True Crime Stories

The most difficult cases to understand are the ones in which there is no known motive. While I understand the courts obtaining plea deals and trying to unclog the courts I like a case that has a trial. That is where you get a lot of the information and evidence. Many plea deals include a provision in which prevents an appeal being filed and that also prevents a lot of information being released. But, then there are the cases that do make it to trial and still there is no known motive. In most cases the prosecutor will come up with a theory as to why the crime was committed but in the case of Kyle Flack it appears that even the prosecutors were at a loss. In general every murderer has to have a reason. Sometimes that reason is money; sometimes it is anger, sometimes it is opportunity; and even sometimes it is simply for the thrill. Serial killers are often thought to be thrill killers. They do it for the “high” that they get. Your mass murderers, something we ar...

When people get divorced it is often said they are divorcing a different person than they married. Many times they are divorcing an even worse person than made them want to get a divorce in the first place, if in fact it was they who wanted the divorce. Often when a divorce occurs one of the parties is either surprised that things had gotten that far or for one reason or another does not want the divorce. There are a variety of reasons that people do not want to got through a divorce from anything from status in the community, reputation to finances or simply for companionship. If we are to believe the stories that friends and family would later tell, Karen Kahler wanted out of her marriage for two reasons. First, she claimed to many that her husband, James, who went by his middle name of Kraig, was controlling and abusive. Secondly, Karen had found a new love in Sunny Reese. It would be the latter that defense attorneys would later say drove Kraig Kahler over t...

I have often said that when choosing a case to be my next blog I always try to find one that the topic or something about it “catches” me so that it maintains my interest. I have tried to move down my list one by one but that often just wastes time because if the case does not grab my attention I tend to drag not just in the research but also in the composing. To add to that while a case may not grab me today, it just might tomorrow and I believe the more interest I have in the case, the more justice I will give it, no matter what my opinion of the case outcome may be. Now, one would think that with a title with the word “Massacre” in it that the first thing that caught me would have been the murders, but that would be wrong. In fact, in my list that word was not even there. I had the names of the two perpetrators, Reginald and Jonathon Carr. I also had a note that they were brothers, the case was from Kansas and that both brother were on death row. To be fair just going by...