Stranger Than Fiction: Vol. 2

“Stranger than fiction” is one of our guiding forces here at True Crime Campfire. We always try to find the kind of stories that will live rent-free in your head for the rest of your life. But of all the weird stories we’ve encountered in our decades of true crime obsession, there are a few that stand out far above the crowd. In our first case, a quirky professor known for his unorthodox views on fast food comes home from a conference and walks into a nightmare. A day later, detectives walk in on the weirdest, most brutal crime scene they’ve ever seen. And in the second, a teenage boy is forced to confront a kind of betrayal worse than he ever could have imagined—and investigators will have to puzzle through a maze of bizarre clues to work out what happened. <br /><br />Sources: <br /><a href="https://archives.law.virginia.edu/dengrove/writeup/appledorf" rel="noopener">https://archives.law.virginia.edu/dengrove/writeup/appledorf</a><br /><a href="https://www.gainesville.com/story/news/education/campus/2018/04/04/35-years-after-murder-appledorfs-memory-lives-on-in-popular-uf-course/12823197007/" rel="noopener">https://www.gainesville.com/story/news/education/campus/2018/04/04/35-years-after-murder-appledorfs-memory-lives-on-in-popular-uf-course/12823197007/</a><br />Investigation Discovery's "Tabloid," episodes "Deadly D-List" and "Devils in Disguise"<br /><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1983/07/22/us/2-sentenced-in-slaying-of-professor-in-florida.html" rel="noopener">https://www.nytimes.com/1983/07/22/us/2-sentenced-in-slaying-of-professor-in-florida.html</a><br /><a href="http://truecrimediscussions.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-assault-of-charles-hardeman.html" rel="noopener">http://truecrimediscussions.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-assault-of-charles-hardeman.html</a><br /><a href="https://www.actionnews5.com/story/17590194/teen-recovering-after-surviving-fire-car-crash-and-attempted-drowning/" rel="noopener">https://www.actionnews5.com/story/17590194/teen-recovering-after-surviving-fire-car-crash-and-attempted-drownin