Criminal Justice & True Crime

Are we dealing with criminals in the right way? Are there more constructive options?

Before the Watts family murder, Christian Longo slaughtered his family in Oregon. After a short life on the run, he was eventually sentenced to death.

The Walker family spy ring was one of the most infamous and damaging cases of espionage during the Cold War and in United States history.

Prosecutors in capital murder cases in Texas found a willing accomplice in forensic psychiatrist James Grigson.

Robert Pickton is one of Canada's most prolific serial killers and could possibly be released very soon.

Blair Adams was found dead in Knoxville, Tennessee but nobody knows what happened. Was someone really following him or was Blair having some sort of episode.

There's a worldwide shortage of donated organs for transplantation and criminal gangs are eager to meet the demand.

Bethesda Row is a fancy shopping area in Maryland, that was the site of a horrific murder at a local Luluemon store, that left one dead and another managed to survive.

Brave, beautiful Susanne Gold-Smith shares how her survival of sexual assault unexpectedly saved her once troubled marriage; Mrs. Gold-Smith now empowers other survivors, and relates how her trauma not only made her stronger, but also brought her and her husband even closer.

The Colts Neck Mansion killings occurred on November 20, 2018 at a mansion in Colts Neck Township, New Jersey. The four victims included a man, his wife, his son, and his daughter.

Human life is one of the most exquisite treasures of the world. Taking it apart might be the most heinous and brutal act of a human. Think of a human committing this horrific act more than once. Yes, that is serial killing.

The first government emerged about 5,000 years ago, and almost immediately crooked people started figuring out how to personally profit from positions of public office.

With reputations for extreme brutality, nobody was willing to cross the brothers.

In 1892, Lizzie Borden stood trial for the murders of her stepmother Abby Borden and father Andrew Borden. Although she was acquitted, no one else was charged, and she is still known for their murders.

A surprising number of women develop romantic attachments to some of the worst violent offenders.

John List meticulously planned the killing of his family and then disappeared.

Despite the oath to tell the truth, witnesses frequently lie in court. But, there’s a class of liar that stands below all the rest―the jailhouse snitch.

In the late 1880s, American-born Florence Maybrick faced trial in England for the murder of her husband James. Was she guilty or innocent of poisoning him with arsenic? Here's her compelling story.

1 in every 100 people in the US currently resides in a prison. Many more are on parole. How does a prior conviction affect voting rights for the current or formerly incarcerated, and how might this shape US politics forever?

This article will address several misconceptions—as well as mistruths—surrounding the highly debated case of Darlie Routier.

This real-life tragedy will bring you nightmares.

Bad physicians and police officers receive plenty of regional and national media coverage in the United States. But, reports about bad or criminal teachers and school staff rarely reach beyond the immediate city or state that's involved. Yet, bad teachers can do great damage to future generations.

The system is broken. The odds are stacked against the many while privilege is reserved for the few. Life indeed is a hand of cards we are all dealt, but why are these hands so unfairly uneven?

Kali Ann Poulton was the "apple of her mother's eye," and an only child. One day she vanished with her pink and white Big Wheel, sending the city of Rochester into a panicked search for a kidnapper.

On a chilly October night over ten years ago, Baby Lisa vanished into the night. Her parents believe she was trafficked, but the police focused on them as suspects, and may have missed critical evidence.

Gary Heidnik abducted six women in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the mid-1980s. What he did with them is what nightmares are made of.

Our prisons are overflowing with people. Let's not forget that. People who for whatever reason landed within the confines of cell walls. And who gives a damn?

The Sausage Ghost is one of the enduring haunting stories of the French Quarter, based on the Moity case of two women brutally murdered and stuffed into trunks before their killer escaped into the swamps.

In 1917, a Canadian artist of outstanding talent vanished on a canoe trip in Ontario's Algonquin Park.

In this article, I look at evidence pertaining to the Zodiac Killer in hopes of finding a way that he might be linked to or rebutted as Gary Francis Poste.

Vasili Blokhin was arguably the most prolific executioner in modern history. Blokhin not only oversaw mass executions but is said to have personally killed more than 7000 people in cold blood.

In November 1970, a woman's body was found in Norway. Who was she? Where did she come from? As yet, there are no answers.

The FBI refers to Samuel Little as the most prolific serial killer in American history. In 2018, Little admitted to committing more than 93 murders. His killing spree lasted for more than three decades.

Here is a handy timeline of Gabby Petito's disappearance and some theories about what happened.

Gabby Petito is an adventurous and free spirit who had embarked on a cross-country journey with her boyfriend. All of the sudden her texts to her family stopped and her boyfriend showed up back home alone.

Craig Price had an ideal childhood. He was raised by blue-collar parents, received good grades in school, and had a passion for sports. When he hit puberty, something changed and he began acting out and committed petty crimes. Before age 16, so many lives will change, and none for the better.

A high-profile murder of a mother and son from a prominent South Carolina family uncovers other potential brutal crimes.

Greatly feared for his use of violence, Silas Jayne operated in the very dark underworld of the champion horse business.

Charles Cullen is a former nurse and the most prolific serial killer in New Jersey state history. In December 2003 Cullen told authorities that he had murdered as many as 45 patients during a 16-year period while working for 10 hospitals in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

A Yale University student goes missing and is later found hidden in the wall of the lab she worked in.

In 2011, a twisted web of murder, fundamentalist Protestantism and a thread of deceit unravelled in the loyalist town of Coleraine. The shockwaves are felt to this day.

Carl Panzram was only seven when he committed his first crime. By age 11, he was sent to his first correctional facility. Physically abused and sexually violated, Carl soon began to hate all mankind. A series of events sent him on a mission of vengeance that had never been seen before.

Insurance fraud is quite common; it even extended into the rarefied world of equestrian sports in the 1970s and '80s. Learn about Tommy Burns, John Druck, Henry the Hawk, and other notables in the horse murder scandal.

Serial killers are not a modern phenomenon—they actually stretch back to ancient Rome and even prehistoric times. This is an overview of the macabre history, coupled with modern efforts to create a comprehensible serial killer profile.

Asha Degree is a young girl who has been missing since February 14, 2000. There have been very little leads in this case. Someone knows what happened to her. Here is her story.

A little girl goes missing and is murdered in 1973. Find out what the police did 45 years later to catch her killer.

Hearing a mysterious whistle with no clear origin would be an unsettling experience for anyone. Here are a few cases people have chosen to report, and the possible explanations behind them.

Louis Le Prince invented the single-lens motion picture camera in 1888. He was on his way to a public premiere of his invention in New York in 1890. Le Prince boarded a train in France and disappeared. William Kennedy Dickson of the Edison Company is often given credit for inventing it in 1891.

While mandatory arrest laws seem to have been born of good intentions, in practice, they often have negative results. They amplify the existing systemic racism in the criminal justice system, and they can also negatively impact the victims of crimes in a variety of ways.

Little five-year-old Summer Wells was out planting flowers with her mother and grandmother at their house in the beautiful mountains of Tennessee. One minute she was there and the next minute gone.