True Crime Stories

**** The exact location of this crime seemed to be rather confusing. Some information stated that a few years before the crime the family had moved from Alba Texas to Celeste Texas to be closer to their church. Other information stated the crime occurred in Emory Texas. However, it seemed that even more claimed it still to have occurred in Alba. I have chosen to stick with Alba for two reasons. One it is in Rains County, the county in which the prosecutions took place, although in fairness Emory is located there also, while Celeste Texas is in Hunt County. Secondly, the Findagrave website lists the place of death for the Caffey's as being in Alba while their burial occurred elsewhere.**** It is not like I keep my blogging or my obsession with true crimes a secret from my family. I often bounce things off my husband and talk about the cases I have researched. He also helps me sometimes when I have questions about guns or things like that. When it comes to my gr...

This is one of those cases in which I am unsure after researching how I feel about it. We have all been a teenager and obviously some of us have been teenage girls. We said stupid things; we did stupid things. We have all, teenager or not, said things that we did not mean. I would even gander to say that at least some of us have fantasized or even stated out loud we would like to see someone we do not like dead. We may have even “planned” it all without intention of ever following through. But, what happens when you share these feelings with the wrong people and they put your words into actions? That was the question for two juries to answer in Alaska. On November 13, 2004 forty-eight year old Lauri Waterman was taken from her home in Craig Alaska by the boyfriend, and ex-boyfriend, of her sixteen year old daughter, Rachelle. She was tied up, force fed alcohol, beaten and suffocated. She was then placed in the back of her van and taken to a location far from her hom...