Crime & Criminal Justice

No one has ever been definitively identified or caught as Jack the Ripper, the unknown assailant responsible for at least five brutal murders in Whitechapel, London, in 1888. De...

The phrase Jennifer who killed parents refers to a case in which a woman named Jennifer was convicted of killing her parents. Based on available court records, news reports, and...

Lyle and Erik Menéndez are American siblings convicted in 1996 for the 1989 shotgun killings of their parents, José and Kitty Menéndez. The case drew sustained national atten...

Charles "Tex" Watson became known as a central figure in the Manson Family, a communal group led by Charles Manson in late 1960s California. Watson was a former University of Te...

Christopher Watts murdered his pregnant wife Shanann Watts and their two young daughters, Bella and Celeste, in August 2018 in Frederick, Colorado. His case gained national atte...

Todd Kohlhepp is a convicted serial killer and sex offender whose crimes, primarily between 2003 and 2016 in South Carolina, involved multiple murders, kidnappings, and sexual a...

Robert William Pickton is a Canadian serial killer whose crimes centered on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. This profile summarizes verified investigations, prosecutions, convi...

The question 'where is the BTK killer now' refers to Dennis Rader, the serial killer who terrorized Kansas for decades. He was arrested in 2005, pleaded guilty in 2005 to ten mu...

Jeffrey Dahmer was an American serial killer whose crimes in Milwaukee between 1978 and 1991 shocked the nation. This profile explains who Dahmer was, how he was investigated an...

The phrase “Daytona Beach killer” denotes a cluster of violent crimes in the Daytona Beach area, most prominently linked to serial offender Billy Mills and a series of murde...