True Crime Stories

Sometimes even I am surprised at just what someone will kill, or pay someone to kill, for. This case had so many players it was hard to keep up with them all. While my research was not specific on how exactly investigators were led to all of those involved but it does not take a rocket scientist to figure it out. Russell “Rusty” and Rebecca “Becky” Porter were married just about a year when they disappeared on April 18, 2011 from their home near Willard Missouri. It is not clear who reported them missing but there was a search for the couple and a report filed. When investigators went to the Porter home they immediately suspected something was wrong. The door had been left open, cell phones were still in the home, their vehicle was still there and nothing indicated that they had intended to leave. Three months later two bodies were found in nearby Taney County Missouri but it was not immediately clear just who the bodies were. The bodies had been exposed to t...

I have been slacking the last few weeks when it comes to working on my blog but I knew that I needed to sit down today and work on it. I have a few already researched but they weren't “grabbing” me as I say and the motivation was not there. I generally start working through my list of cases to research (It's up to nearly 1500 now although I have done many) but knowing the dreary day outside was not going to make things better I decided to start with one that I saw an episode of Fear thy Neighbor about last night. Once again I was shown how bias and loose with the facts so many of these dramatic shows based on true stories can be. The Fear they Neighbor episode told the story of Richard Day, a man who, by their claims, had been so angered by the treatment of his step-son by a family of neighbor children that while in a fit of rage had ran over and killed one of the family members on accident. Now, I do believe that the fact that Robert Campbell was hit and drug b...