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Murder of Felica Gayle

Keith Ellington, MVC Copy editor November 13, 2024

On August 11, 1998,  Felica Gayle, a former post-dispatch reporter, was stabbed forty-three times with a butcher knife from her kitchen.  Police eventually arrested and charged a man named Marcellus...

Carly Gregg Trial

Isaiah Weir, MVC writer October 22, 2024

On March 14, 2024, fourteen year old Carly Madison Gregg shot and killed her forty year old mother, Ashley Smylie. Gregg was seen on footage walking into her mother's room before firing three shots which...

O.J. Simpson’s Death

Jocelynn Calderon, MVC writer May 9, 2024

Orenthal James Simpson, also known as O.J. Simpson, died on April 10th, 2024 at 76 years old. Last year, the former football player famous for both his career and trial involving the death of his ex-wife,...

Is True Crime Media Ethical?

Jocelynn Calderon, MVC writer February 28, 2024

True crime is at the center of many American households. The genre is available on  every media platform that comes to mind. Half of Americans express that they enjoy watching true crime TV and one...

Gypsy Rose Released

Delainey Root, MVC Editor-in-Chief January 11, 2024

Gypsy Rose Blanchard was released from prison on December 28, 2023 after serving eight years. She was released from the Chillicothe Correctional Center in Missouri.  Blanchard told PEOPLE magazine,...

The Boy in the Box Identified

Jocelynn Calderon, MVC writer October 24, 2023

On February 25, 1957, an unidentified child's body was found wrapped in a blanket  and inside a box in Philadelphia by a man checking his rabbit traps in the woods. This case would continue to puzzle...

Unsolved Case of D.B. Cooper

Jocelynn Calderon, MVC writer October 16, 2023

It is 1971 and a family boards a flight to Seattle from Oregon to visit family. The  man in front of them orders a bourbon and soda. Minutes later he threatens the whole flight crew with a bomb and...

Delphi Murders

Megan Jones, MVC writer September 22, 2023

Here's what was known before this year: two girls, Abigail Williams and Libby German, ages 13 and 14, went on a walk in their hometown of Delphi, Indiana,  never to be seen or heard from again. They disappeared...

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