True Crime Stories

  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...

On June 4, 1989 a fisherman discovered a body floating in the water in the Tampa Bay. After the authorities arrived they found two more bodies within two miles of each other. The bodies had been found with their hands and feet bound. There was a rope around each neck and the other end was connected to a concrete block. Autopsies would show that the victims had been alive when they were thrown into the water, likely from a boat. They would be identified as thirty-six year old Joan Rogers, her seventeen year old daughter, Michelle and her fourteen year old daughter Christie. The mother and her two daughters lived in Ohio but had gone on vacation to Florida to escape some drama that had been going on in their lives lately. That drama led to suspicions but in the end authorities discovered it was a chance encounter with a stranger that had led to their deaths. On May 26, 1989 Joan and her daughters left their home in Ohio. Husband and father, Hal stayed home to work at the...

I generally try to not put a lot of time between researching a case and sitting down to compose it. In the same respect I have to almost always do the all of the writing in one sitting because I get lost in remembering what I wrote previously. When it came to this case I sat down to write it and as I do sometimes as I neared the end I thought of one more thing/person to search. I ended up finding two articles that I had not previously seen and while normally that would not be an issue, in this case it was. Those two articles nearly completely changed my opinion about the entire case. So here I was … 16 pages into a Word Doc. and I erased it. The next day I tried again, but between the anger I was feeling over what I had read the previous night and the fact that I took this case a bit personal made it almost impossible to finish correctly, so once again I erased all I had. This time instead of trying again the following day I decided to research more cases and give me a lit...