Richard Crafts
This is one of those cases that if you know a lot about true crime you remember hearing about. There have been television documentary shows about it for decades. Part of the notoriety that it received came from the fact that it was the first time prosecutors in the state of Connecticut obtained a conviction despite there not being a body to examine. I had a report that Richard and Helle Crafts were married in 1979 but I cannot say that is accurate because other reports state that by 1986 the couple had been married eleven years and had three children. Regardless of how long they were married, by late 1986 the marriage was in shambles. Both Richard and Helle were in the airline business. He was a pilot and she was a flight attendant for a Dutch airline. Helle was of Dutch heritage, in fact, her mother still lived in Denmark. It was said that the marriage was failing due to Richard's infidelity and that Helle had recently filed for divorce but the couple still li...