True Crime Stories

  I have often stated that almost all murders are senseless and then you will hear me say “this one seems more senseless than others.” So here I am again saying those words. I do not simply say this because a child was one of the victims. Some believe though that this crime may have occurred because the family is “cursed,” and that includes the perpetrator also. The Hargon family was well-known and respected in the small, rural Mississippi town of Vaughan. They owned several farms and at one time for several years owned a grocery/convenient store on some of their property. In 1994 Dan “Haywood” Hargon and his wife Diana ran the store. In April of that year three men, Forest Branch, Ronnie Joe Wright and James Wesley Jackson, went to the store. My research indicated that while Branch stayed in the vehicle Wright and Jackson went inside. By the time they left Haywood Hargon lay dead and the murderers had left with only $114. It was said that another customer had interrupted...

On the morning of January 25, 2014 after receiving a phone call from her sister in law, Diana Nadell, Suzanne Nadell-Scaccio went to go check on her mother at her home in Valley Cottage New York.  She did this quite often any way as she lived near her 80 year old mother, Peggy, who lived alone but Diana, who lived in Florida with Suzanne's brother, James, had often talked to Peggy also and said she had called and had not received an answer.  Suzanne had a key to her mother's home so she rarely knocked.  I mean really, she has key, why should she make the elderly woman come and open the door for her?  This morning ended differently than every morning before.  When Suzanne entered her mother's home she found her lying at the bottom of the stairs, just inside the home.  There was a knife embedded in her body.  Obviously in shock and almost as a reaction really Suzanne had removed the knife.  She then called 9-1-1 for help. She let them know she had f...