This class was by far one of my favorite classes of my freshmen year. Having questions of the day made class fun and interesting. I specifically remember the first question of the day and how it eased the nerves of the first day of class. The first day of college, seems intimidating, and […]

The “BTK Killer” short for bind torture and kill, is an infamous serial killer who killed 10 people in Wichita, Kansas, between the years 1974 and 1991. The killer was not caught until police arrested Dennis Rader, in 2005. This case appeared in the Netflix series, “Mindhunter”, where two FBI agents interview with the most […]

John Wayne Gacy, also known as the “Killer Clown”, was one of the most famous serial killers in America. Starting in 1972, Gacy killed and raped 33 young men in the span of six years. Most of his victims were teenage boys. In 1964, Gacy was found guilty of sexually assaulting two young boys. He […]

The F.B.I. has called Samuel Little “the most prolific known serial killer in American history”, after Mr. Little confessed to numerous murders dating back nearly five decades. Samuel Little was already serving life sentences in a prison in Lancaster, California for three murders from the 1980s.  It wasn’t until he was interviewed by a Texas […]

For more than several years, the Los Angeles Police Department have been trying to solve a series of eleven murders that took place between the years 1985 to 2007.  All the murders were connected to the same suspect through DNA and ballistic evidence. This case is famously known as the “Grim Sleeper” because the killer […]

On May 31st, 2014, Payton Leutner was stabbed 19 times by her two best friends in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier were only 12 years old when they lured Payton into the woods and attacked her. Once they stabbed her, they left her in the woods injured and bleeding. Payton was lucky enough […]

In October of 2013, a 14-year-old girl was leaving her high school in Conway, New Hampshire and started to walk back to her home on her usual route. The little girl disappeared and never made it home. Nine months later, the girl was reunited with her family, telling police that she had been released by […]

Back in February of 2010 the McStay family disappeared, in Fallbrook California. Their disappearance was extensively reported on national news stations across the country. The family’s disappearance was a shock to the investigators because there was shown no evidence of struggle at their Fallbrook home. According to a news article from CNN, it states how […]

One of the biggest cases that was in the 21st century that shocked the sporting world was the Aaron Hernandez trial in 2013. The New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez was charged with first degree murder of Odin Lloyd. He was a well-known football star in the NFL, signing an extension that was worth […]

For this new passion blog, I will be talking about the most famous criminal cases from the 21st century. The first one I would like to talk about is the Casey Anthony case from 2011. Casey Anthony was accused of killing her two-year-old daughter in 2008. What was compelling to  me about this case was […]