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Los Angeles Times
11-07-2025
- Los Angeles Times
‘One Night in Idaho: The College Murders' tells how families were affected by a brutal crime
It's the biggest question that's been asked over and over again about the night of Nov. 13, 2022, when four University of Idaho students — Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves — were brutally stabbed to death in their off-campus house in the college town of Moscow, Idaho: Why? With no apparent motive or clue as to who could have committed such a heinous crime, Moscow became the epicenter of an intense investigation and a social media storm that Prime Video's 'One Night in Idaho: The College Murders' delves into over four episodes dropping on Friday. Liz Garbus ('Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer') and Matthew Galkin ('Murder in the Bayou') share directing and executive producing duties on the docuseries, which is based on reporting by author James Patterson and investigative journalist Vicky Ward, and they knew early on what angle their production would take. 'We decided that a very interesting and unexplored angle was to see what it was like inside the eye of the hurricane,' Galkin says. 'So, for the people, the family members, the friends of the victims that had not ever spoken to the media, that was where we chose to focus our energies as far as access is concerned.' That included exclusive interviews with Stacy and Jim Chapin, parents of 20-year-old Ethan, and Karen and Scott Laramie, parents of 21-year-old Mogen, who have never talked about the murders — despite numerous projects on the subject — and how it ripped apart not only the town of Moscow but their respective families. Garbus and Galkin talked with The Times about how they gained the families' trust, how social media affected the case, and the recent twists and turns that happened just before the series was set to air. For one, on July 2, primary suspect Bryan Kohberger, a former criminal justice doctoral student who was arrested six weeks after the murders, entered a plea agreement with a full confession of the murders — done to avoid the death penalty — just weeks before his trial was set to begin. This conversation has been edited for length and clarity. What were the origins of your involvement in the production and with crime novelist James Patterson? Matthew Galkin: This was a story that I started tracking, obviously, when it happened, which was mid-November of 2022, and I didn't make any outreach to any key people within the story, any of the families, until it was almost spring of 2023. We were tracking it to see how it developed once they made an arrest and once we could see the contours of the story and that things like social media played a major part in the energy created around this story. Liz Garbus: Concurrently, as Matthew was laying the foundation for this by reaching out and trying to see where the families were on this story, I got outreach from James Patterson's company about their interest in collaborating on a project around this case. That was quite fortuitous, and we laid some of those building blocks together and shared access and research. The film was made by its filmmakers, and the book ['The Idaho Four: An American Tragedy' by Patterson and Ward, which is being released on July 14] was reported by its writers, so they were operating on parallel tracks. We were able to support and help each other, but, truly, Matthew's original outreach to the Chapin family is what laid the building blocks for this show and is really the bedrock of it. How was the gag order for law enforcement and other key people close to the case a challenge in telling your story? Galkin: In this particular story, there was a probable cause affidavit that was filed in early January of '23, which really laid out, up to that point, what investigative details existed in order to bring law enforcement toward the suspect and ultimately make the arrest. So we were able, at the very least, to tell that story through the details we learned through the probable cause affidavit. It's always a challenge if you don't have all of the participating members of a story to try to tell the complete story. But in my past work, we tended to pick projects that are victim-centric more than law enforcement-centric. I've had experience telling stories through that perspective, so in a lot of ways, the limited access that we had actually lined up with the story we were trying to tell anyway. Garbus: Even on 'Gone Girls,' which was a show I made recently for Netflix, those murders were 10, 20, 30 years old. There were no gag orders, but there were certain people who didn't want to talk for their own reasons, so sometimes, as documentary filmmakers, you have to pick a lane. What are you bringing to the story? What point of view can you fully express? And we clearly had that lane here. And when you have that lane so clear early on, does that actually help get people to talk to you, especially those who hadn't spoken to anyone before? Galkin: I flew out to Washington state, and the first contact I made was to Jim and Stacy Chapin, who are the parents of Ethan, Hunter and Maizie. I convinced them to let me take them to lunch and just talk through what our vision of how to tell the story would be. I was probably the 50th in line to try to make a documentary project about it. They've been inundated at that point, and it was probably five or six months of journalists, documentary filmmakers [and] podcasters just coming out of the woodwork. I know for a fact they looked at Liz's track record, they looked at my track record, and I think they felt comfortable in the fact that if we were going to do crime