I know this question has been asked a million times and I apologize in advance, but can anyone direct me to channels where it shows real footage and the real people involved? I love Lazy Masquerade & Nick Crowley just to name a few.

Any help/suggestions is greatly appreciated!!!

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Starting with Dennis Bowman, I really do not understand how someone can get this demented but since this is a true crime sub im quite sure everyone's used to hearing about this by now. What I was surprised by was this total fool of a person, Brenda Bowman.

So through what I've read and watched, Brenda is a super-religious and 'devoted wife' when in reality she's just so brainwashed to the point she's lost all her sense of security and autonomy. She's allowed Dennis to invade her mentality and life to the extent where she forgets her biological daughter (Vanessa) is equally at risk. If one, why not the other too. She believes Dennis to be this north star which I find very apalling and I literally lost my mind when she said "No matter what happens I still love you". It's like she's living in this absurd state of mind when she believes taking the name of god, being "devoted" to her husband, and wiping a shit ton of tears with some rundown kleenex supposedly makes her a good human being. Not once did she think of what Kathleen Doyle, Metta (a literal 6 year old wtf) or even her OWN DAUGHTER went through every time Dennis needed to get off, and i'm happy she's going through whatever she's going through since she's equally responsible for every single thing she's enabled Dennis to do. She's put Dennis on such a pedestal that she doesn't realise she's the pedestal he steps onto herself.

Aaron Friar, a proud dad of three girls, seemingly vanished in October 2017. Friar’s girlfriend called 911 after his two youngest daughters told her their dad and older sister were missing and there was blood in the home. The girls reported hearing their dad scream inside their home earlier and what sounded like a familiar voice with him. Find out what happened to Aaron Friar and his 15-year-old daughter on this episode of “Prime Crime with Jesse Weber.”

https://youtu.be/HeOImowCpQU?si=S5w5hUx_4pK-B2sz

Has there been any complete documentaries on this case? Dateline or 20/20 etc that follows the entire caee? Thanks!

A crime doc where a murder happens in rehoboth beach and family gets weird texts or a code

The doc is called Stolen Freedom. There's a trailer for it out on Youtube and it doesn't have much traction, but I've been looking into the case a bit. Apparently on New Years Eve 1997, like 60 people were hanging out in a parking lot at a gas station in Houston, Texas listening to music, trunks open, model cars out. The crowd at the gas station was all aged at around 21. After midnight, a troubled 14-year-old from the area came into the parking lot and got into a dispute with a few people in front of a nice car. He was high and intoxicated, got upset and pulled out a gun. A 21-year-old guy from his neighborhood who had seen the kid around saw him doing this and didn't want him to make a mistake that could cost him his life in prison, so he ran over to the 14-year-old kid, told him to stop, pulled on his arm, and the kid turned the gun on him. At this point the people in front of the nice car once being held at gunpoint took off running. The 14 year old turned back around, panicked and fired twice, killing the owner of the car. Within 60 seconds, that parking lot was empty. Over the course of a week or so, somehow police got the impression that the 21 year old (who tried to stop the kid) was actually an accomplice because he was older. The police also believed it was an attempted robbery of the car instead of a dispute. When it was all said and done, the 21 year old (Roman Flores) was brought to trial as an accomplice to a capital murder (because of the "attempted robbery"), and couldn't pay to represent himself well. He was assigned by the Houston courts an attorney named Jerry Guirenot who has had 39 death row cases and lost every single one. Needless to say, Roman was poorly represented, not able to tell his side of the story, and given a life sentence. He's spent the past 26 years in prison. A non-profit attorney started working on his case for free 4 years ago, and just this past week, it got re-opened and he's going back to trial. The doc is trying to raise funding for the filming of the trial right now, but its an interesting story so far.

Hey y'all, Glad to be part of the sub! I've recently completed a documentary titled "How a Boy Went From Man to Monster," its about the Pazuzu Algarad case (Murdered 2 people in Clemmons). He was a known satanist, amongst other things...If it’s okay with the admins, I’d love to share it with you all. Here is the link: https://youtu.be/VUIik6TYCu4 I genuinely believe many of you will find it intriguing at the least and I would love to hear your thoughts and feedback. Thanks for having me. -Al

is it worth watching?? Because it’s a 12 episode series and the narrator’s annoying ass fake southern accent has me wanting to pass not even 5 minutes in. Should I suffer thru or nah?

Share your vague comments, no spoilers please. I like to skip the intros of crime docs I’m not familiar with, they basically give out the whole plot in the first 30 secs.

