True Crime Stories

This is one of those cases where while I was doing the research I went back and forth whether I believed the convicted person was guilty or not. I would read something and question whether the jury got it right and then I would read something else and be convinced that they were absolutely right in their decision. A few minutes later I would flip again. In the end I can only really tell you, the reader, what I found and let you decide what you think. On the afternoon of July 2, 2015 a 911 call was made to the authorities in Clearlake California. A man had been shot while walking down the road in broad daylight. When officers arrived at the scene the man was still alive and the police officer turned on his body cam. The officer asked the man, Steven Galvin, who had shot him and he replied with the name “Cyclops.” The officer asked him a second time and again he said the same name. Galvin was taken to the hospital where he would soon die from his injuries, a gunshot wounds t...

This case is an example of a group effort when it comes to murder. This was not a bunch of teenage kids who had a beef against someone and a fight got out of hand. This was not even a situation where some underground crime group ordered a hit on someone. No, this was a case in which a woman, her son, her daughter and her son-in-law would all apparently basically sit around the table and plot the murder of her husband. It was said they actually had several ideas and had attempted at least a few but had failed. In the end they were finally able to commit the murder but obviously not without getting caught or I would not be here telling you the story. On March 20, 1983 sixty-two year old Paul Komyatti Sr. would be murdered in his bed in his Hammond Indiana home. Within two and a half years his wife, son and daughter would be in prison and his son in law would be dead after the state had executed him. At the time of his murder Paul lived with his wife, Rosemary, his...

In the mid 1990's, in Eugene Oregon, Mary Louise Thompson was looked upon by some as maybe a bit obsessed, some looked at her a little more than odd, but it is not likely that anyone thought she was dangerous.  Everyone would be proven wrong by 1995. Little did they know that the woman dubbed "Gang Mom" for all the campaigning she did against them was running one herself right out of her home. Mary Louise Thompson was a local mother who's son had obviously had issues although to the extent in which people knew what those issues were around 1994, I am unsure.  Mary Louise made it her mission to talk to parents, and police and kids all about the dangers of gangs.  She was even the leader of a community group that preached about it.  For the most part it seems that other parents, and even the police did not take her completely serious because there really did not seem to be a gang problem in Eugene Oregon.  They would later discover that Mary Thompson was right.....