True Crime Stories

I have recently moved into a new home and in the last few days of settling in I have gotten on one of my “documentary kicks.” I am not a huge Amazon Prime Tv user but I do go back to it from time to time, this is one of those times. Often many of the stories I find on there do not necessarily rise to the level of “crime” that you generally see from me here, but they generally are crimes none the less and ones that I find interesting. Aside from this one I have at least two other blogs to research and compile based on documentaries I have watched recently. The documentary that inspired this blog was called “Facing East.” While I obviously watch true crime shows, read true crime books and write this blog, my other passion in life is genealogy and so cemeteries obviously fall into that category. Both my mother and grandmother were involved in genealogy and there are pictures of me as a small child sitting at the gravestones of ancestors. My genealogy progress is much like ...

This is quite an unusual case for many reasons. It is also a case in which I would like to have found more information on. However, as is often the case when a plea deal is accepted or agreed upon less information becomes available to the general public. On March 15, 2015 a body was found on the side of a road in Ridgeville Ohio. Investigators only knew that it was the body of a young woman and apparently informed the media to garner some help in identifying the victim. Several tips were called in including one by Janet Tyburski. She alleged the woman could be her twenty-six year old daughter Rachele. Janet would claim that she had last seen her daughter on the night of March 13 th when she left the home to out with a group of friends. Janet could not identify who those friends were. Authorities would eventually confirm that the body found was that of Rachele Tyburski. Two months later, on May 15 th authorities would arrest Rachele's mother, Janet, for...