True Crime Stories

  I came across this story when watching the television show American Monster. It was one of those that I was surprised that I had never heard about; it was also one of those that had me angry at investigators by the time it was done. Dateline has also done an episode on this case titled 11 Minutes . I attempted to find it on a streaming service to watch but was not successful. I point out the title to their episode however because “11 Minutes” kind of says it all. These were eleven crucial minutes that in my opinion makes the case regardless of what investigators may say. I will say that at this point and time it appears as if while the investigators may still have a grudge to hold the prosecutor in the case eventually made a reasonable decision. It is just sad that a) it took so long to happen and b) that investigators had already convinced people they had the guilty party to the point that they cannot accept that the prosecutor was correct in their decision. Jesse ...

In my last blog I mentioned how murders involving a spouse are sadly nearly commonplace in today's society, and yet there are still those that can still leave you in bewilderment and surprise. This is just one of those cases. I am unsure why the callousness, boldness and the egos associated with murderers surprises me, but it does. It seems as if so many murderers believe they are smarter than anyone else and they know how to get away with it. The perpetrator in this case took it a step further in the fact that he not only thought he could get away with it, he was convinced that he could pin the murder on someone else, and he was almost successful. But, as is the case in most murders the perpetrator missed a step somewhere and when that one “little” thing got missed and his “house of cards” fell it left him as the only true culprit. Jeremy Spielbauer and Robin Bledsoe were married in 2005 and by the time they divorced in 2012 they had two young daughters. It ...