True Crime Stories

You often hear people talk about “the good old days.” Now, the perception of when that time was to each person is subjective. To current older Americans they would argue that the 1950s through probably the 1970s qualify. For me I would argue that time was the 1980s and 1990s. One could argue that our perception of “the good old days” for each of us dated back to a time in our own lives in which things were easier. We were young; we did not have mortgages to pay or children to raise. We paid less attention to what was going on outside our little circle, let alone in other parts of the country or world. We were not as perceptive as we would become as we got older. The other argument is that in modern times little happens that the entire world does not hear about. We live in a twenty-four hour news world and an Internet that connects our computers and even our phones to things as they happen. The reality of it all is that there really never were any “good old day...

This case is an example of a group effort when it comes to murder. This was not a bunch of teenage kids who had a beef against someone and a fight got out of hand. This was not even a situation where some underground crime group ordered a hit on someone. No, this was a case in which a woman, her son, her daughter and her son-in-law would all apparently basically sit around the table and plot the murder of her husband. It was said they actually had several ideas and had attempted at least a few but had failed. In the end they were finally able to commit the murder but obviously not without getting caught or I would not be here telling you the story. On March 20, 1983 sixty-two year old Paul Komyatti Sr. would be murdered in his bed in his Hammond Indiana home. Within two and a half years his wife, son and daughter would be in prison and his son in law would be dead after the state had executed him. At the time of his murder Paul lived with his wife, Rosemary, his...

I have a little time on my hands so I thought I would throw together a few cases that are short and less complicated than most. This case qualifies because there is little information available due to the time era. In fact, the only reasons I was able to obtain as much information as I did was because a) Richard Kiefer was executed by the state of Indiana and; b) he was the last person in the state to be executed before they were deemed unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court in 1972. In 1957 Richard Kiefer lived in Fort Wayne Indiana with his wife, Pearl and their five year old daughter Dorothy. It is said that Richard and Pearl were in the basement of their home allegedly having an argument. Richard would claim that he was “tired” of Pearl criticizing him about his fishing and drinking habit. Further details indicate that Pearl was upset at the money that was being spent for these things, but to be fair the only details available are those provided by R...