True Crime Stories

I came across this case several times while I was researching the Alan Canty case. The cases were similar in several areas although Alan Canty's murder occurred in 1985 and Jane Bashara would be murdered in 2012. Both crimes not only took place in Detroit Michigan but both victims lived in the upscale community of Grosse Pointe Park. The similarities did not end there. In both cases sex and sexual appetite seemingly played in big role. Fifty-six year old Jane Bashara was last seen on the afternoon of January 24, 2012 by her co-workers. About 11:30 that night her husband of twenty-six years, Bob, filed a missing persons report on her. The following morning around seven a tow truck driver was patrolling one of the more seedier areas of Detroit for stolen vehicles when he found Jane's Mercedes-Benz SUV in an alley. Inside the vehicle, in the backseat, lay the body of Jane Bashara. Her official cause of death would be listed as strangulation. Investi...

When I first began searching this name I had a bit of difficulty because I kept coming up with articles referring to Genene Jones, the Texas nurse accused of being involved in the deaths of several children. But, I knew that case was not the one I was attempting to look into even if I did not know for sure what case this was. In fact, even as I began my research in this case I still remembered little about the case. It seemed like one of those “run of the mill” cases I probably caught on one of those episodes of Dateline or something like it that showed videos of people attempting to hire someone to kill another person. Then it was Janeene's “side criminal activity” that I had remembered most from this case. On February 25, 2013 Janeene Lea Jones of North Port Florida, was arrested after she had attempted to hire a man to murder her current husband, Matthew Smith and a man named John Chamberlain who had been described as a tenant of hers. As is often the case Ja...

This is a case that has always fascinated me.  It was one of the first true crime stories I recall ever reading about but until I decided to do this blog I had not really researched it in quite some time.  This is the story of how the richest man in Texas got away with murder. There is simply no other way to put it.  The evidence against this man was enormous.  In a second trial, that he was also acquitted for, he was even heard on tape ordering the murders of his estranged wife, who had survived the first attempt, and the judge proceeding over their divorce. Thomas Cullen Davis (aka T. Cullen or simply Cullen) inherited his fortune from his father through oil.  It has been said that the character of J. R. Ewing from the television show Dallas was at least partly based on Cullen.  Cullen and his two brothers had inherited their fortune and the oil company in 1968 when their father died, although working for their father prior to his death had not had them...