Crime & Criminal Justice

The 2015 Waco shooting refers to the Twin Peaks restaurant confrontation in Waco, Texas, in May 2015, that led to arrests, a high-profile legal saga, and lasting questions about...

Pamela Hupp is a Missouri woman convicted of first-degree murder for the fatal shooting of Louis Gumpenberger in August 2021. Hupp claimed self-defense, but a jury rejected that...

The most prominent reference labeled as the Toolbox Murders in Australia concerns the 1978 Walsh Street killings in South Yarra, Victoria, where four members of the Walsh family...

The Chowchilla kidnapping refers to the July 15, 1976 bus hijacking in Chowchilla, California, in which twenty-six children and their bus driver were abducted and buried in a mo...

Gypsy Rose Blanchard was born in 1991 and grew up largely under the control of her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard. Dee Dee presented Gypsy as chronically ill, requiring constant care...

The phrase Son of Sam refers to David Richard Berkowitz, a serial shooter active across New York City from July 1976 to July 1977. His crimes were characterized by random outdoo...

El Chapo wealth queries usually refer to Joaquín Guzmán, the former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, and the scale of his fortune, the visibility of his assets, and the gap betwe...

The Lyle and Erik Menendez story began with their arrest on March 11, 1990, in Beverly Hills, California, for the shotgun killings of their parents, José and Kitty Menendez. Th...

Across true crime discourse and online astrology debates, a persistent claim holds that one zodiac sign is statistically prone to violence or killing. This evergreen explainer a...

Robert Pickton is a Canadian serial killer convicted of murdering six women, with evidence indicating he killed at least two more, whose criminal activities came to light in 200...