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Chad Doermer Executed His Three Young Sons
Unravelling a Horrific Act of Filicide
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Jeremy Dewitte and The Psychology of Police Impersonators
From Sexual Deviance to Cop Wannabe to Hardcore Criminal
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Pregnancy, Lies, Kidnapping and Murder
Who Would Steal a Baby Just to Keep a Man?
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Is Karim Salim Egypt's Rex Heuermann?
Accused Sadistic Serial Killers Across Countries
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The Murdering Mastermind of Mersea
The Shocking Case of Luke D'Wit and a Decade of Deception
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The Killer's Murder Weapon
What Does Weapon Choice Tell Us About a Killer's Psyche?
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The Murder of Fire Captain Rebecca Marodi
Patterns of Violence and the Psychology of Repeat Intimate Partner Homicide
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Emma Smith Raine and the Trail of Dead Bodies Behind Her
Is This Woman a Serial Killer?
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Cruel Ex Uses Horrific Family Murder to Terrify Fearful Stalking Victim
Steven Rose Decided to Impersonate a Family Annihilator
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The Teenage Family Annihilator
Why Would an Adolescent Want to Kill His Whole Family and Set His Brother Up to Take the Blame?
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Is This the Mind of Bryan Kohberger?
New Evidence Raises Disturbing Possibilities
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Could Catherine Griffith Have Been Saved?
Accused Murderer Collin Griffith, Child-to-Parent Aggression, and Assessing Violence Risk During Adolescence
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