Two Innocents

Patricia Taylor and Tom Allanson came together after each of them left failing marriages behind. At thirty, Tom was younger than Pat by six years. He had been through two short, bad marriages and she had escaped one long one where she said she had felt trapped and smothered by her military husband. Both of […] The post A Dark Heart: Inside the Twisted Mind of Patricia Taylor Allanson appeared first on Tiegrabber.

1 Touko 20181h 52min

Maria Marshall seemed to be living an enviable life. She was beautiful and wealthy, with a successful husband and three healthy sons. It wasn’t until Maria was killed that her friends, family, and neighbors saw how hard she had been working to keep up appearances and keep her family together. On the night of September […] The post Blind Faith: The Murder of Maria Marshall appeared first on Tiegrabber.

24 Huhti 20181h 27min

When UVA student Hannah Graham disappeared from a Charlottesville mall in 2014, authorities and volunteers began a massive search to find her. Joining the search were the parents of Morgan Harrington. Morgan had disappeared five years earlier. At the time, the Harringtons didn’t realize that solving Hannah’s case would lead them to the man who […] The post Help Save the Next Girl: The Murders of Morgan Harrington and Hannah Graham appeared first on Tiegrabber.

17 Huhti 20181h 10min

Oba Chandler was executed in 2011 for the killings of a mother and her two daughters off the coast of south Florida. Jo Rogers and her two teenage daughters were enjoying a rare and well-deserved vacation when they were approached by Oba Chandler and invited to take a cruise on his boat. He seemed like […] The post Terror by Sea: The Murders of Joan, Michelle, & Christe Rogers appeared first on Tiegrabber.

10 Huhti 20181h 49min

Labelled as the “rough sex killing” or the “preppy murder,” the 1986 murder of college-bound teenager Jennifer Levin at the hands of so-called preppy Robert Chambers caught the attention of the entire country. Her horrible death opened up discussions about the reckless and promiscuous world of teenagers in her crowd. In this time of the […] The post Preppy Murder: The Killing of Jennifer Levin appeared first on Tiegrabber.

3 Huhti 20182h 5min

In her 10 years, Zahra Baker had gone through a lot and overcome more than most adults. She was a cancer survivor who had to have an amputation, the removal of part of her lung, and she was left hearing impaired from cancer treatments. But she was still beautiful, inside and out. A resilient spirit […] The post Step-Monster: The Murder of Zahra Baker appeared first on Tiegrabber.

27 Maalis 20181h 37min

Cherry Walker was a trusting, uncommonly innocent young woman with a developmental disability. When her neighbor Kim Cargill brought her son to Cherry to babysit, Cherry didn’t know enough to question her. Mentally still a child herself, Cherry played alongside the child, sharing her food and her small apartment with him. Kim took full advantage […] The post The Babysitter’s Secrets: The Murder of Cherry Walker appeared first on Tiegrabber.

20 Maalis 20181h 27min

High on the mountains of Southern California, an overgrown driveway leads to the burned-out piece of ground that once supported Jack Irwin’s Mt. Baldy cabin. Life has moved on, as it always does, and the forest has grown over much of this site where a horrific murder took place. Back in 1999, Jack Irwin sold […] The post A Beheading on Mount Baldy appeared first on Tiegrabber.

13 Maalis 20181h 24min