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On The Case With Paula Zahn
''On the Case with Paula Zahn'' is an American Television documentary, documentary and news program broadcast on Investigation Discovery since October 18, 2009. The program explores in-depth stories of crime mysteries and interviews with involved individuals, closest to the cases and includes expert analysis. Emmy Award winning journalist and former CNN anchor Paula Zahn is the program host who travels throughout the country interviewing people directly affected by the tragic cases. ''On the Case with Paula Zahn'' is the first series on Investigation Discovery to reach over 360 episodes. Episodes Season 1 (2009–10) Season 2 (2010) Season 3 (2010–11) Season 4 (2011) Season 5 (2011–12) Season 6 (2012) Season 7 (2012–13) Season 8 (2013) Season 9 (2013–14) Season 10 (2014) Season 11 (2015) Season 12 (2015–16) Season 13 (2016) Season 14 (2016–17) Season 15 (2017) Season 16 (2017–18) Season 17 (2018) Season 18 (2019) Season 19 (201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
True Crime
True crime is a genre of non-fiction work in which an author examines a crime, including detailing the actions of people associated with and affected by the crime, and investigating the perpetrator's Motive (law), motives. True crime works often deal with Violent crime, violent crimes such as Murder, murders and Serial killer, serial killers, including high-profile cases (such as killing of JonBenét Ramsey, JonBenét Ramsey, O. J. Simpson murder case, O. J. Simpson, and Pamela Smart), and more obscure or unsolved cases that the author wishes to bring wider attention to. A true crime work may use either a Journalism, journalistic style with a focus on known facts, or a speculative style with a larger focus on the author's personal conclusions regarding a crime. True crime has taken the form of various Media (communication), media, including literature such as magazines and books, television series and documentaries (which may sometimes feature Dramatization, dramatized scene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Krone
Ray Krone (born January 19, 1957) is an American who was wrongfully convicted of murder. He was the 100th inmate exonerated from death row since the death penalty in the United States was reinstated in 1976. Krone was born and raised in Dover Township, York County, Pennsylvania and graduated from Dover Area High School in 1974. He was labeled the " Snaggletooth Killer" (a feature which has since been corrected) and spent 10 years in prison, including two years on death row, after being found guilty of killing a bartender in Phoenix, Arizona in 1991. Kim Ancona, who was 35 years old, was found dead in a bar where Krone often played darts. The 1992 conviction, which was upheld on appeal in 1996, hinged on expert testimony, included claiming an impression of Krone's teeth matched bite marks found on the victim's body, a detail that was disputed by dental experts called by the defense in court. On April 8, 2002, Krone was released from prison after DNA evidence proved that he did n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jayna Murray
The Lululemon murder occurred on March 11, 2011, at a Lululemon store located in the Washington, D.C. suburb of Bethesda, Maryland, when Brittany Norwood, a store employee, murdered her coworker Jayna Troxel Murray. The case received widespread media coverage and was commonly referred to as the "Lululemon murder." In January 2012, Norwood was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Murder On March 12, 2011, a manager in the store where Murray worked arrived in the morning to find the door unlocked, merchandise strewn across the floor, and mannequins in disarray. She could hear someone moaning near the back of the store. Frightened, she asked a man outside to help her search the store. He found Jayna Murray lying dead in a back hallway, face down in a pool of blood, with a ligature around her neck. Brittany Norwood was found in the bathroom, apparently semi-conscious, with zipties binding her wrists and ankles and blood on her face. Bloody footprints ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oba Chandler
Oba Chandler (October 11, 1946 – November 15, 2011) was an American serial killer and mass murderer who was convicted and executed for the June 1989 murders of Joan Rogers and her two daughters, whose bodies were found floating in Tampa Bay, Florida, with their hands and feet bound. autopsy, Autopsies showed the victims had been thrown into the water while still alive, with ropes tied to a concrete block around their necks. The case became high-profile in 1992 when local police posted billboards bearing enlarged images of the suspect's handwriting recovered from a pamphlet in the victims' car. Chandler was identified as the killer when his neighbor recognized the handwriting. Prior to his arrest, Chandler worked as an unlicensed aluminum-siding contractor. Against the advice of his attorneys, he testified in his own defense (law), defense, saying he had met the Ohio women and had given them directions. Chandler said he never saw them again, except in newspaper coverage and on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murder Of Jessica Keen
Jessica Lyn Keen (September 24, 1975 – March 16, 1991) was an American murder victim, killed in Foster Chapel Cemetery in West Jefferson, Ohio. Her case was profiled on the television programs ''Unsolved Mysteries'', ''On the Case with Paula Zahn'' and ''Dead Silent'' on Investigation Discovery. Early life Jessica Lyn Keen, a 15-year-old girl from Columbus, Ohio, was an honor student and cheerleader. However, she quit cheerleading and her grades dropped after meeting and falling in love with 18-year-old Shawn Thompson, a boy at her school. Her parents objected to her seeing the young man, but did not know what to do. On March 4, 1991, they sought help at a free counselling centre in Columbus and subsequently checked Jessica into Huckleberry House, a facility for troubled teens which offered temporary residence for two weeks along with individual and family counselling sessions. She went missing on 15 March 1991 after saying she was going shopping. Body discovered After be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murder Of Margaret Ann Pahl
