True Crime Stories

  I feel as if I do not do cases such as these often because there is really not a conclusion of sorts. That is also the reason that I do not do a lot of unsolved cases. If someone dies awaiting trial by law there is not a conviction. In fact, if someone dies while their case is under appeal the same happens. Leonard Fagot is a perfect example of this. If you were ever into “true crime” movies you know who Leonard was. If you do not recall or do not know who that is you can find my blog from 2016 here: https://truecrimediscussions.blogspot.com/2016/11/leonard-fagot.html With that all being said I just could not resist doing this case. I remember when I heard about this case on the national news and was shocked, although I suppose I have to wonder why that was the case. Anna Mae Blessing was a ninety-two year old woman who readily admitted shooting her seventy-two year old son because he was planning to put her in an assisted living facility. Anna Mae had lived with her ...

  The murder of a child is always especially senseless and often preventable. But, there is generally a “reason,” they are not ever good reasons, but they are reasons. Child murders are generally committed by two groups of people, pedophiles and parents, or those in a parental role. You often hear stories of a child dying at the hands of their mother's boyfriend; you hear stories of a child being starved or abused by their parents (or foster parents at times); you hear of pedophiles, generally already with a record, stalking and murdering children from time to time. Even still the latter is less common than murders by family members. This case did not fall into any of those categories. In the end even the perpetrator claimed they had no idea why they did what they did and gave no real answers. Melissa Huckaby would not have even been on the radar if she had not said and done some strange things. In fact the FBI had profiled the killer as being a white male between the ages o...

On February 26, 2007 two men saw what they believed to be charred legs of a body at the entrance of a vacant building in Gary Indiana. Law enforcement commenced on the area and began the investigation. If this case proves anything it is that experts are not always correct. The body that was found was only identified as a female between the ages of sixteen and twenty-five. Many of the teeth had been broken out and the body had been burned so identification was not completely possible. However, it was thought that the female had likely died just the day before the body was found and it appeared that the body had been burned in the location in which it was found. More than eight years later investigators would learn that basically none of this was accurate. It appears that the body, while burned, was not complete as it was reported that there were over 170 distinct scars found on the body in different stages of healing which indicated that the victim had been abused or tortur...

  This is a particularly disturbing case for me and that says a lot considering that all child murders are difficult for me when it comes to blogging. This is one of those cases where it appears that EVERYONE in this child's life failed him and there was absolutely no reason for it. On January 28, 2005 in Tampa Florida, three year old Ronnie Antonio Paris was removed from life support and died. He had been in the hospital, in a coma, since the 22 nd . His parents had claimed that they had been a friends house attending a bible study when little Ronnie had fallen asleep on the couch, never to wake up again. I am not sure any of these claims were true from the family attending a bible study to little Ronnie just simply falling asleep. Ronnie Antonio Paris was born December 9, 2001. In May of 2002 he was removed from his home and put in foster care. He had been taken to the hospital after having repeated vomiting, he was malnourished and it was even discovered the si...

  As I stated in my last blog, I have several cases put together that involve the murder of children. I also discussed the issue of false confessions in my last entry. In my last blog there was a confession and while the person later apparently pleaded not guilty and took his case to trial, he never seemed to not only change his story, but never claimed he was coerced in any way, and he told the same story to several different people at different times. This case is not like that and while I cannot tell you exactly how the confession came about, or what was said, I can tell you that the man who confessed almost immediately recanted and claimed coercion. The other difference in this case is that while investigators had a confession, DNA would later prove that confession to be false. We talk so often about mishandled investigations and crime scenes and this case is one in which this was very evident. On the morning of June 6, 2004 six year old Tyler Fox woke his father, Ke...

  I have a few cases researched and generally I try to go through them and put them together in the order I researched them but from time to time I will come across one that I really want to do before the others. I have often said that the most difficult cases for me are those involving children so when I get in a mood to do those types of cases I generally have several at one time and then you will not see them for a while. This one however, is like no other that I have researched, regardless that the victim was a child. I was extremely surprised that this happened more than twenty years ago and even in my state and I had never heard about the case. From a legal standpoint there is very little evidence that a crime even technically occurred. In fact, if Ronald Shanabarger had not confessed repeatedly he would have clearly gotten away and not sitting in prison right now. On the morning of June 20, 1999 in Franklin Indiana, Amy Shanabarger went in to check on her six month ...