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“I’m Hoping She’ll Solve Her Own Murder”
Tasia Fortune was found hanging from a tree in Mississippi. Her mother says it was personal; look at the man, not the tree.
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Joni E. Johnston, Psy.D.
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Twelve Jurors Couldn’t Agree About Lindsay Clancy. And They Knew How the Story Ended.
Seven days of debate over what nobody could see at the time
Sep 7
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Joni E. Johnston, Psy.D.
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The Stalker’s Diary
Twenty-five handwritten pages about a woman he dated for two months in 2013. She never answered him once in the thirteen years that followed.
Sep 1
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Joni E. Johnston, Psy.D.
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August 2026
The Psychology of Strangulation
Four men put their hands on a woman's throat. Each of them wanted something different. What happened inside the four minutes was not.
Aug 25
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Joni E. Johnston, Psy.D.
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Michael Thompson Walked Through His House Collecting Family Photographs. Then He Arranged Them Around His Wife’s Body.
Kim Thompson’s death met ten warning signs for a staged suicide. Six of them were visible in the first ten minutes.
Aug 18
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Joni E. Johnston, Psy.D.
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Suzanne Mericle, Murder, and the Psychology of Romantic Obsession
Four thousand pages of text messages, three men, and one locked door. What the record shows about how someone arrives at a bedroom door with a gun.
Aug 7
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Joni E. Johnston, Psy.D.
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Haeven Watson Searched “Dorm Rape Porn.”
He was a college football player who never had to force his way in.
Aug 4
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Joni E. Johnston, Psy.D.
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July 2026
Bradley Cadenhead: The Boy Who Became 764
He was fifteen, working alone in a bedroom in small-town Texas. Strangers on other continents would carve his username into their own skin. The FBI now…
Jul 21
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Joni E. Johnston, Psy.D.
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The Last Thing He Forged Was a Confession
No one can prove yet whether Eugene Hörsch or his father, R.C. Hörsch, wrote it.
Jul 14
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Joni E. Johnston, Psy.D.
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Blaise Taylor Had Already Asked One Woman to Help Him Drug Another
He had two college degrees, an NFL job, and a coach's pedigree, the kind of life people can't imagine a man risking. He also had an unwanted pregnancy…
Jul 6
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Joni E. Johnston, Psy.D.
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June 2026
The Suicide Chef
Kenneth Law sold a mail-order poison to suicidal people in forty countries. Most were young. Most, in the end, wanted to live.
Jun 30
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Joni E. Johnston, Psy.D.
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John Robinson Is 82, Out of Appeals, and Still Won't Say Where the Bodies Are
The same week Rex Heuermann was sentenced for killing eight women, Kansas quietly denied serial killer John Robinson clemency for the same crime. Let's…
Jun 23
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Joni E. Johnston, Psy.D.
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