Chris Smith was eager to finally get together, IRL, with Leslie, a woman he'd recently met online. She seemed like the perfect match for him - she was intelligent, loved to work out, and devoted her life to helping others escape dangerous situations. But their first date would be their last when a maniac broke into Chris's home with murderous intent.

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/leslie-reeves-illinois-chris-smith-bobby-tarr-first-date-ended-in-horror-both-were-shot-one-survived/

First date ends in deadly ambush at Illinois home - Law and Crime
https://www.troymaryvillecoc.com/in-memory-of-leslie-reeves

https://www.barrywilsonfuneralhome.com/obituary/leslie-reeves

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/leslie-reeves-illinois-chris-smith-bobby-tarr-first-date-ended-in-horror-both-were-shot-one-survived/

https://ilcourtsaudio.blob.core.windows.net/antilles-resources/resources/bb847f32-a7cc-4365-91a8-becda8871a73/People%20v.%20Tarr%202026%20IL%20App%20(5th)%20240918-U.pdf

April 3, 1985 rocked the upper-middle class community of Boonsboro, Virginia when a couple was found brutally butchered in their home. Investigators were at a standstill until a rental car agreement broke the case wide open. What followed, is a twisted tale of two fugitives living under false identities, committing check fraud, and ultimately turning on each other.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTVw5j9bOv0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QzO-wR2K4s&t=144s

Netflix: Til Murder Do Us Part

https://inews.co.uk/culture/television/jens-soering-till-murder-do-us-part-who-killed-derek-nancy-haysom-2726217?srsltid=AfmBOoqWTDDaNKFqs7z3g89YkQHsCWka-s1zOUDNTKDxlTPj-sVjBjEN

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-08-24-mn-2062-story.html

https://thesoeringcase.substack.com/p/testimony-of-ricky-gardner-june-8

https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/ROA-Times/issues/1995/rt9504/950405/04050090.htm

https://www.29news.com/2026/02/25/decades-after-conviction-jens-soering-seeks-vacate-murder-verdict/

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/09/blood-ties#:~:text=Gardner%20was%20feeling%20pressured%20for,visit%20Lynchburg%20on%20October%2015th.

When Cassidy Stay answered a knock at the front door of her family home in Spring, Texas, her world turned stopped. The FedEx delivery man standing before her wasn't there to deliver a package, he was there for revenge.

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https://abcnews.com/US/texas-shooter-ron-haskell-choked-threatened-mom-week/story?id=24512009

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/crime/article/judge-cornelio-recused-ronald-haskell-spring-20021056.php

https://youtu.be/O7avjtIshmo?si=txd1pv6JJdWh5vqb

https://www.kvue.com/article/news/investigations/court-records-reveal-haskell-planned-and-plotted-shooting-rampage/285-259152518

https://abc7chicago.com/post/couple-speaks-out-about-murders-of-son-daughter-in-law-4-grandkids/176868/

Christmas was approaching in Fallbrook, California in 2012, when a young Army Reservist vanished. Weeks went by without answers from police, or the family-hired private investigator, before an unbelievable realization that Alvin's body had been hidden in plain sight.

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A&E Murder at the motel S2E4 Fallbrook Inn
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2018/06/15/former-marine-sentenced-to-51-years-for-killing-army-reservist-in-fallbrook/
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/105877183/alvin_justine-bulaoro
https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/gay-army-reservist-shot-stabbed-fallbrook-bulaoro-coset-marine/2055099/
https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueCrime/comments/53bkeb/i_served_and_spent_time_alone_with_two_men_who/

The bright-eyed and strong-willed Phoebe Handsjuk, was determined to finally end the volatile relationship she had with her boyfriend...that is until she was found dead in the utility room of her apartment complex. Phoebe's boyfriend moved on and would find himself mourning the loss of another girlfriend, years later. Was it all just a coincidence or was there one obvious common denominator between Phoebe Handsjuk and Baillee Schneider?

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https://youtu.be/DcLJ2Lecz0E?si=hYHrJT7Hs5XYdTsL
https://truecrimesocietyblog.com/2019/06/26/two-dead-women-both-had-one-man-in-common-bad-luck-or-something-more-the-deaths-of-phoebe-handsjuk-and-baillee-schneider/
https://allthatsinteresting.com/phoebe-handsjuk
https://www.smh.com.au/interactive/2016/phoebesfall/index.html
https://open.spotify.com/episode/37kdpefa6f8kBADcja19wo?si=-0DDosvlQrSrFV9a5N0nDQ&t=197&ct=79
https://www.tiktok.com/@cluelesscrimepodcast/video/7499747349703462151

Linda Sobek was a former NFL cheerleader who'd turned her focus to modeling and acting in the fall of 1995. But her light would be snuffed out when a last-minute photoshoot turned deadly.

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Forensic Files S6E11 Photo Finish
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-11-02-mn-60474-story.html
https://people.com/nfl-cheerleader-linda-sobek-married-with-children-11822557
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHHbkHNcgbI

Stalking cases are some of the most frightful stories we tell here. The danger lurking outside your door, your workplace, or being followed would surely send you into a panic, but do the laws protect us when we need it most?

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https://wave-network.org/list-of-helplines-in-46-countries/

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/stalker-from-texas-kills-woman-husband-in-seattle-area-home/3213059/#

https://abc13.com/post/podcaster-killed-in-washington-zohreh-sadeghi-ramin-khodakaramrezaei-houston-stalker/12950349/

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-absolute-worst-outcome/id1459555496?i=1000729237944

https://www.youtube.com/live/xOkKMZdWmyA?si=6jYpnQ3nGW966ahG

https://youtu.be/PuFG41Qnftw?si=AQjytlwyuwhOeD_3

A snow storm had rolled into the small town of Boone, North Carolina in February of 1972 with cruel intentions. The Durham's, Bryce and Virginia, and their son Bobby Joe, had just arrived home, safe and sound, having traversed the hazardous road conditions only to find that they were walking into the last moments of their lives.

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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/triple-murder-solved-50-years-north-carolina-family-found-slain-bathtu-rcna15467

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article258176483.html

https://journalnow.com/40-year-old-unsolved-triple-murder-still-haunts-law-enforcement/article_3f04e50f-a3a2-5aed-9dfb-c0118871ac34.html

https://www.amazon.com/CONVOLUTED-Durham-Family-Triple-Homicide/dp/B0DDLK8GTY?asin=B0DDLK8GTY&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1

https://www.wral.com/story/50-years-later-case-of-murdered-nc-family-solved-thanks-to-tip-from-georgia-prisoner/20124988/

https://law.justia.com/cases/georgia/supreme-court/1976/30638-1.html