Single Murder

In most cases where charges of murder are brought against an individual, they come after a victim has been found dead. In some cases, no body has been found but …
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The debate over drugs used to execute inmates via lethal injection across states in America has been circulating for some time, with each new case of an execution going wrong …
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Romantic rejection sucks. Like, really sucks. Anyone who has put their feelings out there only to be turned down knows all too well the hurt and shame that comes with …
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“If I can’t have you, no one else can!” 48-year-old Berlinah Wallace apparently yelled at her ex, 29-year-old Mark van Dongen, as she threw sulfuric acid in his face. If …
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One trip to a hospital is all it takes before it becomes clear why everybody hates hospitals. The chronically sick, the tragically afflicted, the critically injured, and the ungodly food …
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Not many people nowadays are aware of singer-songwriter Elliott Smith. You may have heard a bit of his music in a clever reference on the hit animated series Rick and …
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Of the 102 podcast episodes and over 1,000 true crime blog posts that have been featured on Sword & Scale to date, there have been numerous cases of …
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On 5 April 1980, a nun from the Sisters of Mercy who lived at Mercy Hospital in Toledo, Ohio opened up the chapel sacristy with plans to prepare for the …
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A young man’s disturbed obsession with his ex-girlfriend in Omaha, Nebraska in 1978 ended with two people dead, one an 11-month-old child and the young man himself, 12 years later …
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When 18-year-old Bryan Ramirez stepped outside to take a break with a friend while on duty a Georgia Texico gas station, no one realized it would be his last. As …
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