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Gregory Graf murdered his stepdaughter Jessica Padgett and then filmed himself having sex with her corpse

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Jessica Padgett was murdered by her stepfather, Gregory Graf, who then went on to have sex with her dead body, See No Evil examines this disturbing case. Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania, on November 21st, 2014, and mother of three Jessica Padgett left her work at Duck Duck Goose day care for what was supposed to be a few minutes. Her co-workers later said that the 33-year-old had been getting calls from her stepfather, asking for help with his computer or fax. When she failed to come back to work, the alarm was raised and police began an investigation. Her white Subaru abandoned […]

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Church surveillance video helps convict killer of Maurice Byrd on See No Evil

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Beverly Mccolm mug shot
This week See No Evil examines how some CCTV from a church near a crime scene helped solve the murder of Maurice Byrd. Guthrie, Oklahoma, on December 10th 2011 and 60-year-old Maurice Byrd was found dead at home, after concerned family members called police when he failed to show up to look after his ill mother. Byrd was found lying on his front and had been shot several times in the back. The youth counselor and real estate developer had few enemies that detectives could uncover but some video footage from the Macedonia Baptist Church a block away from Byrd’s […]

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John Harry Branson murdered Jordie Hudson and it was caught on camera – See No Evil

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Jordie Hudson
This episode of See No Evil reveals how police were able to identify John Harry Branson as the killer of artist Jordie Hudson. April 14, 2016, and Jordie Hudson’s mother reported her missing to police. One of the sergeants noticed that the photo she’d supplied of her daughter showed the 46-year-old wearing glasses very similar to those found at a crime scene three days earlier. Police had been called to Cedar Street, where a large amount of blood had been found, along with a knife and a pair of glasses. As the investigation took a more sinister turn, police found out that […]

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Molested at age five, Schenee’s heartbreaking story on My 600-lb Life

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On tonight’s tragic My 600-lb Life, a woman who was molested as a young child recalls the events that led to a life of overeating to assuage the pain of the event. Trauma plus time has lead tonight’s subject on My 600-lb Life, Schenee, to weigh over 600 pounds as an adult. Imagine you are only five-years-old and a trusted family member brutally rapes you? Schenee recounts her horrific story tonight in our exclusive clip, and it is verified by her mother Verlena who thought Schenee was safe at her uncle’s house. But an older cousin had cornered Schenee while […]

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Detective Demery recalls triple shooting by Eric McCall on Murder Chose Me

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Eric McCall
Murder Chose Me is back for a second season as Detective Demery is called to the scene of a multiple shooting. The Bottoms in Shreveport is one of the city’s roughest areas and it was here in April 2008 that a jogger discovered the bodies of two men and a woman in an abandoned car, all three have multiple gunshot wounds. 23-year-old Christopher Hastlette and 27-year-old Kendra Hill were both found to be dead, but 24-year-old Troy Crayton was still alive. Shreveport Police Department homicide detective Rod Demery recount the case and how they eventually arrested 28-year-old Eric McCall for […]

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90 Day Fiance Season 6: What date will show and spin-offs air in 2018?

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Nicole and Azan on 90 Day Fiance
90 Day Fiance was renewed for Season 6 in 2018 by TLC after the show received record ratings last year. The three spin-offs “Happily Every After?”, “Before the 90 Days” and “What Now?” will also return. All four series were revealed to have been green-lit back in January — but when will they return? 90 Day Fiance Season 6 premiere date The air date for 90 Day Fiance Season 6 has not yet been confirmed by TLC, but it’s likely it will return around the same time as in previous years. While the first season began in January, all subsequent […]

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American Monster: Harold Henthorn almost got away with killing two wives after he pushed second off a cliff

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Photo of cliff Toni fell from, high and craggy
Harold and Toni Henthorn were both middle-aged and on their second marriages, seemingly happy with life and the life they’d setup with their young daughter. However, their apparent marital bliss was shattered when a hiking trip went badly wrong. In September 2012 for their 12th wedding anniversary they headed to Deer Mountain in the Rocky Mountain National Park. After eating lunch at a particularly remote and awkward spot, Toni fell off a cliff and suffered what would be fatal injuries. Her husband told police she was breathing for nearly an hour after the fall and that he repeatedly attempted CPR […]

