Serial Killers
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The Samuel Little Case: 93 Confessions, a Drug Warrant and the Women No One Counted
In 2012, a 72-year-old drifter was picked up in Louisville on an old drug warrant. What his DNA and his memory revealed changed how the FBI counts murder. Continue reading
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The Fred and Rose West Case: How a Gloucester House Hid Twelve Victims for Two Decades
In February 1994, police dug up a garden in Gloucester, England, looking for a missing 16-year-old. What they found at 25 Cromwell Street revealed two decades of murder by Fred and Rose West, and a string of chances the system… Continue reading
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The Hwaseong Murders: How DNA Named Lee Chun-jae 33 Years Later, and Freed the Wrong Man
Ten women and girls were murdered in Hwaseong, South Korea, between 1986 and 1991, and the case inspired “Memories of Murder.” In 2019, DNA finally named Lee Chun-jae — too late to charge him, and 20 years too late for… Continue reading
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The Ed Gein Case: The Antifreeze Receipt That Led Police to a Plainfield Farmhouse in 1957
On the opening day of deer season in 1957, Bernice Worden vanished from her Plainfield hardware store, leaving one receipt behind. It led police to Ed Gein’s farm, and to the crimes that inspired Psycho, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre,… Continue reading
