Ann Anastasi
This is one of those cases in which you are left stunned that the perpetrator thought they could get away with the crime considering all of the “dumb” moves they made. So much of this case just seemed so obvious to even the lay person that to believe investigators would buy the story, especially with the resources they have at hand seems ridiculous. And yet, it appears that is exactly what Ann Anastasi did. In October of 2015 Ann Anastasi called the police in Lothian Maryland and reported finding her forty year old husband Anthony, dead in their bedroom. When investigators arrived she would proclaim that Anthony had committed suicide. As is protocol investigators cleared the house and then they began looking around and they went much further than the bedroom in which Anthony Anastasi lay. In the basement they would find the body of twenty-five year old Jacqueline Riggs. When Ann was told of this discovery she seemed to be surprised and insisted it must have been a ...