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Drew Peterson: An American Murder Mystery spotlights the police sergeant who murdered at least one wife

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Drew Peterson on Dr. Phil in 2008
Peterson was born in 1954 and joined the US Army before becoming a member of the military police. By 1977 he’d left the army and started working as a police officer in Illinois, quickly gaining a good reputation and even being named officer of the year. He married Carol Brown in 1974 and had two sons during their six year marriage. His second wife, Vicki Connolly, divorced him in 1992 after claiming ten years of abuse and that he’d started dating another woman. That woman was Kathleen Savio, an accountant whom Peterson married in 1992. The pair had two sons […]

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Christine Billis killed her husband in staged car crash then confessed to man she met on OK Cupid

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Charlie and Chrissy Billis sitting together in TV show footage from American Monster
This episode of Investigation Discovery’s American Monster features  footage of killer Christine Billis on TV alongside the husband she left dead in a staged car crash. Billis intentionally drove the couple’s car into a tree but while she was belted up and suffered only minor injuries, her husband Charles, 57, was unbelted and died at the scene. American Monster episode, titled The Last Broadcast, looks at how the tapes from a public-access TV show the couple were involved in show a “sinister tale” behind what happened. It was initially thought the crash in 2009 in Charleston, Vermont, was an accident […]

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Catherine Stanek-Cousins killed her husband Sean with help of lover Tim Koile – Diabolical spotlights the case

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Catherine Stanek-Cousins and neighbor Tim Koile
Catherine Stanek-Cousins and neighbor Tim Koile began an affair that led to the death of her husband Sean Cousins, Diabolical examines the case. Tim Koile was on his second marriage and living in Palm Beach Garden, Florida, when airline pilot Sean Cousins, his wife Catherine Stanek-Cousins and their two kids moved in next door. Koile and Stanek-Cousins began an affair, one that was to have fatal consequences. On May 7, 2001, things turned deadly and Stanek-Cousins shot her husband in their garage, firing a shot into his back and one into his head. Kolie then helped her clean up the […]

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Williams brothers torched three synagogues and murdered gay couple in hate-fuelled rampage

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Benjamin Matthew Williams, 31, and his brother, James Tyler Williams, 29, a
This week Pandora’s Box: Unleashing Evil examines the crimes Benjamin Matthew Williams, 31, and his brother, James Tyler Williams, 29, who burned down several synagogues and murdered a gay couple. Gay couple 50 year-old Gary Matson and 40-year-old Winfield Mowden were found dead in the their bed on July 1, 1999. Prior to the discovery Matson’s father had called their home and heard a new answering machine message, saying that they were ill and going away for a few days. The recording sounded off to Matson Snr. and he drove to their home, where the bodies were discovered. The men were […]

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Exclusive clip: Science Channel’s World’s Most Epic reveals the U212A Stealth Submarine

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On tonight’s premiere episode of World’s Most Epic on Science Channel, you will meet a crafty German invention. A submarine nearly silent, and that radiates virtually no heat and is constructed mostly from fiberglass and plastic to evade radar detection. On World’s Most Epic you meet the U212A, an ultra-advanced non-nuclear sub developed by German naval shipyard Howaldtswerke Deutsche Werft, and now in possession of Italy and other EU countries who have upped their naval game. The juice to power it is from a revolutionary hydrogen fuel cell that lets it cruise up to 8000 nautical miles uninterrupted without giving […]

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Diabolical: Jose Najera plotted the murder of his parents with best friend

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Jose Alonso Najera Jr.
This week Diabolical spotlights the murder of Najera Sr. and his wife Elena Najera, planned by their only son and carried out by his best friend. Garden Grove, Cal., on the morning of  Dec. 28, 1999, and 19-year-old Najera phoned the police to say he’d come home to discover his mother and father dead on the floor. When police arrived they found Najera Sr., 42, and Elena Najera, 46, had been stabbed at least 20 times each. There was no murder weapon at the scene, but they did find a ski-mask that had been left behind by the killer. This proved […]

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Swamp People recap: Cannibal gator, Glenn’s bad banking system, and Bruce’s good news

