Between 1955 and 1976, Kroll kidnapped, raped, strangled, and mutilated at least eight women. On July 4, 1976, Kroll was arrested for kidnapping and killing four-year-old Marion Ketter after a man notified the police that his neighbor, Joachim Kroll, had clogged the pipes in their apartment building by flushing rabbit innards down the toilet. After examining the sewage pipe, police realized that the innards were not those of a rabbit but of a s ..read more

The Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Jerry Gay met Ted Bundy several years after the mystery of missing and brutally murdered women had gripped the nation. In 1977, Gay, who then worked for The Seattle Times, was granted access to Bundy in Colorado, where the infamous killer was held in custody on a murder charge. Earlier that year, Bundy had escaped by jumping from a courthouse window in Aspen. He was captured six days later. Gay, who had once served as president of the National Press Photographers Association, said he was driving to a conference when a Seattle Times reporter asked him t ..read more

In mid-1987, actor Sean Penn was incarcerated in L.A. County jail for reckless driving and assaulting a photographer on the set of his movie, Colors. During his 60-day sentence, of which he served 33 days, the actor was at one point stationed catty-corner to Richard Ramirez, and apparently, the infamous killer was a fan of Penn’s. Sean penn in Colors. During one of his interviews, Penn recalled the eerie encounter: “I was down here on Bauchet Street, L.A County jail in the cell working kind of across from him. And after about a month of, you know, seeing each other around and all of that he w ..read more

On the early morning of January 15, 1947, a mother taking her child for a walk in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, stumbled upon a deeply disturbing sight: the body of a young, naked woman, cut cleanly in half at the waist. The badly mutilated body was lying just a few feet from the sidewalk and was posed in such a way that passersby reportedly thought it was a mannequin. Despite the extensive mutilation and injuries on the body, there wasn’t a drop of blood at the scene, indicating that the woman had been killed elsewhere. The reporters from the LA Examiner who were present at the scene offered th ..read more

On April 28, 1979, Dennis Rader broke into the home of his 8th intended victim, Anna Williams. Rader cut the phone lines and waited for both her and her granddaughter, who occasionally spent the night at Williams’ house, to return. Fortunately, the pair managed to escape their violent end. Before returning home from a night of square dancing, the 63-year-old decided to make a stop at her daughter’s home. Meanwhile, Williams’ 24-year-old granddaughter, Rebecca, was asked to work an overtime shift at the Tollway that night. The BTK spent hours waiting but became impatient and left. Dennis Rader ..read more

On August 4, 1967, 15-year-old James Gordon Wolcott grabbed a .22 long-barrel rifle and killed his father, mother, and 17-year-old sister in cold blood. When asked what drove him to pull the trigger, Wolcott told the investigators that he hated his family. Wolcott said he was tired of his mother’s loud chewing, his sister’s “bad accent,” and his father’s disapproval of Wolcott’s anti-war views. The teenager told the police that his father did not want him to drive to Austin to attend peace marches and felt as though his family was “conniving against him to drive him out of his mind.” Follow ..read more

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