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In this biography, Wayne Hoffman meticulously researches the century-old murder of his great-grandmother, while facing another tragedy much closer to home: his mother's decline from Alzheimer's.

This is the true story of a sixteen-month crime spree in 1998, when a Cuban-born former Red Army lieutenant launched a series of raids on the Las Vegas Strip, hitting five world-class hotels, three

Danny Seifert was murdered when he tried to leave the Chicago Mob.

In 1974, Dennis Lynn Rader stalked and murdered a family of four in Wichita, Kansas. Soon after killing the family, he murdered a young woman and then another, until he had ten victims.

In 1913, two Catholic priests set out to the Canadian Arctic to convert isolated Inuit's. Three days after reaching their destination, the two men were murdered.

The story of Clarence Henderson, a Black sharecropper convicted and sentenced to death three times for a murder he didn't commit, and of Thurgood Marshall's battle against racism and the

In the 1960s, Edgar Smith, in prison and sentenced to death for the murder of teenager Victoria Zielinski, struck up a correspondence with William F. Buckley, the founder of National Review.

Lizzette Martinez and Keelin MacGregor share a no-holds-barred look at Martinez's relationship with Kelly, her efforts to break free and pursue her dreams, and her courage to seek justice.

In January 1923, twenty-year-old Fritzie Mann left home for a remote cottage by the sea to meet a man whose identity she had revealed to no one.

Here is a look into the creation of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit and the evolution of criminal profiling, written by the forensic nurse who transformed the way the FBI studies, profiles,

Journalist Julie K.

As American women began to reject Victorian propriety, authorities feared that "oversexed" women could destroy civilization if allowed to reproduce and pass on their defects.

The art of the con has a long and venerable tradition, and its female practitioners are some of the best, or worst in history. But what about today?

Charles Cullen, RN, was one of the most accomplished serial killers in recent history.

In 2009 Shane Bauer, Josh Fattal, and Sarah Shourd were hiking in Iraqi Kurdistan when they unknowingly crossed into Iran and were captured by a border patrol.