Sweet Tea and Crime

H.H. Holmes

Today we are taking it WAAAAY back to the 1800s and will be talking about a con artist and serial killer, H.H. Holmes, who is considered to be one of America’s first serial killers.

John Brennan Crutchley

John Brennan Crutchley was a convicted kidnapper and rapist. He is a suspected serial killer, and potentially murdered up to thirty women. Crutchley was called the Vampire Rapist because he drained the blood of his one confirmed victim, almost to the point of death.

Murder of Janet March

On August 29, 1996, Janet Gail March, a children’s book illustrator from Forest Hills, TN was reported missing to police by her family. Her husband, Perry March, who was a lawyer, told police he had last seen her the night of August 15, which was 2 weeks earlier. He said that she packed her bag for a 12-day vacation and left following an argument.

The Texarkana Moonlight Murders

The Texarkana Moonlight Murders was a series of unsolved serial murders and related violent crimes in the Texarkana region of the United States in early 1946. The unidentified perpetrator is also known as the Phantom Killer, who is credited with attacking eight people, five of them fatally, in a ten-week period of time.

The West Memphis Three

The West Memphis Three are three freed men convicted as teenagers of the 1993 murders of three boys in West Memphis, Arkansas.