PEOPLE True Crime Stories: From Real Life to TV
PEOPLE True Crime Stories: From Real-Life to TV • Killers in the Family • Fatal Friendships • Unsolved Mysteries Amazing Escapes PLUS Victims to Crusaders: Inspiring Tales
Opener • MURDER IS HORRIFIC UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES—BUT ESPECIALLY CHILLING IF IT’S COMMITTED BY THE VICTIM’S PARENT, CHILD OR SPOUSE
Husband, Father, Killer? • MORE THAN A YEAR AFTER FINDING HIS WIFE AND SON SHOT DEAD AT THE FAMILY HUNTING LODGE, ALEX MURDAUGH WAS EXPOSED FOR ALLEGEDLY STEALING MILLIONS FROM LEGAL CLIENTS. NOW POLICE HAVE ALSO CHARGED HIM AS THE COLD-BLOODED GUNMAN
The Body In The Backyard • MICHAEL SHAVER TRIED TO KEEP HIS TROUBLED MARRIAGE TOGETHER FOR HIS KIDS. THEN ONE DAY HE DISAPPEARED
Slain On Safari • BIANCA AND LARRY RUDOLPH TRAVELED THE WORLD, HUNTING TOGETHER. BUT ON A TRIP TO AFRICA BIANCA BECAME HER HUSBAND’S TARGET
My Mother Made Me Kill Her Abuser • AT AGE 11, MARY BAILEY WAS GIVEN A GUN AND FORCED TO SHOOT HER VIOLENT STEPFATHER. HOW SHE’S HEALED—AND FOUND FORGIVENESS
Opener • THESE COMPELLING TRUE CASES HAVE INSPIRED BINGEABLE SERIES AS WELL AS FILMS, BOOKS AND PODCASTS REVEALING HUMANITY AT ITS WORST AND ITS BEST
Dahmer: Milwaukee’s Monster • THE DEPRAVITY OF SERIAL KILLER JEFFREY DAHMER, WHO SLAUGHTERED 17 MEN DECADES AGO, STILL STOKES A POP CULTURE INDUSTRY—MOST RECENTLY A DRAMA SERIES ON NETFLIX. BUT THE TRUTH IS EVEN GRIMMER THAN FICTION
Best Friend, Star Witness…Killer • IN PRISON, PAMELA HUPP FACES A NEW MURDER CHARGE. HER SHOCKING CASE INSPIRED THE THING ABOUT PAM WITH RENÉE ZELLWEGER
Fatal Friendship • MOM PALS AND CHURCH CHOIRMATES, BETTY GORE AND CANDY MONTGOMERY WERE INSEPARABLE. BUT AFTER AN AFFAIR WITH GORE’S HUSBAND, CANDY AXED BETTY TO DEATH IN 1980. DECADES LATER THE UNHINGED TRAGEDY, WHICH STILL HAUNTS THE GORE FAMILY, IS THE BASIS FOR TWO TV MINISERIES
What Made A Beloved Doctor Kill? • AFTER DR. VINCE GILMER INEXPLICABLY MAIMED AND MURDERED HIS FATHER, ANOTHER DOCTOR UNCOVERED THE SURPRISING REASON. THAT QUEST—AND A BOOK ABOUT THE CASE—HELPED WIN A PARDON
Justice At Last • ANTHONY BROADWATER SPENT 16 YEARS IN PRISON FOR THE RAPE OF THE LOVELY BONES AUTHOR ALICE SEBOLD. NOW A FILM PRODUCER DIGGING INTO THE STORY HAS UNCOVERED THE TRUTH—AND FOUND AN INNOCENT MAN
Opener • THEY BRAVELY ENDURED UNIMAGINABLE HORROR AND—THROUGH LUCK, POLICE WORK OR THEIR OWN RESOURCEFULNESS—LIVED TO TELL THEIR TALES
A Mom Turns Grief Into Action • HER HUSBAND MURDERED THEIR 16-YEAR-OLD TWINS, THEN TURNED THE GUN ON HER. SOMEHOW ANJUM COFFLAND SURVIVED. NOW SHE’S DETERMINED TO END GUN VIOLENCE—AND KEEP WEAPONS FROM DOMESTIC ABUSERS
I Had To Stay Alive • AT 13, SHE WAS ABDUCTED, HELD CAPTIVE AND TORTURED BY AN ONLINE PREDATOR. BUT ALICIA KOZAKIEWICZ SURVIVED—AND NOW WORKS TO KEEP OTHER KIDS SAFE
Sexually Assaulted & Speaking Out • HER GYNECOLOGIST ABUSED HER—AND HUNDREDS OF OTHER PATIENTS. HOW MARISSA HOECHSTETTER FINALLY GOT A CHANCE AT JUSTICE
Escaping A Serial Killer • RAPED AND HELD CAPTIVE AT 15 BY A MAN WHO HAD MURDERED THREE GIRLS, KARA ROBINSON CHAMBERLAIN FREED HERSELF AND HELPED POLICE END HIS KILLING SPREE
A Survivor Fights Sex Trafficking • JUST 22 WHEN HER BOYFRIEND FORCED HER INTO PROSTITUTION, KATHY MCGIBBON GIVENS RECLAIMED HER LIFE, CHANGED LAWS AND FOUNDED A GROUP TO HELP SEXUALLY EXPLOITED WOMEN START OVER
The Girl Who Lost Her Family • SHE WAS JUST 3 WHEN A HAMMER-WIELDING STRANGER BROKE INTO HER HOME, ATTACKED HER AND KILLED HER PARENTS AND SISTER. NOW VANESSA BENNETT SHARES THE AFTERMATH OF THE HORROR—AND THE QUEST FOR JUSTICE
Opener • MURDERS, ABDUCTIONS AND DISAPPEARANCES CAN HAUNT LOVED ONES AND BAFFLE POLICE FOR YEARS—BUT BREAKTHROUGHS CAN HAPPEN
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