Loni Coombs felt an immediate connection to Cathy Thomas, a groundbreaking gay woman who broke through barriers at the U.S. Naval Academy before she was brutally murdered along the Colonial Parkway in Virginia.
Items coined as "murderabilia" range from artwork to fingernail clippings of serial murderers. Victim advocate Andy Kahan wants to stop criminals from profiting off their crimes.
Kerri Rawson revealed to a CrimeCon 2021 crowd that she filed a no-contact order against her serial killer father, Dennis Rader, because of his creepy behavior toward her.
Pierre Pacheco, the instructor who rejected Omar Mateen's application to a Florida law enforcement academy said that he was threatened by the future mass shooter after he rejected his application.
David Frattare, a commander with Ohio's Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, told CrimeCon 2021 that they received more tips than ever last year. Here's the advice he and Chris Hansen give parents to protect their children from online predators.
"He’s already taken so much from our lives,” Libby German's grandmother Becky Patty told a CrimeCon 2021 audience in Austin. “I refuse to let him take more.”
Gina DeJesus was kidnapped in Cleveland by Ariel Castro while waking home in 2004. At CrimeCon 2021, she spoke about how her bond with her mother helped to flip his manipulation around.