True Crime Stories

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...