'You are about to enter a world of drug smuggling, drug greed, and drug murder.' With those words...

In October 1989, 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling was abducted near his home in the small town of St....

'Decades before the coining of the term 'serial killer,' H.H. Holmes murdered dozens of people in...

In January 1889, as London constables hunted for Jack the Ripper and theaters around the world pr...

Each year, hundreds of thousands of people are reported missing in the United States alone. The m...

The ancient Greeks and Romans considered it degrading to both parties yet depicted it prolificall...

Over 13 months in 1976­-1977, four children were abducted in the Detroit suburbs, each of them he...

On a September night in 1958, three New Orleans college students went looking for a gay man to as...

What do psychology and neuroscience tell us about our dreams? A dream researcher and practicing p...

'Big Bob' Bashara put on a respectable face. To his friends in Detroit's affluent suburb of Gross...

Indiana State Police Captain Matt Leach led the hunt for John Dillinger during the violent early ...

The tragic death of 13-year-old Danny Croteau in 1972 faded from headlines and memories for 20 ye...

As a new attorney, Pamela Braswell was confident her career was about to skyrocket. Instead, she ...

From the files of Scotland Yard's 'Black Museum' (open only to police officers) come true crime s...

For six decades, Pittsburgh-based forensic scientist Cyril Wecht has been an outspoken authority ...

On a summer day in 1898, a family in Dover, Delaware, shared a box of chocolates they received in...

¿ As the Great Depression hit, Penn State College was cash-strapped and dilapidated. Cuts to athl...

The shocking series of crimes committed by lovers Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez dominated the...

'We never lock our doors.' This is an often-heard remark expressing a commonplace American attitu...

In his 2012 book Time Cure, psychologist Philip Zimbardo introduced a groundbreaking therapeutic ...

Some criminals become household names, while others--even those who seek recognition through thei...

Already part of a genre known for generating controversy, some true crime and scandal books have ...

Historian Alan G. Gauthreaux chronicles 12 homicide cases from late 1800s and early 1900s Louisia...

A trunk dripping blood, discovered at a railway station in Stockton in 1906, launched one of the ...

By recounting actual court cases, this book examines the multi-billion-dollar elder fraud industr...

In 2010, University of Kansas officials were shocked to learn that the FBI and IRS were on campus...

Umberto Anastasio, better known as Albert Anastasia, was an Italian-American mobster and hitman w...

When Gail Hovey was a teenager, her local Presbyterian church hired Georgia, a seminary-trained C...

In 1975, Dr. Richard Charles Haefner had it all--a Ph.D. from Penn State University, a prestigiou...

An estimated 800,000 children are reported missing each year in the United States. Only one in 10...

The term 'swinging' calls to mind a bygone era of 1970s sexual liberation--images of shag carpet,...

We are all instilled with principles, passed down through generations, that guide our feelings an...

During his 25 years with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Dean Scoville advanced from...

Born in the mid-nineteenth century, Sophie Lyons was a master thief, con artist, blackmailer and ...

On October 24, 1961, Massachusetts wife and mother Joan Risch vanished seemingly into thin air. E...

In the early 1930s women practicing criminal law were often held in the same low regard as the cl...

Notorious, numerous and varied, serial murderers from Australia have an eclectic record of crimes...

Largely forgotten now, Frankie Yale was an influential New York mobster of the early 20th century...

This book is an in-depth exploration of four fascinating true crime cases from the files of Cyril...

Even if you haven't been hurt by domestic violence, someone you know has and wishes they could te...

Since President John F. Kennedy's 1963 murder in Dallas, medical examiner and lawyer Dr. Cyril We...

A Generation X transgender woman, Sherilyn Connellycame out of the closet in 1999. Her own identi...

South Florida in the 1970s was one of the nation's most dangerous locations. Behind the image of ...

Public mass killings are becoming more common. Though the chances of being harmed or killed in a ...

Through the Victorian and Edwardian eras, various health movements emerged in the transition to t...

This thrilling story memorializes one of the most dangerous--and successful--series of undercover...

Drawing on media reports, interviews and court records, this book recounts the stories of women b...

The Boston Police Department was formed by a man who had twice failed in business, ran a bar in t...