True Crime Stories

On September 24, 2007 nineteen year old Tiffany Barwick was at her friend Michael Ruschack's home in Ocala Florida with other friends enjoying a cookout. Tiffany had recently broken up with her boyfriend, Andrew Allred but he had been harassing her. In fact, just that day she filed a report with the police claiming that he had hacked into her bank account and taken money. She also reported that he had sent her threatening emails and that she knew he had recently bought a gun. By the time the day would be over Tiffany would be found dead in the bathroom of Ruschack's home where she had been shot at least seven times in the chest, wrist and legs. Michael Ruschack would also be dead in the kitchen area of the home where he had been shot four times in the back and chest. Michael's roommate, Eric Roberts suffered a gunshot wound to the leg when he attempted to subdue Allred, and survived. Tiffany and Andrew had met in late 2006 when they were both at the Univers...

As I have stated before, I am trying to get into the habit of researching three or four cases and then composing them one after another.  This time I only researched two cases, and instead of composing them in order I stopped and decided to do the second one first.  Why?  Well, with all of the cases I have researched and looked into I would have guessed that I had "heard it all."  This case proved differently. On May 27, 1994 in an office building in Fort Lauderdale Florida gunshots rang out.  When it was over two victims lay dead with four gunshot wounds each. Another suffered from two gunshot wounds but had still managed to wrestle the gun from the man who had shot him while another man held him until police officers arrived on the scene. The two victims who still lay in the conference room dead were Karen Marx and Clarence Rudolph.  Rudolph was the head of the Senior Community Service Employment that was a subsidy of AARP.  The company helped se...

I belong to a few true crime groups on the Internet and not long ago someone mentioned this story so per my usual routine it went on my list of cases to research.  By the time I was done I have to be honest in saying I am not sure what my feelings are about the case.  There are multiple sites on the web proclaiming that Tommy Zeigler was wrongfully convicted for the murders of his wife, Eunice, her parents, Perry and Virginia Edwards, and Charlie Mays, a customer at the store Tommy ran with his parents. The fact of the matter is that no matter the case it is not unusual to find website pertaining to someone's innocence.  One of the differences in this one is that Tommy Zeigler has been on Florida's death row since he was convicted in 1976. Another thing that makes this case a bit different is that today, in 2016, there are still issues involving this case in the courts.  Zeigler has made several attempts to have further DNA testing done, while the state has fought th...

If you are like me and "all about" true crime then you know of the crimes that put Charles Manson in prison.  You will also know, especially if you have ever seen an interview Manson has given in prison, that technically he did not murder anyone as he is fast and ready to point that out to everyone.  It was the prosecutions theory that Manson had brainwashed the young adults who seemingly idolized him and he had convinced them to commit murder on his behalf.  I think most people agree that Charles Manson was, and seems to continue to be, evil.  The only reason that he is still alive, although in prison, is simply because after he was sentenced to death the Supreme Court decided it was unconstitutional and his sentence was converted to life in prison.  I have no doubt Manson will die there, but I am also convinced that he is right at home there.  Eddie Lee Sexton was just as evil, if not more, as Manson but he is not as well known.  This man did not jus...