Like wounded animals, they are blinded by pain and rage by the loss of their lovers. Obsessed by sexual jealousy, they lose control of their lives, their hatred eating inside until they explode into violence and murder. These are stories about secrets, lies, and passion gone wrong. These are stories about murder. Real stories.

The Murder of Birgitte Andersen

On the morning of August 10, 1987, Birgitte Andersen was found murdered in her apartment at 1333 W. Birchwood in Chicago. The blonde bombshell had come to Chicago only six months prior to her death, from Saltum in northern Denmark. She'd come on a transit visa, apparently planning only to see a bit of America and then return to Denmark. Little did she know that she would not see her hometown ever again.

The Murder of David Crump

David Crump placed the Bible on the empty pillow beside him and reached over to open the drawer of the bedside table. From the drawer, he took a small brown bottle, unscrewed the cap and tipped the bottle into his hand. Some tiny white pills fell out. Crump put the pills into his mouth and washed them down with the coffee. He picked up the Bible and carried on with his reading, but after a few minutes he began to feel drowsy. The mists of sleep enveloped him, and the Bible fell from his hands. Soon, he was snoring contentedly. Never to wake up.

The Murder of Michelle Avila

On October 5, the body of a young girl was found face down in a stream in Big Tujunga Canyon in Angeles National Forest. She had been forcibly drowned in eight inches of water, her waist length hair was hacked off and there was a four-foot log found on top of her body. Detectives learned that the body they found belonged to Michelle Avila, a beautiful and popular teenage girl. Avila was four months short of her 18th birthday. Tragically, it was a birthday she would not live to celebrate.

The Murder of Gregory Smart

At approximately 10:00 p.m. on Tuesday, May 1, 1990, the body of Gregg Smart was found by his wife of less than a year, lying in a pool of blood on the floor of their house. He had been shot in the head. An early explanation of the crime was that Gregg Smart had stumbled into a burglary. But had he?

The Murder of Deborah Spicer

^{On a chilly Saturday morning, October 7, 1989, a man was fishing along the banks of the Clackamas River, in rural Clackamas County, Oregon. The man watched the cliffs opposite him to the north where Oregon Highway 224 parallels the river, and saw a silver-blue van on the road slow down and stop along a gravel turnout atop the cliff. About 20 minutes later, he saw a man with what looked like a naked woman hoisted over his shoulder, walking to the edge of the high cliff. In one swift motion, the man took the woman from his shoulder and tossed her over the side toward the river, some 70 feet below.}

^{The Murder of William Strawn}

^{On the Monday morning of December 12, 1988, Pam Beene pulled her car into the driveway of her red-brick, three-bedroom home in the Woodlands. Pam walked down the hallway and into the living room, where she saw a}

^{sight that sent a scream rising to her throat and her world reeling. Stretched face down on the living room floor in a pool of blood was the body of her boyfriend, Bill Strawn, deathly still.}