stories, they were not usually from the killer's point of view or even from law enforcement point of view. It's usually from family or victim, so I think that gave them some comfort to know that they would have real input in how Ethan's story was told. They liked the idea of picking one project to really go deep on and be able to help put Ethan's narrative out to the world through their own voice, as opposed to other people who didn't know Ethan telling it. Did you know early on that social media would play such a big part in the case? Galkin: It was actually the two main topics of conversation. My first conversation with the Chapins was our vision of how we were going to tell the story and also their experience dealing with the insane noise and pressures of social media sleuths and people reaching out, going into their DMs, creating theories about their children, about them, about their children's friends — just the insanity. Obviously, there have been crime stories that deal with social media, but I have never experienced something of this magnitude with this much social media attention. Garbus: Social media has become much of the atmosphere in the telling and digestion of crimes in the American public's imagination of them. In some cases, it can be helpful, like the case of the Long Island serial killer, where the victims were not commanding national interest, and social media and advocates can play a huge role. Then there are other times in which the voracious appetites can overtake the story. In your series, you don't spend a lot of time dissecting all the gruesome details of the murders. Was that due to the law enforcement gag order? Galkin: Maybe a little, but it was also a choice of ours. There are many other projects, documentary series or news specials about this case that go into all of the really horrific details of what happened in that house. It was a conversation from the beginning of how do we present this so it's factual. We're not necessarily avoiding things, but we didn't feel like there was a reason to linger on those details because there were other aspects of the story that were of more interest to us. Garbus: When you're with these families and you experience the grief and trauma through them, that's kind of what you need to know. The ways in which the ripple effect of the trauma has affected this entire friend group and all of these young people, that speaks volumes to what happened that day and we wanted to experience it through them. Given the recent developments with Kohberger's plea deal, did you change the tag at the end of your show? Garbus: Thanks to some great postproduction supervisors and assistants, we will be updating the end card to have viewers be up to date with the plea. In the latter half of the series, there's talk about Kohberger and the notion of him being an incel, or involuntary celibate [where a person, usually male, is frustrated by a lack of sexual experiences]. How did that help understand a potential motive in the murders? Garbus: That was something that was very interesting to us right at the beginning: Why were these young women targeted? We may never know with this plea deal now and it may remain a mystery, but there were signs, for sure, about involvement in that culture for us to explore that angle. As families watch this and they're sitting with their sons and wondering what they might be doing online, this is the kind of conversation that people need to be having about the media, the infiltration of messages that young men receive today and it's only getting more extreme in this moment. Was four episodes always the amount to tell this story? Obviously, the case is still unfolding with Kohberger's plea agreement. Could a sequel happen? Galkin: Four episodes felt like the right amount of space to tell the story that we told. Obviously, there are still chapters unfolding, and if there is an appetite to continue to tell this story with our subjects and all of our partners, then certainly I think we'd be open to doing that. But we feel like we told a complete story here ... every episode offers a pivot as to the perspectives that we're seeing this case through, and every episode has a different lens. Garbus: Clearly, our filmmaking stops at a certain point. You've had this plea deal, and the gag order will be lifted, so it is a capsule of time of what the families knew and understood since this tragedy happened up until a couple of months ago. We will see over the next weeks and months how much more we will learn, but it is a fragment of experience very much rooted in time. Since there is so much interest in this case with many podcasts, documentaries and news stories out there, do you worry about that at all? Garbus: In some ways you don't think about it, but at the same time, when you're setting off to make a project like this, you want to make sure you are saying something unique. We're going to spend X number of years of our lives on this, and you want to make sure you're adding something new to the discourse on the case. And, of course, it matters to us that this is the place where the Chapins and the Laramies will tell their story and that we are able to take care of it for them and the friends in the way that we intended. It matters just in that you want to make sure you have a lane that's needed in the discourse and I think in this case we felt very clearly that we did. Galkin: We knew from Day 1, given the access that we had, that our series would be unique to anything else on the market, because these are people that have never told their story before, and the way we were planning on doing it, which was truly from the inside, without any sort of outsider voices. So that was not an anxiety for us.
Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Yahoo
What Happened to Suspected Serial Killer Rex Heuermann's Wife & Kids
Originally appeared on E! Online The arrest of Rex Heuermann in 2023 may have been a step forward for the families of a number of murdered women whose cases had grown increasingly cold over the course of two decades. Prosecutors allege Heuermann, a New York architect who lived with his family in Massapequa Park, is a serial killer whose crimes date back to at least 1993, when the body of 28-year-old Sandra Costilla was discovered in a wooded area on the east side of Long Island. Since his arrest, he has been charged with murdering seven women, and he has pleaded not guilty on all counts. The 61-year-old remains in custody at Riverhead Correctional Facility in Suffolk County awaiting trial. Also caught up in the fallout of the investigation, detailed in Netflix's Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer, was Heuermann's own family, particularly his wife Asa Ellerup and their two children, Christopher Sheridan (Ellerup's son from a previous relationship) and Virginia Heuermann. Though some people described Heuermann as unfriendly and at times creepy—"We would cross the street," neighbor Nicholas Ferchaw told the New York Times following his arrest. "He was somebody you don't want to approach"—he still appeared to be living a normal life. "The family is very to themselves, quiet,' neighbor Frankie Musto told the Long Island Press. 'My daughter went to school with their daughter, but we never saw anything suspicious." Here is what to know about Heuermann's wife Ellerup and their kids since he was charged with multiple murders: More from E! Online Denzel Washington Gets Into Confrontation After Being Grabbed by Photographer at Cannes Police Investigating Death of TikToker Emilie Kiser's 3-Year-Old Son Influencer Emilie Kiser's 3-Year-Old Son Dies After Being Found Unconscious in Pool Though some people described Heuermann as unfriendly and at times creepy—"We would cross the street," neighbor Nicholas Ferchaw told the New York Times following his arrest. "He was somebody you don't want to approach"—he still appeared to be living a normal life. "The family is very to themselves, quiet,' neighbor Frankie Musto told the Long Island Press. 'My daughter went to school with their daughter, but we never saw anything suspicious." Here is what to know about Heuermann's wife Ellerup and their kids since he was charged with multiple murders: Heuermann was arrested July 13, 2023—more than a year after the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office formed a special task force to solve the unsolved killings often referred to as the Gilgo Beach Murders, a reference to where the remains of at least 10 people were found in 2010 and 2011. (Three sets of remains have not yet been identified, according to Suffolk County authorities.) Six days after Heuermann was taken into custody, Ellerup filed for divorce after 27 years of marriage. 'If you ask me, I don't believe, that they knew about this double life that Mr. Heuermann was living," Suffolk County Police Commissioner Rodney Harrison told CNN in July 2023, referring to the suspect's wife and kids. But, he added, authorities were still investigating "to see if the family might have known exactly what Mr. Heuermann was up to." Harrison said Ellerup and her daughter "were shocked, they were disgusted, they were embarrassed" when they found out the charges against Heuermann. Ellerup and her kids "are going through a devastating time in their lives," her attorney Robert Macedonio told NBC News in a statement at the time. 'The sensitive nature of her husband's arrest is taking an emotional toll on the immediate and extended family, especially their elderly family members." Before Heuermann's arrest, investigators conducted a 12-day search of the Massapequa Park home he shared with Ellerup and their two grown kids. 'I woke up in the middle of the night, shivering,' Ellerup told the New York Post several weeks later. 'Anxiety." Ellerup said their son Christopher has "developmental disabilities" and he "cried himself to sleep" after his father was arrested. Daughter Virginia told the NY Post she felt "not human" amid the investigation, with their attorney Macdeonio explaining to the publication she meant that what authorities had "done to them and the family is not even human. They were just complete animals [to investigators]. They treated them like animals." But what was important was that she and the kids were together, Ellerup noted. "That's really what matters right now," she said. "That you and me are sitting here together and we will get through this." While authorities have said time and again that they don't believe Ellerup knew about Heuermann's alleged crimes—and that she was out of town when the murders he's been charged with were committed—she unwittingly played a key role in his arrest. DNA testing showed that female human hair found on or near four