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In 1986, Sherri Rasmussen, a successful nurse, was brutally murdered in her Los Angeles home, a crime that went unsolved for over two decades.
What initially seemed like a random act of violence was later revealed to be a deeply personal crime involving LAPD Detective Stephanie Lazarus, the jealous ex-girlfriend of Sherri’s husband.
Dive into the twists and turns of a case that exposes the dark side of obsession and how a determined pursuit of justice finally brought the killer to light.
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On a typical spring break night in 2006, 27-year-old medical student Brian Shaffer stepped into a bar with friends, but he was never seen leaving. What began as an evening of bar hopping in Columbus, Ohio, quickly turned into one of the most perplexing missing persons cases of our time. CCTV footage captured Brian entering the Ugly Tuna Saloona, but despite extensive searches and investigations, no footage ever showed him exiting.
Did Brian disappear voluntarily, or was foul play involved? Join us as we explore the chilling details, unanswered questions, and lingering theories behind the mysterious vanishing act of Brian Shaffer.
https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/vicap/missing-persons/brian-shaffer
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In 1970, the body of a woman was found strangled and buried in a shallow grave. With no clues to follow, the case quickly went cold, leaving investigators with more questions than answers.
What no one knew then was that this was just the beginning of a terrifying reign of terror. This unsolved murder would later be linked to Samuel Little, a man who would become America's most prolific serial killer, confessing to over 90 murders across four decades.
In this episode of Crime at Bedtime, we uncover how Little evaded capture for so long, the lives he destroyed, and how justice finally caught up with him.
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A 29 year old woman who was loved by so many goes missing after a night out in Brunswick Melbourne in September 2012.
It would take just six days to catch Jill's killer, Six hours for him to confess and just six minutes for a judge to remand him in custody.
However it was years of failures from a justice system that would lead to Jill's death.
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In 2013, a young man by the name of Kendrick Johnson is discovered deceased in his high school gymnasium.
The way in which he's found is extremely odd, he was trapped upside down in a rolled up gym mat.
The police and medical examiners office would be very quick to call this just a 'Tragic accident'.
The family of Kendrick Johnson weren't buying it, there were just too many issues in this lack luster investigation. As they began their own independent investigation the evidence began to mount that this was no accident and suspicions began to grow that Kendricks death was in fact a murder, one that had the FBI at the center of it.
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Summer, 1934. Brighton, England.
The holiday season is in full swing as the beaches and streets fill with cheerful locals and tourists enjoying the warm weather. But beneath the surface of this vibrant seaside town, something dark is about to emerge.
It all begins when a mysterious suitcase is abandoned at the railway station. Inside, a gruesome discovery is made—one that will send shockwaves through the town and eventually, the entire country.
What dark secrets lie behind this chilling find? The mystery is just beginning...
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The year is 1931, and a man named William Herbert Wallace has just returned home to find his house bolted from the inside.
This was odd, as his wife was supposed to be home.
After eventually managing to get in, he discovers a brutal scene: his wife has been murdered.
Once the police arrive and start to take Mr Wallace's account of what happened that evening, suspicion quickly turns to him. He explains that he was out attending a meeting with a mysterious man that he never found.
Did this man really exist, or was this all an elaborate hoax created by William to give himself an alibi for murdering his wife?
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Today we look at the story of Peter Farquhar.
Peter was a well educated and accomplished teacher and author. He made it his life's work to educate and help others in the wonders of literature and poetry.
For all of his achievements he had one major thing lacking in his life, love.
Peter was deeply lonely and longed for companionship, this was his weakness a weakness that would be exploited by a man named Benjamin Field.
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Over five harrowing years, Sutcliffe's reign of terror gripped the north of England, claiming the lives of 13 women and injuring many others.
The police would come under increasing pressure to solve this case as woman across the North of England started carrying knives to protect themselves from a man that couldn't be stopped.
It would be a random vehicle stop conducted by two officers on a suspicious car that would finally see the end of the nightmare.
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Sarah Everard was a 33 year old woman who had a bright future ahead of her. Loved by all who met her, she was funny, smart and caring.
However on the night of the 3rd March 2021 while walking home from a friends house Sarah goes missing.
With no sign of her for three days Police finally get a break through but are utterly shocked by what they discover as the person responsible was one of their own.
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Hello Crime at Bedtime listeners, I know a lot of you have just recently found this show and so you may not be aware that I have two other crime shows called WANTED and One Minute Remaining - Stories from the inmates so I wanted to introduce you today to OMR.
If you like it we have 200 episodes for you to binge right now! available wherever you listen to Crime at Bedtime.
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On June 13, 1996, 18-year-old Angie Dodge was found murdered in her Idaho Falls apartment, having been raped and brutally killed.
Christopher Tapp was arrested and convicted for the crime in 1998, based on a confession that many believe was coerced.
Despite Tapp's conviction, DNA evidence from the crime scene did not match him, raising doubts about his guilt.
