"Welcome to the neighborhood...." "...you've been robbed!" That ominous greeting came from Dennis J, the first neighbor to greet us as we excitedly pulled up to the summer camp we had just closed on at the local bank. Robbed? Sure enough, the fully-furnished house we had mortgaged everything we owned to buy was missing most of its furnishings. Had the previous owner absconded with the stuff? Nope. It turned out that a certain family staying at a nearby cottage had decided to redecorate their house in Massachusetts with furniture and appliances from some of the summer places in Highland [READ MORE]

The distant drone of a lone motorboat. In the silent hours after midnight that sound seems as ominous as the pitch darkness. Then it suddenly stops. Silence. Long moments later....a heart-stopping, blood-curdling, terrifying scream. The scream echoes across the lake. Then fades away. Silence returns. In the morning, the Washington Police swarm the shoreline camp where the grisly murder took place. Crime scene photos of a butchered corpse. Blood stains everywhere. Fingerprint dusting. Witness statements, all of them eerily similar. The sound of a lone motorboat on the lake. Silence. A scream. Death. The Highland Lake Murderer claims another [READ MORE]