Audiences during the pandemic have had a nearly insatiable appetite for true crime TV.
Was it the husband, the wife or her lover?
“I hate myself but I can’t get enough of it,” one friend of mine said recently. “It’s a bit ghoulish but very entertaining.”
Me? I like
Cold Justice, Forensic Files, the Night Stalker, Mommy Dead and Dearest and a slew of other favourites.
What I don’t like is the recent trend of making crime shows that compare in length to
Lord of the Rings (Hello, CBC!). Same with crime writing in most newspapers. Darlie Lynn Routier is a true crime favourite. She murdered her two young sons and was sentenced to death. Photo by HANDOUT /ROWLETT POLICE
CRIME HUNTER: True crime TV cures pandemic blues
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L to R: A forensic sculpture of Lisa Todd. A high school photo of Lisa Todd. (NBC10)
After more than 30 years, Bensalem police have figured out the identity of a young pregnant woman whose body was found at the bottom of a well in an abandoned distillery.
She was Lisa Todd, of Philadelphia, and was just 17 years old when she disappeared in the fall of 1985.
Detective Chris McMullin, who worked on the case for more than 15 years, recently cold-called Todd’s family members to inform them of a DNA match.
“Her brother was literally speechless, understandably so,” said McMullin. “After I summed it up, I said, ‘With all that being said, do you have a sibling that vanished or disappeared?’ And I was told, ‘Yes.’”
One portion of a mysterious cold case in Bensalem Township has been solved.
Recently, DNA experts were able to identify the remains of a young pregnant woman whose body was found on January 24, 1988 at the bottom of a underground pump house at the abandoned Publicker Distillery along State Road.
Authorities announced Tuesday afternoon that the Jane Doe’s remains had been confirmed to be Lisa Todd, of Philadelphia, who went missing at 17 years old in October 1985.
Fred Harran, Bensalem’s public safety director, said the investigation into the woman’s death is still open.
“Pregnant ladies don’t just fall into wells and die. Something happened,” District Attorney Matt Weintraub said, adding it is unknown if Tood’s death was a crime.
Oxygen premiered its new true crime factuals yesterday.
Florida Man Murders
This series from Blumhouse Television zeroes in on America’s most notorious and outrageous killers from the Sunshine State. Often referenced as “Florida Man” in headlines, these killers commit bizarre and outlandish crimes that captivate the nation and sometimes feel as though they’re straight out of a Hollywood movie. With the aid of Florida investigators and prosecutors, the series unravels the cases’ strange twists and examines what drove these killers to commit attention grabbing murders brutal enough to mistake for fiction. The premiere episode follows the case of Michael and Susan “Missy” MacIvor, a newlywed couple found brutally murdered in their home after a tropical storm rips through Tavernier Keys, FL.
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