Behind the Scenes of a Real-Life Special Victims Unit
Every year, over a million violent crimes ripple through the United States, leaving behind scars that are often unseen. Among…
Category: True Crime
Why Jeffrey Dahmer Waited Almost a Decade After Killing His First Victim, Steven Hicks, Before Murdering Again
A Vanishing Act That Haunted a Family for 13 YearsWhen 18-year-old Steven Hicks didn’t return home one June night in…
Why People Fake Their Own Death
The Ultimate Vanishing ActBy the start of 2009, Indiana-based investment advisor Marcus Schrenker had decided he was done with life—or…
Murder, Suicide or Accident The Chilling Mystery of Elisa Lam’s Death
In February 2013, guests at the Cecil Hotel—a nearly century-old establishment in downtown Los Angeles infamous for its dark history—complained…
The Rise and Fall of American Serial Killers
Once labeled as monsters lurking in the shadows, serial killers have prowled among us since the dawn of humanity. However,…
How Lisa Montgomery Spent Years on Death Row Rebuilding Her Life
Lisa Montgomery’s life was a nightmare from the moment she was born in a small Washington town. Her tragic story…
Tony Costa Was a Serial Killer—and a Babysitter
In the late 1960s, Liza Rodman spent her summers under the watchful eye of Tony Costa, the charming handyman at…
Men Who Have Killed for the Women They Loved
For the past five decades, men have been statistically more likely to commit murder—ten times more often than women, in…
What Really Happened With the ‘Last Call’ Killer Who Terrorized NYC’s Gay Nightspots in 1980s and ’90s
Richard Rogers was no ordinary killer. By day, he was a surgical nurse at New York’s prestigious Mt. Sinai Hospital.…
It Wasn’t Me: What Causes a Killer to Blame Another
In June 1967, the mutilated torso of Henry Evers surfaced in Biscayne Bay, South Florida—a gruesome mystery that would haunt…