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Camilla Frazier-Tidrow and her husband, Kory Tidrow, were convicted of murdering Camilla's father, Joel Frazier, after discovering he planned to remove her from his will. A dispute over inheritance, fueled by Camilla's drug use and strained relationship with her father, led to the crime. They drugged Joel, then shot him, and subsequently incinerated his body at a meat processing plant with the help of an accomplice, Benjamin Buck. Buck received a five-year sentence for tampering with evidence, while Camilla and Kory received life sentences for first-degree murder. The case highlights a tragic escalation of family conflict resulting in a brutal crime.
An American Crime, a 2007 film, is a disturbingly accurate adaptation of the horrific real-life murder of Sylvia Likens in 1965. The movie depicts the brutal torture inflicted upon Likens by Gertrude Baniszewski and others, but even the film toned down the true extent of the abuse. The true story...
Published 11/25/24
Forty-five years after 17-year-old Esther Gonzalez was murdered in California, authorities used advanced DNA technology and forensic genealogy to identify her killer, Lewis Randolph "Randy" Williamson, who had initially been a person of interest but was cleared in 1979 due to limitations in...
Published 11/25/24