However it would be the determination and strength of Angie's mother which would uncover the real truth.
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On July 24, 2002, Clara Harris confronted her husband David in a hotel parking lot over an extramarital affair, then struck and ran over him with her Mercedes sedan, killing him in an act of mariticide.
That evening, Clara went to the Hilton Hotel in Nassau Bay, to confront her husband and reportedly attacked his mistress in the lobby.
Hotel employees escorted Clara to her car. When David and his mistress came out of the hotel, Clara struck down her husband in the parking lot as her teenaged stepdaughter Lindsey sat in the passenger seat.
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Jill Cahill was lying in a hospital bed having spent 6 months recovering from a savage attack, an attack that shattered her skull and put her in a coma. Her attacker was her Husband Jeff.
Jeff and Jill Cahill from the outside seemed to have a happy and fulfilled marriage. A home with the white picket fence, two beautiful kids and animals to match but all was far from perfect. The couple had been dealing with some serious issues within their marriage and would eventually separate.
On April 21, 1996 Jeff and Jill had a terrible argument while their kids slept and the argument soon turned violent when Jeff viciously attacked her with a baseball bat putting Jill in the hospital.
On October 27th of that same year, staffers at the University Hospital in Syracuse New York, noticed a strange man at the hospital dressed in a maintenance uniform wearing a wig and glasses.
When Jill's nurse went to check on her, she found her gasping for air, the following morning Jill was dead.
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Half a century ago, a murder took place in London in the 1970's.
It was brutal, violent and bloody. The case was that of the 7th Earl of Lucan, a 39-year-old professional gambler who was believed to have killed his children’s nanny and attacked his wife.
He then went to ground, did he commit suicide? was his escape aided by his wealthy friends and could he still be a live after all these years?
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In 1964 Catherine Genovese was attacked 100 yards from her home by a knife wielding man, he stabbed her to death and then ejaculated on her body.
Reports would say that 38 people witnessed the attack, one man even shouted at Winston Moseley to 'leave that girl alone'. Yet no-one called the police or went to help her.
The shock from the crime would cause changes to be made to the NYPD's 911 service as well as have psychologists studying what is now known as the 'Bystander Effect'.
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It's April 2015 at four o'clock in the afternoon at the Nether Avon airfield Wiltshire south west England. A group of Skydiving enthusiasts are taking off on their accent to 4000ft for a jump. among them was 41 year old Victoria Cilliers a veteran skydiver with thousands of jumps to her name.
Today however would be her first jump in over a year, she had not long given birth to her second child. Skydiving for Victoria was not just a hobby, in fact she had said that it was her life prior to marriage and having children. On this day her husband Emile, who was also an avid skydiver had said he would stay on the ground to look after their two children so she could enjoy her birthday present.
Victoria was excited for the jump, fist bumping with the others inside the small plane. Another skydiver James Rankin was also jumping that day and remembers telling Victoria he was feeling a little apprehensive about such a low jump, she reassured him he would be fine.
What she couldn't have known was that her own life was about to be changed forever.
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48 year old Mary Lou Morris was a loan officer at a Bank in Houston, Texas. She was happily married to her husband Jay and reportedly loved by many others.
On the morning of October 12, 2000, Mary left for work. Throughout the day her husband Jay tried to call her, but she never picked up or called him back. At around 5 PM, he decided to call her supervisor who tells him she hadn’t come in to work that morning and wasn’t picking up their calls either. Concerned of course for his wife he reports her missing.
Little did he know that his life and the life of another family was about to be truly turned upside down by an incredibly sad a mysterious double homicide.
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The Hinterkaifeck murders occurred on the evening of 31 March 1922, when six inhabitants of a small Bavarian farmstead, located approximately 70 kilometres north of Munich, Germany, were murdered by an unknown assailant. The six victims were Andreas Gruber his wife Cäzilia Gruber, their daughter Viktoria Gabriel, Viktoria's children, Cäzilia, Josef and the maid, Maria Baumgartner.
They were all found bludgeoned with a mattock. The perpetrator or perpetrators lived with the six victims for three days after they had killed them. During this time, they would eat the food in the house, feed the animals on the property, and start fires in the home's fireplace. The murders are considered one of the most gruesome and puzzling unsolved crimes in German history.
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The Lake Bodom murders is one of the most infamous unsolved homicide cases in Finnish criminal history.
On 5 June 1960, at Lake Bodom in Espoo, Uusimaa, Maila Björklund and Anja Mäki (both 15) and Seppo Boisman (18) were killed by stabbing and blunt-force trauma to their heads while sleeping inside a tent.
The fourth, Nils Gustafsson, then aged 18, was found outside the tent with broken facial bones and stab wounds. Despite extensive investigations, the perpetrator was never identified and various theories on the killer's identity have been presented over the years.
A suspect would be arrested however in 2004 and be tired for the killings.
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