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Well. Lots to discuss after this week’s Swamp People on History! Which was really a Cajun PSA on how NOT to save your money, as we can now confirm beyond any doubt that Glenn Guist is certifiable. But luckily for the Cajun Cartel, Bruce Mitchell ended the episode with dollah dollah bills and checks all around y’all. But first, the episode began with Day 18 of Louisiana gator season… Big Tee and Daniel in Franklin We learned this week how Big Tee’s dad was his hero, but sadly he passed away in 2000. Now, along with his pop’s bestie Mr. Daniel, Tee […]

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Geraldo Rivera, Louie Anderson and Eliot Spitzer on Real Time with Bill Maher

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Eliot Spitzer, Louie Anderson, Geraldo Rivera
On tonight’s Real Time with Bill Maher, the guests include comedians to former politicians — with Eliot Spitzer, Louie Anderson and Geraldo Rivera all taking part. Longtime journalist and TV personality Rivera is the top-of-show interview guest. He is a supporter of President Donald J. Trump and said Tuesday that the advertiser boycott against Fox News host Laura Ingraham, instigated by Parkland student activist David Hogg, is “an attack” on the First Amendment. He said on Twitter: “These political boycotts need to stop. They are an attack on the 1st Amendment & an infringement of free speech.” Media missed my point, […]

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Chuck Norris: What you need to know before 12-hour marathon of his best films

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Chuck Norris — Walker, Texas Ranger and the muse for thousands of hilarious factoids which have little to no fact whatsoever will dominate HDNet Movies this Saturday in a 12-hour straight-up Chuck marathon. Watch Monsters and Critics’ exclusive preview, above, and find out more about the man behind the legend below! How much do you know about America’s arch-masculine icon? What is Chuck Norris’s real name and where is he from? Chuck Norris was born Carlos Ray “Chuck” Norris on March 10, 1940, in Ryan, Oklahoma. His mom was Irish-English and his father was Cherokee Indian. What armed service did […]

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Betrayed spotlights the murder of Paige Birgfeld who led a double life as an escort

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Paige Birgfeld
This week Betrayed examine the murder of hard working mother Paige Birgfeld, who led a double life as an escort. Paige went missing on June 28, 2007, leaving behind her three children, and the life she loved. Detectives were immediately suspicious and ruled out the explanation that she’d simply abandoned her jobs and kids. As her father put it at the time: “”My daughter, if she had two broken legs, she’d crawl over–she’d crawl on her elbows to get to her children.” The investigation focussed on the men in her life, including her two ex-husbands. She’d recently began seeing her first […]

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Single mom Diane Snellen was stabbed 27 times and Betrayed by her own daughter

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Single mom Diane Snellen was brutally stabbed to death in her own home, Betrayed examines the case. Georgetown, Ken., June 6, 2002, and 41-year-old Diane Snellen was found dead, she been stabbed to death using a butcher’s knife – with wounds to her chest, head and lungs. Snellen was a confident single mom, who rode a motorcycle and was trying to find love again through the local dating scene. She had a 17-year-old daughter but the pair had a a volatile relationship and often fought, sometimes physically. On the night of her death Snellen’s daughter, Stephanie Olson, had left a note […]

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Jeremy Wade exclusive interview: From River Monsters to new series Mighty Rivers

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Jeremy Wade on Mighty Rivers
Extreme angler and biologist Jeremy Wade is probably best known for investigating stories of giant fish and other mysterious creatures on Animal Planet’s River Monsters. Now he has taken his expertise and is using it help draw attention to the plight of some of the world’s greatest waterways — many of which are in distress. His new Animal Planet series, Mighty Rivers, premieres in the U.S. this Sunday, April 8. There’s a small fraternity of western men who are known the world over thanks to their television personas — among them Anthony Bourdain, Mike Rowe, and Jeremy Wade. An Englishman […]

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Exclusive: Parker Schnabel injured by high-pressure hose on Gold Rush: Parker’s Trail

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Parker Schnabel losing control of hose on Gold Rush: Parker's Trail
Parker Schnabel is injured by an out-of-control high-pressure hose on tonight’s episode of Gold Rush: Parker’s Trail — and our exclusive footage shows the dramatic moment as it unfolds. The low-tech and stripped-down mining techniques the team encounter in Guyana are a 180-degree shift from what Parker is used to in the Yukon, and tonight things nearly end in disaster. In the clip, Parker is in charge of a highly pressurized jet hose that could easily kill if it gets away from the person holding it. The job of controlling it is the most dangerous on the mine, as it’s shooting […]

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