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Co-ed Angela Samota was raped and murder by Donald Andrew Bess but it took over 25 years to convict him

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Angela Samota
This episode of Betrayed spotlights the rape and murder of Angela Samota, in a case that took over 25 years to solve. 20-year-old Angela Samota was a popular coed, who was known for being smart and pretty – but her ability to grab the attention of a room also attracted the man who murdered her. 1984 in Dallas, Texas, and Southern Methodist University student Samota was found dead in her apartment, she’d been raped and stabbed to death. The crime sparked an appeal for witnesses and police conducted a lengthy investigation, but the case soon went cold. It was 26 years […]

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Dixie Mafia murder of Judge Vincent Sherry and his wife took a decade to solve

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Judge Vincent Sherry and Margaret Sherry
This week The 1980s: The Deadliest Decade examines the high profile murder of Judge Vincent Sherry and his councilwoman wife Margaret Sherry. Biloxi, Miss. in 1987 and the prominent couple were found dead in their own home, each of them had been shot four times in the head. The execution-like manner of their murder and the lack of any signs of a break-in led police to think it was a gangland hit and although their leads did indeed go down that path, they soon met a wall of silence. The case soon went cold and in 1989 the Sherry’s family hired Rex […]

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Debra Davis recounts time with ‘Truck Stop Killer’ Robert Ben Rhoades’

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Robert Ben Rhoades
‘Truck Stop Killer’ Robert Ben Rhoades is thought to have tortured, raped and killed more than 50 women during a reign of terror lasting from 1975 to 1990. But to ex-wife Debra Davis, when they first met he was pretty much her dream man. On a new episode of Investigation Discovery series Evil Lives Here, Davis recalls their time together. She tells in an exclusive interview how her husband used the name Dusty Rhoades when they first met. Later, when he called her cold and immature because she didn’t want to experiment sexually, she started to think there was something […]

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Killing Eve is one of the best new shows on TV and here’s everything you need to know

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Tonight, BBC America’s new series Killing Eve will grab you by the lapels and take you on a white-knuckle tour of the most beautiful locales in Europe and the UK, while terrifying you with the unpredictable behavior of a brilliantly unhinged and calculating female assassin named Villanelle. There’s a fly in our stunning killer’s ointment: The curious, clever and underutilized MI5 underling, Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh). Equally ultra-bright and able to disassociate and mentally re-enact what a killer can do, Oh’s tour-de-force role as Polastri is nothing like we have seen in any female protagonist on TV to date. The […]

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Death of novelist Michael Peterson’s wife Kathleen is focus of An American Murder Mystery

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Michael Peterson
An American Murder Mystery: The Staircase is a three-part special on Investigation Discovery examining the case of novelist Michael Peterson, who was accused of murdering his wife. Michael Peterson was born in 1943 and attended Duke University, where he received a degree in political science and was also editor of the student newspaper. After worked for Department of Defense and later served in the marines during Vietnam and later as a military policeman in Japan. He married Patricia Peterson in 1965 and the pair had two children, who were later augmented with two more when the Peterson’s close friends died […]

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Tyra Banks on The View: Star’s new book ‘Perfect Is Boring’ is full of life lessons

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Tyra Banks book cover
Tyra Banks features on The View today — to tie in with the release of her new book Perfect Is Boring: 10 Things My Crazy, Fierce Mama Taught Me About Beauty, Booty, and Being a Boss. Tyra’s book features the star and her mom Carolyn talking about what they learned as she went an insecure young girl into the superstar and entrepreneur she is today — never afraid to stand up for herself and take new challenges. The book covers everything from the conversations they’ve had about sex to things like discrimination in the fashion industry to suffering fat-shaming in the media. It […]

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Camila Alves: Brains behind Women of Today website and Matthew McConaughey’s wife

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Camila Alves
Camila Alves McConaughey features on The Chew today. Yes, you’ll know her famous surname because her other half is actor Matthew McConaughey. But Camila is hugely successful in her own life as a model, designer, television personality, and entrepreneur… Who is Camila Alves and what’s her background? She first moved to the United States from Brazil at age 15, where she worked for several years cleaning people’s homes and as a waitress. Blessed with good looks, she later moved to NYC to become a fashion model — but didn’t stop there. She later became a designer as well, creating the Muxo […]

