Katherine Schaffstall

Elementary school music teacher Joseph Horner allegedly committed an unthinkable crime when he brutally killed and raped his sister-in-law, Victoria Castle, in her Long Island, New York, home in June. While Horner is currently behind bars, he has left Castle’s family — including his wife, Alexia “Allie” Castle Horner – in shock and horror as […]

Eleonor Alejandra Marín Mendoza is the subject of Netflix’s upcoming true crime documentary A Child of My Own, which will take viewers on the journey of her struggle to have children. But her story takes a shocking twist. Mendoza, who was known to her peers as Alejandra, was arrested in 2009 after she faked a […]

A Wisconsin man was arrested after he allegedly killed his mother before he covered her head with cat litter and set her bed on fire. Rodolfo Gonzalez was charged with first-degree intentional homicide, recklessly endangering safety, arson, mutilating a corpse and resisting an officer following the incident that took place on Sunday, July 26. Authorities […]

Netflix’s July 2026 docuseries The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare features detailed interviews with law enforcement and the loved ones of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin. One family member that shared her perspective on the case was Goncalves’ older sister, Alivea Goncalves, who has been an outspoken voice while discussing the murders. […]

Kaylee Goncalves’ youngest sister, Aubrie Goncalves, slammed Bryan Kohberger amid his attempt to have his guilty plea withdrawn one year after he pleaded guilty to killing Kaylee and fellow Idaho college students Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin. Aubrie took to her family’s Facebook page on Monday, July 27, to criticize Kohberger, 31, after […]

A Connecticut woman was arrested for attempted human trafficking after two minors were reportedly found with her inside a hotel room amid a missing juvenile case. The Meriden Police Department launched an investigation into the matter after they received a report of a missing juvenile on July 12, according to WTNH. One day after they […]

Amanda “Mandy” Karolkiewicz admitted she “shoved” her husband, Kristopher Karolkiewicz, after she learned he cheated on her in a Reddit post uploaded two years before he killed her and their six children in an apparent murder-suicide. In a subreddit titled “AsOneAfterInfidelity,” Mandy, 39, responded to a thread asking others if they got “physical” with their […]

Amanda “Mandy” Karolkiewicz revealed her husband, Kristopher Karolkiewicz, had grown “frustrated” with her because she was unable to get over his affair with an intern two years before he killed her and their six kids in an apparent murder-suicide. In a 2024 post featured in the subreddit “AsOneAfterInfidelity,” Mandy, 39, admitted she was “frustrated” that […]

Amanda “Mandy” Karolkiewicz and Kristopher Karolkiewicz‘s home was “full of smoke” after he killed her and their six children in an apparent murder-suicide, according to a 911 dispatch call from the incident. Police said that they believe Kristopher, 47, fatally shot Mandy, 39, and their six kids before he set their home in Grand Haven […]

Amanda “Mandy” Karolkiewicz claimed that her husband, Kristopher Karolkiewicz, underwent a plastic surgery procedure despite her not being able to afford her own in a Reddit post shared two years before he killed her and their six kids in am apparent murder-suicide. In a Reddit 2024 Reddit post, Mandy, 39, responded to another Reddit user […]

Amanda “Mandy” Karolkiewicz wrote a children’s book that she dedicated to her six kids just three years before her husband, Kristopher Karolkiewicz, killed her and their family in an apparent murder-suicide. Krystal Kramer, who illustrated Mandy’s September 2023 book, The Magical Mantra, took to Instagram on Tuesday, July 28, to explain that she worked closely […]

Amanda “Mandy” Karolkiewicz admitted she wanted to look and feel her best after her husband, Kristopher Karolkiewicz, cheated on her with an intern in a personal Reddit post shared two years before he killed her and their six kids in a murder-suicide. “I was five babies in, and was actually not in bad physical shape, […]

Lindsay Clancy’s ex-husband, Patrick Clancy, got emotional while describing their three children during his ex-wife’s murder trial after she killed them in January 2023. Lindsay, 35, was arrested on January 26, 2023, and charged with the murders of their children Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months. Three years later, Patrick, 38, took the […]

A Minnesota woman was arrested after she allegedly tortured a young child for 17 months by forcing them to do several punishments and refusing to feed them. Paula Jo McCallister has been accused of forcing the child to “go on the wall” and standing with their feet and nose to it every day from the […]

Amanda “Mandy” Karolkiewicz opened up about her shifting family dynamics in a 2024 Reddit thread before her husband, Kristopher Karolkiewicz, killed her and their six kids in an apprent murder-suicide, and she admitted that the birth of her youngest son drastically changed her views. “I used to be staunchly pro-life. I birthed three boys and […]

Two months after restaurateur Matthew Mitchell killed his wife, Thy Mitchell, and their two children in an apparent murder-suicide, her parents have accused him of intentionally planning and plotting her murder amid his financial troubles. The Houston Police Department previously confirmed that Matthew, 52, seemingly shot Thy, 39, and their two children, ages 8 and […]

Kristopher Karolkiewicz lost his job at National American Heart Association just weeks before his killed his wife, Amanda “Mandy” Karolkiewicz, and their six children in an apparent murder-suicide. Just days after the family died on Friday, July 24, the American Heart Association confirmed to Us that Kristopher, 47, was no longer employed by the company […]

A father in Texas was arrested after he allegedly killed his 2-year-old daughter after leaving her locked inside of a hot vehicle for nine hours as he slept off the drinks he had the night before. The Midland Police Department confirmed in a news release that Lorenzo Elias Rodriguez was charged with one count of […]

Weill Cornell Medicine agreed to pay more than $1 billion in civil settlements after former urologist Darius Paduch was convicted of sexual abuse. It was revealed how much the hospital was paying in an official admission that the group was aware of Paduch’s troubling behavior for several years, according to Newsday. Despite the hospital group’s […]

Before Kristopher Karolkiewicz allegedly killed his wife, Amanda “Mandy” Karolkiewicz, and their six children in an apparent murder-suicide, Mandy’s old Reddit posts revealed that the couple was allegedly dealt with past affairs and her husband previously cheated on her with an intern. In one Reddit post written under the username “MandyK1179” in 2024, Mandy, 39, […]

Chris Watts’ secret second mistress, Amanda McMahon, candidly opened up about her relationship with the killer eight years after he was arrested for murdering his pregnant wife, Shanann Watts, and their two young daughters in August 2018. McMahon told The Daily Mail that she met Chris, 41, on Tinder when she was going through a […]