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.
Parents might not report their missing child for a myriad of reasons: because they are the perpetrator in a crime against the child, immigration concerns and more.
For seven years, 20-year-old Colleen Stan was held captive and locked in a small, coffin-like box under Cameron and Janice Hooker's bed. What came next was a misery of unspeakable depth and duration.
Angeline Hartmann of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and A&E's "Live Rescue" on the role the internet plays in facilitating child abduction.
For fans of the 23-year-old pop star, her murder was a shocking tragedy. But for those close to Selena, it was an event foreshadowed by multiple warning signs of her fan club president's nefarious intentions.
Eddie Seda, Matthew Milat and Michael Madison are just a handful of killers who claim to have been inspired by other killers.
The serial killer seemed to be a well-adjusted adult. But his crimes included binding, torturing, raping and ultimately murdering 33 male victims, some as young as 15 years old.
We explore the serial murders committed by Earl Taylor, Robert Spangler and Jack Reeves: men who killed more than one of their wives.
There have been many high-profile crimes over the years, but only a fraction have been successfully translated into film. What does a true crime need to make it into the silver screen? Crime author Harold Schechter on what makes for good true-crime movies.
