Hilary Shenfeld is a Chicago-based freelance journalist who has written for A&E Real Crime, People magazine, Newsweek, the Chicago Tribune and more.
Katie Zejdlik, a biological anthropologist and collections and facility curator at a forensic body farm, tells us why researching dead bodies is important and why you might find a kebab skewer in the lab among the calipers and microscopes.
German serial killer nurse Niels Hoegel is suspected of killing more than 300 patients at two hospitals in Germany. Beatrice Yorker, an expert in serial killings in health arenas, tells us how killers in medical professions often get away with the crime.
Thomas Hargrove of the Murder Accountability Project talks about the 2,000 or so serial killers he believes are prowling U.S. streets now.
Most convicts serve time in jail or prison for crimes where incarceration is an option, but in some cases, judges think quite literally outside the box and issue punishments intended to fit the crime.
Melting ice that exposed the buried bodies of missing people was one offbeat way a cold case was reopened.
