Beyond the Blood

Beyond the Blood is back. Brian Gene Nichols is known for his escape and killing spree in the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta, Georgia, on March 11, 2005. Explore the trial, conviction, and sentence in part two. 

Brian Nichols is known for his escape and killing spree in the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta, Georgia. Nichols was on trial for rape when he escaped from custody and murdered the judge presiding over his trial, a court reporter, a sheriff’s deputy and later a federal agent. 

A teen love triangle and bitter Facebook feud culminated in the savage killing of a 15-year-old Florida boy who was lured to his death by his former girlfriend.

Two decades after one of Lee County’s most notorious crime sprees, a local reporter goes behind prison walls to uncover why the Lords of Chaos ringleader, who was sentenced to die, is still alive.

Local news update on Kevin Foster, the Lords of Chaos ringleader. 

A former United States Foreign Service Officer who has been a fugitive from justice since allegedly murdering five members of his family in 1976.

Shortly after being arrested for a firearms offense and suspicion of auto theft and fraud, Leonard Lake took his own life. Authorities were alerted to the crimes of Lake and accomplice Charles Ng when a confession/suicide note written by Lake prior to swallowing cyanide pills and committing suicide was discovered.

Oba Chandler, was an American man convicted and executed for the June 1989 triple murders of Joan Rogers and her two daughters, whose bodies were found, with their hands and feet bound, floating in Tampa Bay, Florida.

The Texarkana Moonlight Murders, a term coined by the news media, references the unsolved murders committed in and around Texarkana in the spring of 1946 by an unidentified serial killer known as the “Phantom Killer”, or “Phantom Slayer”. The killer is credited with attacking eight people within ten weeks, five of whom were killed, usually three weeks apart.

A conversation with Michelle Cruz. Michelle, is the sister of Janelle Cruz, the last known victim of The Original Night Stalker. 

The Original Night Stalker is a media epithet for an unidentified serial killer and rapist who committed 50 rapes in Northern California and murdered twelve people in Southern California from 1979 through 1986.

A fisherman, trawling the Hawkesbury River north of Sydney, got more than he expected when he pulled in his heavy nets the morning of August 11, 1994. Rather than a large load of fish or junk from the riverbed, the fisherman had hauled in a decomposing body wrapped in plastic bags and tied to rusted metal bars welded into the shape of a crucifix. 

Terrance Williams and Felipe Santos went missing in 2004 and 2003, respectively, under similar circumstances in Naples, Florida. Both men were last seen being arrested by former Collier County Sheriff’s Deputy Corporal Steve Calkins for driving without a license. He claims he changed his mind about both arrests and last saw the men after he dropped them at Circle K convenience stores. 

The Moscow theater hostage crisis was the seizure of a crowded Dubrovka Theatre by 40 to 50 armed Chechens on 23 October 2002 that involved 850 hostages and ended with the death of at least 170 people. The attackers, led by Movsar Barayev, claimed allegiance to the Islamist militant separatist movement in Chechnya. They demanded the withdrawal of Russian forces from Chechnya and an end to the second Chechen War.

The Lords of Chaos was a self-styled teen militia formed on April 12, 1996, in Fort Myers, Florida United States. They gained notoriety for a crime spree that ended with the April 30, 1996 murder of one of the boys’ teachers, Mark Schwebes, who served as Riverdale High School’s band director.