victims' remains belonged to the defendant's wife, according to prosecutors' 2023 bail application (which did not refer to Ellerup by name at the time). Prosecutors said in the filing that travel records put his wife in Iceland when alleged Heuermann victim Melissa Barthelemy was killed in 2009, and cell phone data indicated she was out of the state when Megan Waterman and Amber Lynn Costello were killed in 2010, leading them to determine that the hairs came from his family's residence or were transferred from his clothing. Heuermann was first charged with the murders of Barthelemy, Waterman and Costello in July 2023 and named a suspect in the 2010 killing of Maureen Brainard-Barnes. He was charged in that case in January 2024, then charged with the murders of Costilla (in 1993) and Jessica Taylor (2003) in June 2024 and of Valerie Mack (2000) in December 2024. He has pleaded not guilty to all seven. Days later, her attorney shared that Ellerup had been battling breast cancer and skin cancer for several years. "Emotionally, she's recovering each day not only dealing with the cancer," Macedonio said during an Aug. 11, 2023, news conference, "but this newfound life that she has to come to terms with protecting herself and children." At the time, Macedonio said Ellerup was undergoing a course of treatment that would last 12 to 18 months, and that her health insurance was attached to her husband's and was set to expire in 60 days. Though she quickly filed for divorce, Ellerup later said that she was waiting to see how her husband's case unfolded before casting judgment, while also extending her "heartfelt sympathies" to the victims' families. "Nobody deserves to die in that manner," she said in a March 2024 statement, per NBC New York. "I will listen to all of the evidence and withhold judgment until the end of trial. I have given Rex the benefit of the doubt, as we all deserve." While authorities have said time and again that they don't believe Ellerup knew about Heuermann's alleged crimes—and that she was out of town when the murders he's been charged with were committed—she unwittingly played a key role in his arrest. DNA testing showed that female human hair found on or near four victims' remains belonged to the defendant's wife, according to prosecutors' 2023 bail application (which did not refer to Ellerup by name at the time). Prosecutors said in the filing that travel records put his wife in Iceland when alleged Heuermann victim Melissa Barthelemy was killed in 2009, and cell phone data indicated she was out of the state when Megan Waterman and Amber Lynn Costello were killed in 2010, leading them to determine that the hairs came from his family's residence or were transferred from his clothing. Heuermann was first charged with the murders of Barthelemy, Waterman and Costello in July 2023 and named a suspect in the 2010 killing of Maureen Brainard-Barnes. He was charged in that case in January 2024, then charged with the murders of Costilla (in 1993) and Jessica Taylor (2003) in June 2024 and of Valerie Mack (2000) in December 2024. He has pleaded not guilty to all seven. Though their house had been torn upside down by investigators, Ellerup told the NY Post in July 2023, "It's the only thing I got." But her attorney Macedonio said in November 2024 that she would be relocating to South Carolina and eventually her kids would join her. Ellerup "lost her attachment to her house of 30 years," the lawyer said in a statement, per NBC New York. "To start the healing process, she wants to move on." The Massapequa Park house, which authorities conducted at least two subsequent searches on after Heuermann's arrest, wasn't yet for sale, Macedonio said at the time, but the plan was to list the property once Ellerup's divorce was finalized. It's unclear if Ellerup has since made the move. E! News reached out to her attorney for comment but has yet to hear back. 'People constantly stop in front of the house, to gawk and point and take pictures,' Macedonio told the New York Times in November. 'She's lost any emotional attachment she had to the premises because of everything that's gone on, and the only way she can start recovering is to move.' As for his kids, Victoria worked for her dad at his NYC firm, which has since shut down. Today, she has struggled to find a job while she and her brother try to keep a low profile. 'Chris can't even walk his dog down the block,' their lawyer Vess Mitev told the NY Times. ' He gets photographed, people stop and take pictures, he's catcalled, the whole thing. They can't even check the mail. That kind of scrutiny is not for my clients. They never asked for it.' For the latest breaking news updates, click here to download the E! News App
Scottish Sun
16-05-2025
- Scottish Sun
Serial killer with link to OJ Simpson case sends bizarre message to Trump in final words before he's put to death
