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Evil Lives Here
''Evil Lives Here'' is an American documentary television series on Investigation Discovery that debuted on January 17, 2016. This 60-minute true crime show spends each episode interviewing a family member of the highlighted criminal. On August 23, 2020, Season 8 kicked off with a 90-minute episode called "I Killed Dirty John", on which Debra and Terra Newell recount their experiences with "Dirty" John Meehan. The format is featured on the spinoff series, ''Evil Lives Here: Shadows of Death'', in which both investigators and families of victims discuss the impacts murders had on their lives. Unlike its predecessor, the culprit isn't revealed right away in some episodes. On October 1, 2023, a spinoff sequel, ''Evil Lives Here: The Killer Speaks'' will premiere. This series will be about murders told from the perspectives of the killers and at least one surviving family member. The premiere episode is "The Body In The Barrel". On February 18, 2024, the series’ first two-hour ep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Documentary Television
Television documentaries are televised media productions that screen documentaries. Television documentaries exist either as a television documentary series or as a television documentary film. * Television documentary series, sometimes called docuseries, are television series screened within an ordered collection of two or more televised episodes. * Television documentary films exist as a singular documentary film to be broadcast via a documentary channel or a News broadcasting, news-related channel. Occasionally, documentary films that were initially intended for televised broadcasting may be screened in a Movie theater, cinema. Documentary television rose to prominence during the 1940s, spawning from earlier cinematic documentary filmmaking ventures. Early production techniques were highly inefficient compared to modern recording methods. Early television documentaries typically featured historical, wartime, investigative or event-related subject matter. Contemporary televisio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xenophobia
Xenophobia (from (), 'strange, foreign, or alien', and (), 'fear') is the fear or dislike of anything that is perceived as being foreign or strange. It is an expression that is based on the perception that a conflict exists between an in-group and out-group, in-group and an out-group and it may manifest itself in suspicion of one group's activities by members of the other group, a desire to eliminate the presence of the group that is the target of suspicion, and fear of losing a national, ethnic, or racial identity.Guido Bolaffi. ''Dictionary of race, ethnicity and culture''. SAGE Publications Ltd., 2003. Pp. 332. Alternative definitions A 1997 review article on xenophobia holds that it is "an element of a political struggle about who has the right to be cared for by the state and society: a fight for the collective good of the modern state." According to Italian sociologist Guido Bolaffi, xenophobia can also be exhibited as an "uncritical exaltation of another culture" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Griselda Blanco
Griselda Blanco Restrepo (February 15, 1943 – September 3, 2012) was a Colombian drug lord who was prominent in the cocaine-based drug trade and underworld of Miami, during the 1970s through the early 2000s, and who has also been claimed by some to have been part of the Medellín Cartel. She was shot dead in Medellín on September 3, 2012, at the age of 69. Early life Griselda Blanco Restrepo was born in Cartagena, Colombia, on the country's north coast. She and her mother, Ana Restrepo, moved south to Medellín when she was three years old; this exposed her to a criminal lifestyle at an impressionable age, as Medellín was enduring years of its own socioeconomic, social and political troubles. Blanco's former lover, Charles Cosby, recounted that, at the age of 11, she allegedly kidnapped, attempted to ransom, and ultimately shot a child from an upscale neighbourhood near her home. Blanco had become a pickpocket before she was a teenager. To escape the sexual abuse of he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Randall (murderer)
James Michael Randall (born August 28, 1954) is an American criminal whose convictions included multiple rapes, a kidnapping, and the murder of two women in the Tampa Bay Area in Florida in the 1990s. Randall is an inmate in the Jefferson Correctional Institute serving out two life sentences.Telegram.co''Inmate in Fla. is chief suspect in 84 slaying of Holly Cote''28 January 2007 1980s prosecutions Randall was a chief suspect in the 1984 death of Boston resident Holly Jean Cote, whose death by strangulation was never solved. Cote was a friend of Randall's then-wife, Linda Randall. Cote was last seen alive in the area of Gardner, Massachusetts on March 4, 1984. Her body was found in early May in a marsh near Birch Hill Dam in Royalston, Massachusetts. His suspected involvement in Cote's death is based on statements Randall made to his then-wife and to mental health workers during interactions he had with psychiatric services in late 1984, and on the fact that Cote's body was recove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathaniel White
Nathaniel White (born July 28, 1960) is an American serial killer. Active in the Hudson Valley region, in and near Orange County, New York, during the early 1990s, White confessed to beating and stabbing six women to death while on parole. Raised in Poughkeepsie, New York, as a teen, he graduated from Poughkeepsie High School in 1979 and later served a brief stint in the US Army from 1980 to 1983. He was residing in the Town of Wallkill, just outside of Middletown, New York, during his 16-month murder spree.AP News, Acquaintances Say Confessed Killer Was Obsessed With Women. Afflek, John, Aug 8, 1992 Killings White claimed to have found inspiration for his first murder while watching ''RoboCop 2'': "The first girl I killed was from a 'RoboCop' movie... I seen him cut somebody's throat then take the knife and slit down the chest to the stomach and left the body in a certain position. With the first person I killed I did exactly what I saw in the movie." This first killing took ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Jesperson
