The Crime Tree

Born on the 8th of January in 1998, little Chloe Louise Hoson never made it through her first year of school; her life cut horrifically short at the hands of another. Her killer, despite admitting to murder and giving graphic details of Chloe’s last moments, including his actions afterwards, is now a free man; living alone and un-monitored, close to schools, in the suburbs of Sydney, Australia. This is the story of 5-year-old, Chloe Louise Hoson. SOURCES "What Happened to Chloe" 7News new.com.au dailymail.co.uk thesun.co.uk yahoo.com theage.com.au smh.com.au expressdigest.com meaww.com

In 2005, when the body of a 21-year-old Illinois State University student was found 700 miles, or 1100km, from where she was attacked, investigators struggled to find any trace of her killer. This is the story of Olamide Adeyooye.

In 1996, when a young mother was found murdered and dumped in parkland in Noosa, an Australian resort area along Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, detectives had to dig deep and use a tool that had never before been seen in Australia. This is the story of Samantha Bodsworth. SOURCES Forensic Investigators Wikipedia Curtin University WA

At 6:47pm on the 26th of August 2011, a frantic 911 call shattered the otherwise somewhat peaceful city of Chicopee, located on the Connecticut River in Hampden County, Western Massachusetts. Despite the crime rates of this area being quite high and well above the national average, its level of violent crimes is relatively low; so low in fact that in 2011 only one murder was reported. This is the story of 20-year-old Amanda Plasse.

In 1991, when the body of a young woman was found discarded in a light industrial area south of Sydney, detectives thought she would be identified quickly. It was Christmas, and if someone's loved one was missing, this was definitely the time of year where it most likely wouldn't go un-noticed.  This is the story of Viviane Ruiz. SOURCES Forensic Investigators Sydney Morning Herald ABC News Find-A-Grave

How did the bodies of two women, who were unknown to one another, end up in the same apartment rented by three University students, who were not only unknown to both girls, but were all away on vacation at the time of their deaths? This is the story of Laura Watson-Dalton and Maria Lehner. SOURCES Pop Culture Crime AP News Lacrosse Tribune Radio Iowa The Gazette QC Online Iowa Courts Forensic Files S8 E29

17-year-old Jayden Parkinson was the UK's 131st domestic abuse victim to lose her life in 2013...and this is her story. SOURCES: True Life Crime UK Episode 1 bbc.com thesun.co.uk LINKS: Jayden's Gift Facebook page GoGetFunding.com

Wayne and Jennifer De Gruchy and their three children were your typical Aussie family, living in Shellharbour’s middle-class suburb of Albion Park Rail, approximately 100km east of the NSW capital of Sydney. Every Monday morning Wayne would make the hour and half commute up to Sydney where he worked, and it was not uncommon for him to spend the night at his parents' place if he’d had a long day, and this is where he was on the evening of Tuesday the 12th of March in 1996. Wayne had called Jenny earlier that day to let her know that he wouldn’t be home, just as Jenny was getting ready to go pick up their two youngest children, 15-year-old Adrian and 13-year-old Sarah from school. What Wayne didn’t know was that this quick phone call would be the last time he spoke to his wife, and that within hours, Jenny and two of their three children would be brutally murdered. This is the story of Jennifer, Adrian and Sarah De Gruchy. SOURCES Crime Investigation Australia Wikipedia NZ Herald Sydney Herald

10 year old Zahra had beaten the odds and survived cancer twice. She had fought hard for her chance to grow up; her chance to do amazing things in this world. But all that was taken away the moment Elisa Fairchild entered her life. This is the story of Zahra Baker. Linktree Instagram

This is the story of the Eastburn Family murders and the trials of Timothy Hennis. SOURCES ‘Three Trials for Murder’ by Nicholas Schmidle  https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/11/14/three-trials-for-murder Wikipedia Makeup & Murder Podcast Based on the Evidence Podcast Crime Hounds Podcast DEPENDAsplaining Podcast True Crime Brewery Podcast Military Murder Podcast Generation Why Podcast Serial Napper Podcast The Criminally Obsessed Podcast Partners N Crime Podcast Innocent Victims by Scott Whisnant