Samantha Josephson was a 21-year-old senior at the University of South Carolina. After a night out with friends in Five Points, a popular nightlife district in downtown Columbia, she got into a vehicle that she mistakenly thought was her Uber, around 2:00 a.m. on March 29, 2019. That would be the last time that Samantha…
The 1985 Eastburn Family Murders
For whatever reason, it seemed the 1980s produced a ton of true crime and killings across the United States. One case that should be mentioned more is the May 1985 slayings of the Eastburn family. Kathryn “Katie” Eastburn and her two daughters, Erin and Kara, were found murdered inside their Fayetteville, North Carolina, home. This…
The Bitter Blood Murders
On June 3, 1985, a Chevrolet Blazer was involved in a police chase in Summerfield, north of Greensboro, North Carolina. Law enforcement tried to stop the vehicle, driven by Fritz Klenner, who was a suspect in the murders of three people in Winston-Salem and two in Kentucky. Also inside the Blazer on that day were…
The 1970 Fort Bragg Murders
Jeffrey MacDonald was born in Jamaica, Queens, New York, on October 12, 1943. He was raised in a poor household on Long Island with a disciplinarian father. During high school, MacDonald’s grades were good enough to earn him a three-year scholarship at Princeton University. Sometime, around August 1963, MacDonald’s girlfriend, Colette, became pregnant, and they…
The 2017 Greenville, SC Murders: Jessica Edens Snaps
In July 2017, an Upstate South Carolina mother snapped, when she killed 28-year-old Meredith Rahme at a parking garage, near an apartment complex in downtown Greenville, around 5:00 p.m. Jessica Edens was the suspected shooter of Rahme, who was found in her vehicle deceased, where Edens’ estranged husband lived at the time. A few reports…
The 1993 Be-Lo Grocery Store Murders
On Sunday, June 6, 1993, a black male was hidden inside an eastern North Carolina grocery store in Windsor, North Carolina. Around 6:15 p.m. that evening, the culprit, who was already hiding in the store, waiting for it to close, took six hostages after employees closed for the night. The man took everyone to the…
The 2015 Pendleton Quadruple Homicide: Taken for Money
On November 2, 2015, four people were found murdered in their home in Pendleton, South Carolina, near Clemson. The bodies of Michael Scott, his wife, Cathy, and their mothers, Barbara Scott and Violet Taylor, were found inside on Refuge Road. At the time, no arrests were made in the case. The murders sent shockwaves through…
The Rock Hill Murders in 2021
Phillip Adams was born on July 20, 1988, in Rock Hill, South Carolina. Adams would go on to attend Rock Hill High School, where he played football and basketball. Adams would later enroll after graduating from high school at South Carolina State in Orangeburg, where he played cornerback on the team from 2006 until 2009….
The 2006 Death of Tiffany Souers at Clemson
In May 2006, a Clemson University student was found murdered in her apartment in Central, South Carolina, by the name of Tiffany Souers, who was just 20 years old at that time. The search to find the killer would take a few weeks, but on June 5, 2006, 35-year-old Jerry Buck Inman was identified as…
The 1972 Durham family Triple Homicide
On February 3, 1972, on a cold, snowy night in Boone, North Carolina, the Durham family, who owned a nearby automotive dealership named Modern Buick, was murdered. The cause surrounding their mysterious slayings would haunt Western North Carolina for nearly fifty years. Weather conditions on that night were treacherous, with four inches of snow caked…