There were two more murders, 15 miles away.

When police arrives, I found the telephones and electricity lines.

We have a weird homicide.

A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird...

A cup of murder...

Not every killer has a motive, and it leaves a senseless crime feeling even more so.

On January 25, 1996, a man was led to the gallows for a crime that even he didn't know why he committed.

So if you like your coffee hot but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder.

Billy Bailey was born in January of 1947 as either the ninth or 19th

of 23 children living in poverty with his parents in Smyrna, Delaware. When Billy was less than a year

old, his mother tragically passed away, and his father followed soon thereafter when he was just six.

After the loss of both of his parents, Bill was shuttled from foster home to foster home

where he suffered from physical abuse until he left at the age of 14.

Though there are a number of gaps where the sources don't have information on his life,

we do know that at some point, Billy got got married and, after she had their daughter,

he began drinking heavily. When the little girl was just a few months old, she was badly burned

while in her father's care and her hand needed to be amputated. His in-laws blamed him for the

injury and he was later prevented from seeing her altogether.

Triggering more excessive drinking, Billy was convicted of forgery in 1978, and while

waiting for his sentence, was living in a community correction center called Plummer House.

On May 21, 1979, after learning that, under a habitual offender statute, he might be

facing life in prison for the fraud, Billy decided to up and leave the work release center in

...