True Crime Stories

I am sometimes surprised when I stumble upon a case I have never heard of before. And, I stumble across this one in a very strange way. I was going through my list of cases, looking for one to research next, and I was searching the perpetrator of another case. The perpetrator had the name Andrew Gustafson, which happens to be the name of the husband and father in this case who found his family murdered back in 1987. It did not take long to confirm they were two different people but this case seemed quite interesting on many levels. First, you have the issue of the grisliness of the crime in which has put Daniel LaPlante in prison and has currently served over thirty years. Then there is the issue of his prior crime that while there seems to be a little bit of conflicting evidence since it is said his crimes have become urban legend, but it is just creepy in and of itself no matter which version you tell. Next from a legal standpoint became the issue that the Supr...

Going into this one I am unsure if Michael Wilkie is along the lines of your "everyday" spouse killer, if he is a special kind of idiot, or he leans more towards the psychopath who just simply does not care.  I say this because while he started out informing authorities and the media that his wife was missing and attempting to plead for her to return he ratted himself out rather quickly when confronted.  Did he simply not possess the charisma such as people like say Scott Peterson and maintain his own innocence?  Or was he more along the lines of the serial killers who readily confess to crimes because they want the recognition?  I am not sure that if he would have held out that charges would have ever been brought against him.  That would have depended on the prosecutor and what they thought they could prove but I can almost guarantee they would not have found much of what they ultimately got, without his cooperation. In 2012 Michael Wilkie lived in Hend...