Four out of five victims had one common trait KILLER'S MESSAGE Serial killer with link to OJ Simpson case sends bizarre message to Trump in final words before he's put to death Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) A CONVICTED killer once linked to the OJ Simpson murder case used his final moments to send a cryptic message and a shoutout to Donald Trump before his execution. Glen Rogers, who claimed to have killed up to 70 people, was put to death by lethal injection Thursday at Florida State Prison. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 4 Glen Rogers, who claimed to have killed 70 people, was executed in the Florida State Prison Credit: AP 4 Rogers was once linked to the OJ Simpson case Credit: Reuters 4 Before dying, Rogers had a message for President Trump Credit: AFP The 62-year-old, dubbed the 'Casanova Killer,' was executed for the 1995 slaying of a woman in a Tampa motel. He was known as the 'Casanova Killer' for his charm and looks, and was also called the 'Cross Country Killer' because of murders tied to him in several states. Rogers was pronounced dead at 6:16 pm after receiving a three-drug cocktail, according to corrections officials. In his final words, he thanked his wife, who had visited earlier that day. He also offered a chilling remark, 'In the near future, your questions will be answered.' And his last words were, 'President Trump, keep making America great. I'm ready to go.' Rogers lay still as the injection began, with only his mouth slightly open. He made no further movements. A staffer later shook him by the shoulders and called his name to check for signs of consciousness, reported The Associated Press. MURDER SPREE Rogers was tied to five victims across four states - Tina Marie Cribbs, Sandra Gallagher, Mark Peters, Linda Price, and Andy Lou Jiles Sutton. Four were red-haired single mothers in their 30s. Tina Marie Cribbs, a 34-year-old mother of two, had met Rogers at a bar in Tampa shortly before her death. She was found stabbed in a motel room and Rogers was caught days later in Kentucky driving her vehicle after a car chase. Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer - Trailer Rogers had also been convicted in California for killing another woman weeks earlier, Sandra Gallagher, a 33-year-old mom of three. He strangled Gallagher after meeting her at a bar in the 1995 killing in Van Nuys. Authorities had once eyed Rogers in several other unsolved murders across the US, though he was never convicted in those cases. He once told police he had killed about 70 people, but later recanted. Rogers gained wider attention after a 2012 documentary, My Brother the Serial Killer, raised questions about his possible involvement in the 1994 stabbing deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. The film featured his brother Clay and a profiler who had corresponded with Rogers. President Trump, keep making America great. I'm ready to go. Despite the speculation, LAPD shut down any suggestion that Rogers was tied to the infamous murders. 'We know who killed Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. We have no reason to believe that Mr. Rogers was involved,' police said in a statement at that time. OJ Simpson, who was acquitted in a highly publicized trial, was later found liable in a civil suit. He served prison time on unrelated charges and died in April 2024 at age 76 after a cancer battle. ROGERS THE KILLER Rogers, originally from Hamilton, Ohio, 45 minutes from Cincinnati, targeted women with similar traits. The US Supreme Court denied his final appeal Wednesday with no comment. His attorneys had pushed for life in prison, arguing that new child trafficking laws show past abuse should be weighed more heavily. That was rejected. Who were Glen Roger's Victims Mark Peters, 72 Retired electrician from Hamilton, Ohio Lived with Rogers briefly Found dead in January 1994 in a shack owned by Rogers' family in Kentucky Sandra Gallagher, 33 Mother of three from Santa Monica, California Met Rogers at a bar Found burned in her car in Van Nuys on September 28, 1995 Linda Price, 34 Mother of two from Jackson, Mississippi Had briefly lived with Rogers Found stabbed in her home's bathtub on November 3, 1995 Had called Rogers 'my dream man' Tina Marie Cribbs, 34 Florida mother of two Met Rogers at a Tampa bar Found dead in a motel bathtub, stabbed on November 7, 1995 Rogers was caught driving her car after a chase in Kentucky Andy Lou Jiles Sutton, 37 Mother of four from Bossier City, Louisiana Killed in her bed on November 9, 1995 Believed to have slept with Rogers before she was stabbed to death Possible Others Rogers once claimed he killed up to 70 people, but later walked it back Dubbed the 'Casanova Killer' for charming his victims Many of the women he was linked to were in their 30s, red-haired and petite Never charged in other cases, including the infamous O.J. Simpson double murder, though featured in a documentary raising the theory Rogers became the fifth inmate executed in Florida this year. The next execution, of Anthony Wainwright, is set for June 10 under a warrant signed by Governor Ron DeSantis.
