On a July night in 1991, a man ran through Milwaukee with a handcuff still hanging from his wrist. He led police to apartment 213 — and to the evidence of seventeen murders that had nearly been stopped, again and… Continue reading

He was handsome, well-spoken, a former law student who once worked a crisis hotline. Ted Bundy used that ordinariness to lure at least 30 young women to their deaths across seven states. The most chilling part is how easily he… Continue reading

In 2010, the McStay family vanished from their California home, leaving food on the counter and their dog behind. For years it looked like they had walked away. Then a motorcyclist found their shallow graves in the Mojave — and… Continue reading

To his neighbors, John Wayne Gacy was a friendly contractor who dressed as a clown for children’s parties. Beneath his ordinary Chicago house, investigators found the remains of dozens of young men — hidden, for years, in plain sight. Continue reading

Between 1984 and 1985, a killer climbed into California homes at night and struck without pattern — any age, any neighborhood. The newspapers called him the Night Stalker. In the end, an angry crowd in East LA caught what the… Continue reading

On February 13, 2017, two teenage friends were murdered after a walk on an old railroad bridge in Delphi, Indiana. The only solid lead was a few seconds of video one of them recorded on her phone. It took more… Continue reading

Five teenage girls were murdered by two ex-convicts in the hills above Los Angeles in the summer and fall of 1979. The killers recorded one of the attacks on audio cassette. Forty-seven years later, those tapes are still locked in… Continue reading

He flew to a city he had never lived in, rented a car, drove for hours, and dug up a buried kit of weapons and tools he had hidden years earlier. He chose his victims at random. He used cash.… Continue reading

For seventeen years, Dennis Rader murdered ten people in Wichita and slipped back into the life of a compliance officer, scout leader, and church council president. He stopped for thirteen years. Then in 2004, for reasons no one fully understands,… Continue reading

Between 1973 and 1986, one man committed at least 120 burglaries, 50 rapes, and 13 murders across the state of California. He worked under three different names. He was, for part of that time, a serving police officer. And he… Continue reading