On the evening of May 11, 2019, three friends gathered around a pool and a hot tub to enjoy a few drinks and play music. By morning, only one was alive. The sole survivor was Marcus Lillard. First responders had been told that Lillard’s girlfriend, Marianne Shockley, had drowned in …
Read More »Lori Ann Slesinski case: Rick Ennis murdered his parents when he was 12 years old. A decade later, did he kill again?
On March 5, 1993, 12-year-old Rick Ennis was walking at night along a dark Alabama highway, not far from Montgomery. He had just crashed his family’s car on the side of the road, against a fence, and was on foot heading home. That’s when John Clark, then an Alabama state …
Read More »Why do terrible things happen to the men in Catherine Shelton’s life?
Ask anyone who’s been around the Houston, Texas, courthouse for a while about Catherine Shelton, and they’ll know the name. She was “a nice-lookin’ young lawyer,” said attorney Lloyd Oliver, who knew her when she came on the legal scene. “She had beautiful blonde hair. She was shapely. And she …
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PROGRAM NOTE: Due to the Men’s NCAA Basketball Tournament on CBS, “Eric Smith: Gambling on a Killer” did not air on Saturday, March 19. It will air on Saturday, March 26 at 10/9c. Eric Smith spent 28 years behind bars for the 1993 murder of a 4-year-old boy. He was …
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