Keith Hunter Jesperson (born April 6, 1955) is a Canadian-American serial killer known as the Happy Face Killer. He worked as a truck driver and murdered at least eight women between January 1990 and March 1995, later mailing many taunting letters to the media and authorities that he marked with smiley faces. Many of Jesperson's victims were sex workers and transients whom he preferred to kill via strangulation. After the body of Jesperson's first victim, Taunja Bennett, was found, media attention surrounded Laverne Pavlinac, a woman who falsely confessed to Bennett's murder with the help of her abusive boyfriend, John Sosnovske. Upset that he was not getting any media attention, Jesperson drew a smiley face on a bathroom wall hundreds of miles from the scene of the Bennett killing and wrote an anonymous letter confessing to the murder, providing proof. When that did not elicit a response, he began writing letters to the media and authorities. Jesperson's last murder was the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ervil LeBaron
Ervil Morrell LeBaron (February 22, 1925 – August 15, 1981) was the leader of a polygamous Mormon fundamentalist group who ordered the killings of many of his opponents, both within his own sect and in rival polygamous groups, using the religious doctrine of blood atonement to justify the murders. He was sentenced to life in prison for orchestrating the murder of an opponent, and died there in 1981. He had at least 13 wives in a plural marriage, several of whom he married while they were still underage, and several of whom were involved in the murders. History After the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) officially abandoned the practice of polygamy in 1890 (Other sources say 1940 in Salt Lake City, UT), some polygamous Mormons, who were later excommunicated from the LDS Church, moved south to Mexico to continue the practice without the interference of U.S. law enforcement. One of these Mormons, Alma Dayer LeBaron, Sr., moved his family, which included ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clay King Smith
Clay King Smith (July 25, 1970 – May 8, 2001) was an American mass murderer executed by the state of Arkansas for the March 25, 1998, murders of Misty Erwin (age 20), Shelley Sorg (24), Shelley's two children Sean Sorg (5) and Taylor Sorg (3), and babysitter Samantha Rhodes (12) at his home near Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Murders Smith's girlfriend, Misty Erwin, reported that Smith battered her and requested police assistance to move out of the house. However, when the police arrived, she withdrew her complaint and decided to stay with Smith. Her body was found in the house with a cousin, two small children, and a babysitter two days later. All were shot to death with a rifle. Smith was arrested the day after the bodies were discovered. His capture followed a shootout with authorities near Star City in Lincoln County, Arkansas. Smith fled into a wooded area when police tracked him down to a house belonging to a local hunting club. Smith held police at bay for an hour with a rifle, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thom Bierdz
Thom Bierdz (born March 25, 1962) is an American television actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Phillip Chancellor III on the daytime drama ''The Young and the Restless''. Career He appeared on ''The Young and the Restless'', from 1986 to 1989, returning for a "dream sequence" in 2004, and in a surprising twist, returned to the role in May 2009, 2010 and 2011. He was also a recurring guest star on ''Melrose Place'' as Sarah's abusive boyfriend, Hank. Other TV credits include guest starred twice on ''Murder, She Wrote'' (1994, 1995), '' Matlock'' (1993), ''Robin's Hoods'' (1994) and ''Highway to Heaven'' (1986), ''Win, Lose or Draw'' (1989) and '' The New Hollywood Squares'' (1988, 1989). Bierdz played Bobby Burton on the web series ''Old Dogs New Tricks'' in 2012 and 2013. Bierdz co-foundeAmerican Art Awardsin 2008. He has since beepresidentof thprestigious online art competitionwhich annually awards USA's Best Galleries & Museums, and with their critique, awards over 3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blanche Taylor Moore
Blanche Taylor Moore (née Kiser; born February 17, 1933) is an American convicted murderer and a possible serial killer from Alamance County, North Carolina. She is awaiting execution in North Carolina for the fatal poisoning of her boyfriend in 1986. She is also suspected of the death of her father, mother-in-law, and first husband, and the attempted murder of her second husband in 1989. Early life Blanche Taylor Moore was born Blanche Kiser in Concord, North Carolina on February 17, 1933. Her parents were Parker Davis Kiser, a millworker and ordained Baptist minister, and Flonnie Blanche Kiser (''née'' Honeycutt). Moore's father was a womanizer and alcoholic who, she later claimed, forced her into prostitution to pay his gambling debts; he died, reportedly of a heart attack, in 1966. As a youth, Moore was known to switch from quoting scripture to sexually explicit topics in the same breath. Murders and attempted murder On May 29, 1952, Moore married James Napoleon Taylor, a K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Ben Rhoades
Robert Ben Rhoades (born November 22, 1945), also known as the Truck Stop Killer, is an American serial killer and rapist. He is confirmed to have tortured and killed at least two couples in Illinois and Texas in 1989 and 1990, and is additionally suspected of torturing, raping, and killing more than fifty women between 1975 and 1990, based on data about his truck routes and women who went missing during those years and who met the profile of his preferred victims. At the time he was caught, Rhoades claimed to have engaged in these activities for fifteen years. Early life Rhoades was raised by his mother in his formative years, as his father was a soldier in the United States Army and was stationed in West Germany. Rhoades was attending elementary school when his father returned from duty overseas. After his father was discharged from the military, he found work as a firefighter. Rhoades was an active participant in the extracurricular activities of his attended schools, and i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Joe Long
Bobby Joe Long (October 14, 1953 – May 23, 2019) was an American serial killer and rapist. During an eight-month period in 1984 Long abducted, sexually assaulted, and murdered at least ten women in the Tampa Bay area in Florida. At trial Long was sentenced to death for one of the murders and life for seven others. He was sentenced to death in 1986 by the state of Florida for the murder of Michelle Denise Simms. He was executed by lethal injection on May 23, 2019. Early life Bobby Joe Long was born on October 14, 1953, in Kenova, West Virginia, to Joe and Louetta Long. Long was born with an extra X chromosome, also known as 47,XXY, a specific variant of Klinefelter syndrome. This condition results in excessive estrogen production, resulting in development of female traits such as breasts. Long was teased as a child for his large breasts and underwent breast reduction surgery in adolescence. He sustained multiple head injuries in various childhood accidents. Long had a dysf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