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Karlie Redd opens up about father’s cancer on Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta

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Karlie Redd on Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta
Karlie Redd opens up about her father’s cancer diagnosis on the latest episode of Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta. The star discusses her dad’s ill health in a conversation with her new man Sean Garrett, who also lost his mom to the disease. Karlie and her father have been estranged after he upped and left her mom when she was two. Karlie hardly knows her dad, but after falling ill she reveals he has been looking to her to care for him. He currently lives in Florida, but Sean suggests she fly him out to Atlanta to be near her […]

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Dwight Tobyne was chopped up by his wife and scattered over three counties

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Dwight Tobyne's wife Shari killed him
The murder of Dwight Tobyne was particularly macabre — with him being chopped up by his wife Shari before she dumped his body parts in three different counties. He was murdered in November 2009 but to everyone around him all seemed well, as Dwight appeared to continue to write emails and send messages to his family and friends. But by July 2010 his daughter became worried something had happened to him and reported him missing. It turned out Dwight was in the process of divorcing his wife Shari Tobyne and on the day he was due to move out of […]

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Carmen Quinones and Ruben Frederick were killed after evil Maria DeJesus hired hitmen for $15,000

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Crime scene: Do not cross
The grisly murders of Carmen Quinones and her boyfriend Ruben Frederick shocked the neighborhood where they were killed in East Harlem. But when detectives first looked into the case, it wasn’t certain why. Could it have been for money? $15,000 in cash was found untouched under a mattress, suggesting it was something closer to home. It later emerged that the pair were killed by hitmen hired by Maria DeJesus, the wife of Carmen’s ex-husband Jusino. She put in place the calculated and callous plot because she wasn’t happy with a divorce deal made between  Justino and Quinones. Carmen, 52, and Ruben, 60, […]

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Larissa Macriello was murdered by ex-lover John Paul Garcia but her body was never found

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Larissa Macriello
Larissa Macriello’s family were worried when she suddenly went missing — because she would always keep in contact whenever she went away. But after a police investigation they found the 44-year-old hadn’t revealed everything about herself to those close to her, and was living a secret double life as an erotic massage therapist. It also emerged she had been involved for four years in an affair with married John Paul Garcia, 45, after they met online. She was never seen again and her body was never found after she disappeared from her North Miami-Dade home in June 2013. But prosecutors managed […]

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Julie Love had been engaged a week when she was brutally raped and murdered

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A black and white family photo of murder victim Julie Love
Julie Love went missing only a week after getting engaged to fiance Mark Kaplan. She was on her way home from a business meeting on July 11, 1988, in Atlanta, Georgia, when it was thought she ran out of gas and decided to walk, to either the nearest gas station or Kaplan’s home. However, she was never seen alive again and police could not find any witnesses who reported seeing her on the road. Her car was about halfway between the closest gas station and her boyfriend’s place, so she could have gone either way. Over a year later on […]

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Andre the Giant on HBO will tug at your heart: Here’s everything you need to know

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On tonight’s heartfelt and surprisingly emotional documentary Andre the Giant on HBO, we finally get a true sense of just who this larger-than-life character — both wrestler and actor — was. In essence it was his enormous generosity, kindness, and sense of humor that endeared him to everyone that crossed his path. With a few exceptions. HBO Sports and WWE have put together a poignant love letter that is laugh-out-loud funny at times, and tear-inducing as well. This documentary is a first-time partnership between to the two entities and is presented as a feature-length presentation. Andre is shown from infancy, […]

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Married at First Sight spoilers: Mobile phone footage as Molly says Jonathan ‘makes her skin crawl’

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Jonathan and Molly on Married at First Sight
Tonight’s the night Married at First Sight fans have been waiting for — as Jonathan records Molly on his mobile phone to show how she is off-camera, then shows it to the experts. Spoilers ahead of the episode showed Molly captured in the footage calling Jonathan “disgusting”. He then reveals how he decided to film Molly after they went out in Florida and she started talking to another man at the bar and ignoring him. It took place after the MAFS crew had packed up their cameras and stopped filming for the day. When Jonathan pulled her up about chatting to […]

