In July 1981, a grand jury voted not to indict Mary Lee Orsini in the March murder of her husband, Ron. Crowding into her home to celebrate, the media and friends...
Category: Murder Mystery
The Murders of Mary Lee
Mary Lee Orsini was poison dressed up in a pair of high heels. Effortlessly, she projected whatever she sensed someone wanted or needed. That ability was packaged in a...
Murder Mystery: Death, Demons and Darkness
When Adam Pinkusiewicz’s manager asked him to work faster, he lost control, verbally berating her and threatening her physically. The encounter was so disturbing the...
Murder Mystery: The River Girl
As the judge ordered the defendant Jack Worls to stand, a small figure among the spectators raised a pearl-handled revolver. His verdict was fatal — four shots to the...
Murder Mystery: The Tale of the Teens
One small-town high school, four teenagers, two murders and two killers – for the community of Bald Knob, this was an implosion the effects of which still linger, as do...
Murder Mystery: Death of the Deputy
He stood his ground; so did she. They were both good at that. Between them was a pregnancy, one that would reveal the lines they had crossed. Fiercely determined to...
Murder Mystery: Badd Barbie
Dr. Thomas Burchard (above) Badd Barbie – that’s what she was called on her Instagram fan page. She loved that name. She thought it suited her. The judge thought so...
Murder Mystery: The Good Girl
The Ballards, pictured above She was the quintessential good girl. Until she wasn’t. Then the smart, beautiful, upper-class girl proved herself quite capable of...
Don’t Miss Out on the 2023 Arkansas True Crime Fest
Detectives, private eyes, authors, podcasters and even a spirit or two of those who still need justice will be at the May True Crime Fest at the Rogers Convention...
Murder Mystery: The Valedictorian
The crowd had assembled – the students, families and friends of Watson Chapel High School’s graduating class of 1994. Outwardly, this Pine Bluff gathering might have...
Murder Mystery: A Dance on the Razor’s Edge, Part 2
First on the murder scene was Euna, Billie Jean Phillips’ sister. As a nurse, she knew immediately they were hours too late as Billie Jean’s estimated time of death was...
Murder Mystery: A Dance on the Razor’s Edge, Part 1
The life of Billie Jean Phillips was a dance on the razor’s edge. In early September 1994, that dance ended abruptly, violently. But the music has played on for the...