Please give me the most shocking crime documentaries that are crazy!!!

I remember watching some type of crime documentary or episode on TV in which a serial killer called the police to confess each crime, but gave a different name each time. Said his name was Don in one call and John in another.

Does this ring any bells for anyone? I'd love to either re-locate the special or just research the person if he was ever found

Who here has watched the show on Netflix and who thinks more people should be behind bars for the crime?

[Visually detailed version of the story below]
https://youtu.be/IMftmJWOITg

[References]
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZJ7TC8pysunEF6KneY49Ci6TCi2EzBoWFI3M09TRQwA/edit?usp=sharing

This story is one of the creepiest true stories I've ever heard, it's a story that makes you wonder about what people's true intentions really are. Most of us have at least one person in our lives that we feel we can trust with anything and everything, but no matter how much you trust somebody, you never really know what's actually going on inside their head, do the words they tell you really match the thoughts that they're having behind them. No matter how much you trust somebody, you never really know what they might be thinking, or what they might be doing in their spare time.

Our story today starts off in December of 1986, in a small town in Massachusetts.

Frank Bowen lived together with his two young daughters, Tina(15), and Karen(9).

Recently they had just lost their mother to cancer, and it was a very hard time for everybody.

To make matters worse the household was now only under one income, so Frank started to work more and more hours just to make sure they could still get by.

Because of this, he began leaving the girls home alone more often than usual.

One evening, while Frank was working, Tina and Karen would be at home continuing to find ways to cope with the loss of their mother.

That night they attempted to find further closure, their way of doing this was by bringing out a Ouija Board and conducting a seance, hoping that in doing so they would be able to speak with their mother one last time.

They tried for many hours, but sadly nothing was happening, the idea seemed like it was turning into a dead end.

Eventually, feeling tired, emotionally drained, and hopeless, they decided to give up and head to their bedrooms to get some rest.

Some hours would pass until the 2 girls would be woken up by a startling sound.

They sat upright, listening closely... It sounded like a quiet tapping sound, but where was it coming from?

Staying quiet and listening even closer, they waited, trying to figure out what was happening.

They couldn't pinpoint exactly where it was coming from, but it sounded like it was coming from inside the walls... and as they listened the knocking would only grow louder.

Both of them came to the realization that the seance must have actually worked, they thought to themselves their mother must have actually heard them.

When their father Frank would later come home they would tell him all about the experience.

He didn't believe them and brushed it off entirely, the intense stress from their loss must have been taking it's toll, playing mean tricks on their imaginations in an attempt to find peace.

Concerned he told his daughters that if this were to continue, he would be taking them all for counselling.

He wished for his daughter's peace of mind, it was all too much, and he wished for their family's troubles just to discontinue... Unfortunately, continue it did.

Night after night, again and again the girls would be awoken by the same unnerving knocking sounds that they heard before. Each time they would scream for their father, but every single time he would arrive the sounds would come to a halt. He opened the door, he listened... Silence was all that he could hear. His concern for them would only increase.

Over the next few weeks, things would only seem to escalate as the events they experienced became stranger and stranger. The knocking became more consistent, it was to the point that it was ruining the girls sleep, it was driving them insane... Though, that wasn't the only thing that was happening.

Their possessions began to... disappear... somehow... misplace themselves.

Items that they were certain were in different places the day prior, would be found thrown across the floor or moved to a different location. They would come home to find furniture moved to the other side of the room, seemingly all on it's own.

They were all experiencing the same thing together, but their father Frank wasn't buying it.

His daughters insisted that they had nothing to do with it and that it must be a ghost, but he couldn't get himself to believe such a ridiculous idea.

He truly believed his daughters were under such emotional distress, that they must be the culprits for all of this.

The knocking would continue into the new year, but on one January evening, something was different.

It didn't sound like the knocking was coming from the walls this time... it sounded like it was coming from the basement.

Terrified but curious, they grabbed a kitchen knife and shakily made their way down to the depths of their home. When they got to the bottom, the noise had ceased. They froze as they saw something that they knew wasn't supposed to be there.

On the basement wall, written in dark red, was a message they wished they never saw: "I'm in your room. Come and find me".

Horrified they ran out of the house as quickly as possible, making their way to their neighbors to tell them what happened.

When their father arrived they explained to him what happened, but again he just thought that they were doing this as a failed way of coping, the stress manipulating their minds into doing crazy things.

Following this he would send them for counselling, but things only continue to get worse.

