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On May 19, 1983, Diane Downs drives her three children to McKenzie-Willamette Hospital in a blood-spattered car. She tells police that a man trying to carjack the vehicle opened fire, striking everyone inside. Cheryl,7, was killed. Danny, 3, ended up paralyzed from the waist down, and Christie, 8, suffered a disabling stroke after being shot. She survives. Downs herself, was shot in the left forearm. Investigators and hospital workers were suspicious. They say her manner is just too calm for a person who experienced such a traumatic event. Ultimately, it is daughter Cheryl who tells everyone who did the shooting.
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Friend kidnaps baby girl, drops her off at a Subway. Perp heads to jail after armed robbery of a Snickers bar.
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Susan Smith spends nine days pleading for help in locating her two sons. She claims that on the night her sons disappeared, a black male approached her at a stoplight, forced her out of her red Mazda Protégé, stole her car, and drove away with her two sons still inside the vehicle. As the investigation progresses, 23-year-old Smith admits to driving her car into a lake with her two young sons strapped in their car seats. Murder Moms, all this week on Crime Stories!
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Teen kills mom just days before her wedding. Woman uses a laser sight on a gun as a cat toy with unintended results.
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An Indiana man is charged with criminally negligent homicide in the death of 19-year-old Grace Anne Sparks while he was 300 miles away at his home. Hayden Berkebile, 29, told detectives they’d been in a relationship since “she was in her early teens, communicated via messaging apps, and had visited each other.
Police say "Berkebille stated that the victim had been suicidal for years and on this day during the course of their conversation, she grabbed a gun, the camera moved, he told her ‘no, no, no’ and then heard a gunshot.” Sparks’ death has initially ruled a suicide. Investigators found, however, that Berkebile was a “BDSM sexual master” who “exerted sexual control over the victim causing her to engage in dangerous and demeaning acts,” encouraging Sparks to kill herself for his “viewing pleasure.”
“On the day of the victim’s death, the victim asks Mr. Berkebile to use her,” an affidavit filed in court said. “Berkebile states ‘No, I want to kill you.’ ‘That’s all I [expletive] want.’” Berkebile faces charges of criminally negligent homicide and false reports.
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Landlord tries to solve rent dispute with bullets. Man driving a go-kart down a Florida street tries to ditch a handgun and cocaine during chase with police.
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America Thayer was decapitated in broad daylight in Shakopee. Video footage circulating online appears to shows her long-time boyfriend, Alexis Saborit, pushing Thayer’s bloody body out of her car before walking away. Thayer's head was discovered near her body.
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Teen basketball star dies during drill in 97 degree heat. Coaches charged. Couple arrested after a food fight.
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Virginia Roberts Giuffre, an alleged victim of billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, has filed a lawsuit against Britain’s Prince Andrew for sexually abusing her when she was under the age of 18. Giuffre, now 38, has previously said that Epstein paid her to have sex with the 61-year-old Duke of York while she was 17. Andrew has denied the allegations. The lawsuit accuses Andrew of sexual assault and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
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Granddaughter kills grandmother and her 63-year-old boyfriend. Ex-con sets up tattoo shop in a McDonald's.
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