The Shirley Skinner Case
This is a case that has always seemed to interest me and not just because I share the same surname as the confessed and convicted murderer in this case. I will state that at this point as far as I am aware my husband's family is not related to this family and while I do genealogy and I know his family did originally come from Illinois (the state where this occurred) I have not dug any deeper at this time. While this case is not completely unique, it does have its interesting points. Those of us that know about true crimes know that murder in the midst of a custody case is not all that uncommon. We have all heard of a few cases in which one of the parents have killed the other while fighting for custody, usually in fears of losing. We have also had the one from time to time in which the grandparents of the child in question have been involved. As I sit and type that I also think how often it seems in those cases that the surviving parent often tends to avoid...