Adam Janos is a New York City-based writer and reporter. In addition to his work for A&E's Real Crime blog, he has reported for The Wall Street Journal and The Budapest Times, amongst others.
Convicted serial killer Samuel Little recently confessed to 90 more murders. If all of his killings are confirmed, Little, currently age 78, would be the most prolific serial killer in American history. Learn more about Little and his confession.
A&E True Crime profiles three family-related murders that took place on Thanksgiving.
A&E True Crime looks into the life of Joaquin Guzman and why murders by Mexican drug cartels are particularly gruesome.
A&E True Crime looks back on Columbian drug lord Pablo Escobar's rise to power and prosperity, and investigates who fired the bullet that took his life.
After the 2005 disappearance of Teresa Halbach, 16-year-old Brendan Dassey confessed to police that he and his uncle, Steven Avery, raped and murdered her. But Dassey later recanted his confession, suggesting that he'd been coerced into telling the police what they wanted to hear. The jury didn't buy it and sentenced him to life in prison.
With the national homicide-clearance rate below 60 percent, the odds are good that eventually a detective—even an excellent one—will run into a dead end: The case that goes cold, that leaves a family grieving without justice and a detective grasping for answers, even after retirement.
A&E True Crime looks at some of the most famous cases of abused people fighting back, sometimes with deadly results.
For over a century, electricity has been used as the ultimate punishment on criminals who've gone violently astray of the law. Soon, it may be used to rehabilitate them. In July 2018, a new study was released suggesting that running electrical currents through people's brains reduces their desire to commit acts of aggression.
