A Voice That Changed True Crime Forever There are voices that simply tell stories—and then there are voices that define a genre. Bill Kurtis is one of the latter. With a cadence that mixes authority with calm intrigue, he’s guided millions through the tangled, often terrifying narratives of unsolved murders, vanished victims, and long-forgotten leads. … Read more
A Classroom Left Empty—and a City Forever Changed It was supposed to be a normal school day in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. But when 25-year-old Christy Mirack didn’t show up to teach her sixth-grade class on December 21, 1992, her principal felt something was wrong. What he discovered inside her home wasn’t just tragic—it was the beginning … Read more
A Life on the Edge—and a Push Over It On the evening of July 12, 2014, Conrad Roy, an 18-year-old with a bright smile and a stormy soul, climbed into his pickup truck. In the quiet of a Kmart parking lot in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, carbon monoxide hissed from a gas-powered water pump. It was a … Read more
Not Every Monster Hides in the Dark It doesn’t always start with bruises. Often, it begins with compliments, roses, and whispered promises of forever. Then comes the isolation. The control. The fear. By the time it turns violent, the most dangerous truth is already in motion: many victims of intimate partner violence don’t survive to … Read more
A Husband, A Father—A Killer? On Christmas Eve of 2002, Modesto, California, was dressed in twinkling lights and festive anticipation. But the warmth of the season would soon be shattered by a horrifying discovery—or, rather, the absence of one. Laci Peterson, 27 years old and eight months pregnant, simply vanished. And her husband, Scott Peterson—the … Read more
For years, a rancid, rotting stench hovered over Imperial Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio. Neighbors complained. City inspectors blamed nearby sausage factories. But inside a crumbling duplex at 12205 Imperial, a serial killer was collecting corpses—and no one was listening. That killer was Anthony Sowell, a convicted sex offender and former Marine. From 2007 to 2009, … Read more
It starts with a snap—not of bone or scalpel, but of rope, as a medical student cuts down a freshly hanged man. His heart is still fluttering. His eyes, not yet dimmed. But this isn’t a rescue. It’s a race to the dissection table. And it’s only the beginning of medicine’s most monstrous chapter. In … Read more
Beneath the towering cliffs and tranquil waterfalls of Yosemite National Park, a darker tale hides in its legacy—a memory stained with blood and horror. In 1999, Cary Stayner turned a beloved national park into a hunting ground. Four innocent women lost their lives. And today, over two decades later, Stayner—once a handyman at the Cedar … Read more
It begins with a shift in the wind, a twitch of a nose, and a body stiffening with alert. Deep in the woods, a dog stops mid-step, tail curled, eyes locked on nothing visible—but unmistakably there. To the trained handler, the signal is clear: “Cadaver scent.” This is the haunting yet heroic world of cadaver … Read more
They were sons. Brothers. Students. Dreamers. Before John Wayne Gacy became known as the “Killer Clown,” before the nation was haunted by headlines and horror stories, there were 33 young men who simply wanted to live. Their names were nearly eclipsed by the man who murdered them, but today, we remember them not for how … Read more