True Crime | True Stories by Major James R Howell

True Crime | True Stories by Major James R Howell

Shannon Street: It is to this day the largest number of suspects to die in a non-riotous local police action in the history of the United States. January 11 - 13, 1983, in Memphis, TN. If you like true crime stories tune in to this channel to listen to Mayhem in the Midsouth, which will provide stories of murder cases in the South. If you want to hear stories of officers killed in the line of duty, we have Fallen Badge. Another offering will be stories about mass murderers, unsolved murders and missing person cases entitled Coffee Tea and Crime. I have 30 years of law enforcement experience. I retired from the Memphis Police Department as a Major.

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October 23, 2025 10 mins

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Federal Prison Officer is stabbed 203 times.



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The murders took place on September 8, 1981. farm near Mt. Vernon in 1981. In one of the highest-profile murder cases in South Dakota history, the husband and father, accused of killing his wife and two sons, walked free. But if John Mathis wasn’t the murderer, who killed the mother and two of her children?


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Supremacy Group robs and murders across the country. 



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Two Hattiesburg, MS officers gunned down during traffic stop.


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September 25, 2025 7 mins

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June 30, 1999
The partially decomposed body of Ricky McCormick was discovered in a field in St. Charles County, Missouri,. Sheriffs found two garbled hand-written notes – apparently written in secret code – in the victim's pockets, and these were handed over to the FBI for further investigation. Case is unsolved.


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The unsolved December 6, 1991, murder of four young girls at an Austin, TX yogurt shop.


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Memphis Police Officer is murdered on Christmas Day.


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The murder of nurses in their dorm like apartment in Chicago, IL

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August 26, 2008, a woman is stabbed and left in her burning house to die in Biloxi, MS.


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Two Charlotte-Mecklenburg, NC officers are murdered in an ambush.


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Christine Gallegos, 18, was last seen alive hitchhiking to downtown Salt Lake City on her way to work on May 15, 1985. Her body was discovered early the next morning. 40 years later her case is solved.


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Pastor / Husband in Alabama pays to have his wife murdered.


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Two detectives with the Tampa Police Department and a young Florida State Trooper were murdered by a dangerous criminal.


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The Berlin Reservoir in Ohio is known for a tragic event involving the murders of two teenage girls. In 1993, a young couple are found shot to death on the shore of the lake. In 1994, the bodies of Sarah Rae Boehm, who was missing from Pennsylvania, and Kathryn Menendez, from Ohio, were found near the Berlin Reservoir within a few months of each other. 

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1985 prison escape with a helicopter in South Carolina.



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Minneapolis, MN officer is gunned down.


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It's 1976 and a young woman is kidnapped and brutally murdered in Birmingham, AL.


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United States Army Captain who was convicted in August 1979 of murdering his pregnant wife and two daughters in February 1970 while serving as an Army Special Forces physician. 

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New Hampshire officer is murdered. 


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Young girl is murdered in her home. 


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