The Irish Sun
16-05-2025
- The Irish Sun
Serial killer with link to OJ Simpson case sends bizarre message to Trump in final words before he's put to death
A CONVICTED killer once linked to the OJ Simpson murder case used his final moments to send a cryptic message and a shoutout to Donald Trump before his execution. Glen Rogers, who claimed to have killed up to 70 people, was put to death by lethal injection Thursday at Florida State Prison. 4 Glen Rogers, who claimed to have killed 70 people, was executed in the Florida State Prison Credit: AP 4 Rogers was once linked to the OJ Simpson case Credit: Reuters 4 Before dying, Rogers had a message for President Trump Credit: AFP The 62-year-old, dubbed the 'Casanova Killer,' was executed for the 1995 slaying of a woman in a Tampa motel. He was known as the 'Casanova Killer' for his charm and looks, and was also called the 'Cross Country Killer' because of murders tied to him in several states. Rogers was pronounced dead at 6:16 pm after receiving a three-drug cocktail, according to corrections officials. In his final words, he thanked his wife, who had visited earlier that day. He also offered a chilling remark, 'In the near future, your questions will be answered.' And his last words were, 'President Trump, keep making America great. I'm ready to go.' Rogers lay still as the injection began, with only his mouth slightly open. He made no further movements. A staffer later shook him by the shoulders and called his name to check for signs of consciousness, reported The Most read in The US Sun MURDER SPREE Rogers was tied to five victims across four states - Tina Marie Cribbs, Sandra Gallagher, Mark Peters, Linda Price, and Andy Lou Jiles Sutton. Four were red-haired single mothers in their 30s. Tina Marie Cribbs, a 34-year-old mother of two, had met Rogers at a bar in Tampa shortly before her death. She was found stabbed in a motel room and Rogers was caught days later in Kentucky driving her vehicle after a car chase. Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer - Trailer Rogers had also been convicted in California for killing another woman weeks earlier, Sandra Gallagher, a 33-year-old mom of three. He strangled Gallagher after meeting her at a bar in the 1995 killing in Van Nuys. Authorities had once eyed Rogers in several other unsolved murders across the US, though he was never convicted in those cases. He once told police he had killed about 70 people, but later recanted. Rogers gained wider attention after a 2012 documentary, My Brother the Serial Killer, raised questions about his possible involvement in the 1994 stabbing deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. The film featured his brother Clay and a profiler who had corresponded with Rogers. President Trump, keep making America great. I'm ready to go. Glen Rogers Despite the speculation, LAPD shut down any suggestion that Rogers was tied to the infamous murders. 'We know who killed Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. We have no reason to believe that Mr. Rogers was involved,' police said in a statement at that time. OJ Simpson, who was acquitted in a highly publicized trial, was later found liable in a civil suit. He served prison time on unrelated charges and died in April 2024 at age 76 after a cancer battle. ROGERS THE KILLER Rogers, originally from Hamilton, Ohio, 45 minutes from Cincinnati, targeted women with similar traits. The US Supreme Court denied his final appeal Wednesday with no comment. His attorneys had pushed for life in prison, arguing that new child trafficking laws show past abuse should be weighed more heavily. That was rejected. Read more on the Irish Sun Who were Glen Roger's Victims Mark Peters, 72 Retired electrician from Hamilton, Ohio Lived with Rogers briefly Found dead in January 1994 in a shack owned by Rogers' family in Kentucky Sandra Gallagher, 33 Mother of three from Santa Monica, California Met Rogers at a bar Found burned in her car in