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Billy Ray Cyrus compares life to playing baseball on The Big Interview with Dan Rather

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Billy Ray Cyrus on The Big Interview with Dan Rather
Country superstar Billy Ray Cyrus surmises his ups and downs with Dan Rather on tonight’s The Big Interview for AXS TV. He says failure, specifically experiencing it during his lifetime, is analogous to playing baseball. He tells Rather that if you never try and “take a swing”,  you will never know the upside and what can be in life. It was what made Cyrus appreciative and even more successful than he ever imagined, he says. The multi-platinum country superstar and actor tells Rather all about his “highs and lows”, from a marriage that has seen its fair share of stressors […]

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Shark Week 2018: Shaq swims with the fishes in promo for iconic event’s 30th anniversary

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It’s Shaq Week! Sorry, SHARK week. Shaquille O’Neal, aka Shaq to millions of fans, doesn’t know what he’s getting himself into in this new promo for Discovery’s iconic summer fin-fest. Watch the clip as he finds out the hard way what he’s been hired to do. O’Neal gamely suits up as he realizes his “week” is actually Shark Week. The summer swimathon starts Sunday, July 22 at 8pm, but Discovery is chomping at the bit to get the buzz going for their landmark toothy anniversary. Shark Week celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2018, meaning it’s older than many of the viewers […]

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Moby slams animal farming practices: ‘I’d choose activism over making music’

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Moby on Food Exposed with Nelufar Hedayat
Moby has slammed modern-day farming practices in a new interview — and admits he would choose animal activism over making music. The musician makes his hard-hitting comments in an episode of documentary series Food Exposed with Nelufar Hedayat which airs tonight. In the episode, which focuses on dairy farming, Moby admits: “The main thing that gives my life meaning and purpose is working on animal activism. You know, it’s the most important thing in my life. I like making music, but if you held a gun to my head and said ‘music or animal activism’ I would choose animal activism.” […]

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Deadliest Catch premiere: Head injury victim’s rescue leaves chopper crew in peril

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The rescuer heads down from the chopper on Deadliest Catch
The crew of a rescue helicopter are left in severe danger as they carry out a daring rescue on tonight’s Season 14 premiere of Deadliest Catch. It comes after a 21-year-old crew member aboard a fishing vessel suffers a serious head injury far out at sea, after being hit by a 50-lb bag of frozen bait. The victim is struggling to stay conscious, has a detached retina, and is experiencing double-vision, a clear sign he likely has a concussion. Like trying to thread a moving needle, our exclusive clip shows just how treacherous an at-sea rescue can be — with time not […]

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Married at First Sight’s Molly Duff goes silent on Twitter: ‘I’m not putting up with hate’

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Molly Duff on Married at First Sight
Married at First Sight star Molly Duff has gone silent on Twitter for almost a week now, after saying she will not put up with haters. The MAFS bride last posted on the social network at the end of last week, saying she had received everything from death threats to messages from people saying she deserved to die. The hate came after teasers made it clear that Molly was the person who was filmed on a mobile phone by their match to show how they behaved off-camera, a rumor fans had first got wind of following a now infamous post […]

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Bachelor’s Arie Luyendyk Jr. and Lauren Burnham ‘genuinely happy’ says Marriage Boot Camp expert

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Arie Luyendyk Jr., Lauren Burnham, Dr. Ish and Dr. V walking
Arie Luyendyk Jr. and Lauren Burnham from the latest season of The Bachelor appear to be “genuinely happy” together, according to Marriage Boot Camp: Reality star counselor Dr. Venus Nicolino. It comes after Nicolino — known as Dr. V — and her co-expert Dr Ish Major meet with Arie and Lauren for lunch yesterday in Arizona. The Bachelor lovebirds were just back from their romantic getaway together, and sought out Dr. V and Dr. Ish for advice on how they could make their relationship work despite having to deal with fame. The pair are rumored to be planning to tie the […]

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