The Casual Criminalist

Faith Hedgepeth, a nineteen-year-old University of North Carolina student, was sexually assaulted and bludgeoned to death in her Durham apartment in September 2012. Despite extensive DNA evidence, the case remained unsolved for nine years until genealogy testing identified Miguel Salguerro-Olivares. In 2026, he was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.
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Thomas Randolph married six times, with four wives dying suspiciously whilst he collected hefty life insurance payouts. When his sixth wife Sharon was shot dead in 2008, he killed the alleged intruder, his own handyman. Detectives uncovered disturbing patterns spanning decades, eventually securing his conviction for murder after two trials.
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Donald Harvey worked as a hospital orderly in Kentucky and Ohio for seventeen years, killing dozens of patients through poisoning, suffocation, and deliberate overdoses. He claimed mercy motivated his crimes, but investigators uncovered something far darker: a desperate need for control over helpless people who trusted him with their lives.
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In 1986, Sherri Rasmussen was brutally murdered in her Los Angeles home. Police dismissed it as a botched burglary for twenty-three years. DNA evidence finally revealed the killer was an LAPD detective and her husband's obsessive ex-girlfriend. This chilling case exposes stunning police failures and raises troubling questions about justice.
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For fifteen years, Akku Yadav terrorised the slum of Kasturba Nagar through extortion, murder, and sexual assault while police turned a blind eye. When he threatened the wrong woman in 2004, the entire community finally fought back, cornering him inside a courtroom and delivering their own brutal form of justice.
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