Van Nuys on September 28, 1995 Linda Price, 34 Mother of two from Jackson, Mississippi Had briefly lived with Rogers Found stabbed in her home's bathtub on November 3, 1995 Had called Rogers 'my dream man' Tina Marie Cribbs, 34 Florida mother of two Met Rogers at a Tampa bar Found dead in a motel bathtub, stabbed on November 7, 1995 Rogers was caught driving her car after a chase in Kentucky Andy Lou Jiles Sutton, 37 Mother of four from Bossier City, Louisiana Killed in her bed on November 9, 1995 Believed to have slept with Rogers before she was stabbed to death Possible Others Rogers once claimed he killed up to 70 people, but later walked it back Dubbed the 'Casanova Killer' for charming his victims Many of the women he was linked to were in their 30s, red-haired and petite Never charged in other cases, including the infamous O.J. Simpson double murder, though featured in a documentary raising the theory Rogers became the fifth inmate executed in Florida this year. The next execution, of Anthony Wainwright, is set for June 10 under a warrant signed by Governor Ron DeSantis. 4 Rogers was put to death by lethal injection Credit: AFP
Yahoo
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
What happened to María Ángeles Molina, the killer in Netflix's 'Angi: Fake Life, True Crime'
Netflix's "Angi: Fake Life, True Crime" is about a woman who stole her identity before killing her. María Ángeles Molina — aka Angi — took out numerous loans in Ana Paez's name. At the time, the media described it as "the near-perfect crime." "Angi: Fake Life, True Crime" tells the story of a woman who murdered her coworker but tried to make it appear as though she died during a sex game gone wrong in order to steal her identity. The Netflix documentary, which was released on Friday, adds to the streamer's vast library of true crime content, which includes "American Nightmare," "Monster," and "Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer." In 2008, María Ángeles Molina — also known as Angi — invited her coworker Ana Páez, a fashion designer, to her apartment in Barcelona, where she drugged her with chloroform before putting a sealed bag over her head. She also planted semen samples from two male sex workers at the scene. In 2012, Spanish outlet El Pais reported that a man testified at Molina's trial that she had visited his brothel where the sex workers were employed. "She said she didn't want sex but had made a bet with friends that she would sleep with a gigolo," Juan Manuel D. told the court. El Pais reported that Molina masqueraded as Páez for two years before killing her. She took out several life insurance policies and lines of credit in Páez's name between April 2006 and November 2007, El Confidencial reported, and was seen on CCTV in a Barcelona bank wearing a wig to impersonate Páez in 2007. Molina's boyfriend at the time also gave the authorities documents he found belonging to Páez, including her passport, hidden in the their bathroom. The case was referred to by the media as "the near-perfect crime," according to Netflix. In March 2012, the Barcelona High Court sentenced Molina to 22 years in prison, which the Supreme Court later reduced to 18 years, El Confidencial reported. She was convicted of homicide and the falsification of documents. She is serving her sentence in the Mas D'Enric prison in the Tarragona province, northeast Spain. She was originally set for release in 2027. However, in March 2025, Molina was arrested a second time while on leave from prison. The authorities alleged Molina planned another homicide from inside the prison and used her temporary release to target someone else, El Confidencial reported. The Spanish news site reported that the police suspected Molina was planning to use a hitman to carry out the killing, but did not say who the intended target was. El Confidencial reported Molina had chosen not to testify before a judge in this new case. Read the original article on Business Insider
