True Crime Stories

This was one of those cases that while I was reading it, it was very clear that Milo Stanley had committed a horrendous crime and that he was guilty but in the same respect, I do not believe that he had a fair trial. Nor do I believe that the court ruled appropriately. This is not necessarily something that you have never heard me say about a case but the latter part in which I disagreed with the court, is a little more rare from me. I fear certain rulings from courts because official rulings that are upheld set a precedence meaning future cases can look back at them to help them make new rulings. In this particular case Milo Stanley confessed to the murders of his wife and five year old daughter but only after he had requested an attorney and questioning had continued. Milo's defense would later argue that this confession had been obtained illegally and that it should not have been entered into his jury trial. The appeals court later denied that saying that altho...

We all know that when someone disappears or is murdered the first suspects are those closest to the victim. It is not necessarily unusual for one spouse to kill another or to even pay someone else to do it for them. In fact, I have often said that sadly those sorts of cases are almost “run of the mill” cases. It is also not unusual for a convicted perpetrator to maintain their innocence for... well, forever. The latter is one of the main things that make this case a bit unique from other cases. Even still this case has a few twists and turns that you do not see often. Doug Stewart and his wife, Venus, had a very fast courtship. They were married four days after they had met each other. Doug's sister was friends with Venus and had introduced them. They both lived near the Colon Michigan area. After a few years they began to have some problems and for whatever reason they decided that moving to another area would give them a “do over” and would energize their ma...

You often hear that someone committed almost the perfect crime.  I often tease my husband telling him that I watch all the true crime documentaries to learn what not to do because the vast majority of those shows are based on cases in which people got caught.  This is a case that could almost qualify as the perfect crime and had Jeremy Cord Woods kept his mouth shut odds are possible that he would have never gotten caught.  He would argue later that in essence he had been "forced" by the prison system to admit his crime but in my opinion that was more of an excuse to have evidence thrown out than anything else. Jeremy Cord Woods was living with eighteen year old Dawn Wallace in 1993 in Helena Montana. Dawn's seventeen month old son, Jaymes, also lived with the couple.  In June of 1993 both Dawn and Jaymes disappeared.  To be honest I am unsure just how much of an investigation was done into the case.   Then in 1994 Jeremy was sent to prison for ten year...

At first glance I am sure that this case seems rather unremarkable.  It was solved before anyone even knew there was a crime. And, on top of that the case was completely open and shut, ending with the execution of the murderer within three and a half years.  No, this was not a case from the 1950's or before when cases were settled in record time and executions were carried out within a few months at most.  This case began in 1997 and ended in 2001.  And yet, some how, deep down I have a small problem with it... imagine that. On October 15, 1997 Ronald Fluke walked into a Tulsa Oklahoma police department to report a triple murder.  Well he was not just reporting the crime, he was also confessing to it.  Ronald would inform police officers that if they were to go to his home they would find the bodies of his wife, Ginger, and their two teenage daughters, Susanne, 13 and Kathryn, 11.  One thing you have to say about Ronald, it seems like everything he...