From William Williams to Jimmy Lee Gray to Jesse Joseph Tafero and others, the executions of a number of death-row inmates have not gone as planned in the U.S.
Working as an informant for the FBI is dangerous, undercover work. Hear from writer Jeanette Hurt on how her dad, an unexpected FBI informant, helped expose corruption at the Chicago Truck Drivers, Helpers and Warehouse Workers Union.
Although it's a common plot in young adult novels, it's rare kids help police solve cases in real life. But some young people have helped crack cases. Read their stories.
Looking back on when a brutal, satanic gang terrorized Chicago by torturing and killing women at random in the 1980s. One of the killers, Thomas Kokoraleis, was released from prison in 2019. Many are unhappy that he's a free man.
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.
In the early 1980s, Johnny Gosch and Eugene Martin, two paperboys from Des Moines, Iowa, played a critical part in helping shape the era of missing and abducted children—from the Missing Children Milk Carton Program to the formation of the NCMEC and more.
For over a decade, Whitey Bulger was America's most wanted gangster—the FBI's biggest domestic target. Wanted for 19 counts of murder, he hid in plain sight for 16 years with his girlfriend Catherine Greig. Read how he was caught.
After Candra Torres's husband was murdered by a man they had just met, she corroborated the stranger's story that it was an accident. But days later, she changed her story. Read Candra's story, which inspired the Lifetime movie, 'A Murder to Remember.'
Kathy (Kate) Ann Jewell fled her home when her boyfriend, John Branden, raped and attempted to kill her. After that, he disappeared—and she spent years trying to ensure he'd never find her.
Stephen Port had a type: young, gay men, preferably unconscious while he raped them in his East London apartment. Careless police work enabled the serial killer to carry on undetected for years. Read more.
