In an emergency situation, victims are often physically unable to call 911 because of injury or fear of an abuser or intruder in their vicinity. I've created a mockup of an app that would allow victims in distress to quickly and discreetly send out a distress signal to 911 Operators and emergency contacts. In the... Continue Reading →

In June of 2011, Mercer University Law Student Lauren Giddings had been missing for several days. Lauren, pictured here from an article from the Telegraph, had been preparing to take the bar exam and was in a regular study group with her friends. She hadn't shown up to the study group, responded to emails, or answered... Continue Reading →

You can get an alarm system. You can lock your doors. You can get big dogs. You can even own a gun. But none of these things will prevent your death when you are lying unconcious on an operating table below your murderer's knife. The podcast Dr. Death is about a deranged doctor who used... Continue Reading →

Before Ted Bundy, BTK, H.H. Holmes, and even Jack the Ripper, the very first known serial killer in the United States ravaged Austin, Texas in 1885. While a few were suspected, his identity remains a mystery to this day. In 1885, Austin was a booming town with an opera house, three colleges, and the new... Continue Reading →

Social media has created an entirely new facet to a murder investigation. Detectives today must scour social media accounts for clues to relationships between victims and suspects, timelines, and motivations behind a murder. Convicted of killing seven people in South Carolina between 2003 and 2016, Todd Kohlhepp, pictured here in his inmate photo, left his... Continue Reading →

"Could my father have killed me?"  This is the question that Melissa Moore asked herself after she sat through an uncomfortable dinner with her father. They were eating at a diner in Spokane, Washington when her father began to confess something about himself. He stopped abruptly explaining that he can't tell her because she will... Continue Reading →

As Michael Peterson was on trial for the murder of his wife Kathleen Peterson, the trial became a battle of the experts. In our last post, we mentioned that the defense was adamant that Kathleen died from a fall, while the prosecution stuck to the theory that the Michael Peterson murdered his wife with a... Continue Reading →

The Peterson family was torn apart by the loss of their beloved Kathleen Peterson. Although they had no biological children of their own, Michael Peterson had two sons with his first wife Patricia Peterson, and Kathleen Peterson had a daughter from her first marriage named Caitlin Atwater. Along with their biological children from their respective... Continue Reading →

With the re-release of the documentary "The Staircase" on Netflix in June of 2018, the death of Kathleen Peterson has received a lot of attention this year. Kathleen was the victim of a fatal tragedy in 2001 and the subject of French documentarian Jean-Xavier de Lestrade's TV miniseries that covered the subsequent trial. The documentary... Continue Reading →