1. “Who Set Jessica Chambers on Fire? The Internet Is Trying to Find Out” – BuzzFeed
“I read this when it was first published almost two years ago and still think about it pretty regularly, so that’s an indication of how enthralling it is. It’s about a girl from a tiny town in Mississippi who was brutally burned alive in her car in 2014.
“At the time the article was written, police still didn’t know who had killed her (someone was charged for it in ateur investigators online who spent years, and all their available resources, trying to solve the mystery.
“The article is less about the crime itself than it is about the weird but fascinating world of internet detectives.”
2. “A Loaded Gun” – New Yorker
“This story is weird, creepy, and gripping from beginning to end. Amy Bishop Anderson was a high-achieving, middle-class, middle-aged white woman with a PhD from Harvard. Then one day she gunned down her colleagues.
“On the surface the case was bizarre – she didn’t fit the profile of a mass shooter. Except for one detail that took everyone by surprise: In 1986 she’d shot and killed her younger brother with a pump-action shotgun. At the time, the incident was recorded as an accident, but this fascinating article poses the question: Was Amy a murderer all along?”
3. “The Unimaginable, Infamous Case of Pam Hupp” – St. Louis Magazine
“This story blew my mind. It has all the gripping elements of a powerful crime tale – three mysterious deaths, a man apparently framed, a cold-blooded possible culprit, and police and legal ineptitude.
“Through a detailed look at several crimes, the writer Jeannette Cooperman makes all the details thud into place, pointing to the disturbing conclusion that a woman may have been getting away with murder. And like so many of these stories, the evidence may have been there in plain sight.”
4. “Murder by Craigslist” – The Atlantic
“The backdrop to this dark and tragic story is the global financial crisis of the ’00s. Continue reading “11 Chilling True Crime Stories That’ll Give You Sleepless Nights”