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Fixing the incorrect link above: And here's a newspaper column from the Pittsburgh Press written 29 months after her disappearance. Column

Murderers are not all that smart, are they, since they think killing people will solve whatever bothers them or prove their superiority. And your post shows that trying to use cell phones to create an alibi is very dumb, as is carrying it on your murder spree.

I don't know about the Netherlands but I once did a post on some subReddit that makes this basic argument: Ellis and Tommy are linked by the way they were murdered; BH wanted Crystal out of the way. The Netherlands were killed by someone who had killed before and liked killing, but I don't know...

Again, excuse the reference to the Pike County case. But they cooked up an original alibi: they were all at home together! That held up until they found shell casings from the murder gun on their property and a receipt and store video that showed the mother buying the brand of murder shoes in...

The plate may have expired in November but that wasn't about his birthday. In Pennsylvania, the plate expiration comes a year after the plate was registered. I have 2 cars, one due in February and the other in July.

In any murder trial where they have bodies (plural) and a known interior crime scene, there's going to be a crap-ton of evidence. Neither the prosecution nor the defense what that evidence out in the wild; no one wants a tainted jury (and thus an appeal). The prosecution is protecting the case...

I knew Christine's parents. Her father was a good friend of a man I dated at the time. He was a terrific person. I didn't know his wife as well, but my then significant other did, and he liked her a great deal. I'm very glad to see the case on Websleuths. The case was investigated by the...

One thing I learned following the Pike County massacre was that the prosecution had a lot more evidence than we ordinary folks knew about before the trial.

He might have kept his paperwork in the bus. Maybe it was required in case of being stopped.

If she had been drinking at all, that would have compromised her in any attempt to walk or jog out of there.

She didn't have to necessarily be drunk--it would be scary enough to have police show up with a breathalyzer if she had been drinking without being over the limit.

Among other things, the delay, delay, delay keeps Billy in jail awaiting trial rather than convicted and in prison (which is a horse of a different color).

The Pike County, Ohio murders were committed in 2016, and one of the alleged perpetrators is supposed to go on trial in May, 8 years after the killings.

People at the far end of the narcissism spectrum love attention. It doesn't matter if it's bad attention or good attention, as thought of by normal people. A good example is Alex Murdaugh, who insisted on going to trial for the murder of his wife and son even after he was exposed as a thief and...

If he is actually smart, he would know that he couldn't be 100% sure there wasn't evidence on the sheath.

It's too easy to make a mistake, leave out a word like "no" or "not," make a typo that changes the meaning. Waiting is a good thing if journalists check their work.

Ebby was found in a drainage pipe fairly close to where her car was found in a park.

I don't disagree with the idea that "we" can't determine what is "best for total strangers." However, we can look at other public tragedies, such as the Sandy Hook and Uvalde school shootings, where the school buildings were torn down because no one wanted to send kids back to the site of a...

As you say, a murder house is not a place to mourn and process trauma and grief. Years after the 1966 murder, students argue that there should be a memorial, just as the victims of the 1966 Texas Tower shooting did (there, the U hosed of the sidewalk and held classes the next day). We've come a...

I've been reading a book, Crime of the Century, about the 1966 mass murder of 8 student nurses in a Chicago townhouse by a man named Richard Speck. While of course there are many differences between the Chicago case and the deaths of these 4 kids from Idaho, looking at older cases helps me with...