True Crime Stories

  You have often heard me speak of very old cases, such as my last blog, and how difficult determining facts are. I run into a few things that are confusing on more modern cases, and I also state those things, but I am unsure that I have ever come across such a case that has taken place in the last twenty years which so many conflicting facts and information! Everything from what day Susan was killed, when she was found, to even the relationship between the fathers of her children seem to be at odds. What I can tell you is that in February 2005 twenty-six year old Long Island New York resident Susan Ambrosino went missing and her brother made the report to law enforcement. Her purse was found in Queens and law enforcement decided to make a perimeter to search for Susan's car, that was also missing. The car was soon found. The front passenger seat had been covered up with a sheet or a towel but was found to be covered in blood. The body of Susan was found in the trunk of...

In April of 2012 police in Narrowsburg New York received a call from a woman named Michelle LaFrance.  She wanted to discuss a murder.  Since that time many have criticized Michelle not only for the claim, but her story, and her motive.  On the surface Michelle may look like a scorned woman out to get revenge on her ex-boyfriend but as a juror would reveal years later put in the totality of the information, Michelle's story made sense. On the night of December 13, 2008 the home of Catherine Novak had caught fire.  When it was all over Catherine's body would be found inside.  Her official cause of death was listed as being caused by debris that had fallen and crushed her chest.  Catherine was the mother of two but her children were with their father and his new girlfriend in Long Island. It was unclear as to whether Catherine and Paul Novak were only in the process of a divorce or if their divorce had become final earlier that year. For his part Paul was...