Albert Shinsky was convinced that Susannah Mummey, known as the Witch of Ringtown Valley, put a curse on him ... and the only way out was murder.
Seemingly motiveless, riddled with rumors of occult practices.
Remembering the victims of this brutal murder spree.
Decades later, her whereabouts remain a mystery.
Lock the doors, bar the windows, and read on if you dare.
Stockholm syndrome is as tragic as it is complex. Victims suffer both the physical abuse of imprisonment and the severe emotional manipulation that locks them in place.
Jim Barclay was found in a shallow grave in what was the Wonnangatta Murders. Authorities suspected the cook, John Bamford, until Bamford's body turned up.
In December 1901, authorities found the body of young Nell Cropsey floating in North Carolina's Pasquotank River.
When it comes to murder, justice is often elusive.
In 1961, Joan Risch vanished from her Massachusetts home, leaving behind two children, a distraught husband, and a kitchen streaked with blood.
On August 23, 1992, Grinnell College senior Tammy Zywicki departed from the Chicago suburb of Evanston toward Grinnell's Iowa campus. She was never seen alive again.