True Crime Stories

Just the other day I did a blog about a spouse on spouse crime and proclaimed I do not do them very often and yet here I am again sitting at my computer composing a story about a murder that was orchestrated by the spouse of the victim.  So what was it about this case that struck me that so many others similar to this crime do not?  To be honest, I made the ultimate decision to research and blog about this case when I found my way to the Oklahoma Department of Corrections website and I saw a 2013 mug shot of Brenda Andrew. I do not generally go to those sites until first I have firmly decided on the case I am going to do and I want to know what the status of their incarceration is.  However, I went to it this time because so much I read stated that Brenda Andrew was the only woman on Oklahoma's death row and I was curious as to if this was still true or if she had possibly received a change of sentence.  And then up popped her picture and I was stunned.  Not onl...

I know that I have said before that "this one is a bit different" but this one really is. Like many of the others I caught a television show on this case (by the looks of my research it was likely the show Snapped) and it made it to my list to research.  The problem I came across while doing the research is that I did not find a lot of the information that I remember from the show, and really very little total for that matter.  So I am kind of hoping that someone will read this and comment and fill in some of the blanks. In August of 2008 the community in and around Richmond Virginia were taken by surprise when a local woman was arrested for attempting to hire someone to murder her ex-boyfriend and his wife.  Caren Pressley-Brown had ran a local insurance agency up until the past year.  She had also served on the county's Chamber of Commerce Board of Director; she was a huge volunteer when it came to great causes.  Yet here she was sitting in jail for so...