Crimes of Passion

The USPS’s legal arm is credited with playing a vital role in solving the contract murder of accountant Mel Dyson by his money-lusting wife. 

Businessman John T. Hancock had a long list of enemies. But who would murder him and his mother in such a brutal way?

Sandra Jonas forced her daughter to help her dispose of the body of her romantic rival, Meta Jones, by throwing it in an Idaho canal.

Kenneth Stahl and his wife, Carolyn, appeared to be the perfect couple. A shocking contract-murder plot revealed looks can be deceiving.

An expert witness claimed that William "Jeff" West's fingerprints were found on a liquor bottle held in an upside-down position — the same bottle used to kill OnlyFans star Kathleen "Kitty Kat West."

Danielle Marrano was found lying outside her Queens apartment building, but the medical examiner determined her cause of death wasn't consistent with a fall.

Kyra Haley texted a relative that she feared her husband, Dallas Hale, "will kill me and my kids if I ever try to leave.”

“I’m a mess,” Laura Dankesreiter said of the attempt on her life. “You don’t plan on your husband of 27 years trying to kill you.”

The wife has since claimed that she was forced to take part in her lover's murder.

Melvin Martin Jr. is accused of killing his girlfriend and bringing some of her dismembered body parts on a five-hour Greyhound bus trip.