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“Criminals are made, not born.” That was the message painted on a charred wooden sign left behind on the fence of Andrew Kehoe’s farm in...

In a town where everyone knew your name, few ever knew the truth about Vertus Hardiman. He was always sharply dressed, polite, and...

On 2 August 1993, in the sleepy village of Savona, New York, an act of violence so shocking in its brutality would forever alter the...

In 1969, a North Carolina home went up in flames. Inside, Thomas Burke, husband to Velma Barfield, was found dead. At first, no one...

Few names evoke as much dread in modern Iraqi history as that of Uday Hussein. Born into privilege as the eldest son of Saddam Hussein,...

In the early hours of 2 September 1983, a man named Jimmy Lee Gray sat strapped to a metal chair in Mississippi’s gas chamber. Within...

While the grim history of capital punishment is filled with clinical efficiency and tragic inevitability there are also rare and strange...

There are few scenarios more terrifying than being buried alive, it’s the stuff of nightmares, horror films and gothic fiction. But in...

On a warm autumn afternoon in April 1996, visitors wandered through the historic site of Port Arthur in Tasmania, soaking up the scenery...

On the morning of 19 April 1995, a yellow Ryder rental truck pulled up outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City....

In the rugged hills of Northern California in the late 19th century, two brothers thought they had found an easy way to make a living....

The world of crime has seen its fair share of chilling partnerships, but few are as infamous as the one shared by Pauline Parker and...

In the mid-1970s, a woman in her early forties began taking photographs for L’Ora , a small but politically active newspaper based in...

Evelyn Nesbit was one of the most recognisable faces of early 20th-century America – a model, actress, and chorus girl whose beauty...

If you’ve ever heard the name Dick Turpin, chances are you’ve pictured a daring highwayman galloping across the English countryside on a...

Imagine agreeing to live undercover inside a maximum-security prison for the criminally insane, knowing that failure could mean death or...

It’s hard to believe that a man could convince dozens of adults to leave their families, quit their jobs, and follow him into the forest...

In the long history of criminal investigations, few cases have gripped the American public like that of the Unabomber. For nearly 18...

On a chilly Tuesday night in March 1932, one of the most sensational crimes in American history unfolded in a quiet rural estate in New...

Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered worldwide as one of America’s most influential civil rights activists. Known for his steadfast...

Imagine an idyllic Caribbean island transformed into a fortress of wealth and power, hidden behind crystal-clear waters and white sandy...

In an age when airport security was little more than a handshake and a nod, one man managed to commit a mass murder that would send...

Decades before the FBI Behavioural Science Unit started profiling serial killers, before Ted Bundy’s chilling charm or Jeffrey Dahmer’s...

It’s not often that a woman with a past as a Parisian courtesan finds herself rubbing shoulders with royalty, marrying into Egyptian...