January 16, 1997Phoenix, ArizonaScott Falater stabs his wife Yarmila 44 times and holds her head under water, ostensibly as he sleepwalks Neighbors were alerted to the killing by Yarmila’s screams, which could be heard for up to 30 minutes. “I could just hear her yelling,” the Falaters’ next-door neighbor told radio stations shortly after the…
Man arrested for the murder of his wife, whose body is never recovered
January 13, 1987ConnecticutRichard Crafts (49) is arrested for the murder of his wife Helle Crafts (39) was last seen on November 18, 1986. The following morning, Helle’s husband Richard Crafts woke their live-in nanny to inform her the power was out, and he was taking her and his three children to his sister’s house to…
Man kills his wife with antifreeze and battery acid
December 4, 2006Near Bethany, MissouriAnna Yoder Borntreger (26) dies, ostensibly from liver problems Anna’s death, while sudden, was not presumed to have been foul play, primarily because she had been ill for a short while prior to her death. Some of her family had their suspicions, however. “They felt that maybe it wasn’t actually a…
Man kills wife, children, stages scene to appear wife had killed children in a murder-suicide
December 30, 1978 Littleton, Colorado Robert Spangler kills his wife Nancy and their children, David and Susan Robert had begun an affair with a woman named Sharon Cooper, putting strain on his marriage with Nancy, though the couple seemingly reconciled months before Nancy and her children were killed. In his confession to police decades later,…
Man kills wife, two daughters after argument
December 17, 2017Kelowna, British ColumbiaJacob Forman kills his wife Clara and their two daughters Karina and Yesenia Jacob had an addition to alcohol, an issue Clara addressed with him on December 17. Angered, Jacob hit Clara once with a small sledgehammer which knocked her to the ground. Clara asked “what are you doing?” before Jacob…
