The saying goes: “Love and marriage; they go together like a horse and carriage”. What the saying doesn’t tell you is that horses get spooked, and the carriage can crash. Similarly, love dies, and marriages end. Accepting the end of a marriage is not an easy task - and Betty Broderick certainly did not take the ending of hers very well at all.
Tag: american true crime
The Pigeon King
Nine times out of ten, most people know they’re committing fraud when they’re running a con or a scam. But then there’s that one - that one who, seemingly, just doesn’t know what they’re doing.
The Glamour Girl Slayer
Hollywood is all about who you know, and your reputation with those people. Making it in Hollywood isn’t easy - or so I’ve been told. But when you have no reputation, you’re practically invisible. And that makes it easy to get away with murder.
Black Widow – Part 2
In 1924, Louise Peete was incarcerated for murder. Three of her husbands had committed suicide, she was acquitted of the murder of Joe Appel, and convicted of the murder of Jacob C. Denton, a wealthy man living in Los Angeles, California. Death followed Peete wherever she went. And she was supposed to serve a life sentence for one such death.
Black Widow – Part 1
Bad luck can follow some people around like the plague - constant, ever present, and with no cure. Some people have more than bad luck following them around. And others are harbingers of death. Louise Peete was certainly a harbinger of death. Wherever she went, someone would die.
Mike the Durable
Life insurance fraud is often a very common motive for murder. It usually never quite goes the way people think it will. And in this, rather unusual and quite extraordinary case, it went terribly, horribly wrong.
Monster-In-Law
We’ve all heard of mothers who dote on their sons, and of momma’s boys. But few mother-son relationships are as questionable as the relationship between Ma Duncan and her son, Frank.
Los Feliz Murder Mansion
I’ve covered a lot of eerie, creepy, spooky, and downright horrible topics on this blog. But nothing manages to creep me out quite like the Los Feliz Murder Mansion does.
The San Francisco Witch Killers
Some couples absolutely thrive when they team up and work together. Some couples are quite successful when part of a team. But some couples should never have been together at all.
Uncanny Predictions
The early 20th century was the height of spiritualism. Many people took advantage of this to defraud others. And some, well, some took advantage for more nefarious purposes.