Murders A-Z

After real estate tycoon Ed Patton Jr. was viciously bludgeoned, investigators found his “Tyler Time Journal,” a diary that chronicled his marital problems with wife Tyler Block Patton.

Brandy Stutzman found out her husband wanted a divorce, and so she asked 19-year-old Jeremiah Merriweather to kill him. 

Jessie Cummings made his wives, Juanita and Sherry, undress his niece and stay in the room while he raped her, according to Juanita’s testimony.

Joseph Brown, a convicted felon, was the last person to see Demetria Hill before her burned, hacked-up body was found in the woods behind an Atlanta church. 

Trapped upstairs during a house fire set by his friend Joseph Meyers, David O’Dell was burned to a blackened crisp.

Laura Grillo was busy planning the wedding of her dreams when she was shot to death at her home in Rowlett, Texas.

A minor dispute between police and the Stovall brothers escalated to a night of bloody terror that gripped a whole region in a 24-hour chase and gun battle.

Before John and Linda Sohus vanished in 1985, they lived with con man Christian Gerhartsreiter, whom they knew as Christopher Chichester.  

Robert and Stephen Spahalski committed murders with bizarre similarities, and even spent time in the same prisons.

John Smith’s brother told jurors he wanted to call the police when he found the hacked-up body of John’s ex-wife, Janice Hartman — but his grandfather punched him in the face at the idea of betraying a family member.