True Crime Stories

This is one of those cases in which you are left stunned that the perpetrator thought they could get away with the crime considering all of the “dumb” moves they made. So much of this case just seemed so obvious to even the lay person that to believe investigators would buy the story, especially with the resources they have at hand seems ridiculous. And yet, it appears that is exactly what Ann Anastasi did. In October of 2015 Ann Anastasi called the police in Lothian Maryland and reported finding her forty year old husband Anthony, dead in their bedroom. When investigators arrived she would proclaim that Anthony had committed suicide. As is protocol investigators cleared the house and then they began looking around and they went much further than the bedroom in which Anthony Anastasi lay. In the basement they would find the body of twenty-five year old Jacqueline Riggs. When Ann was told of this discovery she seemed to be surprised and insisted it must have been a ...

This is one of those cases that after researching I am left wondering if full justice was served. It is one of those cases that involves a confession that law enforcement officials say matched the evidence and the scene but then other things seem to contradict those statements. While researching this case I was left thinking about a recent local case for me. The case involving the death of Aleah Beckerle recently went to trial in my town. Like the case of Thayne Ormsby, the defendant in the Beckerle case was said to be of lower intelligence and maturity and a confession was elicited. It also appears that in both cases that while the defendants were involved in some way, many believe that the defendants were less involved than their confessions would imply and that the person who “pulled the strings” face little or no consequences for their actions. But, as if often the case, I seem to be getting ahead of myself. On June 23, 2010 Jason DeHahn's brother had been ...