For some, gambling is a special treat-a past-time for birthdays, anniversaries and celebrations. It can be a bonding experience that brings everyone together through either luck, or misfortune. For others, gambling becomes an addiction, where they are willing to lie, cheat and steal in order to get their fix. For the lucky few, gambling can become a lifestyle. This lifestyle is often fraught with drugs, danger, embezzlement, lies and fraud. Like many...

“Bad Choices” that End in Murder “I'd kill for my child.” It's a bit of a cliché, one that rolls off the tongue glibly enough but also with a touch of traction. We would do anything for our kids; they become central to all that we do, everything we are. But the point is that most of us wouldn't, or would need the most impossibly extreme circumstances, kill or be killed, to carry out the threat. Where that impossibly extreme point falls is,...

The morning of October 24, 1961, started just like any other day for the Risch family of Lincoln, Massachusetts... Martin Risch was up before dawn, preparing to leave for a business trip he'd arranged. The plan was to drive himself to Logan Airport and then catch an 8 a.m. flight to New York City, where he planned to stay the night in Manhattan. After her husband left the house, Joan Risch woke their two children and busied herself making their breakfast......

Rhonda Belle Martin was a waitress living a hard scrabble life in Montgomery, Alabama. She routinely poisoned her husbands, even going so far as to marry her former son-in-law, and leaving him as a paraplegic. It was his illness that led police to investigate the odd deaths that occurred around Rhonda...and they eventually brought a confession out of her as she would admit to poisoning two previous husbands, three of her children and her own mother...

They came from Russia with mayhem on their minds....Russian serial killers are simply cut from a different cloth as many were able to evade capture with the lack of cooperation in their police authorities. Alexander Pichushki also known as The Chessboard Killer and The Bitsa Park Maniac, is believed to have killed at least 48 people and up to 61–63 people in southwest Moscow's Bitsa Park. Anatoly Onoprienko is also known by the nicknames "The Beast...

They looked like the All-American couple. Michael Severance was a decorated Air Force officer while Wendi Mae Davidson was a veterinarian with a growing practice. All seemed well with the couple until Wendi reported her husband missing. She stated that he had been acting "erratically" while going out to clubs and staying out late. Her husband's body would be found in a nearby pond, weighed down by cinderblocks and stabbed multiple times... A sloppy...

Claiming to be a victim of rape and other abuses, a distraught Tracey Grissom would travel to her ex-husband Hunter's workplace and shoot him six times in the back, receiving a 25-year life sentence for his murder. Her defense attorney would argue that Tracey was motivated by post-traumatic stress disorder caused by her Hunter's constant abuse and sexual assaults. One jury member had even asked the judge to be lenient in her sentencing as they were...

A father, husband, son, an electrical engineer, and a murderer. Those words do not begin to describe serial killer Jerry Brudos (a.k.a. The Lust Killer).

They were the monsters under the bed and everyone was afraid to look. Anthony Hardy, a man who has been obsessed with Jack the Ripper for most of his life, took to the streets to emulate his hero. Hardy was eventually given the name 'the Camden Ripper', but this time, police are on to his game. Colin Pitchfork, also known as the Footpath Murderer and the Black Pad Killer was born 23 March 1961 in Bristol, England. Because Pitchfork's two murders...

Twenty-four years prior to Emmit Till, the Hawaiian Islands was home to one of the most controversial racial trials in American history. Thalia Massie was found one late summer night in Honolulu wandering the streets. She was disheveled, beaten and battered. Claiming she was raped by a "gang of Hawaiians", the local police gathered a group of men whom they thought were most likely to be capable of such a crime. During the ensuing trial, the men were...