Many weeks later the girls would hear even more knocking... this time the sound emanating from behind Tina's bedroom wall. Upon entering Tina's room they were met with another horribly red message sprawled across the walls: "I'm back. Find me if you can".

Fearful for their lives they went over to a neighbor's house once more, calling their father to come home.

When he got home this time he was furious, still blaming his daughters for all of this he stormed inside to prove that there was nobody there.

When he got inside, more had happened inside the house than the girls had originally explained.

He started to understand that something else was going on, somebody else must have been in here.

Frank entered Tina's room by himself, and when he did there was an extra message painted across the walls: "Marry me".

He stared at the wall in disbelief as his mind raced, trying to piece together what was happening.

That's when he noticed something... On the other side of the room, a figure stood dressed in the clothing of his now deceased wife. Blonde hair hung down across the figure's shoulders, draping down to the hatchet that was held in it's hand.

Although that part of the story doesn't end there, we're going to need to go back to a time before the knocking began, the family would receive a phone call from a boy named Danny.

Danny would say that he got their number from a friend that went to the same school as them.

The picture Danny would paint of himself was that of a blonde, attractive, fit, and smart boy that lived in the area. It was innocent enough and no alarm bells were raised, after a few phone calls Tina and Danny began to grow closer with each other. He seemed like a nice guy, so one night, they organized for a date.

The day for the date came by and Danny arrived at Tina's doorstep, she excitedly opened the door to greet him but quickly stopped in her tracks. Danny was nothing like he explained...

He wasn't attractive at all, his hair wasn't blonde, it was dark and greasy, and his appearance just looked disorganized. She decided to forget about it and they went out for a bit anyway. It only lasted a little over an hour before she got herself out of there.

During their date the passing of her mother was brought up, and Danny seemed to take an unnaturally high interest in the subject.

Tina would later say that it was like Danny was obsessed with the passing of her mother, questioning her often about how much she had suffered when it happened.

Having a bad feeling about this, naturally Tina didn't go on another date with Danny, she wouldn't pick up another call from him, and that was that... Or so she thought...

Danny was a very psychologically disturbed individual... He had a very bad upbringing. He suffered an extremely traumatic childhood which warped his mind to an unrepairable state at an early age. His father would often abuse him, physically, emotionally, and sexually. He struggled to make friends, he struggled with his grades, and he didn't have proper habits for hygiene. Most people at school thought he was creepy and weird. Concerned with his obviously abnormal behavior, school officials referred him to a psychiatrist... This same psychiatrist would sexually abuse Danny also, for an entire year.

Seemingly everybody he trusted betrayed him.

He turned to crime, and he began spending his evenings breaking into people's homes and stealing from them.

By 15 his behavior got worse, and he wouldn't just break in and steal things anymore, now he would move things around and leave things behind... Misplace things, make people wonder if somebody had been in their house.

He was conducting a psychological game that he enjoyed, he was doing it just to mess with people, but subtly, not so obvious that you were 100% sure of yourself, purposely in a way that he knew you would be questioning yourself, where the only thing you were left with was confusion and uncertainty.

By the age of 17 one of the homes he had broken into belonged to friends of Tina's family... It's speculated that this is how he obtained her phone number to begin with.

Coming back to where left Frank, he's in Tina's room, he just saw a bloody message painted across the walls saying "Marry Me", and on the other side of the room, a figure stood dressed in the clothing of his now deceased wife. Blonde hair hung down across the figure's shoulders, draping down to the hatchet that was held in it's hand.

The figure lunged at him, struggling with him for a few seconds until eventually pushing past him, somehow leaving him unharmed. As Frank turned to lay eyes on his attacker, they were nowhere to be seen... It was as if they had just disappeared into nothingness.

Frank ran to the neighbors as fast as he could and the police were called to the scene, but when they arrived they couldn't find anybody else in the house.

Frank was horrified, he didn't know what to do. For the time being they stayed with relatives while Frank figured out what to do next. 2 days later he would come back to the home to grab a few things, as he arrived, before he got out of the vehicle he noticed the same figure that attacked him was standing in view of the window. Frank began to panic as he called the police once again.

What happened next even scared the officers.

This is a quote from one of the officers that arrived on scene:

"When I opened the door, on the right-hand wall, I saw a knife sticking out of the wall. And I see it's through a picture - a family picture - written on it was 'I'M STILL HERE. COME FIND ME.' Now the hair goes up on the back of my head. On another wall, I saw another picture saying 'I'M GOING TO KILL YOU ALL' with a knife through it." - Officer Bezanson

They searched the house more thoroughly this time. Behind the washer and dryer, they found a piece of wood that was hiding a crawl space that led through the entire house.

