Lisa Montgomery spent years on death row after committing a horrific crime. While there, she began to recover from a lifetime of nightmarish abuse. In January 2021 she was the first woman executed by the U.S. government in 67 years.

From Mary Stauffer to Colleen Stan to Elizabeth Shoaf and more, read the unbelievably horrific true stories of women and young girls who were kidnapped, raped and tortured—in some cases for many years—before they escaped.

Jeffrey Dahmer was just 18 when he committed his first murder, much younger than the average age of serial killers, which researchers have determined is around 29 years old. Why did he wait nearly a decade before killing his next victim?

SVU detectives are trained and equipped to handle cases involving sexual assault, abuse and interpersonal violence. Hear from one detective what it's like working a real-life SVU.

Over nearly two decades, Dennis Rader murdered at least 10 people in the Wichita, Kansas area under the pseudonym BTK ('Bind, Torture, Kill'). But despite his repeated taunts to the police and media, investigators were unable to hone in on a suspect.

Gary Heidnick's crimes helped inspire Buffalo Bill's character in 'Silence of the Lambs.' We spoke with the killer and self-described pastor's defense lawyer, Charles Peruto, Jr., about what it was like representing one of Philadelphia's most infamous criminals.

Posthumous DNA testing proved what Roger Keith Coleman repeatedly denied—that the Virginia man raped and murdered his sister-in-law in 1981.

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.

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.

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.'