In September of 1992, 19 year old Jennifer Asbenson lived in Palm Springs, and needed to get to work in the neighboring town of Desert Hot Springs. Jennifer didn’t have a car, and she had just missed the bus. At the time Jennifer was a certified nurse assistant, and she worked with disabled children as the night nurse. It was already dark when she had missed the bus, and she was running out of options. As she standing at the bus stop, she hears a voice from a nearby car that pulled into a parking lot, asking if she needed a ride..Sources:“Confessions of a Serial Killer Part 1 and 2”, Inside Evil with Chris Cuomo, HLNMurderpediaWikipediaLinks:PatreonInstagramThe Sisterhood
Gary Heidnik was one of the many serial killers that the 1991 psychological horror film Silence of the Lambs based serial killer Buffalo Bill off. Heidnik was the inspiration for the movie detail of Buffalo Bill keeping women in a pit in his basement. He also forced his prisoners to eat the flesh of a deceased prisoner, used them as sex slaves and forced them to torture one another. Links:PatreonInstagramThe Sisterhood
In the summer of 2007, Kelsey Smith was a beautiful and vibrant 18 year old. She had just graduated from Shawnee Mission West High School, and was going to attend Kansas State University in the fall, with plans to become a veterinarian. She had even been accepted to play clarinet for K State’s marching band. The evening of June 2, 2007, was like most other days. Around 7:00pm, Kelsey Smith did what most people do when they need to get something, she went to Target. She was looking for a gift for her boyfriend for their 6 month anniversary. She talked on the phone to her mom as she walked around looking at things, and when she found what she wanted she went to checkout, getting off the phone with her mom but telling her she would see her in a little bit. Kelsey was planning to meet her boyfriend John at her house at 7:30pm. But when Kelsey wasn’t home by then, John started calling and texting her.. but got no responses. Resources:ID Channel Hometown Homicide (S1 E6)ID Channel See No Evil (S1 E1)WikipediaTrue Case FilesLinks:PatreonInstagramThe Sisterhood
Shauna Howe was an 11 year old girl from Oil City, PA. She was a shy blue-eyed brunette who was looking forward to spending the evening of October 27th with her girl scout troop dressed up in her gymnast costume. Oil City is located about an hour and a half north, northeast of Pittsburgh and had a population of just under 12,000 people in 1992. On the evening of October 27th, 1992 she was walking home from a girl scouts Halloween party with her best friend. Her friend offers to walk her the extra block home but Shauna decides to continue on her own. That would be the last time that anyone saw Shauna Howe alive. She was kidnapped less than 2 blocks from her home. Halloween would never be the same in Oil City again. Links:PatreonInstagramThe Sisterhood
On September 26, 2010, calls about a brush fire in the Santa Margarita area are received by Cal Fire (a California state agency that functions as the County Fire Department under a contract with the County of San Luis Obispo). First responders rush to put out the blaze when out of nowhere a man comes running at them, covered in blood. He’s incoherent, his nose looks like its nearly missing and was hanging from his face and his jaw is clearly broken, but responders are able to make out one word that he keeps saying - “Dystiny”. The man eventually loses consciousness, and as he’s being prepped for the ambulance, the fire fighters make another discovery. In a small, seemingly hand dug hole, they discovered a what looked like a duffle bag. Inside the bag, they discovered the partially burned body of a teenage girl, Dystiny Myers. Sources:ID Channel - Murder Among Friends - S2 E1MurderpediaNoozhawkNew Times SLOSanta Maria TimesSLO Tribune - Gruesome Death of Teen Dystiny Myers is Described by InvestigatorsSLO Tribune - Details About Killing of Dystiny Myers Revealed in TestimonySLO Tribune - Dystiny Myers Killing Focus of 'Murder Among Friends' Season 2 PremiereLinks:PatreonInstagramThe Sisterhood