20/20 had a story about a local murder in 2009. A man was lured to a house by his 16 year old daughter, where his son and two of his friends attacked and beat him to death. The father and son had been having sex with the same 19 year old girl, who was pregnant and was unsure of which one had fathered the child.
Our nephew was the 16 year old daughter’s boyfriend. He picked up the two accomplices up at the bus station drove them to the house where the murder took place. After the murder, he followed the kid who drove the father’s car with the body locked in the trunk to the site where it was abandoned and then helped dispose of the rest of the evidence.
I could not find a link to the 20/20 episode, but here is the local coverage: Brian Carson Murder
One example was a bank manager, who was upset because he didn’t get an expected promotion. He arranged his own bonus by scheduling a large money transfer at headquarters, on a day he knew there would be a minimal staff, because most of the people were at a retirement party. The money transfer was considered so routine that an unsuspecting employee even held the door open as he loaded up his vehicle with the cash. After the final transfer, he saluted the surveillance camera and sped off. He adopted an assumed name and moved to a nondescript house in a middle class neighborhood. He only made one mistake–to reward himself he bought a Ferrari. Since he was now living in a neighborhood where there weren’t any other Ferraris, this was immediately noticed by the local police, who assumed he was a drug dealer. So they dug through his trash and determined that he was living under a fake name, but still didn’t know who he really was or what he had done. Finally, after a few years passed he was identified when his Wanted posted happened to circulate locally. An interesting post-note is that he had invested his “bonus” so well that he was able to pay back the money he had stolen.
Another odd post-script was a bank robber who was one of those extremely intelligent planners that prepare so well it was years before he was caught, and that was only because some teenagers stumbled over some paraphernalia that he had hidden in the woods near his house. In his mind the robberies had been something of a challenging game. However, during his trial, when he heard various tellers testify how traumatic the experience had been, he changed his plea from not-guilty to guilty.
Its almost always the husband…or wife or…S.O…and certainly the one who discovers the crime scene at 3 am.
I can’t stand to watch the ones where someone gets convicted of a crime they didn’t commit.
There’s the Bravo series, Dirty John, about the guy said he was a doctor and married a wealthy woman. Her daughters thought he was shady, hired private investigators. He was dirty and he tried to murder one of the daughters.
The most famous case has to be John List, who killed his wife, three children and mother, then eluded authorities for almost 18 years, before being profiled on America’s Most Wanted, whereupon people said “That’s Bob Clark.” Indeed it was
Both of them had some degree of mental disability, most likely Asperger’s and maybe a below-normal IQ. He had a TV repair shop in town, because people did that back then, and by all accounts did a good job and that’s how he supported them.
I have a recommendation for anyone that likes a memorable crime on reality tv. This one streams on A&E’s website if you missed it when it aired.
**First 48 Season 18, Episode 6
Buried Secrets**
I don’t want to spoil anything, but it was a gripping story and luckily, the crew filming got the really important moments on film. Literally from the first time they walk up to a door to talk to someone all they way until the wrap the case up. Everything caught on film and well made and edited.
My wife and I repeatedly said, “This is one of the best episodes this show has ever done.”
An interesting case from “The FBI Files” was on tonight; they were investigating some very corrupt officers in Miami. A drug dealer had made the officers a deal: rather than being repeatedly busted, he’d repeatedly tip them off to the location of some drugs, they’d then seize the drugs and bring them to the dealer to sell, who in turn would give the officers a cut of the sale. The officers soon escalated to seizing drugs at the docks and handle the offloading themselves, again taking the drugs to their dealer and getting a cut of the sale. Things went south when three smugglers were found drowned.
Agents turned the dealer with the help of another dealer-turned-informant. Trouble was, the ringleader had been avoiding the dealer and they needed to find another way to set up a meeting. So they wired the dealer and sent him to a bar on the officer’s beat; when the officer was nearby, they called 911 and reported a fight in said bar. Ringleader had no clue.