In the United States on May 11, 2006, retired Roman Catholic priest Gerald Robinson (14 April 1938 – 4 July 2014) was convicted of the murder of Sister Margaret Ann Pahl (1908–1980), a Sister of Mercy, a Catholic religious order of women on Holy Saturday, April 5, 1980. Robinson repeatedly appealed, but without success. On July 4, 2014, Robinson died in prison. Murder, investigation, and trial In 1980 Robinson was the chaplain at Mercy Hospital, Toledo, Ohio, where he ministered to the sick and terminally ill. Sister Margaret Ann was the caretaker of the chapel. Robinson was convicted of strangling and stabbing Pahl, who was 71 at the time, in the sacristy of a chapel of the hospital where they worked together. The priest presided at her funeral Mass four days after her death. Pahl was stabbed 31 times, including nine times in the shape of an inverted cross. Prosecutors considered this shape was deliberate and intended to humiliate Pahl in death. Pahl was found covered in an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Smith (murderer)
John David Smith III (born April 2, 1951) is an American murderer convicted in 2001 of killing his first wife in 1974 and also has been indicted on charges for the 1991 murder of his second wife. Skull fragments found in a locker owned by him belong to a third unidentified woman; they're the basis of an ongoing "Jane Doe" inquiry. The FBI is also attempting to identify two women pictured in photographs found in John's collection at the time of his 2000 arrest. Background Smith married Janice Hartman (born 2 March 1951) on 30 June 1970. The marriage was troubled; Janice's brother said that Smith was abusive from the start. Hartman left Smith in 1974 and returned to Ohio intending to divorce him, with the court granting the divorce decree on 14 November 1974. A few days later she told her family that she was going away for a while, and was last seen on 17 November 1974. Soon after, Smith's brother Michael observed him building a narrow box which he claimed was for Janice's belongin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Marie Kimmell
The Lil' Miss murder is the name given to the murder case of Lisa Marie Kimmell (July 18, 1969 – April 2, 1988), a young American woman who disappeared while traveling from Denver, Colorado, to her family's home in Billings, Montana. Her case was given its name due to her vehicle, a Honda CR-X, which had the distinctive personalized license plate reading "LIL MISS", a fact widely publicized in efforts to recover her. Kimmell remained a missing person for eight days before her body was discovered floating in the North Platte River near Casper, Wyoming. Evidence from a nearby bridge revealed she had been bludgeoned and stabbed to death there, before being thrown into the water. Kimmell's murder remained a cold case for 14 years, until DNA profiling linked Dale Wayne Eaton to her kidnapping, rape, and murder. In 2002, Kimmell's missing car was recovered from Eaton's property, where he had buried it after her abduction and murder. Eaton was convicted of first degree murder and sent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Woodworth
Mark Woodworth is an American man from Livingston County, Missouri, who was convicted twice for a 1990 home invasion murder of his family's farming partners, the Robertsons. A tragic incident that occurred when he was 16 years old. Woodworth spent twenty years in prison for the crime he did not do, but was finally freed and exonerated, after the bizarrely handled ballistic evidence used against him was ruled to be so egregiously tainted, that it was barred from being used in a court of law. The court also barred the Missouri Attorney General's office from prosecuting Woodworth a third time. When a special prosecutor was assigned who dropped all charges. Woodworth is listed in the National Registry of exonerations. His case was featured in episode: "Severed Ties - On the Case with Paula Zahn". As well as dozens of news articles following an alternate suspect, letters withheld from defense, and the strange twist of evidence removed in a surgery that was given to a private investigato ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Haysom
Elizabeth Roxanne Haysom (born April 15, 1964) is a Canadian citizen who, along with her then boyfriend, Jens Söring, was convicted of orchestrating the 1985 double murder of her parents Derek and Nancy Haysom in Bedford County, Virginia. Haysom served 32 years of a 90-year prison sentence at the Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women in Troy, Virginia after pleading guilty to two counts of accessory to murder before the fact in 1987. She and Söring were paroled on November 25, 2019, more than 30 years after they were first convicted of the deaths of Haysom’s parents in 1985. Early life Elizabeth Haysom's parents were Nancy Astor Benedict Haysom, an artist, and Derek William Reginald Haysom, a steel executive who served as president of two Nova Scotia crown corporations ( Sydney Steel and Metropolitan Area Growth Investments). Derek and Nancy had a combined total of five children from previous marriages. Born in April 1964, Elizabeth attended boarding schools in Switzerlan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jens Söring
Jens Söring (born 1 August 1966), usually rendered in English as Jens Soering, is a German convicted double murderer. In 1990, he was convicted in Virginia, United States of America of murdering the parents of his then-girlfriend, Elizabeth Haysom. For her role in the deaths, Haysom was convicted of two counts of accessory before the fact to murder. In prison, Söring claimed he was not guilty. After fourteen parole requests and numerous petitions for a gubernatorial pardon - all unsuccessful - he was released on probation and deported to Germany in 2019. Söring appears on talk shows, has an exclusive contract with Netflix and uses his case in the media. In Germany, for legal reasons, Söring is not allowed to accuse his ex-girlfriend of the crime. Instead, Söring portrayed himself as a victim and critic of an unjust US justice system. The killings took place at the Haysom residence in the Boonsboro area of Lynchburg, Virginia in March 1985. Söring (along with Elizabeth Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Lynn Sells
Tommy Lynn Sells (June 28, 1964 – April 3, 2014) was an American serial killer who became known as the Coast to Coast Killer. Although he was convicted of only two murders, one of which he was sentenced to death and eventually executed for, Sells claimed to have killed up to 70 victims in various states. Investigators have been able to conclusively pinpoint Sells in at least 22 cases. Early life Sells was born in Oakland, California, on June 28, 1964, as one of five children to an unwed mother. Sells’ presumed biological father, Joe Lovins, died when Sells was 11. Sells and his twin sister, Tammy Jean, contracted meningitis when they were 18 months old; Tammy died from the illness. Shortly thereafter, Sells was sent to live with his aunt, Bonnie Walpole, in Holcomb, Missouri. When he was 5, he was returned to his mother after she discovered that Walpole wanted to adopt him. At the age of 7, Sells began regularly drinking alcohol obtained from a supply stash belonging to his m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
