True Crime Stories

During the month of May in 2018 I had a lot going on in my life so I did not dive into stories that I was seeing with headlines talking about a possible female serial killer in my state of Indiana. I truly never read more than the headlines and I am unsure I even put the name on a list to look later. Then the next month life settled down a bit and I went back to taping television shows on Investigative Discovery (aka ID). I had come across a show called Dead North and like all the others I tape it sounded interesting. Initially I thought it was just a two part show and was nearly devastated when I got to the end of the first two parts and saw previews for more. Luckily I had managed to tape all four parts. It was not until I began watching the show that I realized that the show was discussing the “possible female serial killer” from Indiana. In October of 2014 fifty-three year old Christopher Regan disappeared from the small town of Iron River Michigan. He was ...

This is another one of the cases that I researched several months ago and never sat down to compile.  I watched an episode of Women in Prison today and this case was highlighted so I decided to go over my notes, add some more and come here and put it all together. As I have repeatedly said, it seems that only on the rare occasion do I find myself intrigued enough to write about a spouse on spouse crime.  It is likely that only a true crime enthusiast would understand why.  "It's always the spouse."  We seem to hear that often so that should tell you just how almost "routine" these types of cases are. Sadly, to spark interest anymore there has to be more.  Well, this case has lots of "more." On April 17, 2003 late at night, outside a Kirby vacuum training facility in Merrillville Indiana John Parker Jr. was shot while getting into his car at his office.  His wife, Judy, was inside the car and would tell investigators she saw little...