From the 1984 Victims of Crime Act to Marsy's Law, A&E True Crime explores the rights victims of violent crimes have within the United States, and how these laws can vary by location.
On July 31, 1970, 4-year-old Heidi Jones found the body of her mother, 23-year-old Loretta Jones. Heidi Jones-Asay recounts the 46 years leading up to Thomas Egley's long-awaited guilty plea.
After spending nearly two decades in prison for a crime he didn't commit, the Wisconsin man was exonerated and released. But soon after, he was charged and convicted of the murder of Teresa Halbach.
'Phrogging' is the crime of individuals secretly living in someone's home—a reference to how frogs leap from place to place. We investigate the many different forms of this crime and the danger it presents to victims.
Ron Franscell, author of 'ShadowMan,' speaks with us about the first case in which the profiling technique, often used by the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit, successfully apprehended a suspect.
The ex-police sergeant was convicted of killing his third wife and is currently in prison, but hasn't been charged in the disappearance of Stacy Peterson, his fourth wife.
Ann Wolbert Burgess tells A&E True Crime about how her expertise in victimology aided the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit in their mission to capture rapists and serial killers in the 1970s and '80s.
In 2016 and 2017, 'Anna Delvey' scammed hotels, banks and others out of $275,000 while climbing the ladder of high-society and trying to launch the Anna Delvey Foundation.
Hired in 1921, James E. Amos was the first Black agent to work publicly for the FBI and worked high-profile cases involving murder, organized crime, Nazi spies and more during his 30-plus years of service.
The New Hampshire serial killer admitted to killing two men on her farm, but claims it was because God told her to punish pedophiles.