Speaking about the state of Danny and Tina. Danny didn't like how his calls were being ignored.

When he was rejected, he broke into her house, happened to stumble across the crawlspace, and for about a month he would torment them while lingering in the walls of their home.

He would knock and tap on the walls, he would listen to them talk, he created peepholes in all of the rooms so he could watch them whenever he wanted. Those red messages? He was using ketchup to make it look like blood just so he'd get inside their heads. That figure that charged at Frank wearing his deceased wife's clothes? That was Danny, he dressed himself up, put makeup on and a blonde wig, attempting to look like their mother. Whether he was doing that to actually convince the children that he was their mother's spirit, or if he was just trying to scare them is unknown.

The very last time the police were called where they found the crawlspace, they would find Danny curled up inside.

He would be charged with armed assault, sent to a juvenile detention facility for the next 10 months, and be released through a $10 000 bail in October 1987. This decision would ultimately lead to the death of 3 people in the near future.

Andrew and Priscilla Gustafson were a young couple who had been living in the small city for the past 5 years. They lived there with their two children Abigail(7), and William(5)... and she was currently pregnant awaiting another child.

They lived roughly half a mile from where Danny lived.

Not even a month after Danny was released he would break in and steal items from their home just like he did to many others. He would continue to do this to several homes in the area in the following weeks.

On December 1st, Danny would return to the home while everybody was gone.

Andrew was at work, Abigail was at school, and Priscilla was out to pickup William.

The last time Priscilla was seen alive was around 1:00 Pm when she was picking up William from the babysitter.

Danny heard Priscilla enter the home, and instead of leaving like he usually would, he took her to the bedroom, locked William in a closet, then proceeded to sexually assault her, until he decided to shoot her twice in the head. He obtained the weapon from a neighbors home that he robbed earlier.

Then he took William out of the closet, drowning him in the upstairs bathtub, and went to leave like nothing happened. Before he left Abigail returned home from school, so naturally being the horrifying monster he is, he drowned her in the downstairs bathroom before leaving.

Around 5:30 is when Andrew Gustafson would return home, and he would find the gruesome bloody leftovers of what had transpired in the main bedroom. He called the police before searching anywhere else.

Andrew would later say:

"I was too afraid of going to look for my children because I was afraid I’d find them dead... It was so shocking and unbelievable. I screamed. I wailed.”

Officers had a feeling that Danny had something to do with it from the very start.

A police lieutenant was on the search for Danny, a resident of the area he was in felt like something was wrong so she went up to him and asked him if he would be with her as they walked into her home.

She would later say:

"I drove into the driveway and into the garage. I immediately drove back out and sit in the driveway feeling extremely uncomfortable,"

When they entered the home, Danny was there... He jumped out of one of the windows and got away as he ran into the forest.

Danny would later force a resident of a different nearby street into her car, but he would escape again after the resident had jumped from the vehicle.

Later that evening and 48 hours after the search began they would finally find him hiding in a dumpster nearby.

Hair from Abigail was found on his sock, sealing his fate in relation to the murders.

Upon hearing about what had happened, Frank Bowen would say:

"If Daniel LaPlante does not get convicted and gets out again, I will personally kill him."

"You can't imagine what kind of fear we have been living in. He is mentally insane. There is no question about it,"

"And now, I am financially broke and emotionally disturbed and trying to put my life together again."

In 1988 Daniel LaPlante was found guilty of all three murders and sentenced to 3 life sentences, with the possibility of parole after 45 years.

Trying to find a documentary I remember watching as a child in the early 2000s. I think it was aired on HBO at the time I just remember the killer had murdered a woman and placed her body in concrete either at an abandoned piece of land or in a forest. The only details I remember is the doc showing the face of the woman or a woman covered in cement like a statute with a piece of her hair sticking out, I believe she was blonde. Not sure if this was one murder or if the guy who did it was a serial killer.

Also I believe the same docuseries aired an episode of Tammy Lyn Homolkas rape and murder by her older sister and boyfriend/husband.

The True Crime Story Behind :"The Awfull Case of Suzanne Morphew" The Disappear Girl Murder https://youtu.be/bpumtXO2YLw

The True Crime Story Behind : "The Dr. Maria Luisa Cedeno" The Victim Girl https://youtu.be/YrEnYKaINt8

https://youtu.be/lYwrffGY_cA?feature=shared