Crucifix Cracks Mommy's Skull by Rod Kackley

Christian Lydia Martinez spent the day drinking with friends. The twenty-five-year-old Texas woman came home, got into a fight with her mom, and cracked the forty-five-year-old over the head with a crucifix.

San Antonio police say Christian ripped the religious icon right off the wall and bashed her mother over the head with it. 

Mom's going to be okay. She suffered a skull fracture. But doctors at a local hospital were able to treat her injury. 

Christian won't be coming home again, at least not for a while.

She's charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and held on a $30,000 bond. 

I don't think mommy's going to be putting up her house as collateral to spring her daughter, do you?

He'd always wanted her, but she just wanted to be friends. So, he killed her and everyone else in the house.

If it weren't for his cellmate and a hooker, this guy would still be running wild. 

If you've never read a true crime story, here's where you should start!

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Chopped Up Body In The Basement? Who Is She?

Sunday, Dec. 2, 2018:  Grand Rapids, Mich. police responded to a report of  "a suspicious activity involving possible foul play" in the 900-block of Franklin SE at 4:30pm EST. It's not the worst neighborhood in this West Michigan, but it's not the worst, either. Lots of two-story wooden homes dating back to World War Two. Plenty of renters, and enough crime to keep the cops busy 24/7. This crime is going to be one of more interesting in recent memory.

After waiting hours for a warrant, officers carefully go into a large home converted into a couple of relatively inexpensive apartments. It doesn't take long to dial up this investigation from "suspicious activity" and "possible foul play" to something much, much worse.

Officers discover a couple of human body parts just outside a stairway to Apartment #2, the home of Jared James Chance. Inside Jared's apartment detectives find "several areas of blood" and "articles that could have been used to dismember a human body" along with some bloody rags and bottles of cleaning solutions.

Now, as for that body, Shocking True Crime readers, where's the rest of it? Police find it in the basement of the structure. Chance was arrested, Sunday, and charged with the mutilation of a dead body, and that is probably just the beginning of the charges that could put Jared James Chance behind bars for the rest of his life.

Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018:  The GRPD is back in the neighborhood, looking into a dumpster. Looking for more evidence? You can bet on it. And they must have found something. A GRPD truck took the dumpster way after it was wrapped in plastic.

Now then, the body. Who is it, or better put, who was it? 

Nobody knows, at least not at the time this article was written.
But dear Shocking True Crime readers, here's a clue we can't ignore: a woman described as an "acquaintance" Jared's was last seen with our suspect Nov. 30 and has not been seen since.
Could she be the victim? More to come, I am sure


--Rod

George wanted sex. John wanted money. Craigslist brought them together. The result was a murder so horrific that even the most jaded New Yorker was repulsed.

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Insult the wrong drug lord and look what can happen: Teenager Killed

Photo by Malik Earnest on Unsplash

From Blaze:

A teenage YouTube star known for excessive alcohol consumption insulted a drug lord in a video — and ended up shot dead by members of the cartel. 

Juan Luis Lagunas Rosales was just 17, but he already had a million followers on YouTube. His only problem was one of those followers was not a fan.

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And now from the lighter side, and Buzz Feed, nine times people were actually murdered by their clothes.

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Australian Shocking True Crime Fans Love This Book

Mommy Deadliest: A Shocking True Crime Story of a Murdering Mother has been flying off the virtual shelves of Kindle, Barnes & Noble, and more. But sales to Australian Shocking True Crime fans are astounding!

Why not? It's a great, tragic, shocking true crime story.

Everytime Martha Ann and her husband, Earl, fought, he would run off to his gay lover, Stanley. And one of their children would die. Martha Ann said it was just bad luck. Earl and Stanley thought it was something more, something sinister.

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Shocking True Crime Story: Facebook Selfie Solves The Best Friend's Murder

This photo was posted on Facebook only hours before Brittney Gargol (R) was killed by her best friend ,Cheyenne Antoine (L). The belt Cheyenne is wearing was the murder weapon.

The photo (above) was posted to Facebook six hours before Brittney Gargol was found dead. Cheyenne Antoine, a Canadian woman, pleaded guilty to manslaughter after killing her best friend in 2015. 

The police uncovered a Facebook photo in which she was wearing a black belt - the same kind that was found next to the victim's body. 

The woman was sentenced to seven years in prison. A 21-year-old Canadian woman pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to seven years in prison.

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An app from the Devil told Jason Dalton, an Uber driver from Hell, who to kill and who to let live. At least, that was his story, told in The Devil Made Him Do It: A Shocking Story of Mass Murder available wherever books are sold including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBooks and Kobo.

German Police Use iPhone's Health App to Solve Murder

From the New York Post:

In something of a bizarre story, the Health app on Apple’s iPhone may play a pivotal role in definitively proving who raped and murdered a young medical student in Germany late last year. 

As detailed by the BBC, German authorities already have a suspect in custody, a man who we only know by Hussein K. 

As the story goes, Hussein K has already admitted his involvement, though some details regarding the murder still remain fuzzy. Incidentally, Hussein K refused to provide the pin code of his iPhone.  

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Who Killed Brittanee Drexel? is a gripping, heartbreaking story of a teenage girl who disappeared on Spring Break and might have been fed to a pond of alligators; and her mother's refusal to accept her death.

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The Devil Made Him Do It: A Shocking True Crime Story of Mass Murder by Rod Kackley

One night in Kalamazoo, Mich, an app on Jason Dalton's iPhone started telling him to kill people. This is the story of those he killed, those who survived, and the police officers who finally put an end to a murderous, blood-soaked night.


“Enough not to miss.”
——Alexis Cornish’s response when a police officer asked how many times a man believed to be Jason Dalton had fired bullets at her boyfriend and his father. 



It's also the story of a young woman and a teenage girl who survived this murderous night:

“I don't know if I can say it's a miracle. I think she's just one strong-willed child, who said, 'I'm not finished yet,’” 
—Vicki Kopf, the mother of fourteen-year-old Abigail Kopf, who was shot in the head that night in Kalamazoo, and declared dead.

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